Life Hacker posted instructions on encrypting your Mozilla Thunderbird emails using GPG. This tutorial will get you up and running quickly with Thunderbird. There’s a description of what PGP is which isn’t the best we’ve seen, so this guide might be better for more experienced encryption users who just want to get it working in Thunderbird.

http://lifehacker.com/software/top/how-to-encrypt-your-email-180878.php

Encryption is the way to protect yourself from bad guys on the Internet. And its easy. Most people use encryption without even knowing it.

Speak Secret will help show you how you can use encryption, what it’s good for, and point out some of the bad guys you are protecting yourself against.

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