
Good Monday, friends of privacy!
This week, we’re looking at Ethereum’s vision of a cryptographic world computer, decentralized VPNs, wallet scams, access to information,
Chat Control surveillance, Zcash’s NU7 upgrade and the difficult governance questions raised by Zano’s blockchain rollback.
And as Tool of the Week, take a look at Omarchy—an open-source, Arch-based Linux distribution built for developers and the age of AI agents.

Tool of the week
Insights
Knowledge
Inspiration: Going On(Line) an offering of media from the web
Inspiration: Going Off(Line) an offering of IRL events
(new/changes in bold)
- Sep 25–27 - Quellc0d3 - Nuremberg, Germany
- Oct 2–4 - DARK Prague 2026 - Prague, Czechia
- Oct 2–4 - Digital Independence Days 2026 - Hamburg, Germany
- Oct 9–11 - Interfug 2026 - Chemnitz, Germany
- Oct 15 - DC Privacy Summit 2026 - Washington, USA
- Oct 27 - Web3Privacy Now x MozFest Meetup - Barcelona, Spain
- Oct 28–30 - MozFest — Mozilla Festival - Barcelona, Spain
- Nov 2 - Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress #3 - Mumbai, India
- Nov 3–6 - Devcon 8 - Mumbai, India
- Dec 27–30 - 40C3 — 40th Chaos Communication Congress - Hamburg, Germany