Security glossary
Plain-English definitions of important security and privacy terms.
A contact list and call total do not reveal what was said.
A shared server and an accepted friendship are different contact paths.
Personal authorization and server installation have different owners.
The destination matters more than the square pattern.
One is a stored recovery fallback; the other is generated during sign-in.
A destination copy may omit context and will not follow later edits.
The coordinate source changes what an edit can mean.
A forwarded link can widen the audience beyond the people you selected.
Hiding an image locally can increase loss risk if backup is off.
Partitioning future storage and deleting existing state solve different problems.
One unlocks local saved logins; the other signs in to Sync.
Fallback improves availability; strict resolution can expose network breakage.
One concerns missing HTTPS; the other concerns trust in an HTTPS connection.
Global privacy and a narrow compatibility choice have different reach.
The same saved area can affect convenience and added verification.
The control is triggered by being offline while unlocked, not by the icon alone.
The place is an approximate exception context, not a proof of identity.
A quick phone-number lock is narrower than account-based recovery.
Automatic motion response and owner-requested lock solve different moments.