Liberty Intel: The Christmas Eve Edition
Because the Surveillance State Doesn’t Take Holidays
Merry Christmas, Real Liberty Media family.
While you are busy wrapping gifts and arguing with relatives about politics, the machine is busy wrapping up its year-end reports on you. It’s December 24, 2025, and if you thought the holidays were a quiet time for government overreach and digital privacy invasions, I have some coal for your stocking.
Today’s briefing is a heavy one. We’re tracking the push for mandatory online age verification (digital ID by another name), the dystopian rise of AI in police reporting, and the usual suspects—Google and the UK government—building new censorship architectures. But it’s not all doom and gloom; we’ve got some wins for free speech and some necessary updates on the fight against the "copyright bullies" of the gaming world.
Pour yourself some eggnog, secure your devices, and dig in.
Merry Christmas from the bunker,
Unkle Bonehead
Liberty Intel // Daily Link Dump // 2025-12-24 05:01
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- Why Isn’t Online Age Verification Just Like Showing Your ID In Person?
Source: Deeplinks - Speaking Freely: Sami Ben Gharbia
Source: Deeplinks - EFF and 12 Organizations Urge UK Politicians to Drop Digital ID Scheme Ahead of Parliamentary Petition Debate
Source: Deeplinks - AI Police Reports: Year In Review
Source: Deeplinks - The Fight Against Presidential Targeting of Law Firms: 2025 in Review
Source: Deeplinks - Thousands Tell the Patent Office: Don’t Hide Bad Patents From Review
Source: Deeplinks - S2E37 Roger Ver FREE Freedom Dollar Giveaway AnyCoin Launch
Source: The Aaron Day Show - S2E35 FREEDOM DOLLAR DEFEATS CBDCs
Source: The Aaron Day Show - Two Chrome Extensions Caught Secretly Stealing Credentials from Over 170 Sites
Source: The Hacker News - Fake WhatsApp API Package on npm Steals Messages, Contacts, and Login Tokens
Source: The Hacker News - Online Gaming’s Final Boss: The Copyright Bully
Source: Deeplinks - Bipartisan Bill Seeks to Repeal Section 230, Endangering Online Free Speech
Source: Reclaim The Net - Google and Substack Warn Britain Is Building a Censorship Machine
Source: Reclaim The Net - Pennsylvania High Court Rules Police Can Access Google Searches Without Warrant
Source: Reclaim The Net - Bipartisan Bill Seeks to Repeal Section 230, Endangering Online Free Speech
Source: Reclaim The Net - Google and Substack Warn Britain Is Building a Censorship Machine
Source: Reclaim The Net - Pennsylvania High Court Rules Police Can Access Google Searches Without Warrant
Source: Reclaim The Net - A New Approach to Large Party Beaver-Style MPC with Small Computational Overhead
Source: IACR News - Gravity of the Situation:Security Analysis on Rocket.Chat E2EE
Source: IACR News - Yoyo tricks with a BEANIE
Source: IACR News - The summer I turned binge-y
Source: Planet Money - What AI data centers are doing to your electric bill
Source: Planet Money - PM does a pop culture draft: 1999 edition
Source: Planet Money - When Chicago pawned its parking meters
Source: Planet Money - Strange threadfellows: How the U.S. military shaped what we all wear
Source: Planet Money - How hurricanes became a hot investment
Source: Planet Money - Is AI slopifying the job market? (Two Indicators)
Source: Planet Money - Saving lives with fewer dollars
Source: Planet Money - The Consumer Sentiment vs. Consumer Spending Puzzle
Source: Planet Money - Days of our Tariffs
Source: Planet Money - The obscure pool of money the US used to bail out Argentina
Source: Planet Money - A new experiment in remote work … from the inside
Source: Planet Money - S2E46 The Epstein Bitcoin Coup - From Digital Cash to Fool s Gold
Source: The Aaron Day Show - S2E42 Technocracy and the Financial Markets w Craig Wenclewicz
Source: The Aaron Day Show - S2E38 The Healthcare Prison From Rockefeller to AI
Source: The Aaron Day Show - S2E31 Quantum Deception NESARA GESARA QFS Esposed
Source: The Aaron Day Show - SEC Files Charges Over $14 Million Crypto Scam Using Fake AI-Themed Investment Tips
Source: The Hacker News - INTERPOL Arrests 574 in Africa; Ukrainian Ransomware Affiliate Pleads Guilty
Source: The Hacker News - Passwd: A walkthrough of the Google Workspace Password Manager
Source: The Hacker News - U.S. DoJ Seizes Fraud Domain Behind $14.6 Million Bank Account Takeover Scheme
Source: The Hacker News - Critical n8n Flaw (CVSS 9.9) Enables Arbitrary Code Execution Across Thousands of Instances
Source: The Hacker News - ⚡ Weekly Recap: Firewall Exploits, AI Data Theft, Android Hacks, APT Attacks, Insider Leaks & More
Source: The Hacker News - How to Browse the Web More Sustainably With a Green Browser
Source: The Hacker News - Android Malware Operations Merge Droppers, SMS Theft, and RAT Capabilities at Scale
Source: The Hacker News - Iranian Infy APT Resurfaces with New Malware Activity After Years of Silence
Source: The Hacker News - Russia-Linked Hackers Use Microsoft 365 Device Code Phishing for Account Takeovers
Source: The Hacker News - Fair Use is a Right. Ignoring It Has Consequences.
