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We’re living in the age of automated, computer-generated law enforcement, where the evidence is often just a database match. So what happens when the machine gets it wrong?

Roman Sterlingov has spent more than five years in prison for creating a privacy tool, and he says he never did it. His lawyer calls this case the canary in the coal mine for dystopian forensic technology, and an amazing example of how your innocence won’t protect you.

When someone has unfettered access to every fragment of your life, they can piece those fragments together into whatever story they want. This is Roman’s story.

Support Roman: freeroman.org

00:00 A call from federal prison
02:15 Who Is Roman Sterlingov?
04:53 Bitcoin meetups
06:39 What have I got to hide?
08:48 Psychology and mental tools
09:48 Roman’s YouTube channel
11:15 His Big Dream
12:32 The Day Everything Changed
14:50 The case
16:26 The Trial
26:58 The Govt Fabricated Evidence!
29:09 When Wanting Privacy Makes You A Criminal
31:05 THE VERDICT
32:09 The Aftermath
38:00 A message from Roman

Roman's coaching channel: https://www.youtube.com/@technologyofwinning8592

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If you’ve been using the Google ecosystem for years, it might feel like you are trapped. But you're not. This video will teach you how to move your cloud storage from Google Drive, to Mega.

Mega is end-to-end encrypted, meaning that only you and whoever you share your files with can access them, and even Mega itself can’t.

Moving to a provider where the encryption keys live only on your device is a real step toward reclaiming control over your own data.

Chapters:
00:00 Trapped in Google?
00:54 How Mega Works
02:49 How File Sharing Works
03:34 Treat the URL Like a Password
05:33 How To Migrate from Google Drive
07:20 IMPORTANT: Things to Know!
09:40 Reclaiming Control Over Your Data

Interested in an rclone tutorial with the scripts used to automate the duplication process? Let me know in the comments.

Resources:
Mega: https://mega.io
Rclone: https://rclone.org

Related videos:
Migrating from Gmail to Proton: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmXTreZ-pH0
Most PRIVATE Password Manager: https://youtu.be/69AQruBI2nY
You NEED to use a Password Manager! https://youtu.be/T45FryDx6wY

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An open source clone of photoshop was just released, called “Photocraft”.

It was vibe coded based on Adobe’s public specifications and observed behavior, and while it contains no proprietary Adobe code, it looks eerily similar to the original. Some people even suspected that AI might have decompiled Photoshop to source code. But even if that’s not the case, AI is getting so good that it’s very believable that it might one day be possible to do this.

If this is the case, as Eric Raymond declared, closed-source is dead.

What does this mean for privacy? It means that companies will no longer be able to hide surveillance in the apps on your devices. It’s possible that soon you’ll be able to use AI to decompile the software on your device and see exactly what it’s doing behind the scenes.

AI has made surveillance easier than ever, but we can also use it to protect ourselves.
The age of “trust us” software is ending.
Privacy revolution incoming.

0:00 A Free Photoshop Clone Just Dropped
0:30 Adobe Is Spyware
1:05 Our PhotoCraft Review
5:39 Can It Replace Photoshop?
6:01 Did AI Decompile Photoshop?
7:17 What This Means for Privacy
8:08 Join Our Smart TV Hackathon!

PhotoCraft: https://github.com/storytold/photocraft

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Companies lie to you about why they need your data.
They tell you it's for "verification." It's not. It's data harvesting with an official-sounding label.

Here's what happened when I signed up for a service with a completely made-up identity.

00:00 This happened a few days ago
00:42 We need this for "verification"
01:00 They're lying to you
01:50 ISPs sell your data
02:45 Stop handing out your data
03:20 Make up your own mind

The lesson: when a company tells you why they "need" your information, don't take it on good faith. Think before you hand it over, and push back.

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DEF CON is one of the largest and longest-running hacker conferences in the world. I met with hackers who are building tools to fight the surveillance state.

0:00 DEF CON Is Wild
0:38 Ludlow's IoT Village Hackathon
2:08 Colonel Panic — Flock Camera Detector
4:27 EFF's Rayhunter — Stingray Detection
6:53 The Biscuit Ultra — Anti-Surveillance Gadget
7:40 Meshtastic on the LilyGo T-Deck
8:15 Exploitee.rs Meshtastic Pager
8:38 Shenanigans
9:20 No One Is Coming to Save Us

No one is coming to save us. The tools protecting our privacy are being built by a scrappy community of hackers and hobbyists on shoestring budgets — and anyone can join the fight.

https://colonelpanic.tech/
https://eff.org/rayhunter
https://Exploitee.rs

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The surveillance state is here. Flock cameras track your every move. Palantir builds digital dossiers on everyone. ICE buys your location data in bulk. Your devices are being turned against you with mandatory age verification. And the developers building our digital shields are being arrested.

