When you buy a Magnusson Institute membership, you will receive a tamper-resistant box that will contain all you need to take back your privacy online, including software on a USB drive and hardware security key with PIN code—any "privacy" service that requires you to go online to sign up with them, does not care that much about your privacy. This is our Privacy in a Box™

You need a secure and private internet browser. There are many options for you out there, but they all have various issues. We have taken the Firefox browser and locked it down strongly to protect your privacy from the prying eyes of corporations when you surf the web. We have pre-configured the browser just the way we would want it ourselves, striving for a reasonable balance between privacy and practicality.

We call our browser "MiFF". The biggest challenge for us was to modify Firefox in hundreds of places to not "phone home" to either Mozilla or their main partner Google. That means that when you start up MiFF, you can log in (here) to "privacy.app", and have all your convenient "synchronization" services, including things like passwords (see more below).

Included in your membership is our custom VPN service, protecting your connection to the internet, and helping obscure your "IP" address and location. Our VPN is of the "smart" variety, meaning that we block hundreds of thousands of unsafe web and internet sites. This VPN will work for all your devices—computers, laptops, smartphones, and tablets.

Stop account takeovers—do not use inherently unsafe 'username/password'. Included in the membership kit is a personalized Yubikey security device. The YubiKey is a hardware authentication device manufactured by Yubico to protect access to computers, networks, and online services that supports one-time passwords, public-key cryptography, and authentication, and the Universal 2nd Factor (U2F) and FIDO2 protocols developed by the FIDO Alliance.

The main companies providing cloud storage today don’t respect your privacy, and in some cases can benefit from the lack of it. They scan your private files, pictures, videos, etc., under the guise of improving and personalizing their services to you. We are offering a storage service that doesn’t read your private information to “improve the service”. Your files deserve to be seen by you only, and we will fight to ensure that it stays that way. Your basic membership includes up to 2 Terrabytes of encrypted storage.

Who you talk to, how long you talk to them, and how often you talk to them is fundamentally your private information, and it deserves to be kept from the prying eyes of advertising companies and data miners. Our chat and video services are hosted by our servers, which not only protects your privacy, but also improves the speed and quality of the service.

Save and sync your passwords across devices without having them be stored on shady company servers that want to monetize you. Just works as part of our MIFF browser.

Membership includes up to 10 email inboxes, from a variety of email domain names. This email service is paid for by you as part of membership—meaning, there is no hidden agenda, we're not reading your emails to provide privacy nor are we using the email addresses for any other purpose.

In addition, you can have up to 100 (one hundred) randomly generated "relay emails". This service allows you to generate emails on the fly for whichever service you choose, and have those emails redirected to the primary email of your choice (including one of the email inboxes included in membership). Ideally, you use a different (unique) email address for every service online that you sign up for, making it harder for those services to connect that information with anything else about you. Use different login emails everywhere you go, but only keep track of one inbox. You can also "block" any of these relays, meaning, any emails sent to it is instantly sent into a black hole.