Oct 17, 2025
Re-router Part 2 – The Need for Online Shipment Privacy
If you want to protect your online purchases, you first must understand what data is at risk, and how your data can be used against you.
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Feb 25, 2025
AI’s Nature of Surveillance
With the emergence of consumer friendly AI agents over the past few years, there is a great deal of excitement around using these tools that will "replace workers, make your tasks easier, help code the technology of the future, destroy humanity" etc. With all of this excitement, it's important to understand the privacy issues when using AI. Artificial Intelligence and their modals are a huge surveillance apparatus. AI models are different programs that can detect patterns using a specific dataset. There are competing organizations that release their own models that use different algorithms and datasets.
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Jan 12, 2024
Airline Travel and How to Preserve Your Privacy (& Dignity)
This article is mainly focused on airline travel within the US. US citizens have many opt-out options available when traveling domestically. Your privacy as an international inside the United States is much less. You still have the ability to discuss and push back with agents, but your mileage will vary.
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Jun 19, 2023
Torrents as a Privacy Preserving Tool
BitTorrents are a distributed protocol for peer to peer file sharing. When a user wants to download a file, the user downloads it from a distributed network of people that are SEEDING the specific file. The people providing the file for users to download are called seeders. Anyone that is downloading from a seeder is a leecher. You can download media which includes movies, television shows, books, and music. You can also download software
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Nov 25, 2022
The Sovereign Rerouter
The Rerouter service is a physical shipping service that acts as a privacy preserving package routing service.
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Oct 26, 2022
Building Your Sovereign Money Network- Part 2
We've already discussed the reasons why its important to build a strong network for crypto on and off-ramps. We need the correct adversarial framing. Let's begin with asking ourselves, "if I needed to live on crypto at this exact moment, could I accomplish that?" We want to solve for as many different possibilities and pitfalls as possible. You don't need to solve them ALL, but you DO need to be able to continue living productively within this new framing.
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Aug 30, 2022
Building Your Sovereign Money Network
How do you first become sovereign without having control of your money? How do you become ungovernable by relenting power over your money to the state? What do you do should you be banned from using the banking system? If you decide to opt out of the banking system, What options are available to you?
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Jul 15, 2022
How to Make Your Food Supply Chain Anti-Fragile
It seems like unfortunate events are ramping up 🤔 Food production facilities in key exporting countries around the world are systematically being destroyed.
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Nov 12, 2021
How to Buy a Private Phone (A Primer)
It will also be crucial not to power on that burner phone ever (not even without the SIM card) in any geographical location that could lead to you (at your home/work for instance) and never at the same location as your other known smartphone (because that one has an IMEI/IMSI that will easily lead to you).
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Nov 02, 2021
Why Privately Purchased Phones Benefit You
By now, you know your phone is a live tracking device. To what extent though? Both the GPS and the internal antenna expose your physical location. It's best to assume your mobile phone carrier and manufacturer can access this information
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Oct 29, 2021
Let’s Talk About Decentralized Messaging Platforms
You shouldn't have to worry about middlemen accessing your personal conversations. So we look for apps that are end-to-end encrypted and are zero-knowledge based services.
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Oct 24, 2021
How to Think About Private Mail Drops
You need to consider the privacy implications when buying things online. You might not realize it, but it's rather easy to build a profile based on your purchasing habits and shipping information. Normally this info is just used to sell you more bs, but the worst case scenarios spell long-term disaster. Let's walk through how.
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Oct 11, 2021
Avoid Databases and Centralized Systems
As you interact in the digital and physical realm, you interact with companies, software, and systems. They all plug information into databases that they manage. Centralization is economical for most businesses. It makes it easier for the company and allows for seamless interaction with large datasets. This isn't beneficial for the privacy-focused individual though.
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Financial Obsolescence
You can assume "structuring" also plays a functionary role here. Assuming here, $600 is not the lower bound. Financial surveillance is certainly one of the more concerning areas you want to be mindful of.
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Sep 04, 2021
What does your privacy mean to you?
Valuing privacy should not feel dirty. It's your responsibility to strengthen the controls around who has access to your information. You're here because you want answers as to how. Taking back control IS the only answer.
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Aug 12, 2021
How to establish your personal privacy policy
The internet wasn't designed with privacy and security in mind and so we have entities of all kind mismanaging our data with reckless abandon. Removing yourself from the picture that is the internet isn't the most realistic form of privacy, no. That is if you still want to participate in it.
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