With the endless wave of NSA surveillance covering just about every type of communication, is there a system that someone could use to communicate securely without dropping all major applications?<p>For example: use encrypted personal VPN, encrypt all text in Gmail, etc.
In the medical informatics field, where privacy is a federal mandate with significant penalties attached, a lot of work is being done with trust-based secure email gateways to popular email platforms like gmail & yahoo. One company I know of, and am not affiliated with, is called iMedicor. Hoping this thread gets a lot of great responses, starting off with this small offering.
GnuPG for e-mail, OTR for IM, RedPhone for calls, TextSecure for, well, texts, SSL for everything. Tails is pretty good for annonymous browsing, supposedly adds "severe misery" to invigilation attempts.<p>The tools are there. Most people simply don't care.