BREAKING THE DIGITAL CHAIN, one device at a time.
PRIVACY MADE EASY FOR ALL
Refuse to get your data stolen by big-tech any longer and take back control with devices that respect your privacy
It all starts with asking the right questions
WHY DO I NEED PRIVACY?
The list of drawdowns is endless, but just to name some crucial pain points...
REGARDING PHONES:
SIM Vulnerabilities
SIM Swap attacks, Simjacker attacks, keeping logs of a phone number's calls or texts and tracking of its location. These are some of the things that can happen when you are a customer of a provider in your home country. Let us add a global functioning anonymous eSIM to your phone to mitigate these risks.
Feeling bloated?
After buying a brand new phone, it's already stuffed and loaded with apps you don't want, don't need and probably have way too much access to your data. This is called bloatware, and it's a direct invasion of your right to privacy, since they come pre-installed by default and you HAVE to accept, just to be able to use the phone.
Grant me access, or else...
Don't you love it when you want to install an app, and it gives you the whole 20 page list of permissions you HAVE to agree to before you can install? This erodes privacy and robs you from the data that should be rightfully yours.
Android or iOS leave you no choice, but luckily there is an alternative.
REGARDING DESKTOPS / LAPTOPS:
Trackers / Fingerprinting
Research from a pool of 500,000 Internet users has shown that 84% of users have unique browser configurations which makes them trackable across the Internet. Your digital 'fingerprint' is revealed by the metadata of your system and not only de-anonymizes you but also makes targeted advertising possible.
Data farming
Tons of data is being collected while you are using your computer. For example: it has been discovered that Windows telemetry functions keep talking to Microsoft over 5000 times a day while this functionality is turned off. Your data is valuable to lots of parties, which is why it gets sold without you even knowing about it.
Nowhere to hide
Because anonimity should be a right, and because of the many unwanted consequences of not being anonymous, you will want to hide your true, real-life identity. Today's world has made it impossible to mask who you are in the digital sphere without taking severe measures. Big brother is always watching,
plan your strategy
HOW DO I PROTECT MYSELF?
Experience the full potential of a device while remaining digitally free
Linux, the only way
Linux is a family of Operating Systems and is an alternative to Windows and MacOS. The difference is that Linux is completely open-source. This means it is free and everybody is able to take from it and change it to something new, as long as it stays free.
It also means everybody can check the source-code, so it makes it impossible to hide sneaky backdoors and spyware without the whole world knowing about it.
GrapheneOS
The ideal Operating System for your phone.
GrapheneOS is a completely de-googled system which has tons of great features to make your phone private and secure. All apps run in isolated spaces called sandboxes and the whole phone is shielded against most common attack-vectors. We highly recommend GrapheneOS if you want to up your game in the privacy sphere.
Privacy Enhancing Additions
There are lots of tools available to make it extremely hard for you to be hacked or spied on, especially when those tools are combined to make a full security stack for your computer. Things like VPN, Browsing over Tor, working inside of a virtual machine and Full Disk Encryption (FDE) are some examples. Together we can build a system that fits your personal needs while taking your online security and privacy to the next level.
ADDITIONS
Enhance your privacy even further with some useful tweaks and tools
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READY TO GO PRIVATE?
Choose what fits your personal needs, let us take care of the rest
Linux installation
€199
You get:- Installation for 1 desktop / laptop with a Linux distribution of choice
- 1 hour of consultancy
- Optional additions to enhance privacy / anonymity*
Consultancy
€99
You get:- 1 hour of consultancy to discuss personal needs and building a plan to get your digital life as private and / or anonymous as you would like it to be
Graphene OS installation
€199
You get:- A freshly installed phone running GrapheneOS on it
- It is also possible to buy a complete new phone with GrapheneOS pre-installed, directly from us
- Optional additions to enhance privacy / anonymity*
It all starts with a vision..