Source: Deeplinks - Victoria Moves to Force Online Platforms to ID Users and Expand State Powers to Curb “Hate Speech”
Source: Reclaim The Net - Karnataka Enacts India’s First “Hate Speech” Law
Source: Reclaim The Net - Retired Tennessee Officer Sues Sheriff After Arrest Over Meme in First Amendment Case
Source: Reclaim The Net - China just carried out its second reusable launch attempt in three weeks
Source: Ars Technica - All content - OpenAI’s child exploitation reports increased sharply this year
Source: Ars Technica - All content - “Yo what?” LimeWire re-emerges in online rush to share pulled “60 Minutes” segment
Source: Ars Technica - All content - Odyssey trailer brings the myth to vivid life
Source: Ars Technica - All content - Marjorie Taylor Greene Is Rebranding for the Post-MAGA Era. Centrists Are Falling for It.
Source: The Intercept - Anti-Palestinian Billionaires Can Now Control What TikTok Users See
Source: The Intercept - Ousted Air Force Special Ops Command Chief Faces Child Sexual Abuse Material Charges
Source: The Intercept - NY Times’ David Brooks Said There’s Too Much Focus on Jeffrey Epstein. Here He Is Hanging With Epstein.
Source: The Intercept - Olivia Nuzzi Is Completely Oblivious
Source: The Intercept - 19 states sue HHS over a move that could curtail youth gender-affirming care
Source: NPR Topics: News - Supreme Court rules against Trump in National Guard case
Source: NPR Topics: News - A diplomat's tears, 200 snake bites, drone pix: Goats and Soda's top stories in 2025
Source: NPR Topics: News - Document Hinted at Further Prosecutions in Epstein Investigation
Source: NYT > U.S. > Politics - New Epstein Papers Appear to Show Former Prince Andrew Seeking ‘Girls’
Source: NYT > U.S. > Politics - In Epstein Files, Administration Officials Point to Clinton, and Away From Trump
Source: NYT > U.S. > Politics - Federal Agents Tried to Contact ‘Co-Conspirators’ in Epstein Case, Emails Show
Source: NYT > U.S. > Politics - TikTok removes AI weight loss ads from fake Boots account
Source: BBC News - Amazon blocks 1,800 job applications from suspected North Korean agents
Source: BBC News - Uber and Lyft announce plans to trial Chinese robotaxis in UK in 2026
Source: BBC News - Will the US TikTok deal make it safer but less relevant?
Source: BBC News - UK to ban deepfake AI 'nudification' apps
Source: BBC News - One in three using AI for emotional support and conversation, UK says
Source: BBC News - Downing Street insists negotiations over US-UK tech deal still live
Source: BBC News - UK launches taskforce to 'break down barriers' for women in technology
Source: BBC News - Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030
Source: The Register - AWS adds hybrid cloud storage support for Nutanix’s AHV hypervisor
Source: The Register - 21K Nissan customers' data stolen in Red Hat raid
Source: The Register - Starlink satellite fails, polluting orbit with debris and falling toward Earth
Source: The Register - Memory is running out, and so are excuses for software bloat
Source: The Register - Like a Virgin Airways bot, planning for the very first time
Source: The Register - UNIX V4 tape successfully recovered: First ever version of UNIX written in C is running again
Source: The Register - Oracle's new AI-enhanced support portal leaves users fuming
Source: The Register - Uber and Lyft rolling Baidu robotaxis into London next year
Source: The Register - Happy 30th Birthday Antiwar.com !!!
Source: Blog | The Libertarian Institute - Did TSA Finally Grab the Wrong Groin?
