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Addiction

The show opens on addiction: one of the only things you can actually improve as you get older. Better health, feeling better, caring about your body, no longer destroying yourself with alcohol. The line — don't hate the addict, hate the addiction — and quitting as a project entirely in your control.

The State of Podcasting

He takes aim at YouTube podcasters raking in six figures for sponsored junk, contrasting them with creators he respects: Devon Stacks of Black Pilled and HT of GTV. He'd rather listen to someone who says what he thinks than a "liar in a suit" giving false hope. Mainstream media and entertainment are dead; all that's left is independent commentary.

Smear Campaigns and Censored Voices

News outlets smearing figures like HT only hand them more publicity. That rolls into his rule: he's only interested in censored voices — why else would someone be deplatformed? He wishes figures like Andrew Anglin weren't so suppressed, and warns the censorship apparatus will eventually turn on everyone, invoking the post-9/11 playbook of never letting a good disaster go to waste. Recommends: Blackpilled, Mad at the Internet, HT/GTV.

Religion & Politics

A deliberately provocative stretch on modern Christianity, Zionism, identity and political loyalty, plus rants about a former favorite commentator who lost him over Epstein-adjacent merch and downplaying Israel's involvement in the Charlie Kirk assassination — called controlled opposition, with his fanbase mocked for coping.

Chinese Hackers Impersonating Anthropic Staff

Chinese-linked actors (TA419, per Proofpoint) impersonating Anthropic researchers and former officials to socially engineer AI policy experts — benign invites and booby-trapped documents harvesting cloud credentials. Wires is skeptical of attribution, noting indicators can be planted, Stuxnet-style. Bottom line: humans are the weakest link.

Latin America's Right Turn

The left losing its streak since USAID was dismantled, crediting DOGE and Trump/Rubio. Brazil leads: Flavio Bolsonaro beating the incumbent 47%–45%, the family sweeping every race, the Liberal Party nearly doubling Senate seats. Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Honduras and Costa Rica moved right. His take: not right enough, the NGOs just moved under black-budget funding — plus a tangent on cartels and Mexico's Sheinbaum.

Messi's Farewell

Messi's final cap: a goal and two assists in a 3-0 win over Benin before 85,000 at the Monumental, a "Gracias" banner in Rosario, a drone show, dedicating his career to his country and late father. Wires only really watches World Cups.

The Gold Bars: Ex-CIA Officer David J. Rush

The headline story. Rush pleaded guilty in Alexandria to wire fraud carrying up to 20 years — schemes topping $193 million. He created a fake classified program to buy ~$1.45M in South Florida real estate, ran $1.8M in government-paid charter flights, and stashed ~300 gold bars in his basement — plus he disclosed a human source's identity to a foreign government. Wires: this is treason, the CIA has unchecked power, and the numbers don't add up (303 bars found, 298 in court). Began as a CIA espionage inquiry; Rush had worked with Deputy Secretary of Defense Stephen Feinberg on China programs. Sentencing in January.

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October 7 anniversary commentary — opening political remarks on Israel, Gaza, and Netanyahu.

Nike stock decline — the host notes Nike trading at a 13-year low and ties it to the company's marketing and DEI direction.

Anil Dash essay on censorship and algorithmic language — the bulk of the episode. Dash's argument that platform euphemisms ("unalive," grape, SA) are self-censorship that degrades public speech and even AI training data. The host reads extended passages and agrees, arguing creators should speak plainly and diversify off algorithmic platforms.

Chris Hansen segment — a UK sting involving a former Netanyahu security guard; the host claims a recent film about Hansen is a smear campaign.

Platform migration — advocates deleting X and moving to Nostr for censorship-resistant posting; skeptical takes on monetization via rage bait.

Germany's Bundeswehr AI vetting — MAD's AI system screening military applicants for "constitutional loyalty" and right-wing extremism, per Spiegel.

AI companies as "parasites" — scraping without compensation, plus a Florida case where an AI chatbot reported a user's threats to police. The host recommends Monero and uncensored/Chinese models (DeepSeek).

GrapheneOS and the Pixel 11 — GrapheneOS may skip the Pixel 11 over Google cutting Memory Tagging Extension (MTE); recommends Pixel 10 or upcoming Motorola devices instead.

Teaser for next episode — a planned segment on OpenBSD maintainer Theo de Raadt.

