Move sensitive chats
Prefer end-to-end encrypted conversations and verify important contacts.
For everyday communications in the EU
Make private conversations harder to scan.
Choose the devices and channels you actually use. Get an ordered setup you can finish, track and export without pretending any tool makes you invisible.
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Security works as a system.
Encryption helps with content in transit, but device access, cloud backups, account recovery and metadata can still expose useful information. This setup treats them together.
Lock the endpoints
A private message is only as private as the unlocked phone or laptop showing it.
Harden recovery
Use unique credentials, phishing-resistant second factors and offline recovery codes.
Review backups
Understand whether message and email content is copied to cloud services.
Reduce metadata
Separate high-risk conversations and share less identifying context.
Build the setup you will use.
The plan updates from your selected devices, channels and operating mode. It stays on this device after reload and exports as plain text.
Your ordered setup
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This is defensive guidance, not a guarantee or a live assessment of any law, service, account or device.
What this setup can improve
It can reduce exposure from weak account recovery, unlocked devices, unencrypted channels, unnecessary backups and oversharing.
What encryption does not hide
Participants, timing, device compromise, screenshots and some service metadata may remain visible. A recipient can always copy what they receive.
When to seek expert help
Journalists, activists, public officials and people facing targeted abuse should use a qualified security review tailored to their actual threat model.