Privacy Stacks
Curated tool bundles for a specific threat model — the exact set of privacy tools for your situation, in setup order, with the tradeoffs spelled out. Start with a stack instead of a blank directory.
Digital Security for Protesters and Activists
A before/during/after field kit for protesters and organizers — the real tools that harden your phone, protect your messages, strip identifying metadata, and keep a device search from unraveling your network.
Anonymous Payments: The Financial Privacy Stack
A curated stack for paying online without every purchase logged and profiled — masked cards, prepaid, and private crypto, and the honest tradeoffs of each layer.
De-Google Your Life: A Full Stack of Google Alternatives
A curated stack of real, private alternatives to Google's services — search, browser, email, cloud storage, and your phone's OS — with the tradeoffs named so you know what you're trading and why.
De-Google Your Android Phone: Custom ROMs, App Stores, and Privacy Handsets
How to get your Android phone off Google without switching to iPhone — the ROM layer, the private apps to load onto it, and the handset question, with real tools and honest tradeoffs.
Delete Yourself From the Internet: The Data-Broker Removal Stack
A neutral, no-affiliate stack for removing your personal information from data brokers and people-search sites — paid removal services, free DIY opt-out tools, and the prevention layer that keeps you off the record.
Escape the Gmail Inbox: Encrypted Email and Aliases
A threat-model stack for leaving Gmail — an encrypted provider that can't read your mail, paired with an alias layer so no signup ever sees your real address.
Go Dark: The Location and Physical Privacy Kit
A threat-model stack for shutting down the digital side of location tracking — the phone OS, private numbers, network, and payment tools that stop carriers, apps, and data brokers from placing where you are.
The Journalist's Privacy Stack: Protect Your Sources and Yourself
A curated stack for working journalists and investigative reporters — the tools that insulate a source from contact through storage, so metadata, seized devices, and network surveillance can't unmask them.
Scrub Your Metadata: The Digital Footprint Cleanup Stack
A threat-model stack for the three moments your files leak you — scrub metadata on share, encrypt what you keep, and securely wipe drives before you dispose of them.
The No-KYC Crypto OPSEC Stack: Trade and Store Without a Paper Trail
A full no-KYC OPSEC stack for privacy-focused crypto holders — non-custodial swaps, privacy coins, air-gapped cold storage, and private spending, so a single exchange breach or chain analysis can't map your holdings to your name.
Dox Yourself First: The OSINT Self-Audit Stack
A runnable self-audit for finding what the open internet already knows about you — map your public footprint, test what your browser leaks, then close the loop with vetted removal and masking tools.
The Privacy Starter Kit: Five Tools to Lock Down Your Digital Life
The five tools every private digital life is built on — a password manager, 2FA, a private browser, a VPN, and encrypted messaging — curated for total beginners and set up in an afternoon.
Privacy Tools for Remote Workers and Digital Nomads
An affiliate-free privacy stack for people who work from airports, cafés, and hotels — VPN, encrypted DNS, password manager, encrypted cloud storage, and secure calls that protect you and your clients on hostile Wi-Fi.
The Secure Messaging Stack: Private Chat, Calls, and Numbers
A threat-tiered messaging stack — from mainstream Signal to metadata-resistant Briar — plus the virtual-number layer that lets you sign up for anything without your real phone number.
The Self-Hosted Privacy Stack: Own Your Data at Home
A privacy-first homelab stack — the firewall, private DNS, network ad-blocking, and encrypted storage that pull your data back out of the cloud and onto hardware you control.
The Privacy Stack for Small Business Owners
A pure privacy-tooling stack for solopreneurs and founders — insulate your personal address, lock down accounts, and protect client data without a filing pitch.
Digital Safety Kit for Stalking and Abuse Survivors
A safety-planning first digital kit for stalking and domestic-abuse survivors and the advocates helping them — real tools to lock accounts, pull your data off broker sites, and harden a phone against a known adversary.
Harden Windows Privacy: Kill Telemetry and Lock It Down
A named-tool stack for Windows users who won't leave the OS but want it to stop phoning home — encrypted DNS, tracker blocking, a network firewall, a hardened browser, and trace cleanup.
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