Without making things too difficult here are a few ways to secure communication:
MAIL:
use pgp protocol (don't confuse it with PGP program). There is an opensource gpg tool available called gpg (gnupg). Educate yourself about the use of public/secret-key communication. Both parties must use it. It is not recommended to use the PGP program since there is reason to suspect there is a backdoor in it, at least the international version.
Use a client like Gaim (which supports msn/yahoo/jabber/icq and so on) and the OTR plugin which will encrypt your session everytime you talk to some one. The other party must also use the OTR plugin. Even if one session would ever be broken then it cannot be tied to other sessions since each session uses a new key-pair. Trillian has a dial-home option, it cannot be disabled and is closed source.
(try downloading software from the original sites, never from thirdparty sites)
tools:
Just use google for more info, those who care about their freedom might find it worth to bother !
MAIL:
use pgp protocol (don't confuse it with PGP program). There is an opensource gpg tool available called gpg (gnupg). Educate yourself about the use of public/secret-key communication. Both parties must use it. It is not recommended to use the PGP program since there is reason to suspect there is a backdoor in it, at least the international version.
Use a client like Gaim (which supports msn/yahoo/jabber/icq and so on) and the OTR plugin which will encrypt your session everytime you talk to some one. The other party must also use the OTR plugin. Even if one session would ever be broken then it cannot be tied to other sessions since each session uses a new key-pair. Trillian has a dial-home option, it cannot be disabled and is closed source.
(try downloading software from the original sites, never from thirdparty sites)
tools:
Just use google for more info, those who care about their freedom might find it worth to bother !
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