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Defensive Cyber Operations

ACTIVE CHILD SAFETY INITIATIVE

Technology built to protect children and reduce operator harm.

Redwing Labs is developing Project HALO to support the detection, documentation, and responsible reporting of Child Sexual Abuse Material online, while minimising the need for humans to directly view harmful content. The system is designed so that harmful material is not stored, retained, or directly viewed within the operational workflow.

Child Protection

Focused on improving structured detection and escalation capability in an area where technical gaps still exist.

Operator Protection

Designed to reduce or remove the need for investigators and analysts to directly view harmful material.

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Mission

A blade for the defenseless.

Redwing Labs exists to build focused technical capability that supports child safety online. Project HALO is intended to reduce the distance between detection and lawful reporting while also protecting the people doing this work from avoidable psychological harm.

Approach

Serious technology for a serious problem.

The system is being designed around perceptual hashing, structured logging, and automated reporting workflows. The goal is to identify and escalate harmful material without normalising a workflow in which humans must repeatedly view it.

Detection

Hash-based identification workflows designed to support recognition of known harmful material.

Documentation

Structured logging and traceable system outputs designed for review and escalation.

Escalation

Automated reporting pathways intended to reduce manual handling and response friction.

Safety Design

No direct viewing. No long-term storage.

The project is intended to minimise or remove the need for direct human viewing of harmful material.
The operating model is centered on hashes, metadata, and structured reporting rather than media retention.
Harmful material is not intended to be stored long-term within the system workflow.
The design prioritises legal compliance, ethical restraint, and operator wellbeing.

Support

Built with backing from people who believe the mission matters.

Redwing Labs is currently an unfunded initiative developing early-stage capability with the support of community backing, donated equipment, and mission-aligned assistance.

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Substation 33

Equipment and infrastructure support

Contact

Support, collaboration, or direct contact.

For sponsorship, partnership, or mission-aligned support, contact Redwing Labs directly.