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]