This hub collects every tactical guide that solves problems people actually search for: hardening devices, isolating browsers and apps, and cutting off the network surveillance that builds your survallience profile. If you’re trying to stop being an easy target fast, start here.
This hub gives you every tactical move to strip permissions, kill telemetry, isolate containers, harden operating systems, and cut off the networks feeding your data back into the machine. This page is the index. Find the guide you need. Move through the sections.
Many of the guides are still in the planning stages and will be linked and updated as they are released, so keep checking back for updates.
LAST UPDATED: Nov 2025
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1. Lock Down Your Digital Trail (Starter Guide)
A full stack walkthrough. Hardens devices, browsers, apps, networks, identities, and cloud behavior under one system.
2. The Only Privacy Setup You Actually Need
A stripped down privacy build that works in the real world and avoids complexity traps.
3. Where to Start With Privacy: 5 Beginner Moves That Actually Work
Your quickest wins. Five moves that immediately reduce exposure without breaking your workflow.
Related Master Guides
These master guides give you the system level defenses behind the tactical steps. Each of these expands the footprint work into system level defenses.
- The Complete Guide to Locking Down Your Digital Life
- Threat Modeling and OPSEC: A Practical Guide for Real Humans
- Crisis Mode Protocols
- The Resistence Mindset: How to Reclaim Control
- Operational Privacy: From Setup to System
Device Hardening
Core moves to stop location logging, telemetry, and insecure defaults.
Disable the Coordinates: How to Kill Location Logging on GrapheneOS
The strongest kill switches on the most secure mobile OS.
OS-Level Lockdown Checklist
A full device hardening pass: permissions, telemetry, services, backups.
Android Permission Purge
A step by step teardown of app permissions that leak identity and location.
iOS Telemetry Reduction
Cuts off Apple level analytics, tracking toggles, and system pings.
How to Turn a Dead Phone Into a Private Vault
Recycle an old phone into an offline air gapped encrypted storage station.
Browser Isolation & Web Hardening
Break cookies, tokens, tracking, and session bleed.
Browser Isolation: Containers, Profiles, Zero Cross Contamination
A clean isolation model to separate identities and stop tracking bleedover.
How to Browse the Web Like a Ghost
Fingerprint reduction, isolation layers, and safe defaults.
What Google Still Knows (Even After You Opt Out)
The hidden data models and signals Google keeps collecting.
Clear Your Google Footprint
Wipes search history, location timeline, web activity, and ad targeting.
How to Kill Behavioral Profiling Across Browser Sessions
Shuts down trackers that follow your movements across tabs, apps, and timelines.
Network Privacy + Home Perimeter Security
Cut the surveillance layers under your behavior.
How to Set Up NextDNS and Kill ISP Tracking for Good
Encrypted DNS, blocking lists, and ISP proof resolution.
Build a Clean Home Network: Segmentation, Firewalls, Isolation
Build a network that contains threats and stops device cross leakage.
Travel Router Lockdown: Move Without Bleeding Metadata
How to stay clean in hotels, airports, cafes, and hostile networks.
How to Use VPN + Encrypted DNS the Right Way
Correct stacking, correct order, correct leak checks.
Shut the Digital Window: Blocking Physical Surveillance in Your Living Space
Lock down your home’s digital leaks and physical weak points with a clear blueprint for securing routers, networks, devices, and entry points.
Hardening Your Home Against Digital and Physical Intrusion
A full spectrum home hardening guide that locks down your network, kills digital leaks, isolates smart devices, and raises the cost of physical intrusion.
Identity & Cloud Lockdown
Shut down Google, email leakage, and cloud level metadata.
Stop Using Gmail: How to Set Up a Private Tor Email With OnionMail
Break Google’s identity chokehold with a tor inbox.
Stop Using Google Docs: Tools That Don’t Leak Your Data
Alternative cloud tools that don’t tie your content to profiling engines.
What Google Logs About You Even After You Turn Everything Off
The silent tracking that persists regardless of toggles.
Cloud Extraction Checklist
What to download, migrate, delete, and disable to stop cloud level profiling.
File, App, and Local Data Protection
Encrypt Everything: A Beginner’s Guide to Locking Down Local Files
Full disk, folder level, and file level encryption.
App Residue Cleanup: Kill Background Sync and Telemetry
Removes hidden sync channels inside apps you already use.
Offline Vault Setup
Discrete, offline storage for sensitive documents, backups, and keys.
Movement & Behavioral Lockdown
Stop giving away patterns, routines, and cross contamination.
Your Phone Is a Snitch and How to Shut It Up
Kills the most common telemetry channels leaking your movements.
Using Noise to Hide in Plain Sight
How to blend your patterns into digital and physical noise.
How to Stay Calm When You Know You’re Being Watched
Behavioral control under pressure. Reduces tells and reactive mistakes.
Kill Location Logging in 15 Minutes
Rapid cleanup for mobile location shadows.
Compartmentalization
Separate identities, accounts, devices, and environments.
How to Use a Burner Phone
Keep your operational life detached from your real identity.
Build a Strong Digital Persona
Construct a clean, consistent, untraceable secondary identity.
Nyms, Personas, and Digital Identity
How to structure multiple identities without cross leakage.
How to Keep Identities From Cross Contaminating
Precise rules to avoid linking personas through metadata.
Quick Checks
Fast tightening for anyone doing a routine audit.
How to Audit Your Digital Lockdown in 15 Minutes
A rapid exposure scan for devices, accounts, and networks.
Digital Lockdown for Beginners: What’s Exposing You
Top beginner mistakes that reopen surveillance channels.
Support Articles
Additional movement and mindset pieces that reinforce lockdown.
Mental Malware
Breaks the thinking traps that make you easy to profile.
Information Triage: What’s Real and What’s Noise?
How to tell legitimate signals from manipulation and distraction.
Your Workflow Is Either Yours or Theirs
Stop giving cloud platforms control over your daily work.
Verification Steps
Run these after any major lockdown changes:
- Check browser fingerprint against previous baseline
- Verify DNS and IP masking
- Confirm permissions stay revoked after OS updates
- Check for token persistence after logout
- Validate cloud extractions remain disabled
Related Support Hubs
- Digital Footprint Hub – Erase identifiers before hardening.
- Digital Lockdown Hub – Harden devices, browsers, and networks against surveillance.
- Network Privacy Hub – Kill DNS leaks, VPN failures, and ISP logging.
- Phone Privacy Hub – Mobile telemetry, OS residue cleanup, and location hardening.
- Faraday Gear Hub – RF quieting and physical metadata control.