PGP

This is actually one of the things that worries me. Encryption should be part of every person's email routine. For regular, old mail, I like to use envelopes for the simple reason that I don't want 's mail carrier to know about my . But at the moment, I can't use encryption for my email because no one I know uses it! Either people don't know about it, or they don't realize how...

If you really want that level of security, at the end of each day, physically remove the hard drive from your machine, crack open the HD case and pull the platters out, then run the platters through a grinder. Then put in a new drive for the next days work I am not a forensics expert, but I have worked on highly classified government projects and this was the only level of...

re and so multiple copies of your inbox are probably saved in various states and conditions in multiple parts of your hard drive. I'm not sure about Mac, but the PGP desktop system allows you to wipe your hard drive, but I am not wholy confident that it is truly 'unrecoverable' to a determined authority. ...

I used to use PGP in Windows. ...

Depends on what you call anonymous. First if you just mean http (what most people do) than TOR is the best choice. Many other 'so called anonymizer' just don't do what you believe they should. Just routing you around the world using 10 open proxys just make it worse. Ok, the destination page don't know who you are (if the proxy don't attach a X-Forwarded-For header what they...

Ah! I found what I needed. Kremlin words great! Looks like a neato application. PGP is not an option, it requires a service to be running.

Your cross platform compatibility requirement is the sticking point here. Your drive will have to be formatted FAT 32 on a PC so that both the Mac and PC can read and write to it. You will have to have two versions of the software, one for the Mac and another for the PC too because PC software will not run on a Mac and vice-versa. The only exception to this is Java...

and some sort of mail encryption. Hopefully this will be PGP or GnuPG based, which would be the most useful to me, though an Apple specific encryption that only works for other 10.4 Mail. ...

Definitely go for the encrypted disk image (dmg) file. With password protected stuffit files you can still see the contents if not open them (though you can stop this by making an archive file like a .tar then stuffing that). Encrypted dmg files use aes which is pretty secure, and can easily be made read/write disks, so once mounted they work just like a normal drive, whereas...

To be honest, yes you're paranoid :P j/k If you download and verify (with MD5 or GPG/PGP signatures) and it's from a reputable mirror (like apache.org for example) you can be relatively sure the app won't do anything malicious.