The battle seems unwinnable. But history of full of unwinnable battles that were won anyway.

Phil Zimmermann vs. US Government, defeating encryption controls.
Cult of the Dead Cow vs. Microsoft, forcing the tech giant to finally take security seriously.
Clipper Chip vs. Everyone, with researchers like Matt Blaze giving a devastating blow to this backdoor tool via a peer-reviewed paper that exposed its fatal flaws.

Let's learn some lesson for how they won these unwinnable battles.
The battle for digital freedom is here, and we have the playbook to win it.

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This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace by EFF co-founder John Perry Barlow, and also America’s 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

But what does independence means in an age where our digital lives are more controlled than ever?

In this video I will walk you through three things:
- the context of the original declaration of independence
- the promise of John Perry Barlow’s Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace
- the kind of declaration we need today to protect our privacy, autonomy, and independence into the years to come.

00:00 On Behalf of the Future
02:46 Tyranny in 1776
08:14 The Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace
11:26 Privacy Protects Your Independence
14:16 A New Declaration
18:17 What Now?
21:10 Privacy Will Save the Free Internet
22:38 The Declaration

Breaking free doesn't require a revolution. It starts with a simple decision. Stop handing over your mind, your money, and your children to systems designed to exploit and control them.
Independence, in 2026, is something you have to choose every single day.

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FISA is a sweeping surveillance authority that allows the warrantless surveillance of Americans in the name of national security. It was originally created to stop intelligence agencies from spying on people in the US without oversight. But over time, the guardrails came off. And the man who helped build some of those guardrails at the FBI now says the system has gone badly wrong.
In this video, we trace the full history of FISA, from the abuses that created it, to the safeguards that once held it in check, to how it became the legal foundation for one of the most powerful warrantless surveillance systems in America.

00:00 The FISA Process Got Corrupted
01:16 What is FISA
03:02 The Lead-Up
06:24 What FISA Did
10:08 Building the Safeguards
14:20 Dismantling the Safeguards
23:09 The Current Fight
24:26 This Machine Does Not Care Who Inherits It

FISA is a weapon we keep handing forward, trusting that whoever picks it up next will be as restrained as the last person who held it. When you're told to just trust the system, you're not being asked to trust the careful, decent person who built it. You're being asked to trust everyone who will ever hold it after him. Every administration. The politician you'd never vote for. The official who already thinks people like you are the enemy.

The question was never whether we can trust the people in charge today. It's why we built something this dangerous to hand to anyone at all.

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Is Proton Mail search broken? Not at all! The issue is that Proton can't read your encrypted inbox - and you probably haven't enabled the privacy-first local search setting. In this video, I'll show you exactly how to:
- Enable local email search in Proton Mail
- Understand the key differences between desktop and mobile search
- Configure a bunch of other essential privacy settings I use in my own account

00:00 Proton Search is NOT Broken
00:53 Search
03:17 Import
03:48 Image Privacy Settings
05:52 Other Settings
08:16 Just One Of Many Private Email Options

Proton Mail is just one of the privacy-focused email providers out there, and they offer significantly better privacy than mainstream providers. These settings will help you make the most of your transition to better email.

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I just got back from 2 weeks in Europe meeting with activists from some of the world's most oppressive regimes, who are fighting for freedom.
What I heard there shook me.
When you talk to people who have lived under dictatorship, you start to notice uncomfortable parallels to what's happening in the West right now. The surveillance creep. The ID mandates. The slow erosion of the right to communicate, transact, and move through the world privately.

These are red flags that those under tyranny wish someone had pointed out to them sooner.

0:00 – Pay Attention to the Warning Signs
0:45 – Growing Up Under Military Rule
1:21 – "What Propaganda Am I Not Seeing?"
1:33 – The Titanic Analogy
2:51 – Dictatorship Is Engineered Compliance
3:42 – How the Internet Became a Tool of Control
5:44 – The Surveillance State Is the Red Flag
6:59 – If Someone Wants Power, They Now Have the Tools
7:09 – Jailed for Donating to the Resistance
7:33 – "It's for the Children" — Recognizing the Propaganda
8:24 – We Can Still Fight Back. But Not for Much Longer.
9:57 – Dictatorship Can Be Dismantled

There's an analogy to be found with the sinking of the Titanic:
No one believed the Titanic could sink, so they for a long time refused to get into lifeboats until it was too late. Boats left half empty.

We still have time to get in the lifeboats. But not much.

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