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The host is back after a two-week hiatus — and Episode 29 is a big one. After explaining exactly where he's been (recovering from a nasty bout of food poisoning courtesy of a 2:30 a.m. street-vendor sandwich, landing his first paid agentic-coding consulting gig, and getting locked out of his own podcast dashboard by a sneaky $180/year "paid ads" sign-up on his distribution platform), he dives into four weeks' worth of stories he missed while offline.

The Zano inflation bug, deep dive. Hardfork 6's new gateway addresses feature introduced an issuance flaw that let attackers mint unauthorized Zano and FUSD. Detected September 25th, fixed by a full chain rollback to block 3,833,000 on September 28th — roughly three days, with full reimbursements promised to affected users. Price dropped 20–36%, but the host argues the team's response earns trust: compare it to the Coldcard wallet hack, where customers still haven't been made whole.

Inflation bugs are nothing new. A tour through the history books: Zcash's Orchard pool flaw (undetected for four years, ZEC down 30–50%), Harmony's ~$4 billion ONE minting incident, Bitcoin's legendary 184-billion-BTC block in 2010, and Bitcoin's 2018 near-miss. The takeaway: it's software, and we haven't seen the last of it. Plus a pointed argument that wallet and chain vendors should be moving marketing budgets into AI-assisted security auditing — attackers are already using AI against your stack.

PS5 "Relapse" jailbreak. Someone finally jailbroke the PS5 — a low-effort, DNS-change exploit covering firmware 7.00 through 13.60, built on a two-stage WebKit memory-corruption + kernel race-condition chain that completes in seconds instead of the 50 minutes older methods took. The timing is perfect: it lands weeks after Sony conceded in court that players don't actually own their digital games, amid an active class action.

Bitget hit for $387.5M — and the hacker is laundering through Zcash. The irony is thick: the attacker has moved ~2,700 ZEC into Zcash's shielded pool, while CEO Gracy Chen — a vocal Hyperliquid critic — points fingers at North Korea-linked actors. Chainalysis and TRM track the hops across cross-chain swap services, Thorchain halts swaps under emergency protocol, NEAR's Shields system rejects $50M+ in tainted swaps, and Bitget puts up a 5% bounty on frozen/recovered funds. The age-old "permissionless" debate reignites.

Shiny Hunters vs. the FBI. The FBI told staff that every employee's personal data may be compromised after Shiny Hunters breached FBIJobs.com through an unpatched PeopleSoft zero-day — 2–3 terabytes of agent and applicant data,

This episode contains strong language and adult themes, listener discretion advised.

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In this episode, we cover Chipotle's partnership with Palantir - a CIA-funded data firm - to build a food safety platform that tracks employee illness reports and store inspections. We discuss what this means for worker privacy and why fast food chains are turning to intelligence-grade surveillance tools. Then, over 1,600 Apple store workers in Italy staged a coordinated walkout on the busiest iPhone launch day, demanding better staffing and working conditions at the trillion-dollar company. The main story dives deep into DraftKings using AI and machine learning to identify and target problem gamblers most likely to lose money. A New York Times investigation reveals how the company built "elasticity" models scoring customers on their vulnerability, while simultaneously shutting down internal projects designed to predict gambling addiction. We discuss how Gen Z is increasingly turning to crypto and sportsbooks as an escape from economic hopelessness, and how platforms like Stake and Kick are funneling young users into gambling.

Plus, brief thoughts on Zano's price movement, Bitcoin's failure as "freedom money," and why privacy coin communities need to stop fighting each other. Show notes and transcript available. Subscribe wherever you listen.

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In this episode, host Crypto Wires delivers a packed hour covering the intersection of technology, corporate power, and political philosophy. The show opens with a deep dive into the unsealed filings from the New York Times' copyright lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, which reveal that a top Microsoft executive privately described OpenAI's AI training practices as "theft" — calling it "the largest theft of labour in human history." The documents expose how OpenAI employees allegedly built paywall bypassing tools targeting the New York Times, stripped copyright notices from training data, and assembled datasets containing over 91,000 copies of NYT-published works. Despite these admissions, courts and the Trump administration have largely sided with AI companies on fair use grounds. Crypto Wires questions the trustworthiness of major AI platforms — including Grok, Cursor, and Chinese models like Z.AI — warning that they upload user data and source code to opaque cloud servers, and advocates for offline, locally hosted AI as the only viable path forward.

