When to Use Amaca.

1. With family, to safely store and exchange important and sensitive family data

Social security and passport numbers; safe box and lock combinations; sensitive travel, medical, banking or insurance information; instructions for emergency situations.

2. Emails and text messages

To share and protect email and text messages from being understood by unintended recipients and/or snoopers.

3. Fun, non-critical matters requiring some level of privacy

Such as: surprise party invites, sharing secret family recipes, holiday gift planning, party planning, etc.

4. Emergency, life-threatening, or abusive situations

To safely notify/report on situations such as: domestic abuse, sexual harassment, sexual abuse, rape, child molestation, child abuse, child endangerment, child neglect, elderly abuse, etc.

5. With professional advisors and resources

To safely store and share confidential personal information with: lawyer, therapist, doctor, accountant, banker, financial consultant, professor, mentor, investor, insurance agent, etc.

6. Social media platforms

To encrypt posts intended for a specific group of people, and without the platforms being able to decode the content (and misuse or exploit it for commercial purposes).

7. With trusted vendors and clients

To safely share and store confidential transactional information such as: credit card and bank account info, address/delivery details, non-disclosure agreements, letters of agreement, and so on.

8. Business, legal, and financial matters

To safely store and share confidential internal communications, quotes, inter-office documents, contracts, bank account information, wire-transfer requests, financial market-related instructions, accounting information.

9. Protection of civil rights

To secure sensitive digital communications with full anonymity in the context of human rights violations.

10. Spreadsheets

For quick copy/paste encryption, decryption and reconstruction of Excel (and other) spreadsheet tables.

11. Safekeeping on the cloud

To encrypt and store important written data before uploading it to a cloud service such as Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive, or Google Drive. By using Amaca to encrypt your written content with your own key, you ensure that, once in the cloud, your content will be safe from snooping and immune to potential back door access by unwanted third parties.

12. Cloud "traveling and sharing"

Encrypting your written content with Amaca and then uploading it to a cloud service is a highly effective, safe and instant way to travel with your confidential data, and to share it with others anywhere in the world.

13. Activism. Political campaigns.

To protect and secure sensitive digital communications with full anonymity.

14. Whistleblowing

To safely notify on secretive information or activity deemed illegal, unethical or inappropriate within an organization.

15. Journalism, news media, and publishing

To securely exchange information with confidential sources. To safely store and exchange manuscripts, drafts, or not-yet-published finished works.

16. Cryptocurrencies

To add an additional level of encrypted protection to cryptocurrency private keys. Also, to encrypt PINs and recovery phrases.

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When to Use Amaca

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