Privacy basics
- Privacy basics
In its broadest sense, threat modeling is the systematic analysis of potential
risks and attack vectors, with the aim of developing effective defenses against
identified threats. On a personal level, we engage in threat modeling all the
time – simply
- Privacy basics
Proton Mail was founded in 2014 to build a better internet where privacy is the
default, and to protect activists, journalists, and ordinary people from online
surveillance. We are activists ourselves, and over the years we have supported
movements a
Email is full of private, personal, and everyday data. Letters to friends and
colleagues, shopping receipts, calendar events, flight confirmations: email is a
continuous stream of data. From days to decades, that everyday data adds up and
tells a sto
- Privacy basics
From the creation of the Android mobile operating system to powering the first
interplanetary helicopter, open-source projects have been critical to the
development of new technologies. In a recent survey of enterprise developers,
85% already use ope
- Privacy basics
Email is a great way to stay connected with the people and organizations you
care about, but it is also a technology prone to data breaches and cyberattacks.
In 2017, the email provider Yahoo revealed that over three billion user accounts
were compro
- Privacy basics
Since email was invented, it has become a crucial form of communication in our
private and professional lives. Even with the growing popularity of other
communication platforms, such as instant messaging and video conferencing, email
continues to hol
- Privacy basics
若要暢遊網路世界，人們必須擁有電郵地址。要註冊成為YouTube、Facebook、Twitter、Reddit
用戶或使用其他線上服務，電郵都是您必填的資訊。電郵也是是我們辦理網銀業務、購物和進行商業交易的首要溝通媒介。因此，全球有超過一半的成年人是電子郵件用戶，人們也在電郵中提供了大量的個人資訊。
然而，電郵並不像大家所認知的那樣安全或私密。
電郵具有互通性，例如 Gmail 帳戶可以與 Yahoo 帳戶通信，Yahoo 帳戶可以與 Proton Mail 帳戶通信。
遺憾的是，這也意味著
- Privacy basics
You need an email address to exist at all in the online world. Signing up for
YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, or any other online service requires one.
It’s also our go-to method of communication for online banking, purchasing, and
business deals
- Privacy basics
This article has undergone a complete refresh, published on May 31, 2023. We
removed Wickr because AWS, its new owners, have withdrawn the product to focus
on enterprise solutions. We also removed Keybase because it’s now owned by Zoom.
We replaced
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From Hong Kong to Minneapolis, protesters around the world are standing up for
their human rights. The right to peaceful assembly and protest are bedrocks of
democracy, and we support everyone’s ability to exercise these rights. We
created Proton Mai
- Privacy basics
Learn all about TLS/SSL certificates, the digital files that help to
authenticate and secure data transfers across the internet.
Whenever you send or receive information on the internet, it passes through a
network of multiple computers to reach th