Lumina
18+ · defensive only · Sep 2026

See your spaces. Secure them.

Lumina is a calm, premium field guide for protecting the places and accounts you already have a right to care for — home, vehicle, travel, and small teams. Step by visual step, it helps you see clearly, harden what you control, and keep honest records — so you can help yourself, and eventually help others.

Free for people who need help. Professional track later — never paywall the locks on your own door.

Bright living room with inspection markers on typical hiding places

Your envelope, labeled — not a gadget catalog.

One envelope, then the world

Start with what you control. Then walk into the world prepared.

Home, vehicle, digital accounts, and places you encounter — each with a clear ritual so care becomes habit, not panic.

Home

Doors, glass, rooms, power, and cameras that watch the approach — not the private spaces that should stay private.

Vehicle

Magnets, OBD, bumpers. Photograph the normal so the unusual is obvious.

Digital

Email, camera clouds, sessions — the path that keeps the house trustworthy.

Encountered

Hotels, offices, travel. Fast rituals. Legal edges labeled clearly.

Architectural plan of a house with security coverage zones

How to see

Clarity is a skill. We teach it with humility.

Modern devices can be tiny — a pinhole lens, a fake screw, a glitter speck on a clock. Lumina shows you where to look, what a phone can and cannot prove, and when to bring in a licensed professional. Confidence without false certainty.

Size comparison of a coin, an 8mm camera module, and a tiny lens

Guided, not dumped

Walkthroughs

Onboarding questions, a 15-minute crash course, then deeper modules. Sweeps go high-level first, then fine-grained — like someone standing next to you.

Built-in tutor

Ask at your level

Gemini explains this curriculum — not random internet folklore. Guardrails refuse stalking, planting, jamming, and exploits. One place to keep learning.

Become the help

A profession, if you earn it

After a real baseline: ISC2 CC, Security+, then physical (PSP) and TSCM communities (ERII) that require hours. Help neighbors. Help people who need a steady hand. Help the nation.

Why this craft matters

Self-reliance is how good people stay safe — and useful.

Official systems cannot restore every person who needs help. That is why Lumina teaches careful inspection, documentation, and hardening for spaces you control — so you are not waiting for a miracle to take care of your own door.

recorded cyberspace cases still open

~97%

Among 49,112 NIBRS 2023 incidents coded to a cyberspace location, 2.85% were cleared — about 97% remained open in that recorded set. Self-protection and documentation still matter.
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Journal of Criminal Justice 104 (2026), art. 102638

Nationwide NIBRS study of cybercrime clearance. Cited here for 2023 cyberspace-location incidents: 49,112 incidents with a 2.85% clearance rate (~97% uncleared). This is a peer-reviewed analysis of police-recorded incidents, not a measure of all victimization.

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FBI / BJS NIBRS

NIBRS includes a Cyberspace location code and clearance fields. Coverage is incomplete and the cyberspace flag is applied inconsistently across agencies.

people who still need their own plan

99.3–99.9%

Order-of-magnitude estimate: start from IC3 complaint volume, scale by the IC3 10–12% capture-rate estimate to ~8–10 million U.S. victim-incidents a year, then apply the ~97% uncleared rate plus the reality that clearance still does not equal restitution. Transparent estimate — not an official FBI table — so people invest in careful habits.
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IC3 leadership capture-rate estimate (~10–12%)

FBI IC3 leadership (including former IC3 Director Donna Gregory) has estimated the center captures about 10–12% of victims — an order-of-magnitude undercount. This is not a table in the 2025 IC3 annual report.

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FBI IC3 2025 Annual Report

1,008,597 complaints and $20.877 billion in reported losses. Cyber-enabled fraud ~85% of losses. Crypto-linked: 181,565 complaints / $11.366 billion. AI-related breakout: 22,364 complaints / ~$893 million. These are complaints, not clearance.

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Journal of Criminal Justice 104 (2026), art. 102638

Nationwide NIBRS study of cybercrime clearance. Cited here for 2023 cyberspace-location incidents: 49,112 incidents with a 2.85% clearance rate (~97% uncleared). This is a peer-reviewed analysis of police-recorded incidents, not a measure of all victimization.

of victims IC3 believes it sees

10–12%

IC3 leadership estimate that the center captures about 10–12% of victims. It is not a 2025 annual-report table. Using ~1.01 million 2025 complaints, that implies on the order of 8–10 million U.S. victim-incidents a year.
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IC3 leadership capture-rate estimate (~10–12%)

FBI IC3 leadership (including former IC3 Director Donna Gregory) has estimated the center captures about 10–12% of victims — an order-of-magnitude undercount. This is not a table in the 2025 IC3 annual report.

source
FBI IC3 2025 Annual Report

1,008,597 complaints and $20.877 billion in reported losses. Cyber-enabled fraud ~85% of losses. Crypto-linked: 181,565 complaints / $11.366 billion. AI-related breakout: 22,364 complaints / ~$893 million. These are complaints, not clearance.

lenses can be this small — so we teach looking

1–2 mm

The part that faces a room can be a pinhole. Consumer modules are often ~8×8 mm; the exposed lens may be 1–5 mm, sometimes 1–2 mm. Night-vision IR LEDs can be invisible to your eyes but visible to many phone front cameras. Lumina turns that into a careful visual craft.
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LAPD (KAIST) — smartphone ToF hidden-camera research

Academic result: tiny lenses may be only 1–2 mm; unaided visual search performed poorly compared with sensor-aided methods. Phones are helpers, not magic scanners.

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Hide-and-Sweep / SweepLED (ACM, 2025/26)

Multi-angle LED illumination can distinguish camera-lens reflections from ordinary shine — still research-grade, not a guarantee.

How these numbers are framed: Lumina never pretends unofficial estimates are official crime statistics. Police clearance (NIBRS) is not the same as IC3 complaints, which are not the same as all victimization. We show each layer, with sources, so people understand why learning careful self-protection — and becoming someone who can help others — is a constructive response.