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This is the personal homepage of Maxwell Fritz.

I am a software engineer from the United States. I specialize in cybersecurity and machine learning. My primary hobbies are retrocomputing and amateur radio.

This site is primarily used for blog posts and link collection. Those are the most polished parts of the site. Updates will be irregular and probably unnoticed. This site has autoplaying audio elements.

There are no endorsements of any kind on this website unless explicitly stated. All opinions on this website are my own and not those of my employer.

• PRISM Break
  Learn how to use privacy-oriented services
• Riseup
  Democratic and secure online communications
• Landchad.net
  A guide on hosting your own website with your own domain, easy and for cheap
  • Monero Guide
    A guide on using Monero, a privacy-oriented cryptocurrency
  • SearXNG Guide
    A guide on using SearXNG, a free self-hosted metasearch engine
• Tor Project
  Browse the internet anonymously
  • The New Guide to Running a Tor Relay
    Host a Tor relay to help expand the Tor network
  • Snowflake
    Host a Snowflake proxy to help Internet users bypass censorship
• Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
  A non-profit organization defending digital privacy and free speech
• The Free Software Foundation (FSF)
  A non-profit organization dedicated to protecting computer users' rights
  
  • Email Self-Defense
    A guide from the FSF about protecting against email surveillance with encryption
• GnuPG
  Free software cryptographic suite for email and file encryption
• Coreboot
  Free software computer firmware
  • Libreboot
    Coreboot without proprietary binary blobs
    • Minifree Ltd
      Sells laptops with Libreboot and Linux/BSD preinstalled