# OPSEC

# OPSEC

vlgr Aug 3, 2026

Europe Demanded Age Verification. Europe Could Not Build Age Verification.

Europe spent years rewriting legislation to protect children online, reaching from digital-ID verification to access the internet to banning children from communicating in multiplayer games. Then came the implementation phase.

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vlgr Jul 30, 2026

Telegram, Terrorists and the Right to Be an Idiot

Criminals use encrypted messaging. So does everyone else. Telegram’s battles with France and Russia expose the question governments would rather avoid: should the state investigate people suspected of crimes, or weaken private communication until everyone becomes conveniently searchable?

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vlgr Jul 26, 2026

The Holy Ghost didn’t help the Vatican devs secure the personal data

The Vatican’s official prayer app exposed personal data from 719,517 accounts. An ethical hacker reported it in January. Apparently neither heaven nor the developers could be bothered.

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vlgr Jul 25, 2026

Trump About To Open the EU Piggybank Audit

On Friday evening Donald Trump announced that the United States will immediately open a Section 301 investigation into the European Union’s practice of fining American technology companies. While the rest of the developed world argues about the next generation of AI, the European Union is proudly pioneering the controlled degradation of its own digital services.

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vlgr Jul 25, 2026

Europe’s Most Successful Technology Business Is Fining Foreign Technology Businesses

Google, Apple, Meta, Temu and AliExpress have all discovered Europe’s latest digital innovation: the regulatory invoice. The fines enter the EU budget, national payments continue rising and Brussels remains dependent on the same American and Chinese platforms it cannot reproduce.

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vlgr Jul 21, 2026

The Future of EU Strategic Independence in the Software Department Is Russian

Europe has spent the last decade writing white papers, funding programmes, and holding summits about “digital sovereignty” and “strategic autonomy in software.” The results are now in.

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vlgr Jul 18, 2026

The Digital Euro And The European Payment Garden

The European Central Bank is pushing ahead with the digital euro. A pilot is planned for September 2027, with a planned full rollout around 2029. Europe takes physical cash, which suffered from the primitive defects of anonymity, unrestricted possession and immediate personal control, and improves it by adding identity verification, holding limits, automated transfers, sanctions checks, conditional payment infrastructure, integration with digital identity systems and the possibility of future software updates.

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vlgr Jul 15, 2026

t.me links died for a day. It wasn’t Brussels - this time.

On Monday evening, Telegram’s core short-link domain t.me was placed on serverHold at the .me registry. Every link using that domain ceased to resolve for users worldwide. The change was not the result of a technical failure on Telegram’s side, nor was it a conventional takedown following a court order, but a registry-level administrative action that simply removed the domain from global DNS resolution.

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vlgr Jul 13, 2026

SOLARIS project: Deepfakes Are Bad for Democracy. Official EU Deepfakes Are Good for Democracy.

The European Commission has released another success story. This time, an EU-funded project called SOLARIS spent three years and €2.76 million studying whether deepfakes can be used for good.

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vlgr Jul 10, 2026

CHAT CONTROL V. – Why and How to Resist the Identified Internet (last article not being satire here)

The familiar response to privacy concerns is that people who have done nothing wrong should have nothing to hide. That argument reverses the intended dynamics between the individual and the state. Citizens are expected to trust governments, technology companies and verification contractors with increasingly sensitive identity data, although all of them have demonstrated that their systems can be breached, misconfigured or exploited.