The Rot at Dread's /d/OpSec, The Rise of OpSec Alts (OpSec Bible - by Nihilist)(/d/OpSec is dead. Use The OpSec Bible instead)

Pinned to the top of /d/OpSec is a thread that claims bisexuality and non‑binary pronouns somehow fortify your operational security. The prose reads like a BuzzFeed personality quiz, complete with winking emoji, zero methodology, and a closing demand that “everybody should be LGBTQ to improve their OPSEC.” The moderator who elevated this clap‑trap is /u/Beelzebub, a man who labels himself the “Prince of Lies” without irony and then wonders why serious practitioners have evacuated the room.

This single post is not the disease, but the rash that proves the infection. Real OPSEC lives or dies on discipline: circuit isolation, metadata control, compartmented identities. Instead, the board’s gatekeeper pushes identity politics cosplay as tactical wisdom. Newcomers see it pinned and assume the entire board is a joke (it is now, all gpt posts).

Veterans stop contributing, because debating clown‑logic is wasted bandwidth. The knowledge pool evaporates, and the lurkers who actually need help wander off with garbage advice humming in their heads soft targets gift‑wrapped for law enforcement.

Beelzebub’s track record makes it worse. He censors critique he can’t refute, flaunts mod‑only meta‑data in petty arguments, and dresses every slip‑up in bravado rather than fixes.

A moderator who needs constant spotlight is indistinguishable from an intel honeypot: unpredictable, self‑serving, and structurally incapable of silence.

The moment ego outranks threat‑modeling, security becomes theater.

Dread once mattered because it filled the vacuum left when Reddit’s r/DarkNetMarkets was torched. But inheritance is not competence. Without peer review, source control, or any requirement to cite evidence, forum “guides” calcify into superstition. Meanwhile the attack surface balloons: bad advice, off topic remarks, a mod who thinks opsec is a waste of time (by his own lack of practice), approved GPT posts on opsec, that make no sense, and virtual signalling are now what you will find in /d/opsec mostly.

/d/OpSec is dead. Use The OpSec Bible instead.

People who actually care about staying free steer clear of the Dread circus and send rookies/pros straight to Nihilist’s OpSec Bible.

Here, there’s no moderator popularity contest, or dumb flair economy, no posturing or virtue signaling by a 70 year old weirdo who thinks OpSec is a waste of time and runs windows. Everything is immutable HTML, PGP‑verified, versioned, and built for factual accuracy, not social approval.

Yes, you can become ungovernable if you have proper Operational Security. Everyone can have it. The Opsec Bible is here to show you why and how you can achieve Operational Security from A to Z. From Privacy, to Anonymity, to Deniability, on both the Clientside, and the Serverside.

-Nihilist

Contrast that to /d/opsec:

Contributors don’t post for karma or ego; they get paid in Monero for actual technical work. Here they know the gravity of the information they disseminate: life or death for some.

Every guide is reviewed and rewarded based on how hard it is to pull off, not how well it flatters the staff. “Simple” tutorials get a small payout, real “core” or high-value work gets double, and every submission is judged on one thing: does it actually make you harder to catch?

If you can’t prove it, you don’t get paid.

If you cut corners or copy-paste, you get nothing.

Nihilist’s standards are carved in stone. The blog is structured around actual methodology: why it matters, what solves it, and exactly how to implement it. There’s a published, public quality standard. Lazy walls of text, empty theorizing, or anything that can’t be cryptographically justified gets purged, no exceptions. It’s all tracked, version-controlled, and stripped of politics or trash, so you can audit the information yourself, step by step, with real graphs and command-line proofs, not just mod fiat.

Unlike Dread, where OPSEC is whatever the mod’s mood or identity politics dictates this week, the OpSec Bible is engineered for one purpose: operational discipline, instead of upvotes, herd think, mod meta‑data abuse, secret rules. If you want tutorials based on actual compartmentation, metadata hygiene, or adversarial modeling, you get the real thing. Every contributor is expected to prove they know the topic and follow a published methodology before they ever touch the site.

If you’re still gambling your safety on Dread’s /d/OpSec, understand the odds: your threat model is now chained to a moderator who confuses sexual mystique with trade‑craft and who pins memes instead of methodology.

Either migrate to resources built on verifiable facts, real world knowledge base, documents and versioned edits, or accept that your “security” plan is hostage to the next mood swing of a man who brags about being a liar in his username.