Privacy

Privacy by default

I don't think privacy is something you should have to earn or justify. It's the baseline. Here's what I believe, and the concrete thing I do about it.

A right, not a setting

  • Privacy shouldn't be a premium tier or an opt-out buried six menus deep.
  • "Nothing to hide" misses the point: curtains exist for people who aren't doing anything wrong.
  • The people who need it most, journalists, activists, ordinary folks under pressure, need it quietly.

Collect nothing you don't need

  • The safest data is the data you never store. This site runs on exactly that idea.
  • No cookies, no analytics, no third-party scripts. Nothing loads from another domain.
  • It's just static HTML served from memory by a small Rust backend. There's nothing to leak.

Defense is a habit

  • Blue team taught me that protecting people is a daily practice, not a one-time config.
  • I'd rather help build the private internet than just complain about the surveilled one.
  • Talk is cheap, so I put bandwidth where my mouth is. Which brings us to Tor.

It's a mindset, not a checkbox

  • Privacy isn't a feature you bolt on at the end. It's a lens you design through from the first line.
  • The idea is simple: treat your own future data as a liability, and build so there's nothing worth taking.
  • Less a rulebook than a reflex, always asking "does this even need to exist?" before "how do I secure it?".
Giving back

My Tor relays

Tor keeps millions of people private by bouncing their traffic through a web of volunteer-run nodes, so no single hop ever knows both who you are and where you're going. That network only exists because people donate the relays. I run some of them.

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