Category: Privacy Matters
You Sourced It Clean. Setup Undoes It in Ten Minutes.
You sourced a phone anonymously, then setup bundles its serial, IMEI, SIM, and account and reports home in ten minutes. How to keep the first boot clean.
Your Burner Phone Isn’t a Burner
A burner phone is only anonymous if you nail four separations, and almost nobody does. Why burners fail on anonymity, security, and staying inconspicuous.
You Can Buy an Anonymous Phone. Paying for It Anonymously Is the Hard Part.
Agencies buy your purchase history from data brokers, no warrant needed. A clean phone paid for with your card is not clean. Here is the OPSEC of paying anonymously.
You Can’t Tamper With a Phone You Can’t Find
A device can be compromised before you turn it on, in the supply chain. Here is why we build on commercial off-the-shelf phones bought anonymously with cash.
Under the Hood: Mullvad, IVPN, Tailscale, and the Tool That Checks Them All
A technical deep dive on Mullvad, IVPN, and Tailscale, plus PCAPdroid, the no-root tool that lets you watch your own traffic and verify it all.
We Evaluated 211 VPNs. Here Are the Three We Ship, and Why.
We evaluated 211 VPN providers and only four survived. Here are the three we ship in Bazaar, Mullvad, IVPN, and Tailscale, and exactly why.
77 Apps. 19 Million Downloads. The Case for Installing Almost Nothing.
The Play Store delivered 600 million malware installs in a year. The fix is not a better store. It is fewer apps.
Your Secure Phone Should Not Look Like a Secure Phone
Border agents searched a record 55,318 devices in 2025. The worst thing your phone can do in a search is look interesting.
In 2026, Google Decides What Installs on Your Phone. That Is Exactly the Problem.
Google is putting itself between you and the software you run. Owning the build and the keys is how you step off that track.
Using Air Guard to Detect Trackers
Here’s how to use Air Guard on Android.
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