The “Friendly” Data Harvesters: Businesses That Double as Intel Collectors
If the business pushes apps or cards harder than the product, data is the real commodity.
OPSEC
How to Map a Surveillance Network in Your Neighborhood
Neighborhood surveillance blends corporate, state, and private devices. They overlap into a patchwork net.
Cameras in Disguise: How to Identify Hidden and Embedded Lenses
The camera you notice isn’t the one that matters. It’s the one you walk past. The one staring through a hole the size of a pen tip. Surveillance survives by camouflage. By blending into objects you trust. By hiding in the clutter you ignore. This week is about stripping away that camouflage. Why They Hide … Read more
The Five Senses of Surveillance: What to Look, Listen, and Feel For
You can’t counter what you can’t see. Before you prepare, before you deploy tools, before you adapt tactics, you have to train your senses.
The Five Quiet Purchases
Five cheap tools. Five small moves that flip you from thinking about privacy to actually practicing it.
From Your Brain to Your Gate Code: The End to End Surveillance of the Individual
If they own your digital trail but not your speech, you can still maneuver. If they own your body but not your head, you can still resist. But when they own both, there’s no escape.
Sovereign Thought: Building Mental Firewalls Against Input Pollution
Clicks become loops. Loops become beliefs. Beliefs become predictable behavior. That’s not accident. That’s infrastructure.
Surveillance Capitalism Doesn’t End at the Screen. It Follows Your Feet
Private movement is sovereignty in practice. You still exist. You just refuse to be mapped on their terms.
Verbal OPSEC: How to Talk Without Leaking Your Mind
Every time you talk past what’s necessary, you hand someone a blueprint of how to manipulate you. Every time you argue too loudly, you reveal your pressure points. Every time you bend to groupthink, you shrink your sovereignty.
Privacy Isn’t Just a Setting. It’s a State of Mind
The question isn’t whether privacy matters. It’s whether you’ll let someone else draw the line of what’s “acceptable.” You decide what’s acceptable, not them.