Usable Privacy Focused Communication

The holy grail for mass adoption of encrypted chat and email, but I’m not going to lecture about why this is important. Instead, I want to list some of the tools that are cropping up, list some pros and cons, and hopefully keep it up to date, and help a few people keep their personal lives, personal. EFF recently put up their Secure Messaging Scorecard, detailing various privacy elements of messengers. [Update; 2014-09-17 - Appear.in] [Update; 2014-09-18 - Bleep - Open Alpha] [Update; 2014-10-07 - Bleep patch, Telegram, FireChat] [Update; 2014-11-07 - EFF, surespot] ...

September 16, 2014 · (updated June 3, 2025) · 4 min · KenjiE20