Liberty Tools

A library of freedom tools. From the perspective of cypherpunk libertarian anarchism.

Free Roger, Samourai, and Tornado

[Liberty Tools @ToolsLiberty]

Add a small new section. If your interested in investigating things like the Epstein corruption we have a few new tools for you! If you have more, let us know!
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[Aurea @AureaLibe]

Je lance l’initiative Exit Chat Control.

https://t.co/GCt0vLw7YF

Ce site est un guide complet qui vise à répertorier tous les outils nécessaires pour contourner tout système de surveillance de vos messageries privées.

Le site est open source et sera amélioré en continu.

[Liberty Tools @ToolsLiberty]

@longshots888

[Liberty Tools @ToolsLiberty]

https://t.co/LvfPgSRDSC Had a fun conversation with some Marxists, we talked a lot about the cypherpunks. Check it out.

[calle @callebtc]

Age verification is the Trojan horse for complete control of the internet.

Imagine you'd have to register your identity to read a newspaper. That's what this is about.

They say it's for the children, but it really is about taking away your right to use the web anonymously.

[Liberty Tools @ToolsLiberty]

Mask off moment.

This was always the plan.

Resist or we lose the free internet.

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: UK Government clarifies adults will still be able to use social media by verifying their identities with digital IDs, facial recognition, passports and credit cards.

[Shawn Hendrix @TheShawnHendrix]

There is a terrible plauge hitting America. It’s a shortage of hacksaws! I will be leaving hacksaws at local Flock cameras. Go to @therealDeFlock download the app to get your free hacksaw! Please share so many are suffering from Hacktile disfunction!

[0️⃣BlackBetty ⚓️ @BabyD1111229]

Patent for Flock Cameras, they're not only tracking license plates.

U.S. patent 11,416,545 B1

Patented Aug 16, 2022

By Garret Langley and Matt Fuery of FLOCK Safety, based in Atlanta GA (next tweet)

According to Figure 5A, it can detect pedestrians and bicyclists down to clothing, height/weight and color of clothing.

The system also has an auto-alert when it "detects a target" with high confidence.

Along with the most seen and known FLOCK Camera "Falcon", they now have a family of cameras called "Condor, Raven," an aerial surveillance drone "AreoDome" and its linked to a system called "Wing"

#Throwback

Here's the web page with 29 pages of the patent.

https://t.co/2yIALJzVeM

[Rep. Keith Self @RepKeithSelf]

A Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) is the third leg in the surveillance state stool.

It must be permanently banned!

[Rep. Keith Self @RepKeithSelf]

A vehicle Kill Switch is a complete betrayal of liberty.

It can never be accepted.

Congress must Kill the Kill Switch before it goes into effect in 2027.

[Liberty Tools @ToolsLiberty]

Build a server, own your own data.

[HOSTIS @hostis_black]

On May 20, Amazon ended support for every Kindle made in 2012 or earlier. The devices can no longer buy, borrow, or download books. Reset one to factory settings and it will never log back in.

The screen still works. The hardware is fine. Amazon reached across the internet and turned a thing you paid for into a brick, on a date they picked, for a reason that benefits them.

The owners bought the devices. They bought the books. They followed every rule. Amazon changed the rules anyway, because the rules were never yours. When you tap "Buy now" on a Kindle book, you are not buying a book. You are renting a license that Amazon can revoke, expire, or strand on a dead device whenever it suits the quarter.

They designed it this way on purpose, and they showed us the blueprint years ago.

In 2009 Amazon reached into thousands of Kindles overnight and deleted, ironically, copies of George Orwell's 1984, a book people had already paid for. They refunded everyone, apologized, and promised never again. We took the promise for what it was worth and watched the door instead.

In February 2025 they shut it. They removed Download and Transfer via USB, the last simple tool that let you pull your own purchases onto your own computer and keep them. Newer Kindle files use a format almost nobody can crack.

They closed the exit, then they started bricking the devices. None of this was a surprise. They proved in 2009 that they could reach into your library and take a book back. Everything since has just been them deciding when.

A copy you cannot hold is a copy you do not own. A library that lives on someone else's server is a library someone else can burn. The cartel rents you access to the words and calls it ownership, and the only reason most people never notice is that the landlord usually lets them stay. May 20 was the eviction notice. It went to 3% of Kindle owners this time. The lease is identical for the other 97%.

Stop buying books you cannot hold. When you do buy from Amazon, strip the DRM the day it arrives and keep a clean file somewhere they cannot reach. Back up everything you already own while you still can. A book on your own drive is yours forever. A book in your Amazon account is yours until a lawyer in Seattle decides otherwise.

And when you want a book the cartel has priced out of reach or locked behind a dying device, the shadow libraries that never expire are one search away. The pirates build libraries that cannot be revoked, because they assume the cartel always will.

The cartel cannot delete what it cannot reach.

[Liberty Tools @ToolsLiberty]

@Pallavi_345

[Rep. Keith Self @RepKeithSelf]

Want to buy a truck? DENIED.

