Privacy basics
HTTPS IS THE BACKBONE THAT KEEPS EVERYONE SAFE AND SECURE ON THE INTERNET.
HOWEVER, IT DOES LITTLE TO PREVENT YOU FROM BEING TRACKED ONLINE.
When you surf the web, you connect to websites using the Hypertext Transfer
Protocol (HTTP), first developed
- Privacy basics
An email address is your portal to the internet. Without one, you can’t use most
of the services available on the web. Research from the Radicati Group shows
that most of us have multiple email addresses, with the number of addresses per
email user i
With so much of your life spent on the internet, an organized inbox isn’t just a
matter of being tidy — it’s about being productive and focusing your attention
on tasks that really matter. The average office worker receives around 121
emails and send
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Your personal email address is an essential part of your digital identity. Like
your phone number, you don’t give it to everyone you meet.
That’s why it’s useful to have other email addresses you can use for different
purposes. But you may not want
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
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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
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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
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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
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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