I has been over a year since Edward Snowden first started releasing information on how the American secret service along with the "five eyes" (USA, Britain, New Zealand, Canada and Australia) have been monitoring email, and network traffic of millions of people across the world. Including harvesting private pictures of peoples instant messenger chats and maybe even paying private companies to deliberately reduce security of encryption technology.
In the post Snoden era it pays to secure some of our communications to ensure rouge elements are not snooping.
I have used PGP in the past, however it has always been a real pain to manage the keys and identities. Finally it looks as though there is a solution. A new service called Keybase.io enables you to link Social accounts and emails to a PGP key. Basically making sending secure encrypted communications simple. It is well worth signing up, I have associated my twitter and github accounts.
If anyone fancies an account I have some invitations, tweet me a private message to @cookiesworld.