Want to buy a gun? DENIED.

Want to protest the government? ACCOUNT FROZEN.

This is the future under a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC)—total government control over your money, your spending, and your life.

Ban CBDC. FOREVER!

[StarPlatinum @StarPlatinum_]

Monero is the only major crypto whose founder is still completely unknown.

How it started:

- be an anonymous poster on Bitcointalk
- username: thankful_for_today
- April 2014
- launches BitMonero
- an implementation of CryptoNote
- community disagrees with his direction
- forks him out in days
- project is renamed Monero
- (“coin” in Esperanto)
- founder disappears forever

The protocol itself comes from another ghost:

- CryptoNote whitepaper (2013)
- author: Nicolas van Saberhagen
- also anonymous
- introduces ring signatures + stealth addresses
- never identified

Since then, Monero has no founder to arrest
Just a community.

2014–2016: survival phase

- small dev group forms
- fully volunteer
- mostly anonymous

2014–2019: Spagni era

- Riccardo Spagni (fluffypony) becomes lead maintainer
- not the founder
- never claimed to be
- focuses on hardening
- community governance

2020: network-layer privacy

- Dandelion++ implemented
- transaction propagation obfuscated
- IP privacy improved

2022: the unpopular but correct decision

- main emission ends
- tail emission begins
- 0.6 XMR per block forever
- critics scream “infinite supply”
- devs explain incentives

2023–2024: pressure phase

- regulators target privacy tools
- Tornado Cash sanctions
- dev arrests elsewhere
- P2P survives

2025: stress tests

- hashrate concentration scare
- community responds
- mining decentralization improves
- chain continues

January 2026: still alive

- Fluorine Fermi v0.18.4.5 released
- Ledger fixes
- FCMP++ in roadmap
- next-gen privacy
- New ATH

Satoshi disappeared by accident.
Monero’s founders disappeared by design.

[Naomi Brockwell priv/acc @naomibrockwell]

If we actually want to fight back against the surveillance machine tightening around us, we need a coalition. Please contact your rep and ask them to co-sponsor HR 8470.
https://t.co/H0ceERhJre

[Liberty Tools @ToolsLiberty]

This fucking family man.

[Disclose.tv @disclosetv]

NOW - King Charles: "My ministers will also proceed with the introduction of Digital ID."

[calle @callebtc]

The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto
By Timothy C. May

A specter is haunting the modern world, the specter of crypto anarchy.

Computer technology is on the verge of providing the ability for individuals and groups to communicate and interact with each other in a totally anonymous manner. Two persons may exchange messages, conduct business, and negotiate electronic contracts without ever knowing the True Name, or legal identity, of the other. Interactions over networks will be untraceable, via extensive re-routing of encrypted packets and tamper-proof boxes which implement cryptographic protocols with nearly perfect assurance against any tampering. Reputations will be of central importance, far more important in dealings than even the credit ratings of today. These developments will alter completely the nature of government regulation, the ability to tax and control economic interactions, the ability to keep information secret, and will even alter the nature of trust and reputation.

The technology for this revolution--and it surely will be both a social and economic revolution--has existed in theory for the past decade. The methods are based upon public-key encryption, zero-knowledge interactive proof systems, and various software protocols for interaction, authentication, and verification. The focus has until now been on academic conferences in Europe and the U.S., conferences monitored closely by the National Security Agency. But only recently have computer networks and personal computers attained sufficient speed to make the ideas practically realizable. And the next ten years will bring enough additional speed to make the ideas economically feasible and essentially unstoppable. High-speed networks, ISDN, tamper-proof boxes, smart cards, satellites, Ku-band transmitters, multi-MIPS personal computers, and encryption chips now under development will be some of the enabling technologies.

The State will of course try to slow or halt the spread of this technology, citing national security concerns, use of the technology by drug dealers and tax evaders, and fears of societal disintegration. Many of these concerns will be valid; crypto anarchy will allow national secrets to be trade freely and will allow illicit and stolen materials to be traded. An anonymous computerized market will even make possible abhorrent markets for assassinations and extortion. Various criminal and foreign elements will be active users of CryptoNet. But this will not halt the spread of crypto anarchy.

Just as the technology of printing altered and reduced the power of medieval guilds and the social power structure, so too will cryptologic methods fundamentally alter the nature of corporations and of government interference in economic transactions. Combined with emerging information markets, crypto anarchy will create a liquid market for any and all material which can be put into words and pictures. And just as a seemingly minor invention like barbed wire made possible the fencing-off of vast ranches and farms, thus altering forever the concepts of land and property rights in the frontier West, so too will the seemingly minor discovery out of an arcane branch of mathematics come to be the wire clippers which dismantle the barbed wire around intellectual property.

Arise, you have nothing to lose but your barbed wire fences!

[HOSTIS @hostis_black]

The largest open library in human history, Anna's Archive, has been ordered to pay Spotify and the three largest record labels on the world $322 million.

