Unless you're willing to learn some new and sometimes complicated software, it's probably time to just give up on the notion of privacy from the federal government. Where the National Security Agency is involved, privacy doesn't exist — or at least won't for long.
"The [NSA] has circumvented or cracked much of the encryption that guards global commerce and banking systems, protects sensitive data like trade secrets and medical records, and automatically secures basic Internet communications, including the emails, Web searches, Internet chats and phone calls of millions of Americans and others around the world," The New York Times reports.
Documents leaked to the media leave it impossible to say with certainty which systems are compromised. But it's now clear that not only does the NSA know how to get through many popular forms of encryption, but that it lobbies to keep those systems weak enough for it to hack into and discourages the use of more secure methods.
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