Lumina
18+ · defensive only · Sep 2026

See your spaces. Secure them.

AI-powered crime and cheap tiny cameras are no longer specialist problems. They leak to street level. Police clearance is rare. Lumina is the calm, premium field guide that walks you — step by visual step — through protecting the spaces you actually control: home, vehicle, accounts, travel, small teams.

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.

The part nobody puts on a landing page

Most victims are never made whole.

That is not a reason to despair. It is a reason to learn, document, harden, and — if you want — become someone who can help others and the country.

police-recorded cyberspace crime uncleared

~97%

49,112 NIBRS 2023 incidents coded to a cyberspace location; 2.85% cleared. That is ~97% uncleared among incidents that were reported to police and recorded that way.
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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.

victim-incidents never made whole

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. This is not an official FBI table — it is a transparent estimate so people stop assuming “the system will fix it.”
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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.

lens can be this small

1–2 mm

The part that has to face the 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.
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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, because the gap between “I reported it” and “someone was identified and I was made whole” is the crisis.

How small

State-of-the-art bugs do not look like bugs.

A consumer module can be the size of a pencil eraser. The lens that has to see the room may be 1–2 millimeters — a pinhole, a fake screw, a glitter speck on a clock. Night-vision LEDs can be invisible to your eyes and visible to many phone front cameras. Lumina teaches the hunt, then the humility: phones miss quiet store-and-forward devices. That is when you call a professional.

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

One envelope, then the world

Manage your space. Then the spaces you walk into.

Home

Doors, glass, rooms, power, cameras that watch the approach — not the bathtub.

Vehicle

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

Digital

Email, camera clouds, sessions. The path that sabotages the house.

Encountered

Hotels, offices, travel. Fast rituals. Legal edges labeled in gold.

Architectural plan of a house with security coverage zones

Guided, not dumped

Walkthroughs

Onboarding questions, a 15-minute crash course, then deeper modules. Sweeps go high-level first, then fine-grained. It should feel 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 victims. Help the nation.