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nemo™ 🇺🇦🚨 UK's Children's Commissioner calls for govt action to block under-18s from using VPNs to bypass age checks on porn sites. With VPNs surging post-Online Safety Act, privacy experts warn of risks ahead. Read more: <a href="https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/19/uk_commissioner_suggests_govt_stop/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/19/uk_commissioner_suggests_govt_stop/</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/OnlineSafety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OnlineSafety</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/VPN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#VPN</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/ChildProtection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ChildProtection</a> 🔐👶 <a href="https://mas.to/tags/newz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#newz</a>

Alec MuffettA short explanation for Home Office Minister Jess Phillips re: why attempts to restrict kids to using “teenager” phones will be doomed to failure <a href="https://alecmuffett.com/article/114580" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://alecmuffett.com/article/114580</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AgeVerification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AgeVerification</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HomeOffice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HomeOffice</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JessPhillips" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JessPhillips</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnlineSafety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OnlineSafety</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnlineSafetyAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OnlineSafetyAct</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#censorship</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#surveillance</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/vawg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#vawg</a>

Alec MuffettWelcome to the Molly Rose Foundation, where you are only permitted to say *negative* things about algorithmically-curated feed content, but never *positive* things <a href="https://alecmuffett.com/article/114576" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://alecmuffett.com/article/114576</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnlineSafety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OnlineSafety</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnlineSafetyAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OnlineSafetyAct</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/algorithms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#algorithms</a>

alecmA short explanation for Home Office Minister Jess Phillips re: why attempts to restrict kids to using “teenager” phones will be doomed to failure~14 years ago a friend – a highly respected & credentialed security consultant – shared that he’d set up all manner of content filtering & parental blocks on his home network, for the safety of his then ~14yo son.So the kid went to the local High Street and spent ~£20 of pocket money on a secondhand Android phone. He said: “I have strongly mixed feelings about this. I don’t know whether to be angry or impressed.”That’s it. Things have not changed in the time which has passed, if anything the supply of competent inexpensive second- and thirdhand hardware has become even more abundant.To achieve what the minister suggests below will require regulation of the sales of all phones, laptops, and tablets, not to mention games consoles and IoT, including in the second hand market and on the likes of eBay and so forth.The likely rebuttal will be “we must not let perfect be the enemy of good” and “if we can save one child it will be worth it” – but this is nonsense, because we also have to forbid software freedoms. You would have to ban installations of Linux – including under virtualisation and with Raspberry Pi – and other alternative operating systems like Tails. And you would also have to stop kids learning how to code using cloud environments which would allow them to circumvent all of this control.Waiting for “child friendly” software to somehow trickle down into the second hand market is not going to make the child’s safety activists happy, and it is not going to prevent systems being reinstalled with operating systems that do not implement the controls.Jess Philips, Minister for Safeguarding and Violence Against Women and Girls in the Home Office, <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/6abfd672-607b-4e38-ab07-00057d5aebeb" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">in the FT today</a> (archived <a href="https://archive.ph/Pvgzm" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">here</a>) says:<blockquote>The minister charged with tackling violence against girls has called on smartphone makers to do more to embed child protection technology into their devices, as she defended the UK’s new requirements for online age verification.Jess Phillips said it is “absolutely imperative” that device manufacturers and the developers of their operating systems take greater responsibility for blocking pornographic imagery from children’s phones.“I want to see tech companies putting as much resource and capability into this as they do into addictive algorithms,” Philips, the minister for safeguarding, told the Financial Times in an interview.</blockquote>And:<blockquote>Phillips said: “If there are very easy means of getting around [the rules], then obviously government has to look at that.”</blockquote>Regulating the second hand market is where you will have to begin.<a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://alecmuffett.com/article/tag/age-verification" target="_blank">#ageVerification</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://alecmuffett.com/article/tag/censorship" target="_blank">#censorship</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://alecmuffett.com/article/tag/home-office" target="_blank">#homeOffice</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://alecmuffett.com/article/tag/jess-phillips" target="_blank">#JessPhillips</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://alecmuffett.com/article/tag/online-safety" target="_blank">#onlineSafety</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://alecmuffett.com/article/tag/online-safety-act" target="_blank">#onlineSafetyAct</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://alecmuffett.com/article/tag/surveillance" target="_blank">#surveillance</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://alecmuffett.com/article/tag/vawg" target="_blank">#vawg</a>

ResearchBuzz: FirehoseZDNet: Scammers are sneaking into Google’s AI summaries to steal from you – how to spot them. “Several people are revealing how they were scammed while searching for customer service numbers using Google’s AI Overviews and AI Mode. Assuming the phone numbers that appeared in the AI-based results were legitimate, the victims called them and provided payment information to complete a transaction. […]<a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/20/zdnet-scammers-are-sneaking-into-googles-ai-summaries-to-steal-from-you-how-to-spot-them/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/20/zdnet-scammers-are-sneaking-into-googles-ai-summaries-to-steal-from-you-how-to-spot-them/</a>

