Understanding the Surveillance State
You can’t reduce exposure to a system you don’t understand
Course Overview, One Page
A single printable page covering what SEC-10 teaches, the 3 lessons, what you need before starting, and the doctrinal sources behind the method. Useful for deciding whether the course is for you, or for handing to somebody in your group who is weighing it up.
Why This Course
By the end of this course, you’ll be able to:
- Identify the major categories of ambient surveillance and data collection an ordinary person encounters.
- Explain how license-plate reader networks, data brokers, and doorbell-camera sharing actually operate.
- Map your own household’s exposure across those categories, and find the pattern worth changing.
Lessons
The categories of ambient collection you actually pass through, and why overlapping systems are rarely as coordinated as they appear.
A closer look at license-plate reader networks, data brokers, and doorbell-camera sharing — how each actually operates.
Finding the one pattern that connects your most sensitive locations, and deciding whether it’s worth breaking.
How This Course Works
| Prerequisites | SEC-08 (Gray Man). Feeds SEC-04 (Digital Security). |
| Format | Three self-paced lessons, each with a short knowledge check that unlocks the next. |
| Time | 60–75 minutes of lesson time; the mapping exercise extends across roughly a week in practice. |
| Certificate | Unlocks after all three lessons are marked complete. |
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