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Being unfindable is decided one account at a time.
OPSEC is the discipline of spotting what makes you identifiable, then cutting those threads one by one. No military secrets here: a reused handle, an email address given to thirty sites, a recovery number shared between two accounts. Each detail is harmless alone, and together they draw a person.
This theme starts with your threat model, because you don't protect yourself from an ex the way you protect yourself from an advertiser. It then covers your messages and the EU proposal on scanning conversations, compartmentalising your identities, what your devices reveal without you, and taking your data back from brokers. It's the defensive half of the investigation theme: what you learn to find there, you learn to hide here.
Learn the first question to ask, before any tool.
Write down who worries you. Your tool choices follow from that.
10 exercises per level, mixing decision, spotting and quiz. The first 2 levels are free; the next ones open with any subscription.
Each level ends with a mission: what remains to be done once the lesson is understood. Some rely on your report, others on a setting we cannot see: it says so each time.
You've just defined who you're protecting yourself from. Now look at what's actually findable about you: that's your starting point, in numbers.
Open your messenger settings and check two things: encryption is on by default, and the cloud backup is either encrypted or off. That's what most often cancels out encryption.
Here are your addresses and handles found in breaches. They're what links your accounts together: start compartmentalising with those.
Take a recent photo and a document you've sent: look at their properties. Location, device, author name. Strip what doesn't belong.
You now know how a data broker works. Pick one of your exposures and request its removal: it's the only step that changes anything for good.