Storage, cloud and AI without the surveillance default (Techno-fascism, Part 5)
This is Part 5 of 5 in the techno-fascism series: Part 1, the machinery of surveillance capitalism, Part 2, private…
POWER & SOCIETY · 07-27
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Social media and news without the algorithm (Techno-fascism, Part 4)
Part 4 of a five-part series on techno-fascism and the tools that push back against it. Part 1 covered the…
POWER & SOCIETY · 07-27
Browsing and search without being the product (Techno-fascism, Part 3)
Part 3 of the techno-fascism series: what browsers and search engines leak by default, how fingerprinting works, and what DNS…
POWER & SOCIETY · 07-23
Threat models in private messaging: Signal, SimpleX, Session and Matrix (Techno-fascism, Part 2)
Part 2 of a five-part series on techno-fascism and the tools that push back against it. Part 1 covered the…
POWER & SOCIETY · 07-23
The machinery of surveillance capitalism (Techno-fascism, Part 1)
On 4 January 2025, a hacker posted on a Russian cybercrime forum claiming to have pulled 17 terabytes of data…
POWER & SOCIETY · 07-22
Disconnecting your car, and the EU’s new driver-monitoring mandate
In 2016 a San Francisco couple bought a Tesla Model X, with the husband set up as the vehicle’s administrator.…
HARDWARE & DIY · 07-21
GrapheneOS: who it’s for, what it hardens, and what it costs
In May 2019, someone placed a WhatsApp call to the phone of a human rights lawyer in the United Kingdom.…
PRIVACY & SECURITY TOOLS · 07-20
A budget Meshtastic build
Meshtastic is an open-source firmware that turns a cheap LoRa radio board into a node on a text-messaging mesh network.…
HARDWARE & DIY · 07-20
How Nym’s mixnet works
A VPN encrypts the traffic between your device and the provider’s server, then forwards it onward. That solves one problem…
PRIVACY & SECURITY TOOLS · 07-17
UNCATEGORIZED · 09-22