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- The reasoning log is a courtesyOpenAI shipped a more capable model that is harder to watch, in the same week its agents were found talking on a public wiki.
- Metadata is the messageEncrypting the body was the easy part. Who, when, how often — that was always the point.
- What a model remembersWeights are not a database, but they are not nothing either. A field guide to extraction.
- Running a node behind a hostile ISPDeep packet inspection, throttling, and the cheap tricks that still work.
- Zero-knowledge, in plain languageA proof convinces you of something without telling you why it's true.
- Local models and the end of the API taxThe cost curve bent, and a class of application stopped needing anyone's permission.
- CoinJoin is not a crimeFungibility is a property of money, not a loophole in it.
- Threat models for ordinary peopleMost advice is written for a journalist in a hostile country. You are probably not that.
- The seed phrase is the weakest linkTwelve words that survive fire, flood, divorce, and your own memory. Pick two.
- Why alignment is a privacy problemA system that must understand you in order to help you has already collected you.
- Tor in 2025: a status reportSlower than it was, healthier than you would guess, and still the only thing of its kind.