Techlore

Your digital life is being decided for you. Techlore helps you take it back—privacy, security, and digital rights, made simple by Henry Fisher.

[Techlore @TechloreInc]

Welcome to Techlore 🔐 This is where you'll learn about digital rights, privacy, security, digital control, and other important topics to push the world towards a safer internet.

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[Techlore @TechloreInc]

SPA Tools v2026.10 is live!

• The SPA Quiz now exposes your biggest gap + the fix to make you safer
• New navbar + footer
• One-click “Update my results”
• 6 new VPNs in the VPN Finder
• Fonts finally fixed in iOS Lockdown Mode 🙌

Try it now: https://t.co/qlpmj5kClK

[Techlore @TechloreInc]

@getoutline - Open source
- Self hostable
- Comments + charts + docs + doc linking
- Collaborative
- Strong PWA + easy to use

Not sponsored, just sharing a cool project: https://t.co/3PjCeU9imM

[Techlore @TechloreInc]

We've been hunting for a doc collaboration service that is polished, powerful, yet a 'simple' Notion alt that is privacy respecting. After testing many services, discovered @getoutline! It's epic for internal team use. We set it up on our server and haven't been so happy 😀

[Techlore @TechloreInc]

@Nextclouders And they posted it on PeerTube too:https://t.co/lXlp7HSru1

[Techlore @TechloreInc]

Huge thanks to @Nextclouders for hosting my workshop discussing (with those in the audience!) the challenges in onboarding those in our life to better tech.

I hope it inspires some changes around us, since solo won't win in the long run.

Full Talk: https://t.co/qa10Q22Roj

[Techlore @TechloreInc]

@Ledger thanks for the clarification 🙏

[Techlore @TechloreInc]

Ledger just unveiled the Ledger Atom, a security-first phone running LedgerOS based on Android.

- Hardware switch that physically cuts cameras/mics
- Indicator whenever the secure enclave is in use

@Ledger says it’s not meant to replace your phone day one. Details coming soon!

[Techlore @TechloreInc]

We also asked about last week’s reseller implant attack. Ledger’s working with authorities & the Atom ships with full tamper protection: opening it triggers the enclave. They say this protection is coming to all Ledger devices.

Full coverage + interview with their CTO soon.

[Techlore @TechloreInc]

To anyone in the YouTube comments who asked if Mysterium VPN is worth it, I would start by looking at the basics.

[Techlore @TechloreInc]

Go Incognito v2 is live! 🚀

Section 1 is out now for premium students, with more sections on the way. Pre-launch pricing (25% off) ends tonight at 11:30PM pacific. Free version drops in the coming weeks!

All the details: https://t.co/KZXMBmKr3S

[Techlore @TechloreInc]

@muptuf45 the main course will literally be posted for free, thanks for engaging!

[Techlore @TechloreInc]

500,000+ people learned privacy with the first Go Incognito.

Today, V2 is here 🚀 Rebuilt from scratch for 2026. Section 1 opens Monday, with a new section every 1-2 weeks.

Pre-launch is 25% off: https://t.co/ouw2VmrVu2

[Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) @internetfreedom]

Statement : The removal of BitChat from the India App Store is unconstitutional. Section 69A permits the blocking of unlawful information, not of a messenger for working during internet shutdowns.

New Delhi, 3 October 2026

An Apple App Review notice published today by Jack Dorsey on X records that BitChat has been removed from the India App Store "per demand from the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology", issued under Section 69A of the Information Technology Act, 2000, on the ground that the application "includes content that is illegal in India". The notice adds that BitChat's TestFlight builds are no longer available for testing in India. It does not identify the content said to be illegal or the ground under Section 69A invoked. The blocking order has not been published. The Internet Freedom Foundation condemns the order and calls for its immediate publication and withdrawal.

BitChat relays end-to-end encrypted messages between nearby phones over Bluetooth mesh. It has no servers and hosts no content of its own. What travels through it is the private speech of its users, so the claim that the application "includes" illegal content is incoherent. The State's actual objection stands recorded in the notices the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre issued on 23 July 2026 to GitHub, Google and Apple against BitChat, Briar and Bridgefy which stated that such applications work even during internet shutdowns and hamper lawful interception, attribution and traceability. Those notices, issued under Section 79(3)(b) were reportedly withdrawn after public disclosure. The same end has now been pursued through Section 69A. The objection is to capability of an application, not to content it transmits. A citizen's ability to speak to another citizen while the State has switched the internet off is not a ground of restriction under Section 69A or Article 19(2) of the Constitution.

Section 69A survived constitutional scrutiny in Shreya Singhal v. Union of India (2015) because of its safeguards which included the need for a reasoned, recorded order, committee review, and a hearing to the originator under Rule 8 of the Blocking Rules, 2009, which the Delhi High Court enforced in Tanul Thakur v. Union of India (2022). Further, Anuradha Bhasin v. Union of India (2020) requires that orders restricting fundamental rights be published and adopt the least restrictive measure. However, it appears in this instance, each safeguard has been evaded. A secret order blocking an entire application, rather than any identified unlawful information, is the most restrictive and disproprotionate measure available. Further, the confidentiality claimed under Rule 16 cannot defeat the right to challenge an order, and the constitutionality of this blocking regime is itself pending consideration before the Supreme Court.

While removal from the App Store does not delete BitChat from phones, it stops new downloads and security updates, leaving existing users on unpatched versions, and it ends security testing in India through TestFlight. During the Jantar Mantar protests, when mobile internet was suspended and jammers were deployed, Bluetooth mesh messaging was a channel of last resort through which young people coordinated their safety. To our knowledge, Apple has removed BitChat on a government's demand in only one other country. This is in China, in April this year.

Our demands

1. MeitY must publish the blocking order, the ground invoked and the record of the committee's proceedings, and serve the developers with a copy and an opportunity of hearing.

2. The direction must be withdrawn. Any specific unlawful use must be met with targeted proceedings under due process, not the removal of a communications tool for everyone.

3. Apple must disclose the demand in its transparency reporting and notify its users in India, and must state whether parallel directions have been received in respect of other app stores.

4. The secrecy of the blocking regime must end. The Blocking Rules, 2009 should be amended to require publication of orders and notice to originators, without awaiting the outcome of the pending constitutional challenge.

The Internet Freedom Foundation will file applications under the Right to Information Act seeking a copy of the order, and stands ready to assist the developers and affected users in India.

[Techlore @TechloreInc]

This is why democracies can't stay silent on Apple & Google's App Store chokehold. Let people install apps from anywhere!

[Techlore @TechloreInc]

Congress has two new site-blocking bills, and one would make VPNs block websites. Plus the FBI + Pentagon hacks and Chat Control 2.0 getting fought off (for now). New SR is Live!

YT: https://t.co/okJxRC96fc
Newsletter: https://t.co/w7pr9UgI7Y
🎧 Podcast is live too

[Techlore @TechloreInc]

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Or wait for the free version, that's what it's for! Thank you all for the years of support 🙌

[Techlore @TechloreInc]

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[Firewalls Don't Stop Dragons @FirewallDragons]

Firewalls Don't Stop Dragons has now published 500 podcast episodes, 5 editions of the book, and 300+ blog posts.

A HUGE thank-you to my listeners, readers, fellow evangelists, and patrons for making all of this possible!

Celebrate with me! https://t.co/o2grDjsZoR