Hundreds of 'do not' instructions were silently baked into my AI agents by Claude. Negative instructions tax your tokens and sterilise your output. Here is the prompt engineering fix — and why it is a sovereignty question.
I cancelled my Claude Max subscription for an open-weights model from China. Sovereign AI — uncensored, self-hostable, MIT-licensed — is the cypherpunk fight with language models instead of code. Here is why I switched.
Bitwarden vs Proton Pass, both zero-knowledge and end-to-end encrypted — and how to use one as the single home for every recovery key, seed phrase, and backup code you actually depend on.
BitLocker's default setting hands over your data to anyone who can pull your RAM. Here's the pre-boot PIN, the recovery-key pattern, and the BIOS lockdown that actually closes it.
A full step-by-step GrapheneOS install for a Google Pixel — no command line, one afternoon. Fingerprint for daily use, your real password only after a reboot.
Israeli spyware can pull everything off a stock phone. A Pixel running GrapheneOS, or a hardened Windows box, stops it cold. The law that lets Australian police compel your password carries five years in prison. Here is what actually works.
My bank blocked me from buying Bitcoin, told me they couldn’t unblock it, and then — in writing — suggested I find another bank. This is crypto debanking in Australia in April 2026, two weeks after the country passed its…
A twelve-year-old gets scammed in Runescape and spends twenty years walking a path through hacking forums, cryptocurrency, and the dark side of the internet. This is how The Privacy Technologist was born.
