🛡 Security: how to protect yourself
The five things that really make a difference – doable without technical knowledge.
What it does for you
- You understand how accounts are actually hacked in practice – and how to defend yourself.
- You know which DasDing feature helps against which danger.
- Five steps, a few minutes each, instead of a computer science degree.
Who it is for: Everyone.
A neighbour gets an e-mail: “Your account has been locked, please sign in here.” She clicks and enters her password – the same one she also uses for her e-mail account and the online shop. The next day someone has gone shopping in her name. Most break-ins happen like this: not through brilliant hackers, but through reused, guessable or intercepted passwords.
1. A long password for DasDing
Long passwords are hard to guess, even for computers that make billions of attempts per second. A whole sentence like “My dog eats 3 apples a day!” is easier to remember and much more secure than “P@ssw0rd1”. Change it: Signing in & password.
2. Turn on two-factor sign-in
Even if someone knows your password, they can't get in without your phone. This is the most effective single protection there is. Instructions: Two-factor sign-in.
3. A separate password for every service
If an online shop is hacked, the attackers automatically try the same combination of e-mail and password at hundreds of other services. With the password vault, every service gets its own random password, and you only remember one. Instructions: Password vault.
4. Encrypt confidential documents
Tax documents, contracts and ID copies belong in an encrypted container. Then they are unreadable even if the laptop is stolen. Instructions: Encrypted containers.
5. Have backups
A broken computer, a virus that encrypts files (so-called ransomware), or simply coffee over the keyboard: without a backup, years of photos and documents are gone. Instructions: Back up folders automatically.
How to recognise fraud
- Nobody from DasDing ever asks for your password, master password or a two-factor code. Anyone who does is a fraudster.
- Only download DasDing from download.dasding.tech.
- Only share your screen with people you know.
- Sign out on other people's computers (⏻ top right, tick “Delete saved sign-in data”).
- Install updates – DasDing tells you itself when there is a new version.
Safe
your vault and your containers are encrypted with your master password. That's why nobody at our end can open them either – and why nobody can help you if you forget your master password. That is not a flaw, it is exactly the protection.
This guide is also available in the program under 📖 Guides – with jump links to the other guides.