ungovernable.tech

“Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age.” — Eric Hughes, A Cypherpunk's Manifesto (1993)

Technology for people who refuse to be governed by surveillance.

ungovernable.tech is an independent library of the tools, protocols and cryptography that keep people private, connected and sovereign: from Tor and mesh radios to zero-knowledge proofs and post-quantum keys. Every entry says what it protects against, what it trusts, and how ready it is.

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245 entries · 26 guides · 100 briefings · 747 links · 0 trackers

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Real capabilities — talk untraceably, stay online in a blackout, hold money nobody can freeze, compute on data a host can't read — each mapped to the working building blocks that compose it.

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The fourteen pillars

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0x01 Anonymity Networks How do I hide who is talking to whom? 31 entries · 10 guides · 51 links 0x02 Censorship Circumvention How do I reach the open internet when it is blocked? 12 entries · 5 guides · 27 links 0x03 Secure Messaging How do I talk privately, one to one and in groups? 27 entries · 5 guides · 49 links 0x04 Off-Grid and Mesh Networks How do I communicate when the internet is down or cut? 22 entries · 5 guides · 78 links 0x05 Sovereign Naming How do I publish under a name nobody can seize? 18 entries · 1 guide · 31 links 0x06 Identity, Social and Trust How do I own my identity, my audience and my reputation? 36 entries · 3 guides · 81 links 0x07 Financial Sovereignty How do I hold and move value without permission? 19 entries · 2 guides · 109 links 0x08 Decentralized Storage Where do I put data so it cannot be deleted for me? 20 entries · 3 guides · 27 links 0x09 Decentralized Compute Where do I run code without a landlord? 20 entries · 1 guide · 18 links 0x0a Confidential Computing How do I compute on someone else's machine without trusting them? 23 entries · 1 guide · 86 links 0x0b Privacy-Enhancing Cryptography How do I compute on, query or share data without revealing it? 32 entries · 3 guides · 78 links 0x0c Zero-Knowledge Proofs How do I prove something without revealing it? 17 entries · 1 guide · 51 links 0x0d Post-Quantum Cryptography Will my encryption survive a quantum computer? 12 entries · 1 guide · 29 links 0x0e Devices and Operational Security Is the device in my hand working for me or against me? 13 entries · 10 guides · 32 links

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