Guerrilla Privacy: From tactics to strategy – privacy that fights back

Purpose of the Pixelated Dwarf blog

I have been labeled a “Privacy Activist” – A badge I cherish. For the last 7 years I have written articles on Technology, Privacy and Security. I have gotten sick of the “experts” giving out advice that is much too basic to be effective on its own. You know what I am talking about: “Get a VPN”, “Use this service to mask your email address”, “Don’t use [Insert Service Name]” and more. While some of that is true to a certain extent: People need more. I am not saying not to use a good VPN for some things, I use them all the time. But there need to be many things that are done to ensure your privacy and security.

Every month during 2026 I will deliver two battle-tested posts: a fast-track tactical guide on the first Monday, then a strategic article on the third Monday. Both of these are deep-dives into privacy, security and coding. Together they will form a year-long Guerrilla Privacy boot-camp that shows you exactly how to build, test, and own the tools that protect your data and be more secure. You can read about the blueprint for all of the articles right here.

First Monday – Tactical – a deep-dive, hands-on guide you can run today.

Third Monday – Strategic – an deeper dive that explains the why, the threat model, and how the pieces fit together.

Learn from doing

I taught for several years in a few Tech Colleges and the thing that I enjoyed most was getting my hands “dirty” and doing things with the technology (Linux, Python, cybersecurity). Building things and creating code to make things happen. Most of the students that I taught felt the same. It feels amazing creating things – tweaking them until they work and do as you want. I like explaining things – the how-to’s and the mechanics of things. I will be giving you the code to run everything – it is free and open-source. I will be showing you how to do it and most importantly why I made the decisions. You can disagree and go off in another direction. That is fine. I want to give you the seeds of the ideas you can mold them into what you envision. Read the articles, test the code, find out what works for you. All of the code is heavily commented so if you learn a bit of coding (it isn’t as hard as you imagine), you can modify it to do what you want.

Empowering a revolution

The ideas that I am presenting are not main stream. I do not want to be another voice in the echo chamber of YouTube or other social media that recommends this or that. I will tell you what I have used and if it worked for me. I am going to give you 24 ways to be a Privacy Guerrilla and the resources and plans to put it into place.

We need to take back our privacy and data from those who wish to treat us like sheep. Corrupting the data that they collect and giving them false data to defile their algorithms. Becoming clones of ourselves and appearing in many places around the world. Communicating securely and sharing information with friends without someone monetizing our conversations. Once again standing up for ourselves and saying with one voice: “We are free. Don’t tread on us.”

A Journey

One person asked me what my mission in this world was. It took me awhile to answer. My answer was simple: To put myself and my talents on the line to make the world a better place. That is what I will be doing for the next 12 months in 2026. Researching, Coding, testing and writing. I have 24 things on the list – Tactical, hit the ground running things and Strategic things which look at the “Big Picture” (How the opposing forces look at things and how to thwart them). Together you can get the complete picture on the various subjects that we will be going through.

What I ask: I need your participation. If we have a group of people that want to learn about proactive privacy and security we can learn more together than we can apart. Ideas spawn ideas. Even if you think you know nothing and can’t code or you can barely turn on your computer, you are valuable to making this a success. Together we can learn and grow. Take the journey with me. Fight for your privacy and teach others to fight too.