Source: Blog | The Libertarian Institute - Truth in Advertising in the UK At Last
Source: Blog | The Libertarian Institute - Ajax Defeated by the Achilles Heel of English Bookkeeping
Source: Blog | The Libertarian Institute - The Kyle Anzalone Show (GUEST) Ken Silva : Assassinations and Cover Ups
Source: Blog | The Libertarian Institute - The Kyle Anzalone Show (GUEST) Matt Hoh: Could Israel Go Nuclear on Iran? And Will Trump Really Stop the Ukraine War?
Source: Blog | The Libertarian Institute - Are You a “Resident Alien” or Have You Gone Native?
Source: Articles by Christian Libertarians – Libertarian Christian Institute - Misesian Wisdom for Careful Political Dialogue
Source: Articles by Christian Libertarians – Libertarian Christian Institute - Why Democracies Prefer Docile Secularists
Source: Articles by Christian Libertarians – Libertarian Christian Institute - Abortion and Bastiat’s Seen and Unseen
Source: Articles by Christian Libertarians – Libertarian Christian Institute - Jesus On Money And Usury
Source: Articles by Christian Libertarians – Libertarian Christian Institute - Can the Christian Right be Truly Seen as Right?
Source: Articles by Christian Libertarians – Libertarian Christian Institute - Is Libertarianism Consistent With Voting? A Personal View.
Source: Articles by Christian Libertarians – Libertarian Christian Institute - The White House Faith Office A Dangerous Entanglement
Source: Articles by Christian Libertarians – Libertarian Christian Institute - Victoria Moves to Force Online Platforms to ID Users and Expand State Powers to Curb “Hate Speech”
Source: Reclaim The Net - Karnataka Enacts India’s First “Hate Speech” Law
Source: Reclaim The Net - Retired Tennessee Officer Sues Sheriff After Arrest Over Meme in First Amendment Case
Source: Reclaim The Net - Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves
Source: 404 Media - ICE Contracts Company Making Bounty Hunter AI Agents
Source: 404 Media - Why Are We Obsessed With Aliens?
Source: 404 Media - Hack Reveals the a16z-Backed Phone Farm Flooding TikTok With AI Influencers
Source: 404 Media - Podcast: Is Wiping a Phone a Crime?
Source: 404 Media - Anthropic Exec Forces AI Chatbot on Gay Discord Community, Members Flee
Source: 404 Media - Earth-Like Planets Are More Common Than We Thought, Study Says
Source: 404 Media - Hacktivists claim near-total Spotify music scrape
Source: Malwarebytes - Pornhub tells users to expect sextortion emails after data exposure
Source: Malwarebytes - The ghosts of WhatsApp: How GhostPairing hijacks accounts
Source: Malwarebytes - Inside a purchase order PDF phishing campaign
Source: Malwarebytes - PayPal closes loophole that let scammers send real emails with fake purchase notices
Source: Malwarebytes - Suwako: A Logarithmic-Depth Modular Reduction for Arbitrary Trinomials over $\mathbb{F}_{2^m}$ without Pre-computation
Source: IACR News - High-Performance SIMD Software for Spielman Codes in Zero-Knowledge Proofs
Source: IACR News - Far-Field $Singing$ FPGAs: Repurposing Routing Fabrics into 100 m Covert Radiators
Source: IACR News - ALKAID: Accelerating Three-Party Boolean Circuits by Mixing Correlations and Redundancy
Source: IACR News - Fully Distributed Multi-Point Functions for PCGs and Beyond
Source: IACR News - LAKE: Lattice-Code Accelerated Kyber Encapsulation
Source: IACR News - FRIVail: A Data Availability Scheme based on FRI Binius
Source: IACR News - Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030
Source: The Register - AWS adds hybrid cloud storage support for Nutanix’s AHV hypervisor
Source: The Register - 21K Nissan customers' data stolen in Red Hat raid
Source: The Register - Starlink satellite fails, polluting orbit with debris and falling toward Earth
Source: The Register - Memory is running out, and so are excuses for software bloat
Source: The Register - Like a Virgin Airways bot, planning for the very first time
Source: The Register - UNIX V4 tape successfully recovered: First ever version of UNIX written in C is running again
Source: The Register - Oracle's new AI-enhanced support portal leaves users fuming
Source: The Register - Uber and Lyft rolling Baidu robotaxis into London next year
Source: The Register
Cybersecurity
- ServiceNow opens $7.7B ticket titled 'Buy security company, make it Armis'
Source: The Register - ServiceNow opens $7.7B ticket titled 'Buy security company, make it Armis'
Source: The Register
Digital Id
- S2E48 Escape Captured Healthcare - Oasara Launch $1000 fUSD Bounty
Source: The Aaron Day Show - S2E45 THE FINAL BETRAYAL - From Farmland to Digital Prison
Source: The Aaron Day Show
Facial Recognition
- How a US Citizen Was Scanned With ICE's Facial Recognition Tech
Source: 404 Media
Freedom
- S2E36 Silicon Valley s Dark Enlightenment Coup with Courtenay Turner
Source: The Aaron Day Show
General Intel
- Can Libertarianism Be Reconciled With Your Christian Tradition?
