SC Privacy Desk is a small, independent site about secure messaging, private email, VPNs and Tor, browser tracking, device security and Web3 privacy. The editors read every message. This page explains how to reach them, what to include and what happens after you write.
How to Reach the Editors
Email contact@scatterchat.com. There is no contact form, so email is the only way to reach the editors.
Messages go straight to the SC Privacy Desk editors. No outside support desk or automated triage sorts them first. It helps to start your subject line with “Correction”, “Tip” or “Question”, followed by the article title or topic.
What to Write About
The editors most want to hear about three things:
- Corrections. Something in an article is wrong, out of date or misleading.
- Tips. A change to an app’s data practices, a vulnerability that has been publicly disclosed, a new privacy law or ruling, or a story you think the site should cover.
- General questions. A guide was unclear, skipped a step you needed, or you want a tool, setting or idea explained in more depth.
General feedback is also welcome, including when a guide helped you and when it didn’t.
Reporting a Mistake
Accuracy matters more on a privacy site than on most others. One wrong settings path or an old claim about what an app encrypts can leave a reader exposed. Confirmed errors get fixed quickly.
What to include
The editors can check your report faster if you include:
- The title of the article.
- The exact sentence or claim you think is wrong.
- What you believe is correct, and how you know. A changelog, an official announcement, a published security audit, a court or regulator document, or a screenshot of how the app behaves now all help.
- The app version, operating system and date you checked, where that matters.
What happens next
An editor checks your report against primary sources, such as the developer’s documentation, release notes or the regulator’s own figures. If the article is wrong, it gets updated. If a correction changes the substance of a piece, for example what a tool protects against or whether a feature is end-to-end encrypted, a note on the page says what changed. The text is not quietly rewritten.
Sometimes the article turns out to be correct, or the behavior you saw depends on your version or region. When that happens, the editors may reply to explain, or may make the wording clearer so other readers don’t hit the same confusion.
Sending a Tip
Good tips are specific. “This messenger now uploads contact lists by default as of its latest update” can be checked. “This app is spying on people” can’t, at least not without more detail. Version numbers, dates, settings menu paths and links to public statements make a tip far more useful.
If your tip is sensitive
Ordinary email is not anonymous, and this site would rather say so plainly than overstate how protected you are.
- Email exposes metadata. Even when a message is encrypted in transit, the sender address, recipient, timestamps and often the sending server’s details are visible to the providers handling it.
- Email is not end-to-end encrypted by default. Your provider and the recipient’s provider can usually read the content.
- Send only what is needed. Leave out personal details that don’t matter to the story.
- Consider a separate email account that isn’t linked to your real name or main phone number.
- Don’t send material you aren’t entitled to share. SC Privacy Desk does not publish stolen data, leaked credentials, private communications, or anything that puts uninvolved people at risk.
The site will not publish your name or identify you as a source without your clear permission. If more private ways to make contact are added later, they will be listed here.
Asking a General Question
Questions from readers often turn into new guides or longer sections in existing ones, so one question can end up helping many people. The editors can’t promise a personal reply to every message, especially detailed troubleshooting requests. When many readers ask the same thing, the most useful answer is usually a proper write-up.
What the Editors Can’t Help With
To save you time, these requests fall outside what the site can do:
- Account recovery or support for other companies’ apps. SC Privacy Desk does not run any of the messaging apps, VPNs, browsers or wallets it covers, and it cannot access or reset your accounts. Contact the provider directly.
- Recovering lost or stolen crypto. The site cannot do this. Be very wary of anyone who contacts you saying they can, because “recovery” offers are a common follow-up scam aimed at people who have already been defrauded.
- Legal advice. The articles explain how privacy tools and practices work. They don’t replace a lawyer.
- Investigating individuals. The editors do not help identify, track or expose private people.
No Guest Posts, Sponsored Articles or Link Requests
SC Privacy Desk does not accept guest posts, sponsored articles or link requests. Pitching any of them will get no reply. In practice, that means the site does not accept:
- Guest posts or contributed articles, paid or unpaid
- Sponsored content of any kind
- Requests to add, swap or buy links in new or existing articles
- Payment for a place or higher ranking in a “best of” list
- Favorable coverage in exchange for free products, affiliate deals or anything else of value
PR pitches and product announcements are welcome as tips, and they are judged on news value like any other tip. Pitching does not guarantee coverage, and coverage cannot be bought.
How Your Message Is Handled
The editors read every message. Corrections and time-sensitive tips are dealt with first. If more information is needed, the reply goes to the address you wrote from. If you don’t hear back, your message was still read. The editors simply can’t answer everything one by one.
What you send is used only to reply to you and to improve the site’s coverage. Contact details are never sold, and nobody is added to a mailing list they didn’t sign up for.
The fastest way to get a mistake fixed is to write to contact@scatterchat.com with the article title, the exact claim and your source.