Startups are not the answer here. Privacy is not something you can buy as a service; Hushmail should have proved this beyond any doubt. Privacy protecting tec

Startups are not the answer here. Privacy is not something you can buy as a service; Hushmail should have proved this beyond any doubt. Privacy protecting technologies hamper typical startup revenue models based on targeted advertising, and would necessarily have to do so in order to provide the privacy we actually need in the face of the NSA. There is also the matter of the NSA maliciously sabotaging privacy protecting technologies. Really what we need is something like GnuPG, but easier to audit, easier to use, and with a standard that is not constrained by a need for backward compatibility (and which clearly follows constructions given by researchers, rather than using ad-hoc techniques).