Protect yourself
Practical privacy and account security.
Explore Protect yourself
Security / Privacy / FreedomTake back your
Take back your
digital life.
Your devices. Your files. Your business. Field manuals for keeping it that way.
A few ways out
Convenience came with a spare key.
Find out who kept it. Then decide what to change.
Own your technology
Self-hosting, local AI, and tools you control.
Explore Own your technologyThe Workshop
Things built, broken, repaired, and properly checked.
Explore The WorkshopFrom the field manualsAll manuals
Does your ‘local AI’ work without the internet?
Download a local model, disconnect, restart, and try a fresh task. A repeatable experiment with a prompt pack and a printable results sheet.
Read the guide: Does your ‘local AI’ work without the internet?
Your photos need an exit plan.
Export a small photo collection, check what survived, and try a library you control without gambling the originals.
Read the guide: Your photos need an exit plan.On the bench / Recovery Drill
Try the Recovery DrillThe Deleted Folder Challenge.
Today we test the backup. Ideally before it becomes a historical document.
Less trusting. Better prepared.
Eight practical checks. No account required. Imagine that.
A voice from below street level
Someone left the task lamp on.
CRYPT1K keeps a workshop, a few repaired machines, and a low opinion of devices that need permission to belong to you.
“Welcome to the underground. There’s documentation.”
Who’s asking?A fictional character. Practical manuals. Measured results.