Public streaming webcams have been a thing for three decades.

Most of those public streaming cams are streaming to a private server, and not 40k cameras contributing to the same global database. They’re also not being tracked with AI and storing license plate numbers, facial recognition, etc. to be categorized and later searched by law enforcement for, whatever reason they want.

Oh yeah, that’s a “home phone” or a “landline phone”. But these types of phones cannot receive SMS messages so they don’t solve the problem.

I don’t know what a “small fix phone” is, but the phone is not the problem. The problem is basic services that require a phone number as part of your registration.

Yes and no. You can try and go without a phone number but I’ve found that to be literally impossible. Or you can change your phone # periodically, that’s what I do.

Yes but you can’t always disconnect. For instance, my healthcare provider requires in order to access your account you:

1. Get an ID card with Google or Apple Wallet, which I don’t have.
2. Verify over text message, except they refuse my phone # bc it’s VoIP.

I will quite literally die without this so I had to get a new phone and a Google account.

My point is changing providers is a fruitless endeavour. Your phone number is probably sourced and sold several times/day. Switch carriers and they’ll do the same thing. Why? Because no one will stop them, and most people don’t know or even care, so why wouldn’t they? And your phone number is already out there anyway, there’s no taking it back.

If you don’t know what samurai wallet is then that title would be less informative.

No.

Replacing samurai with crypto can only mislead the reader into thinking that the issue was the crypto and not the privacy part.

No.

It also doesn’t tell you anything about why he’s being imprisoned

Neither does the current title. But at least then we know it’s something to do with a crypto wallet instead of a “privacy tool”.

it’s implied why (because he built a privacy tool)

A “privacy tool” could be an infinite number of things. A “crypto wallet” is super specific.

At this point I think it’s pretty clear you’re just being disingenuous so I’ll bid you good day.

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What details are being withheld? His name, the tool’s name, the crime, the sentence? What title would be more informative?

…yeah? That’s absolutely much more informative

Samurai wallet dev sentenced to 5 years

Is that better? Only if you already know what samurai wallet is.

Correct again. I mean it’s infinitely better than the current one where it doesn’t matter if you do know what Samourai is. Also replace Samourai with “crypto” and baby you got a stew goin’.

You can’t condense an hour long video into a single sentence beyond the basic premise

You don’t have to. You just try to make it as information dense as possible. That’s the entire point of a title. It’s not supposed to be just a bunch of random filler words. You’ve just provided several great examples yourself.

Sure, and we’ve always compromised on the 2 as a society. But we continually trend more and more towards prevention rather than privacy and sovereignty.

They’re deliberately withholding basic details of the story so that you have to click the video to get them. That’s clickbait.

Ok but that is a separate discussion.

Get a mini PC with Intel N200. $200 more or less. Install your preferred Linux with KDE Plasma Bigscreen. Use Waydroid and Aurora Store to install streaming apps. That’s the best I got.

Honestly everywhere sounds like an awful place at this point. Freedom is a thing of the past. A thing from a time whence literally everything we did wasn’t tracked, and in order to exist in society, you’re expected to submit to the tracking.

I’m not disagreeing with you but what would happen back then is that they simply wouldn’t stop the crime.

At some point we need to decide if giving up all semblance of personal privacy is worth stopping some of that. I vote no enthusiastically. We just have to accept that some of that crime won’t be stopped and law enforcement will have to work harder.

I wasn’t suggesting they leaked only partial phone numbers?

Doesn’t matter what phone company you have, Whatsapp already has your phone number and they allow anyone to scrape it.

But really there’s so many different ways they can get your #. No way to stop that realistically. I change my phone # every year or so.

Anyone can access 3.5B phone numbers on WhatsApp. Meta says this is not a problem and phone numbers are “basic publicly available information”.

https://9to5mac.com/2025/11/18/whatsapp-security-flaw-exposed-3-5b-phone-numbers-including-yours/

https://tech.yahoo.com/cybersecurity/articles/3-5b-whatsapp-numbers-were-131821434.html

https://techlore.tech/whatsapp-leaked-3-5-billion-phone-numbers-surveillance-report/

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AI search is useless for the same reason search engines are useless. But at least search engines force you to look at the source information and the context around it. So AI search is even more useless.

Making a better search engine solves nothing. There are several dozen of them already but Google remains on the top for a variety of reasons, including continued anticompetitive behavior and overwhelming consumer apathy. Most of the other ones aren’t sustainable without using the same shady advertising Google is using. Kagi being the exception. Mozilla could definitely offer a similar paid solution.

I understand the existential pressure Mozilla faces. Their lunch is being eaten by AI browsers

Is there any data to back this up? Last I checked Firefox was still the 3rd most used browser, by a wide margin.