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Before anything else: think about how you are reading this page right now.

If you are on a device or network provided by your employer, your school, or your congregation, stop and come back on a personal device using your own or a public internet connection. Managed devices and managed networks can keep records of what you visit regardless of how secure the destination is. That record exists before you have written a single word.

Why this matters

People who contact this site are sometimes current or former members of the Iglesia Ni Cristo. For some, being identified would mean losing standing in their congregation, being cut off from family, losing employment, or facing legal action.

That risk is not hypothetical. In July 2026 the journalist Marchel Espina surrendered to police over a criminal complaint of “unjust vexation” filed by an INC minister after he published an opinion piece critical of the church. The complaint is minor and cheap to file — and it still produced an arrest and a police record.

So this page will not tell you that any tool makes you safe. It will tell you what protects you, what does not, and where the real risks are, so you can decide for yourself.

Do not send me your personal information

This is the most important instruction on this page, and it costs nothing.

Do not tell me your real name. Do not tell me your congregation, your locality, your position, or your district. Do not send photographs of yourself. Do not use an email address, username, or profile photo that you use anywhere else.

I do not need to know who you are in order to read what you have to say. And what I do not know, I cannot be compelled to disclose — by a court, by an employer, or by anyone who gains access to my accounts.

Two things catch people far more often than weak encryption:

Only a few people could know this. If a document or a piece of information was seen by six people, then no amount of encryption protects you. Before you send something, ask yourself how many people could plausibly have known it. If the answer is small, the source of a leak is obvious no matter how it was transmitted. Often it is safer to describe what you know than to send the document itself.

Files carry hidden information about you. Photographs taken on a phone usually embed GPS coordinates, the time, and the device’s make and serial number — a photo of a document can reveal where you live. Word and PDF files carry author names, organisation names, revision history and tracked changes, and these frequently survive being saved as a PDF. Printed pages carry near-invisible printer tracking dots identifying the printer and the time of printing.

If you must send something, a screenshot discards almost all of this. Photographing a printout with a camera that is not your phone is safer still.

Email — the main channel

incsilentnomore [at] protonmail [dot] com

Written out in full so it is readable even with JavaScript disabled — replace [at] with @ and [dot] with a full stop. If you have JavaScript on, the address above is a working link.

Proton Mail is a Swiss encrypted email service. What follows is an honest account of what it does and does not protect, because you deserve accuracy rather than reassurance.

What Proton genuinely protects

Message contents are end-to-end encrypted between Proton accounts. If you write to me from a Proton address, the body of your message and any attachments are encrypted in a way Proton itself cannot read. Proton holds no key that can open them. This is not a policy promise — it is how the system is built, and it is the reason to use it.

Proton cannot be ordered to hand over what it cannot read. In 2025 Proton received 9,301 legal orders for Proton Mail data. In every case, message bodies and attachments remained inaccessible. Separately, of 59 orders for Proton VPN data that year, Proton denied all 59, because it holds no logs to give.

What Proton does not protect — read this part

Email from a non-Proton address is not end-to-end encrypted. If you write from Gmail, Yahoo, or a work address, your message is protected in transit but readable by your own provider. If you want the encryption, you need a Proton account at your end too.

Subject lines are not end-to-end encrypted. Neither are the sender and recipient addresses. Proton holds keys to these and a Swiss court can order access. Keep your subject line meaningless — “hello” is fine.

Proton can be compelled to start logging your IP address. In 2021, Swiss authorities ordered Proton to begin recording the IP address used by a particular account, and a French activist was identified. Proton did not hand over any message contents — the encryption held — but the person was still identified.

A recovery email address can identify you completely. In 2024, Proton was ordered to disclose the recovery address attached to an account. It was an iCloud address. Apple then supplied a full name, two home addresses, and a linked Gmail account. An arrest followed. Encryption was never broken. One optional field did all the work.

The lesson from both cases is the same, and it is the one worth carrying away: Proton protects what you write. It does not make you anonymous. Treat it as confidential, not invisible.

Creating your own Proton account

Free, and it takes a few minutes. You do not need to give a phone number or any real identifier.

1. Open a browser on a personal device. Not a work, school or church device. If you want the extra step, use Tor Browser and Proton’s onion address — but see the caution in step 5 first.

2. Go to proton.me and choose the free plan. It gives you 1 GB of storage and up to 150 messages a day, which is far more than you need.

3. Choose a username with no connection to you. Not your name, not a nickname anyone knows you by, not your birth year, not your congregation or town, and — critically — not a username you have used on any other website. Reused usernames are one of the most common ways people are identified.

4. Choose a password you have never used anywhere else. Write it down on paper and keep it somewhere safe.

5. You will be asked to complete a CAPTCHA. That is normally all that is required. If instead you are asked for a phone number or an email address, stop. Close the page and try again later or from a different internet connection. Do not supply a real phone number. Proton is more likely to demand this if you are connecting over Tor or have created accounts recently — which is the awkward trade-off with Tor, and why it is a judgement call rather than an automatic yes.

6. When it offers to set a recovery email or recovery phone — skip it. Proton will warn you that without recovery you can permanently lose your account if you forget your password. That warning is true, and you should accept the risk anyway. This is precisely the field that identified the person in the 2024 case. Write your password down on paper instead.

7. Leave the display name blank or generic. It is visible to everyone you write to.

8. Turn on two-factor authentication using an authenticator app rather than SMS, and keep the recovery codes on paper.

One more thing. If you want to write to me from a non-Proton address and still have it encrypted, Proton’s “Password-protected Email” lets you do that — but you must send me the password by some completely separate route. If you email the password, you have undone the protection.

Other ways to reach me

These are public, ordinary social media accounts. They are appropriate for general correspondence, questions, corrections and tips that are not sensitive.

Please do not send anything sensitive through these. A direct message on Facebook, Instagram or Reddit is tied to an account that is usually tied to your real identity, your phone, your contacts and your family. These platforms hold your messages, can be compelled to produce them, and are breached from time to time. They are convenient, not confidential.

If what you have to say could cost you something, use the Proton address.

If you decide to write

You do not have to prove anything to me in your first message. You do not have to send documents. Tell me what you know in your own words, and we can work out from there what — if anything — is safe to share and how.

I will not publish anything that identifies a source without their explicit agreement. I will not ask you for your name. If you offer it, I would rather you did not.

Corrections and challenges are welcome on any channel. If something published here is wrong, tell me and I will fix it, and I will say that I have.

This page describes tools and their limits accurately to the best of my knowledge as of August 2026. Nothing here is legal advice. Security tools change; if you are at serious risk, consult the Freedom of the Press Foundation’s guidance at freedom.press or the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Surveillance Self-Defense at ssd.eff.org, both of which are written by specialists and kept current.