Somebody Already Made the List of Who's Watching You
There's a myth that the people watching you are faceless. A volunteer-run project called Surveillance Watch demolishes it with the least glamorous tool imaginable.
Topic
Cross-Platform
A collection of 45 issues
Every Privacy Tool They Used Became Evidence
What two Chinese intelligence officers, an "untraceable" Bitcoin payment, and an FBI double agent reveal about why privacy tools fail
You Cannot Out-Discipline Your Own Paperwork
What the Skripal poisoning reveals about digital privacy, and why the same machine that burned three GRU officers is pointed at you.
UTS Control Planes
Five domains you actually control in a UTS environment — and the decisions that govern what you emit.
Dormant Accounts: The Attack Surface You Forgot You Created
A forum login from 2013 that shares a password with something you still use is an open door. Nobody watches the accounts they forgot they made, which is exactly where credential stuffing starts.
Privacy Personas: Compartmentalizing Your Digital Signature
In a world of constant surveillance, protecting identity means fragmenting it. This post explores how one person can appear as many, using different digital personas, tools, and appearances, to preserve privacy, evade tracking, and maintain autonomy in a UTS-dominated world.
Privacy Meets Security
The digital world has allowed us to connect globally while making geographic separation matter very little. This has changed the world and allowed for new and amazing opportunities.
The Five Vectors of UTS
Ubiquitous Technical Surveillance (UTS) collects and analyzes data across five vectors: Online, Electronic, Visual-Physical, Financial, and Travel. Each vector reveals patterns and vulnerabilities, posing risks to privacy and autonomy. Understanding these vectors is vital to mitigating threats.
The Privacy Line
Most people cannot say what they consider private until someone makes them write it down. Draw that line on paper first, and every later decision about what to share gets a lot less improvised.
UTS vs UDC
A camera counting vehicles and a camera reading the people in them are the same hardware. There is vocabulary for telling those two apart, and it matters considerably more than the equipment does.