# OPSEC

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vlgr Oct 22, 2026

PHP2Shell: Finally, a Breakthrough in Citizen Management

With personal data potentially already exposed, governments see an opportunity to simplify privacy, eliminate unnecessary consent discussions and introduce ABSOLUTELY SECURE™ Digital ID 2.0.

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vlgr Oct 21, 2026

PHP2Shell: Even the Cybersecurity Agency Took Its Website Offline

The internet is burning. Government portals across Europe went dark on October 21. PHP2Shell. Two remote code execution holes in the language that quietly powers half the web. CVSS 9.2. Critical. Patch now or perish.

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vlgr Oct 8, 2026

EU and Britain show their love for Linux by banning it. Only de facto, not de jure.

New product liability rules in the EU and proposals under discussion in Britain could have far-reaching consequences for Linux and the wider open-source ecosystem. Add growing government enthusiasm for age verification and operating-system-level controls, and the future of independent computing starts looking rather less independent.

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vlgr Oct 3, 2026

Bill Gates, an expert on everything, proposes to tax robots and AI usage

Gates made his money on software that sat on other people’s computers. He now feels as a standing authority on pandemics, food systems, energy, education, and the correct tax treatment of a language model.

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vlgr Sep 17, 2026

EU Kills Anonymity Online by Going Through Your Children

Ursula von der Leyen told us today, that technology was never built with children’s wellbeing in mind. True. It is also not her problem. The slogans go like “1 - safety by design” and "2 - protect the children". These are 2 separate issues, do not mix them!

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vlgr Sep 15, 2026

AI “has the potential to kill us all” & Humanity may be running out of time

In the last weeks, the AI doom prophecy started to boom. So are voices calling for AI regulation. Is the species most likely to be killed by AI that it asked it to think so the species wouldn’t have to? What does it mean for a regular consumer?

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vlgr Sep 11, 2026

The EU Has Cut Red Tape for Finding Out Who You Are Online

Europe has finally found some bureaucracy it would like to remove. Unfortunately, it was standing between a prosecutor and the person who wrote a comment online.

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vlgr Sep 9, 2026

OpenAI Solves a Century-Old Math Problem Using a Method Previously Known as “The Customer”

OpenAI says its AI has cracked a famous mathematics problem. Researchers who put their unpublished work into its tools would like to know how much of the intelligence was artificial.

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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?