The episode then shifts to a comprehensive reading and commentary on the 25-Point Program of the NSDAP. The host walks through each point, drawing parallels to modern issues: corporate profiteering from war and the call to confiscate war profits (Point 12), profit-sharing in large enterprises to counter trillionaire-level wealth concentration (Point 14), protections for the middle class against predatory retail monopolies (Point 16), the prosecution of usurers and profiteers (Point 18), state-funded education for talented children regardless of background (Point 20), compulsory public health and the abolition of child labour (Point 21), and legal accountability for political lies spread through the press (Point 23). The host also touches on Google Pixel security vulnerabilities — a modem-level zero-day patched with 110 fixes — as a reminder not to blindly trust tech companies with your data.

The episode wraps with a reading from the background to Hitler's 1920 speech "Why Are We Anti-Semites?" delivered at the Hofbräuhaus in Munich, noting how even Hitler himself initially regarded anti-Jewish sentiment as distasteful and products of envy before his views evolved. The host signs off in the rain, encouraging listeners to use SimpleX over Twitter, check the show notes for a Monero address, and submit voice notes via the newly launched call-in feature on the podcast's website.

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Revolut Hackers Demanding $3 Million in Monero Ransom — The host discusses a ransomware attack by a group called "iamnotavillain" who demanded a $3 million payment in Monero (a privacy-focused cryptocurrency). He explores why privacy coins like Monero are favored by attackers, and touches on broader themes of cyber extortion and ransomware trends.

Sam Bankman-Fried's $500 Million Investment Still Hawks on Top — An update on SBF's investments and financial standing, examining how his portfolio and assets continue to hold value despite ongoing legal proceedings.

Book Review: "In His Own Words" by C.J. Miller (Hitler's Speeches) — The host discusses a book he's been reading about Hitler's speeches, describing himself as "somewhat of a Hitler historian recently." He plans to go over the 25-point program of the NSDAP (Nazi Party), framing it as a historical/sociological discussion about the content of the program.

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Host Cryptowires opens Episode 25 with the story of GrapheneOS being shadowbanned on Hacker News. The privacy-focused Android ROM's team publicly revealed that nearly all their recent posts were flagged and hidden by default, while years of harassment and libel against their developers went unmoderated. The host questions whether Hacker News — funded by Y Combinator and populated largely by engineers from surveillance-heavy companies like Palantir, Meta, and Google — can ever be a neutral forum. He recommends Lobsters as a less manipulated alternative and urges users to enable "show dead" in settings to surface suppressed content.

The episode shifts to cryptography with a new ETH Zurich paper, "Why Johnny Should Not Delegate Email Encryption to Gateways," which analyzed four S/MIME and PGP gateway products and uncovered 29 attacks enabling full message decryption and email spoofing. The key takeaway: delegating crypto operations to centralized gateways undermines end-to-end security, re-enabling previously resolved attack vectors like EFAIL.

Next, the host covers Google Chrome once again quietly exempting google.com from its "delete site data" privacy setting — a bug first reported and fixed years ago, now reintroduced. Cookies and storage on google.com persist across sessions even with the setting enabled, reinforcing Google's pattern of ignoring privacy issues that conflict with their data collection model.

The discussion turns to Google Project Zero's measured response to Anthropic's research claiming to have weakened the Hawk PQC candidate and reduced-round AES. Google's bug hunters argue the findings were overhyped — the Hawk attack used existing tools, and the AES attack requires resources so vast it would take 10 billion years. They frame AI-assisted cryptanalysis as a welcome contribution to PQC standardization, not an existential threat.

Finally, the episode covers Jigsaw's announcement that Android 17 will enable Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) by default — encrypting domain names in TLS handshakes and closing one of the last major metadata leaks on the internet. Global testing across 212 countries and 740 ISPs showed near-zero failures, including in censored networks like Russia and China. The host urges developers to adopt OKHTTP 5.x and push for industry-wide ECH support.

The episode also touches on VPN viability, off-grid communication research proposals, and teases next episode's coverage of a critical kernel vulnerability — the "OEM Apocalypse" — affecting Xiaomi, Oppo, and Samsung devices.

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The hosts discuss a range of topics including 9/11 conspiracies, anti-Semitic rhetoric from RW commentators, and the shift in discourse among dissident figures. They cover recent events and stories they've been following, touching on political commentary and cultural observations.

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