I've found the news report, that I mentioned, a few minutes after I made my
first post - and, I've left it here, above, while you were writing your
answer... :)
The web page has even a video demonstrating the functionality in question.
As for my choices, in terms of privacy...
I trust the "GNU Privacy Guard" software, and that's it.
But, because most people I correspond with don't know how (/don't care) to
use it, I have yet to start using it... (But I plan to start to, with someone
who knows how to use it, in the near future...)
I've heard of another communications software that, supposedly, protects
one's privacy -
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/fundraising-campaign-privacy-friendly-mail-tlsopengpgetc-software#comment-42196
- but, because there's no way of knowing if, by using it on Windows (that is
the only OS in which I know that it runs), I'm also having my key strokes
being recorded - like in the case of Android - I don't trust such a program.
(Or, better saying, I don't trust the way that it is run...) So, I don't use
it.
As for the rest...
I simply assume that everything that I do on-line is being recorded...
(Or... Knowing, for a fact, that I'm under surveillance, because of what I
write about, on the Internet, I know that everything that I do on-line is
being recorded, and take that into consideration...)
Concerning encrypted communications, for daily use...
Although I use the Internet a lot, I don't feel the need to use it away from
home. So, I don't have to worry about encrypting communications on Internet
cafés, and such.
The worst people that could have access to my communications - i.e. the
people who run the governments and corporations that are part of secret
societies involved in pedophile rings, drug trafficking networks, terrorist
groups financing, and other horrible things - I know, for a fact, that are
already surveilling me... So, to worry about some guy, at a telecom company,
that doesn't have anything better to do, than to take a peek at somebody
else's private life, is even a laughable idea to me...
But, still, because I don't like to have my e-mail box checked by someone
else, every time they want to, without a warrant
(http://cnsnews.com/news/article/13753-gov-t-requests-google-e-mail-data-2012-most-without-warrant),
I chose to have a mail box hosted in Russian territory.
(https://trisquel.info/en/forum/ixquickstartpage-launching-new-privacy-aware-email-service#comment-36249)
Since, knowing (from experience) how easily activist movements can be
infiltrated and deceived, I don't trust any "riseup.net" and similar
organizations, run by people that I don't know, that /claim/ to be this and
that.
(https://trisquel.info/en/forum/fundraising-campaign-privacy-friendly-mail-tlsopengpgetc-software#comment-42177)
That's the situation that I know I'm in...
As for /real/ solutions...
I don't think they lie in the domain of computers, or software.
(https://trisquel.info/en/forum/how-use-tor-trisquel#comment-26804)
This is a *political* problem, that requires a *political* solution.
And, I also don't want a society were one is not able to catch, and close
down, pedophile rings and such. (Like networks of the type of Freenet, I2P,
and such, make it possible to.)
What I think all of us should do, is to get rid of abusive types of
governments, so that we can freely communicate and post content on-line,
without having to worry about a Big Brother spying on everyone.
To "splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds",
like the late Kennedy said.
(Or, even better - I think - would be to get rid of governments, at all, and
substitute them for non-hierarchical and transparent federations, where
everyone is accountable, all the time, for what they do, and in which no one
is in a position to abuse anyone else.)
The problem is that there doesn't seem to be enough people who - for now, at
least - want to fight for such type of alternative societies...