How beautiful would life be if all innovation would only be used for the better and greater good, instead of self-enrichment and dark corporate interests?Since almost all aspects of our lives get managed in a digital way in the modern age, the digital footprint each one of us has, is becoming more important and valuable with each passing day.
These days, our 'digital footprint' is constantly being monitored, tracked, snooped, traced, limited, stolen from and (increasingly) censored.Like many we were aware of this issue for a long time, which is why we wanted to make a change and do something about it.
The small seed that becomes a forest
In the beginning the internet was a relatively free space, where people could roam around and enjoy each other's basic HTML-pages, which were mostly a cute and innocent way of interacting with one another. Since the rise of 'Big Tech' conglomerates however, this is no longer the case.These days, everybody who uses the internet is constantly being monitored, tracked, snooped, traced, limited, and deprived of their data. This often happens sneakily and thus unbeknownst to the user, but the consequences could end up being detrimental.Just think about it for a minute. Your device knows all about you:- It knows where you are (location services)
- It knows what you are doing (app permission to use microphone / camera / sensors)
- It knows who your friends and family are (contacts + social media apps)
- It can detect your unique facial patterns and fingerprint (via unlock options and social media apps like Snapchat and Tiktok)Now realize that your phone is probably running Android (Google) or iOS (Apple) and your computers are running Windows (Microsoft) or MacOS (Apple). All these systems are proprietary, meaning there is a sole company behind them which has total control over the systems you use on your devices. These companies can see your data. Together with other invasive (social media) apps, the combination of all the previous points listed above can map a very detailed picture of your everyday life. Just a few examples from the list of endless possibilities:- When you take the kids to school (GPS location + sounds via microphone)
- What time you meet with your best friend (both phones being together every Friday at 10 PM for example)
- What conversations you have and who you speak to (apps like to spy. Needless to call names since everybody knows)
- How happily you are married (Yes, screaming and 'other sounds' can be heard on a microphone too)This is not how it is supposed to be. Digital devices are meant to aid us in certain tasks and to make life better and easier. They were not invented to be a permanent big brother spying tool we take with us everywhere we go.At Mirage we therefore believe something needs to change.
We see the digital realm getting harder to maneuver in a free and autonomous manner, and want to end the digital enslavement.
For the time being it might just be the mobilization of average unsuspecting internet users into an army of consumers via the targeted ads, so that they purchase more stuff they don't need. But what if there comes a time it won't stop at corporations looking to perversely squeeze some extra profit out of you and it gets really dark? What if they would start using all the data they collected about you for something more sinister? When is it enough and will the line be drawn?Data is knowledge, and knowledge is power, so the more data they can collect of you, the more power they have over you. It is time for a movement.
Join us on the path to digital freedom and lets break the digital chain together, one device at a time!
Excellent protection standards
To our knowledge there is no operating system that protects against the exploitation of vulnerabilities better than GrapheneOS does. Its developers put a lot of emphasis on this. It tries to shut down most vulnerable unnecessary functions of the regular Android system, yet allows users to opt-in to these functions if they so choose. This keeps the phone user friendly, yet very secure by default. Users have the freedom to decide the balance between security and user friendliness that works for their personal needs.
No automatic permission for apps
With GrapheneOS you can manually choose what permissions you want to grant to each app you install.
Even the Google Play suite of services where many apps rely on to function properly, is optional and is not needed for your phone to function. However, should you so choose, you can opt-in to install and use it in a secure (sandboxed) fashion. Here too the choice is completely yours!
Lots of amazing features
GrapheneOS makes it possible to run up to 32 profiles on the same phone, which can have their own apps installed, their own features turned on/off and are totally segregated from each other.
It comes by default with a guest account included, but it's also a nice way to segregate business profiles from private ones, so those worlds don't get mixed.
There are lots of cool features built into GrapheneOS, like the option to use fingerprint-2FA and PIN scramblers for unlocking your phone, the clearing of sensitive data from memory, a hardened browser and multiple permission toggles to customize your network access, just to name a few.
If you want to see the full list of modifications, you can do so by clicking the button below.