Source: Articles by Christian Libertarians – Libertarian Christian Institute - Everything’s more expensive!! Pet care!! Concert tickets!! (Two Indicators)
Source: Planet Money - 10 Companies Have Already Made $1 Million as ICE Bounty Hunters. We Found Them.
Source: The Intercept - ICE Hires Immigrant Bounty Hunters From Private Prison Company GEO Group
Source: The Intercept - Buy now, pay dearly? (update)
Source: Planet Money
Linux
- Keeping Windows and macOS alive past their sell-by date
Source: The Register - Keeping Windows and macOS alive past their sell-by date
Source: The Register
Open Source
- A Privacy-Focused Browser Redefining Open Source Through Simplicity and Silence
Source: Reclaim The Net - A Privacy-Focused Browser Redefining Open Source Through Simplicity and Silence
Source: Reclaim The Net
Privacy
- 2025 in Review
Source: Deeplinks - Stand Together to Protect Democracy
Source: Deeplinks - The Breachies 2025: The Worst, Weirdest, Most Impactful Data Breaches of the Year
Source: Deeplinks - 🪪 Age Verification Is Coming for the Internet | EFFector 37.18
Source: Deeplinks - S2E47 The Phone in Your Pocket Works for Them Degoogle or Submit
Source: The Aaron Day Show - How to Sustain Privacy & Free Speech
Source: Deeplinks - Trends to Watch in the California Legislature
Source: Deeplinks - Indian Supreme Court Judge Says Those With Nothing to Hide Shouldn’t Fear Surveillance
Source: Reclaim The Net - Indian Supreme Court Judge Says Those With Nothing to Hide Shouldn’t Fear Surveillance
Source: Reclaim The Net - On Delegation of Verifiable Presentations from mdoc and BBS Credentials
Source: IACR News - Attacking and Securing Hybrid Homomorphic Encryption Against Power Analysis
Source: IACR News - Italy Fines Apple €98.6 Million Over ATT Rules Limiting App Store Competition
Source: The Hacker News - Chrome extension slurps up AI chats after users installed it for privacy
Source: Malwarebytes - Streaming Function Secret Sharing and Its Applications
Source: IACR News - SoK: Verifiable Federated Learning
Source: IACR News - Capitalism (Taylor's Version) (25-minute Podcast Version)
Source: Planet Money - Apple hit with $115M fine for “extremely burdensome” App Store privacy policy
Source: Ars Technica - All content
Rights
- EFF, Open Rights Group, Big Brother Watch, and Index on Censorship Call on UK Government to Reform or Repeal Online Safety Act
Source: Deeplinks
Surveillance
- S2E44 Technocracy Atlas LIVE 10 000 Censored Articles Now Searchable
Source: The Aaron Day Show - S2E39 Mike Adams Interview - Uncensorable AI Revolution
Source: The Aaron Day Show - Dallas Police Propose Expanding AI Facial Recognition to Minor Crimes
Source: Reclaim The Net - Dallas Police Propose Expanding AI Facial Recognition to Minor Crimes
Source: Reclaim The Net - S2E40 Medical Tourism Revolution - Escape the Medical Cartel LIVE AMA
Source: The Aaron Day Show - FCC Bans Foreign-Made Drones and Key Parts Over U.S. National Security Risks
Source: The Hacker News - UK Police Pilot AI System to Track “Suspicious” Driver Journeys
Source: Reclaim The Net - UK Police Pilot AI System to Track “Suspicious” Driver Journeys
Source: Reclaim The Net - S2E43 Uncensorable AI Revolution - Mike Adams Deploys Decentralized Truth Networks
Source: The Aaron Day Show - S2E41 Oasana - Escape Medical Tyranny with Private Health Tourism
Source: The Aaron Day Show