Preface
If you don’t have encryption on at least your email, you might as well send the information on a postcard for the world to see. If you don’t like the idea of the content of your email being put onto a postcard then you need to set up PGP as today’s best solution. Is it amazingly easy? No. Like anything it takes a little time to get started. Is it worth it? How do you feel when you wear a seat belt in a car versus when you don’t? PGP is a seat belt for your privacy and I love the feeling of knowing that even if I accidentally send the email to the wrong person, only my intended PGP-enabled recipient can read it, not the whole world. All lawyers, real estate agents, doctors, and such professions should honour their duty of privacy by using it immediately, or at least strongly recommending it to their clients/recipients. But don’t wait for them to do the right thing when you can start right now for free.
Video how PGP works
Good video showing how PGP encryption works to secure your email data
Tutorial about how to set up your computer:
For more detailed information and original set up tutorial, click original source
Tutorial for desktop (Ubuntu comes with Thunderbird by default):
Tutorial for Webmail
Mobile PGP Solutions
Coming soon!
There are some interesting related services appearing to help people who are new to this stuff:
https://keybase.io/
https://protonmail.ch/
wow. cool links. Keybase is something very interesting… all of this would be awesome in a quick video for the busy lazy guy… how does protonmail compare with startmail.com? I like the woman behind startmail… she’s solid. Have you compared the two?