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Surveillance

Tracking, interception, and what a device gives away.

10 articles

Amnesia: Scrubbing the Location Data Hidden in Plain Sight

Photographers know better than most how much a single frame reveals. Not just EXIF GPS, the foliage species in the background, the street sign typeface, the reflection in a window, the boutique awning half out of frame. Amnesia is a VLM-powered scrubber that finds and redacts the visual identifiers your metadata strip missed. CLI for local batch processing, browser extension for live site auditing, a local-model option whose network path still needs checking before handling sensitive work.

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The 42nd Answer: Privacy Isn't a Subscription

The underground produced a manual. The vendors produce subscriptions. One of those teaches you how your protection actually works. Lefty Insider's Encyclopedia Cyberspacia, the 42nd and final, is the one worth reading.

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Defeating Facial Tracking: Red Team vs Blue Team

Major chat platform just mandated facial verification for age-restricted spaces. Here's what happened when computer vision met creative opposition. 3D printed masks. Deepfake injections. Infrared makeup. Video loop exploits. Then the blue team countermeasures. Red team adapts. Arms race continues. This is how facial recognition actually fails and how defenders try to stop it.

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Clutch: Cellular Security Monitor

Leave your phone at home. That's the advice. It's not always safe, not always practical, and not always right. Clutch was built around a better question: what if the device told you when the cellular layer stopped behaving like background infrastructure?

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The Pocket Spy

The phone in your pocket is not neutral hardware with a few privacy defects. It is a tracking and mediation device built inside a political and commercial arrangement that treats constant contact as normal and partial invisibility as suspicious.

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