ResearchBuzz: FirehoseTubefilter: Is this the start of Roblox’s own Adpocalypse?. “Roblox is facing increased scrutiny over its child safety practices. Earlier this month, in two entirely separate cases, two families filed suit against the platform, alleging their 10– and 13-year-old daughters were found, groomed, and then kidnapped by adult predators who used Roblox to connect with them. (Both girls were found.)”<a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/20/tubefilter-is-this-the-start-of-robloxs-own-adpocalypse/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/20/tubefilter-is-this-the-start-of-robloxs-own-adpocalypse/</a>

Open Rights GroupVPNs are vital for online safety, but they're now in the firing line.People have turned to them to protect their privacy, rather than splurge their data to unregulated age verification providers following the UK Online Safety Act.But they have an important role to guard against predators online.ORG's <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/@JamesBaker" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@JamesBaker</a> explains why we must resist moves to age-gate this tech ⬇️ <a href="https://peertube.openrightsgroup.org/w/dmtYyFMktAE4hhdZWYSzH9" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://peertube.openrightsgroup.org/w/dmtYyFMktAE4hhdZWYSzH9</a><a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/OnlineSafetyAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OnlineSafetyAct</a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/onlinesafety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#onlinesafety</a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/VPN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#VPN</a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/ukpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ukpolitics</a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/ukpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ukpol</a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/cybersecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cybersecurity</a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#privacy</a>

alecmWelcome to the Molly Rose Foundation, where you are only permitted to say *negative* things about algorithmically-curated feed content, but never *positive* thingsThat’s it. This is not a joke.You’re not allowed to say “more of this please” in case you ask for more of something bad.You are not to be trusted.<a href="https://mollyrosefoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/proof3_PervasivebyDesign.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://mollyrosefoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/proof3_PervasivebyDesign.pdf</a><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://alecmuffett.com/article/tag/algorithms" target="_blank">#algorithms</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://alecmuffett.com/article/tag/online-safety" target="_blank">#onlineSafety</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://alecmuffett.com/article/tag/online-safety-act" target="_blank">#onlineSafetyAct</a>

Alec MuffettJust in case it wasn’t obvious the first time around: applying age verification to VPNs to stop children using them, will stop EVERYONE using them & thereby cause unpopular chaos, @peterkyle @ChildrensComm <a href="https://alecmuffett.com/article/114562" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://alecmuffett.com/article/114562</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AgeVerification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AgeVerification</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnlineSafety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OnlineSafety</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnlineSafetyAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OnlineSafetyAct</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PeterKyle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PeterKyle</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RachelDeSouza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RachelDeSouza</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#censorship</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#surveillance</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/vpn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#vpn</a>

Alec MuffettBritish Online Safety is an irregular verb | Conjugate the verb after me… | Chris Stokel-Walker on Bluesky <a href="https://alecmuffett.com/article/114560" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://alecmuffett.com/article/114560</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AgeVerification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AgeVerification</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ChrisStokelwalker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ChrisStokelwalker</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnlineSafety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OnlineSafety</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnlineSafetyAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OnlineSafetyAct</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#censorship</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#surveillance</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/vpn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#vpn</a>

alecmJust in case it wasn’t obvious the first time around: applying age verification to VPNs to stop children using them, will stop EVERYONE using them & thereby cause unpopular chaos, @peterkyle @ChildrensCommPCMag:<blockquote>A government commissioner calls for age verification for VPNs, citing the risk of children using them to bypass the UK’s Online Safety Act for easy access to adult content.</blockquote><a href="https://twitter.com/PCMag/status/1957880544605155412" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/PCMag/status/1957880544605155412</a><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://alecmuffett.com/article/tag/age-verification" target="_blank">#ageVerification</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://alecmuffett.com/article/tag/censorship" target="_blank">#censorship</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://alecmuffett.com/article/tag/online-safety" target="_blank">#onlineSafety</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://alecmuffett.com/article/tag/online-safety-act" target="_blank">#onlineSafetyAct</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://alecmuffett.com/article/tag/peter-kyle" target="_blank">#PeterKyle</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://alecmuffett.com/article/tag/rachel-de-souza" target="_blank">#RachelDeSouza</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://alecmuffett.com/article/tag/surveillance" target="_blank">#surveillance</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://alecmuffett.com/article/tag/vpn" target="_blank">#VPN</a>

Alec MuffettOpenRightsGroup on TikTok: “These Are My Private Parts, Protect Your Digital Bits!” <a href="https://alecmuffett.com/article/114558" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://alecmuffett.com/article/114558</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AgeVerification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AgeVerification</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnlineSafety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OnlineSafety</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnlineSafetyAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OnlineSafetyAct</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OpenRightsGroup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenRightsGroup</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#censorship</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#surveillance</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/vpn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#vpn</a>

➴➴➴Æ🜔Ɲ.Ƈꭚ⍴𝔥єɼ👩🏻‍💻The only way to fight the <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/OnlineSafetyAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OnlineSafetyAct</a> is to create underground alternatives to these platforms. There is way more <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/OnlineSafety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OnlineSafety</a> in peer to peer sharing than in anything the <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/OSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OSA</a> offers.

