Who Builds Your FreedomTech Devices
FreedomTech is an Australian privacy technology business. Every device we sell is built or configured in house by Tony and a small team, to a documented standard, before it ships. We're known as The Privacy Experts. This page is the why.
The experience behind FreedomTech
Privacy work done properly is engineering, not enthusiasm.
FreedomTech is run by Tony, who leads a small hands-on team, and the standards come from his background in enterprise network operations.
Tony trained through an affiliated college of Cambridge University, earning a series of City & Guilds qualifications in computing and building systems, followed by the full Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer course and dedicated training in firewall hardware and systems.
He became the Network Operations Manager at ET&T (European Telecommunications & Technology), head office in London with offices in New York, Frankfurt and Mumbai. ET&T provided private communication between company sites, and its staff included former members of GCHQ, the UK's intelligence, security and cyber agency. Tony worked with Sun systems and Linux infrastructure back in 2000, when most people had never heard of Linux.
He managed frontline network troubleshooting for enterprise clients including Ford in America, alongside major telcos including Telia, KPNQwest and Telefonica, and was the escalation point as the person to solve the problem when it was going in circles.
That breadth is the point. Private communication between sites was the job at ET&T, and it's still the job at FreedomTech. We know exactly how Windows and Mac systems work, which is precisely why FreedomTech computers run neither. Every device is built to a documented standard, tested before it ships, and backed by the same escalation-point mindset: the problem gets solved.
How devices are prepared
Documented configurations, repeatable processes, tested results.
deGoogled phones run GrapheneOS on Google Pixel hardware and are fully configured before shipping. Privacy computers run Linux Mint, installed and tested in house. Crypto computers are hardened to a documented specification: encrypted storage, locked firmware, configured firewall, hardened browsers, and recovery tools included.
We never handle private keys and we never install wallets. No device is unhackable and we don't describe ours that way. Privacy is a process. Our work reduces, in practical ways, how much of your activity is visible to Big Tech.
Support
You reach the person who did the work.
Support is by email, answered by the same small team that builds and configures the devices. No call centre, no outsourced support.
There's no such thing as a silly question.
What our customers say
“With Tony's expert work on the computers, and guidance in our personal tutorial, it was unbelievably easy.”
Robert & Anita
“I was able to jump on to it with minimal learning and continue my business operations straight away.”
Rhett
See the work for yourself
Got a question first? Email [email protected] or send us a message and you'll hear back from the person who does the work.
Questions, or just keen to talk privacy with like-minded Australians? Visit our Telegram community.
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