And here are all the answers. You might try authenticating answers server-side or replacing them with hashes ;)

It’s not a huge deal since you linked to the source of the riddles, but it can be a fun blue team project.

OP’s title certainly doesn’t help.

Proton was legally ordered by the Swiss justice department to hand over the (severely limited) information about a law breaking organization’s account. They had paid for Proton using a credit card instead of the anonymous payment methods Proton offers, and that is what Proton was forced to hand over. It was the organization’s bad OpSec, not Proton willingly deanonymizing users.

That’s how much a carrier is over there??

Yes. The “poverty” option is $15/month, but plans can easily go up to $100 or more per month. Out of curiosity, how much are they charging across the pond?

What you’re describing is somewhat the basis behind passkey authentication and how services like SimpleX Chat or Session operate. One day (I hope) this will become the standard.

“As seen on TV” does not imply privacy, it just implies a large advertising budget. These are software that market themselves as private (and are sometimes better than nothing at all) but may still be just as bad as software on the tip of the iceberg.

Do I even want to get there

Only you can answer that.

or is that limited to journalists who have entire states trying to unalive them?

Pretty much, but if you want to give up all technology, work for yourself, and fake your death, then more power to you!

This is very bad news, because this means any app that wants your data could do the same.