Good Monday, friends of privacy!

From Amir Taaki's deportation from Argentina to launching their messaging app, folks at DarkFi are pretty busy. So let's start this week with taking a look at their app. We also want to thank everyone who stopped by at our event or at our presentations at DevConnect.

Privacy is beautiful!

New tool of the week

• DarkIRC is live! Anonymous messaging app done by DarkFi

Insights

• DarkFi launches DarkIRC, now for Android, Mac, Windows and Linux
• GrapheneOS is being labeled as "criminal's choice" in France because the authority can't crack them open...
• ... which is nothing new under the privacy & crypto sun. You can read one of many asnwers to these allegations by GrapheneOS themselves
• Musk's X.com has started to reveal from which country their users created their accounts and will soon even indicate VPN usage
• EFF sues the Department of Justice for forcing tech platforms to take down apps that documents ICE activities
• Leo, Brave's AI assistant now offers crypted privacy

Knowledge

• While we are at Brave's Leo, you can read their 2 cents on Ai and privacy
• Cops used Flock to monitor protest
• Hackers conference in New Zealand used DIY CO2 monitors to help reduce possibility of getting ill
• Another lawsuit against OpenAI after Zane Shamblin's suicide
• Learn more about the lawsuits against ChatGPT

Inspiration: Going On(Line) an offering of media from the web

• New episode of Unchained podcast featuring Aztec’s Zac Williamson and Joe Andrews about decentralization, Ethereum and much more
• Zero Knowledge Podcast's Chat with Binyi Chen, researcher at Stanford University about lattice-based folding schemes
• Rewiring Democracy with Bruce Schneier and Nathan E. Sanders in conversation with Cindy Cohn
• Take our own Web3 Privacy Now courses through our Academy

Inspiration: Going Off(Line) an offering of IRL events

(new/changes in bold)

• Dec 8 - WEB3SEC 2025: Workshop Encouraging Building Better Blockchain Security 2025 Honolulu
• Dec 27-30 - 39th Chaos Communication Congress Hamburg
• Mar 6-7 2026 - Logos Network's Parallel Society Lisabon
• May 5-8 2026 - RightsCon Zambia
• May 8-10 2026 - ETHPrague Prague