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OPSEC

A collection of 19 issues

Decide What You're Actually Defending

Before you install a single tool, the one exercise that tells you which ones you actually need

Digital Privacy Planner

Privacy advice arrives as a list of a hundred things to do, and a list is exactly the wrong shape for the job

The Only Person Hiding Is the Easiest to Find

Eldo Kim did everything right. Tor held, the remailer held, nobody read a word he sent. He was arrested inside a day, because on that network at that hour he was the only one hiding.

Intervening in the Attribution Chain

Attribution is a process, not a condition. It runs observation, collection, correlation, identity, and a countermeasure that fires at the wrong stage leaves everything downstream intact.

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

UTS Control Planes

Five domains you actually control in a UTS environment — and the decisions that govern what you emit.

Building a Self-Controlled VPN Jumpbox in Your Browser

Your laptop should not be the thing touching the internet. Move that job onto a box you own, reach its desktop from a browser tab, and the coffee-shop network never sees the work itself.

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.

Data Science for UTS

The same methods used to aggregate you can be turned around and pointed at your own exposure. What that looks like in practice, and why it goes nowhere inside an organization that does not care.