Technology Activism Resources

Beltway Breaker

01 Nov 2025 — 1 min read

We have gathered here resources not just in the realm of technology activism, but also personal recommendations for how to both keep yourself safe online, and remove the corporate bullshit from your technology experience. Of note, any recommendations we provide are only suggestions - every individual has a balance of security and convenience that they're comfortable with - we just want to provide you the resources to make it to that point of comfort, whatever it is for you.

NOTE: We will try to regularly update this page as we find new resources, so please check back in regularly for more!

Staying Safe Online: Resources to reduce your digital footprint, prevent unnecessary snooping, and keep advertisers at bay. There is only so much you can do these days, but the options are still there if you wish to put in the work.

Wired - Protecting yourself from Government Surveillance

Wired - Protecting Your Digital Privacy When Entering The US

Activist Checklist - Digital Security Checklist

Robin Berjon - Digital Sovereignty

De-Corporatize Your Life: Alternative options to a plethora of online tools and services that don't support the 5 corporations that own everything.

Wired - Replacing US-Based Services

Tom's Guide - Building a home server from an old PC

PCMag - Best NAS List for 2026 (For those who want plug-and-play local storage)

Samsung - External Storage Drives (various sizes and models)

Get Involved: There are tons of organizations doing good work in the technology activist space - these are some of TBB's recommendations, both to follow for news, and getting involved if you want to help fight back against our increasingly oppressive corporate surveillance state.

Wired - Protesting Tips

Nieman Lab - How to Leak to a Journalist

Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) - Defending Digital Privacy

Why Data Centers Matter

Nobody ever thinks about data centers. Well, that isn’t quite true, IT administrators probably think about data centers a lot. Beyond them, though, it is easy to understand why data centers have not occupied space in most people’s minds. The cloud, after all, is to most of us

A Better Way To Share: Turning the Internet Into a Public Utility

It is not a mistake that you and I, and people across the world, are retreating into caves of isolation, hearing only what we want to hear and growing farther and farther apart from one another. While the Internet allows us to perform tasks without going places, access knowledge with

TBB - Sticker/Poster Templates

Why We Write: Resisting Terror is Not Terror

Consider this post to be an introduction to why we at The Beltway Breaker are doing this. While we won't get too personal, we want to outline why we think it is necessary in this day and age to gather a small group of like-minded friends and write

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Why Data Centers Matter

A Better Way To Share: Turning the Internet Into a Public Utility

TBB - Sticker/Poster Templates

Why We Write: Resisting Terror is Not Terror