Alec MuffettBritain’s online safety law is running amok | The Washington Post <a href="https://alecmuffett.com/article/114555" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://alecmuffett.com/article/114555</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AgeVerification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AgeVerification</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JDVance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JDVance</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnlineSafety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OnlineSafety</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnlineSafetyAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OnlineSafetyAct</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TobyYoung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TobyYoung</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#censorship</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#surveillance</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/vpn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#vpn</a>

Open Rights GroupThe cybersecurity wrecking ball is turning to VPNs ‼️It's dangerous to attack a tool that can help to keep adults and children safe online.Age-gating this tech for UK users would increase cybercrime and put under 18s at a greater risk of predators.<a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn438z3ejxyo" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn438z3ejxyo</a><a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/OnlineSafetyAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OnlineSafetyAct</a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/onlinesafety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#onlinesafety</a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/VPN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#VPN</a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/cybersecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cybersecurity</a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#privacy</a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/ukpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ukpolitics</a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/ukpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ukpol</a>

Alec MuffettCharlie Hebdo covers the Online Safety Act | …there is a paywall but this is above the fold, via translation: <a href="https://alecmuffett.com/article/114553" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://alecmuffett.com/article/114553</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AgeVerification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AgeVerification</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CharlieHebdo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CharlieHebdo</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnlineSafety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OnlineSafety</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnlineSafetyAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OnlineSafetyAct</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#censorship</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#surveillance</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/vpn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#vpn</a>

alecmOpenRightsGroup on TikTok: “These Are My Private Parts, Protect Your Digital Bits!”This sound will become a classic for privacy and security people:<a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@openrightsgroup/video/7540259036025933078" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.tiktok.com/@openrightsgroup/video/7540259036025933078</a><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://alecmuffett.com/article/tag/age-verification" target="_blank">#ageVerification</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://alecmuffett.com/article/tag/censorship" target="_blank">#censorship</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://alecmuffett.com/article/tag/online-safety" target="_blank">#onlineSafety</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://alecmuffett.com/article/tag/online-safety-act" target="_blank">#onlineSafetyAct</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://alecmuffett.com/article/tag/open-rights-group" target="_blank">#openRightsGroup</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://alecmuffett.com/article/tag/surveillance" target="_blank">#surveillance</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://alecmuffett.com/article/tag/vpn" target="_blank">#VPN</a>

Alec MuffettPlease: at what point does it cease to be “stumbling across porn” for a teen (or indeed anyone) to install & enable a VPN and type “PORN” into a search query or URL? <a href="https://alecmuffett.com/article/114551" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://alecmuffett.com/article/114551</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AgeVerification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AgeVerification</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnlineSafety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OnlineSafety</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnlineSafetyAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OnlineSafetyAct</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RachelDeSouza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RachelDeSouza</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#censorship</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ofcom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ofcom</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#surveillance</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/vpn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#vpn</a>

alecmBritish Online Safety is an irregular verb | Conjugate the verb after me… | Chris Stokel-Walker on Bluesky<blockquote><ul><li>I can’t parent my kids</li><li>You must do something about it</li><li>He/she/they are accessing porn</li><li>We are in trouble</li><li>You all must suffer intrusion into your life because of it</li><li>They must be saved</li></ul></blockquote> <blockquote>Big “My child found the hidden store of sweets in the cupboard so let’s blame kitchen manufacturers” energy.</blockquote><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/stokel.bsky.social/post/3lwqq52zjtk2k" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://bsky.app/profile/stokel.bsky.social/post/3lwqq52zjtk2k</a><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://alecmuffett.com/article/tag/age-verification" target="_blank">#ageVerification</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://alecmuffett.com/article/tag/censorship" target="_blank">#censorship</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://alecmuffett.com/article/tag/chris-stokel-walker" target="_blank">#ChrisStokelWalker</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://alecmuffett.com/article/tag/online-safety" target="_blank">#onlineSafety</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://alecmuffett.com/article/tag/online-safety-act" target="_blank">#onlineSafetyAct</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://alecmuffett.com/article/tag/surveillance" target="_blank">#surveillance</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://alecmuffett.com/article/tag/vpn" target="_blank">#VPN</a>

ResearchBuzz: FirehoseKrebs on Security: Mobile Phishers Target Brokerage Accounts in ‘Ramp and Dump’ Cashout Scheme. “Cybercriminal groups peddling sophisticated phishing kits that convert stolen card data into mobile wallets have recently shifted their focus to targeting customers of brokerage services, new research shows.”<a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/19/krebs-on-security-mobile-phishers-target-brokerage-accounts-in-ramp-and-dump-cashout-scheme/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/19/krebs-on-security-mobile-phishers-target-brokerage-accounts-in-ramp-and-dump-cashout-scheme/</a>

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