You should own the things you own.
Somewhere along the way, buying something turned into renting it back from the company that made it — on their terms, with your data as the deposit. Wyrm exists to undo that, one honest tool at a time.
The quiet is the product.
The surveillance economy doesn’t feel like anything. No alarm goes off when an app sells your location, when a “smart” device phones home every night, or when the room you rented has a camera you never agreed to. It’s quiet by design — and that quiet is exactly what’s being sold.
You can’t opt out of a system you can’t see. So the first job of a privacy tool isn’t to hide you. It’s to show you — to make the invisible legible, and hand you back the choice.
What we build instead.
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Own the keys.
If you can’t hold the keys, you don’t own the lock. Everything we make keeps them on your side of the door, not on a server you’ve been told to trust.
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Keep it local.
Data that can stay on your device does. The cloud is someone else’s computer, and we’re not going to make you rent space on it to use a thing you already bought.
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No account to use what you bought.
A thing you paid for should still work in ten years, offline, without signing in to anything. Ownership shouldn’t quietly expire because a company moved on.
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Tell the truth about limits.
We publish what a tool can’t do next to what it can. Overselling safety is worse than selling nothing, because someone relies on it and gets hurt.
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Make it last. Make it yours.
Repairable, reflashable, documented. A device you can’t get inside is a device you’re renting from whoever glued it shut.
None of this is radical. It’s just what owning something used to mean. We’re building it back — starting with Scout.