The year of guerrilla privacy

The year of guerrilla privacy

When I first started writing about personal security, I quickly realized that talking about privacy is easy — doing it is a whole different ballgame. That’s why 2026 will be the first year I not only share ideas but actually live them in front of you, two weeks at a time. Each month I’ll pick a single, high-impact “privacy theme” and publish a pair of posts: a hands-on tactical guide that shows exactly how to build the tools, followed by a strategic deep-dive that explains why the technique matters and how it fits into a broader threat model. At the end of the month I’ll wrap things up with a short recap, a link to a downloadable PDF of the whole thing and a teaser for the next theme. The result is a compact, repeatable cycle that lets you experiment, measure, and iterate without getting lost in endless theory. This year is the year that I will dedicate to guerrilla privacy. Be a part of it!

The 12-Month Roadmap for 2026

During the next year we will be talking about how to really “up your game” when it comes to privacy and security. I will be doing two blog posts a month. The first one is “tactical” – The series will be down to earth – getting into the coding and setting up the equipment that will help you to be very secure. The second article of the month is “Strategic” – Giving you the “big picture” and the overall strategies and why they matter. Together it is a powerful way of looking at each area and covering it to the fullest.

Anonymous Newsletter

A Private, Tracker-Free Mailing List to keep the conversation going between installments I’m launching a dedicated Guerrilla-Privacy mailing list — but not the kind that harvests your data the moment you click “subscribe”. Instead of handing over a personal address, you’ll use a checked but not-real alias (an anonymous account you create just for this). When you submit that alias, the server stores only a SHA-256 hash of the address and sends you a one-time verification link. The raw email never touches my database, and the verification link expires after first use. All newsletters are sent as plain-text only, with no hidden tracking pixels, no third-party analytics, and a simple one-click unsubscribe that removes the hash from the list. The whole pipeline runs on a self-hosted, open-source mailer (Listmonk) behind a hardened server, so I retain full control over the data and can guarantee that no commercial service is spying on our correspondence.

The roadmap of articles

January

Digital Camouflage: How to get lost in the noise.

• Tactical  Article: “Noise-Flooding Your Own Metadata”
• Strategic Article:“Living in a ‘Data-Dust’ Ecosystem”

February

Guerrilla Encryption: Making the Cipher the Target

• Tactical  Article: “Self-Made One-Time Pads from Everyday Sources”
• Strategic Article:“Deploying ‘Encryption Honeypots’ “

March

SIGINT Counter-Surveillance

• Tactical  Article: “Portable ‘Signal-Jamming’ with Legal RF-Quiet Zones”
• Strategic Article:“Electronic Disinformation Drops“

April

Metadata Poisoning

• Tactical  Article: “Automated EXIF & GPS Scrubbing + Randomized Noise Injection”
• Strategic Article:“‘Honey-File’ Campaigns“

May

Identity Fracturing (Going Beyond Simple Compartmentalization )

• Tactical  Article: “Fast-Switch Burner-Phone Networks”
• Strategic Article:“Cross-Platform Persona Management – Using deterministic pseudonyms that never intersect“

June

Supply-Chain Obfuscation

• Tactical  Article: “Buying, Re-flashing, and Reselling Devices to Break Serial-Number Chains”
• Strategic Article:“Building a disposable workstation that self-destructs after each session”

July

Algorithmic Sabotage: Turning Big-Tech’s AI Against Itself

• Tactical  Article: “Adversarial Image Generation for Social-Media Scrapers”
• Strategic Article:“Poisoning Recommendation Engines – Seeding your own content with crafted tags to drown out profiling”

August

Legal-Layer Cloaking: Exploiting Jurisdictional Gaps

• Tactical  Article: “Setting Up a ‘Jurisdiction-Hopping’ VPN/Proxy Chain that lands traffic in privacy-friendly enclaves”
• Strategic Article:“Leveraging Data-Retention Laws as a Shield – How to force agencies to request data from a jurisdiction that refuses to comply”

September

Social-Engineering Counter-Measures: Turning the Tables

• Tactical  Article: “Deploying Automated ‘Fake-Friend’ Bots that flood social graphs with plausible but useless connections”
• Strategic Article:“Strategic ‘Misinformation Seeds’ – Publishing harmless, plausible false statements that dilute profiling algorithms”

October

Physical-Digital Hybrid Defenses

• Tactical  Article: “Scheduled Cryptographic Key Rotation + Automatic Secure Deletion (shred, scrypt) for long-term archives”
• Strategic Article:“‘Decay-Driven’ Cloud Storage – Using services that auto-expire objects after a configurable TTL”

November

Data-Erosion: Making Your Trail Self-Destruct Over Time

• Tactical  Article: “Scheduled Cryptographic Key Rotation + Automatic Secure Deletion (shred, scrypt) for long-term archives”
• Strategic Article:“‘Decay-Driven’ Cloud Storage – Using services that auto-expire objects after a configurable TTL”

December

Guerrilla Audits: Testing the System From the Inside

• Tactical  Article: “Running a ‘Red-Team’ Privacy Audit on Your Own Household – Checklists, tools, and reporting templates”
• Strategic Article:“Publishing Transparent ‘Privacy Incident Logs’ – How public self-reporting forces adversaries to waste resources on verification”

Why This Matters

By coupling a monthly, hands-on curriculum with a privacy-first communication channel, I’m not just preaching “use a VPN and delete cookies” — I’m demonstrating a living privacy architecture that you can adopt, adapt, and extend. Each article gives you a concrete script, each newsletter delivers a ready-made tool, and together they form a feedback loop that lets us walk the walk together, one month at a time.

This is “next-Gen” privacy that is cutting edge. It is not for the faint of heart and it is technical, but I will guide you through it. I will “live it” throughout the year, come with me on the journey.

Stay tuned for the first post on January 5^th, and get ready to start hiding in the noise. The newsletter will be live by the first, so signup early.