Privacy guides
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For decades, information security experts have tried to get people to create
stronger passwords by requiring a minimum length (usually eight characters),
plus at least one capital letter, one number, and one special character (like @,
#, or !). This
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You’ve heard the one about the Nigerian prince and the lottery windfall (we just
need your bank account and social security number!). But email phishing scams
are getting more sophisticated and persuasive. While they come in a variety of
forms, the g
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Four years ago, the Pew Research Center, a US think tank, asked hundreds of
cybersecurity experts to weigh in on a simple question: “By 2025, will a major
cyber-attack have caused widespread harm to a nation’s security and capacity to
defend itself a
- Privacy guides
If your child is old enough to have a smartphone, then there’s a good chance you
didn’t even have access to the Internet when you were a kid. You never had to
think about online privacy growing up, and neither did your parents.
But today it’s impera
Crossing an international border is often a stressful experience. It becomes all
the more stressful if you are pulled aside for further inspection. Border
searches, including phone searches and laptop searches, have become more common
in recent years
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The Wall Street Journal recently published an article highlighting privacy
concerns related to Gmail’s use of third-party apps. When users install tools
known as “add-ons” in their Gmail accounts, they are often giving outside
companies full access t
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For decades, law enforcement agencies have lobbied to force technology companies
to weaken their own security protocols by adding an encryption backdoor. The FBI
has even recently come up with a catchy brand for its anti-encryption campaign:
“Going D
Most of us would not give our private, personal information to strangers and
then trust them not to leak it. But that’s essentially what we do every time we
store chat histories, email, documents, and pictures on the cloud. When you save
a document t
- Privacy guides
Hacks are surprisingly commonplace. In 2014, for instance, nearly half of all
American adults had some form of data stolen from corporate servers in a
12-month span, according to CNN. Credit cards, telephone numbers, and login
credentials are falling
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Whether you cover the CIA or city hall, journalism is as much about keeping
secrets as exposing them. We created this online security guide to help
democracy’s defenders defend themselves too.
Part of our mission at Proton Mail has always been to gi