Privacy Basics
Anonymity is not the same thing as privacy, and confusing these related but
different concepts can weaken your online threat model.
* Anonymity – Keeping your identity private, but not your actions. For example,
using a pseudonym to post messag
- Privacy Basics
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
- 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
Passwords are designed to protect one thing: your online security. Weak
passwords pose a serious threat to your online security — once a hacker gains
access to your online accounts, they can impersonate you online, steal your
financial data, or sell
- 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
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
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