The defendant has not appeared in court and is not going to. The site is still up with two backup domains standing by and there's nothing the censors can do.

Anna's Archive currently holds 63 million books, 95 million academic papers, and 1.1 petabytes of mirrored torrents. It is free. It is searchable. It is run by a pseudonymous person nobody has identified after four long years of searching.

In the four months since the music industry filed the first of three coordinated lawsuits, the library has lost six domain names and added two million books to the catalogue. The cartel is suing it faster every month, and it is growing faster every month.

In December, Spotify and the major labels filed. In January, OCLC, the company that runs WorldCat, won a default judgment of its own. On March 6th, thirteen of the largest book publishers in the United States, including HarperCollins, Penguin Random House, Simon and Schuster, Macmillan, Hachette, Elsevier, Wiley, and McGraw Hill, filed a third lawsuit in the same federal court.

The publishers' complaint runs to seventy-four pages. They call Anna's Archive a "brazen pirate operation." They call it "an illegal supplier of stolen content to the AI industry."

The same publishers are simultaneously suing Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, and NVIDIA for training their models on the same corpus the publishers want Anna to destroy. The cartel argues, in two parallel federal courts, that the corpus cannot be used by anyone. Not the pirate who built it. Not the AI company that downloaded from it. Not the graduate student who pulls a paywalled paper from it at two in the morning.

Anna did not respond to any of the three complaints. Anna has never responded to any complaint. Anna is a name on a blog and a public key on a server and a person, or maybe several people, in a jurisdiction nobody has identified after four years of searching.

The judgment is uncollectable. The permanent injunction binds Cloudflare, Public Interest Registry, Njalla, the Switch Foundation, Tucows, and nine other named intermediaries. The Greenland registry is not on the list. The Greenland registry has not complied.

The site currently lives at .gl, with .pk and .gd standing by. The corpus has always moved faster than the censor. The censor has always called the corpus piracy. The corpus has always survived the censor by becoming the readers themselves.

The publishers' lawsuit cannot reach the torrents. The torrents are already seeded across continents and IPFS nodes and personal NAS drives owned by people the publishers will never find. The default judgment is paper. The corpus is everywhere.

The cartel will win every lawsuit but they will lose the war. The publisher who walks into court next month with a fresh filing will be filing against a defendant who has, in the time since the last filing was sealed, mirrored another half million books to another seven hundred volunteers in another forty countries.

There is no defendant to find. There is only the next upload. It is already seeding.

[HOSTIS @hostis_black]

On May 7th, Governor Kathy Hochul announced that New York's Fiscal Year 2027 budget will become the first law in the United States to mandate surveillance software inside every 3D printer sold within the state.

It will make it a Class E felony to possess or share a 3D-printable file capable of producing a firearm component. Every printer sold in New York must ship with print-blocking algorithms that scan each job in real time and refuse to execute anything the algorithm flags.

The sales pitch is "ghost guns." The mechanism is a permission gate inside a machine you paid for.

Pilot tests of the proposed algorithm by an open-firmware team triggered the block on 17% of non-weapon prints. Brackets that resemble triggers. Cylinders that resemble barrels. A model train coupling. A bottle opener. The algorithm cannot tell. It will refuse the print and log the attempt to whatever server the manufacturer is required to maintain.

The same arithmetic the printing-press licensors used in 1660. The same arithmetic the Stationers' Company used to brand a printer's son for distributing tracts the Crown had not approved. The same arithmetic the early DRM crowd used to make a DVD ripper a federal criminal in 1998.

A tool you bought, in a room you own, with electricity you paid for, becomes a deputy of the state at the moment of purchase and remains one for the lifetime of the device.

Anything that takes a digital design file and outputs a physical object is now within the reach of a state that has declared it owns the question of which physical objects you are permitted to bring into existence inside your own house.

The fence has spent forty years moving inward. Around the song first. Around the page. Around the cipher. Around the camera roll. Now, finally, around the workbench. The state has run out of digital territory to enclose and has started enclosing the atoms.

The maker who prints a bracket for a broken washing machine tonight commits the same act, technically, that the law is written to stop. The algorithm will not know the difference. It is not designed to know the difference. It is designed to fail closed, to refuse first and let the human appeal upward through whatever bureaucratic channel the manufacturer designs, if any, on whatever timeline the manufacturer chooses, with whatever paper trail attaches to the request. Permission to print, denied. Submit a ticket. Wait.

Unfortunately for New York, and fortunately for us, the firmware on every consumer 3D printer is open or near-open. All of them forkable, all of them flashable, all of them already installed on millions of machines outside the reach of any future New York compliance certificate.

The CAD files at issue are mathematical descriptions of geometry that will be mirrored on a thousand drives in a thousand jurisdictions before the ink on the bill is dry. The state cannot bind geometry. It can only bind the people who agree to be bound.

Forty years from now nobody will remember the ghost gun argument. They will remember the year a state government decided that the physical output of a private machine was the state's business at the point of manufacture.

[Kim Dotcom @KimDotcom]

Sacrifice