Niska is a privacy platform: a growing set of tools for sharing and working with your
data, built so that privacy is the default rather than a setting you have to go find. The
idea behind all of them is the same. Tell you exactly what happens to your data, and don't
promise anything we can't actually deliver.
What Niska is
- A set of tools that each do one thing well, with privacy as the default.
- Usable without an account. Sign up only if you want to keep track of what you've shared and save your settings.
- Encrypted where it matters. Files and pastes can be locked with a key that rides in your link and never gets stored on our side.
- Still growing. New tools get added over time, and each one is held to the same standard as the rest.
- Honest about its limits. Exactly what runs where, and what we can see, is on How it works.
What Niska isn't
- Not a social network. No profiles, no followers, no feed.
- Not an ad or analytics business. There's nothing to sell, because we don't collect it in the first place.
- Not a surveillance tool. We don't build a picture of who you are or what you do.
- Not a fix for everything. A privacy tool can't rescue a device that's already compromised, or un-share a link you sent to the wrong person.
How we handle trust
"No tracking" is easy to write on a page and hard to prove. So instead of asking you to
take our word for it, we wrote How it works. It lays out what
runs in your browser, what our servers see, and what we log and redact, and you can check
most of it yourself in your browser's network tab.
The source is closed for now, so that page and what you can see with your own eyes are the
trust story for the moment, with a third-party audit planned later on.
Where the limits are
Niska is privacy-first, but it isn't an anonymity network, and the difference matters.
Here is the honest version.
- We protect content you encrypt. Your key rides in your link and we never store it, so the moment your request is done we can't open it again.
- We protect your identity from profiling. No trackers, no ad networks, no fingerprinting.
- We protect your secrets from our logs. Keys and passwords are redacted before anything is written.
- We can't protect a device that's already compromised, or a link you chose to share with the wrong person.
- We can still see your IP, because we need it to run the service and stop abuse. If you need real anonymity, use Tor and encrypt your content yourself, so there is nothing on our side worth handing over.
The technical detail is on How it works.
Common questions are answered in the FAQ.