Our Mission

Our mission is to contribute to safeguarding democracy and civil liberties by radically increasing the protection of the most critical law-abiding persons and organizations in society from being spied upon, manipulated, and blackmailed through cyber hacking.

Such goal requires that we fully recognize that in Cyberspace personal freedom and public safety are not an “either-or” choice, but a “both or neither” challenge, that can be solved only by an international democratic certification body and compliant IT that will reconcile in a win-win solution these two essential societal values and needs.

The future wellbeing of humanity rests primarily on the expansion of democracy and liberty to our digital spheres of information and communication to protect and enhance citizens’ wellbeing and freedom, and the resilience of our democratic societies, as it is being pursued more widely by the NGO from which we spun-off, the Trustless Computing Association.

The solution to all other human challenges like climate, poverty, AI, nuclear, pandemics - given their inherent global nature - primarily requires that we have an effective democratic digital sphere and institutions that enable humanity and nations to come together to deliberate and enforce solutions to them.

Nothing less can ensure that we and our close ones will have access to IT that guarantees meaningful levels of privacy, security, freedom, freedom of information, and freedom of assembly that will enable humanity to tackle the unique challenges of the digital age.

Social media should be democratized.

It is irrational to let a handful of tech mega-billionaires be in charge of what information we read, how we assemble and organize, what privacy we can get - and saving every little detail about us to push us their clients' products or candidates.

Current dominant social media, and even the most secure messaging systems, gravely abuse our civil freedoms and manipulate our opinions and that of our closed ones - and we are virtually forced to use them to participate in civic and social life.

The affirmation of both individual freedom and democracy today depends on the meaningful enforcement of civil freedoms and of a "free market of ideas in Cyberspace. Adequate democratic regulations are the only way any free market in any industry has ever been created.

But the national governments seem to have decided to decline their responsibilities, letting monopolies, cartels, and state hacking entities rule our media sphere, launching every once in a while plans for regulations that soon turn out to be wildly insufficient.

These platforms enable innumerable malicious actors to deeply intrude in our privacy and to deeply manipulate our thoughts and behaviors - through their large-scale hacking of our devices, and through their design of user interfaces and social media feeds - in order to convince us to buy their products and vote for their candidates. 

While these abuses affect all of us, the majority of hacking and manipulation resources are concentrated on those that control the money  - like the wealthy, corporate and financial executives - and those that control the politics - the politically-exposed, such as politicians, elected officials, journalists, and swing voters in selected territories.

We need to take matters into our hands!

We need democratic social media. We need citizen-controlled social media.

Otherwise, democracy becomes completely empty. Otherwise, me, you, and our close ones will continue to be abused in our civil freedom, hacked in our finances, and manipulated in our opinions through feeds that are controlled and hacked by powerful others.

We need to build international democratic organizations, where we the people, our representatives, or a random sample of us, have full democratic control over how our communications spheres are governed. 

We can do it without asking anyone’s permission, within current laws, leveraging the same regulatory gaps that enabled big tech to create their monopolies.

Yet, democracy is difficult. But, as Churchill said, "Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." While offering unique opportunities for transparency, direct participation and decentralization, realizing democracy in cyberspace has even more challenges.

We need to create a cyber-social system that will be resilient to huge state pressures, that will be democratic yet decentralized, technically-competent yet citizen-accountable, and open for anyone to create new social or media organizations and innovations.

To achieve “constitutionally-meaningful” levels of digital privacy and security, we need to apply new principles and paradigms, whereby we eliminate the need or assumption on unverified trust in anything or anyone, throughout the entire supply-chain and lifecycle, and ensure extreme levels of security review in relation to complexity down to the CPU design, chip fabrication oversight, and hosting room access, as detailed in our Trustless Computing Paradigms.

Ultimately, removal of blind trust requires subjecting all critical life-cycle processes and technologies to approval and oversight of a new highly democratic, competent and ultra-resilient Trustless Computing Certification Body.

Yet, developing systems so secure should, by definition, make it impossible or very hard and costly to be hacked even by the most advanced criminal, as well as nations, which have a record of overreach and abusing such powers, and regularly losing their hacking tools on the Dark Net.  

So, therefore, there would a real risk that such IT could be abused by criminals, terrorists, and irresponsible states to commit very grave crimes against humanity. It is inescapable that we find a way to reconcile the need for digital freedoms and cyber-investigations, through a solution that is as much as possible win-win. As we have discovered, personal freedom and public safety are not an “either-or” choice, but a “both or neither” challenge. 

The same paradigms that are needed to achieve such levels of security will be applied to socio-technical systems that include a jury of citizens in multiple countries that will be required in-person to grant or deny access to legitimate lawful access requests - overseen and regulated by a proper international certification body.

We are therefore building a hardware and software technological ecosystem, an ultra-portable device, and an international democratic IT certification organization, to constitute the 1st ultra-secure and ultra-democratic social computing platform, that will concurrently ensure international legitimate lawful access.

Let’s join together to realize the unfulfilled promise of digital technologies that will actively enhance and protect our freedom, wellbeing, and democracy.