What Drives Us

The Global Threat

Writers and activists around the world are being silenced through digital means.

They face censorship, surveillance, arrest, and device confiscation. Phones, laptops, and cloud accounts are accessed—often under coercion—and the data retrieved is used to convict them. Notes, contacts, messages, and photos become evidence.

Why Plausible Deniability Matters

In many cases, people are tortured or threatened to hand over passwords. Under this kind of pressure, encryption alone is not enough.

The SAFE Pack is built with plausible deniability at its core.

  • Devices should appear clean if inspected.
  • Hidden data must remain invisible.
  • Users should be able to unlock only harmless, decoy content.
  • In some cases, the user should be able to plausibly deny ownership or use of the device entirely.

The goal is not just privacy—it’s safety, even under interrogation.

Informed by Experience

This project is shaped by those who’ve lived through these threats.
Writers who have been imprisoned.
Activists whose devices were used against them in court.
Journalists forced to flee after revealing a password.

Their stories are the foundation of what we’ve built.

Voices from the Ground

“They accessed my Google Drive, deleted everything—unfinished books, notes, articles. They used my own devices to silence me.”
Writer, Iran/Turkey/Norway

“I was detained, my photos deleted without explanation. Luckily, they didn’t find the backups. That was the only way my reporting survived.”
Journalist, Turkey/Sweden

“Encryption didn’t save me. Under torture, I gave up my passwords. What I needed was a way to cooperate without exposing the truth.”
Former political prisoner

“They didn’t just want to arrest me—they wanted my files, my drafts, my contacts. And they got them. That won’t happen again.”
Exiled writer and activist