About EVANDALIZE
What This Is
EVANDALIZE is an adversarial CAPTCHA system. It is also, depending on your perspective, a security tool, a piece of political satire, and an extremely petty way to annoy authoritarian governments.
The core idea is simple: instead of asking users to identify crosswalks or type blurry letters, we ask them to deface a portrait of a dictator. Most people find this mildly entertaining. For state-sponsored hackers operating inside monitored government facilities, it is a career-ending legal risk.
EVANDALIZE turns authoritarian surveillance against itself. The same systems that monitor operatives for disloyalty become the enforcement mechanism for our CAPTCHA. We did not invent lese-majeste laws. We just found a use for them.
Why It Exists
Traditional CAPTCHAs were designed to stop bots. They work. The problem is that the most dangerous threat actors on the internet are not bots. They are human operatives working in government offices in Pyongyang, Beijing, Tehran, and Moscow. They solve reCAPTCHAs between coffee breaks. Every existing verification system is completely transparent to them.
Nobody was building a CAPTCHA that targets human operatives. The entire industry was focused on the bot problem, which was solved years ago. The state-sponsored hacker problem? Everyone just shrugs and adds another firewall rule.
EVANDALIZE adds a friction layer that no other system attempts: a compliance cost that scales with how authoritarian your operating environment is. It does not need to be perfect. It needs to be the one thing that actually makes a state-sponsored operative pause before proceeding.
The Team
Built by people who got tired of clicking fire hydrants for Google.
We are a small group with backgrounds in security, systems engineering, and an unhealthy interest in the legal codes of countries we will never visit. We do not publish our names because the kind of governments we are annoying have a habit of holding grudges.
What we can tell you: nobody here works for a three-letter agency, nobody here has venture capital breathing down their neck, and nobody here thinks this is the most important thing happening in cybersecurity. It is, however, the funniest.
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