Security After the Death of Trust

An anonymous reader writes "Simon St. Laurent reviews the options in the wake of recent NSA revelations. 'Security has to reboot. What has passed for strong security until now is going to be considered only casual security going forward. As I put it last week, the damage that has become visible over the past few months means that we need to start planning for a computing world with minimal trust.'"

Re:most people don't want to bother

[ruir]

There are PGP plug-ins for Chrome and Mail in Mac, at least. Why not exchange PGP keys with the family? I have used the gpgtools in the past in my Mac, and it is much pretty easy to install and use then.

Re:Minimal Trust:

[lxs]

To twist an oft abused quote around:

If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear so go ahead and encrypt everything. Make the bastards work for every byte.