The Structural Impossibility of Privacy Care

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The question is not why people do not care about privacy. The question is why we keep insisting the problem is individual indifference when the evidence points to structural design.

Chat Control 1.0 Passes After Majority Voted No

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On July 9, 2026, the European Parliament voted on Chat Control 1.0. More MEPs opposed it than supported it. The regulation passed. The mechanism that allowed this outcome is procedural, repeatable, and instructive.

Why Giving Your Printer an Email Address Means More Than You Think

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When a self-hoster gave their printer an email address to stop family requests, they illustrated a larger pattern: cloud services vanish, local infrastructure persists, and the boundary between convenience and control remains contested.

What They Never Asked Us: The True Story of How Onion Mail Was Born

What They Never Asked Us: The True Story of How Onion Mail Was Born

“I had nothing to hide” I was born in the 1970s, in a democratic European country, into an ordinary family — the kind that pays its taxes, respects the law, and raises its children to do the same. I touched my first computer as a child, and I never stopped. I fell in love with … Read more