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privacy
10 posts tagged “privacy”.
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How Private Vault Works
There's a switch in Hearth that takes away our last key to your journal. Flip it and we can't read a word — not won't, can't. Here's exactly how it works.
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AI That Burns After Reading
"Privacy-first AI" is on every homepage now, meaning roughly nothing. Ours has one rule with a name: every glance burns after reading. Here's the actual machinery behind the phrase.
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Should Your Journal Live in the Cloud? Yes — If It's Encrypted Right
"The cloud" sounds like the last place a private diary should live. Done right, it's actually safer than the notebook in your drawer. Here's the catch.
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Why We Built a Journal That Forgets Your Password on Purpose
Most apps can hand everything back with a password reset. Hearth has a mode that genuinely can't, on purpose — and it's one of the most important things about us.
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Is a Paper Diary Safer Than an App? An Honest Answer
There's a romantic case that paper is the only truly private diary. It's a good argument. It's also missing half the picture. Let's weigh it honestly.
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We Don't Sell Your Data — There's Nothing Readable to Sell
"We don't sell your data" is the cheapest promise in tech. Here's a stronger version of it: there's nothing readable on the shelf to sell, and you can check.
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What Happens When You Delete Your Diary (With Us: It's Actually Gone)
You tap delete. The entry vanishes from your screen. But did it actually leave the building? Often, no. Here's the difference between gone and 'gone.'
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What "End-to-End Encrypted" Actually Means, Minus the Jargon
It's the phrase every app slaps on its homepage. Here's what it actually means when it's your diary on the line — no computer science degree required.
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Can Your Journaling App Read Your Diary? (An Uncomfortable Little Tour)
Spoiler: most of them can. Here's a quick, slightly awkward way to find out whether the app holding your secrets could read them if it wanted to.
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The Case for a Diary Nobody — Including Us — Can Read
Not 'nobody's supposed to read it.' Nobody can. Here's what changes about your writing when that's genuinely, mathematically true — and the one switch that makes it so.