Privacy services often rely on strong encryption to protect privacy and
confidentiality. Some terms that you have heard probably include AES, RSA, or
maybe even elliptic-curve cryptography (ECC). However, is encryption actually
bulletproof and a guar
Privacy and anonymity are often tossed about as synonymous terms but they are
actually related ideas that represent different things. Put simply:
* Privacy is freedom from observation or attention.
* Anonymity is freedom from identification or rec
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
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
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
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
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
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
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removed Wickr because AWS, its new owners, have withdrawn the product to focus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
In 2017, hackers stole the private financial records of some 156 million people
from servers belonging to Equifax, while the 2018 Facebook-Cambridge Analytica
scandal revealed how personal data belonging to up to 87 million Facebook users
was harvest
