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Im looking for a secure way to communicate with long distance friends and colleagues. What are my options these days? Are there secure VOIPs chat channels or something compared to pgp (something less tiresome) ?

Standard email. Seriously. Nobody cares what you're saying. Not even, you know...

WRONG.

Here is something useful: http://www.prism-break.org/

2 way encryption carrier pigeons.

You could use SSH tunnelling. If you are using Linux, Pigdin also have an encryption feature to chat.

For VOIP/chat:
http://mumble.sourceforge.net/
https://jitsi.org/
http://icanblink.com/

Only chat:
https://github.com/prof7bit/TorChat
http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr/

But nothing is secure if one end of the communication is compromised.

OTR is quite good. Also look in Tox (under development).

OTR is quite good. GPG is tried and tested. Also look in Tox (under development). 

http://crypto.cat/ is cool, and it's pretty easy to use, which is what you're looking for. No VoIP though.

You can try (maybe):
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=254363.0

Tor phone is good option for VOIP.

http://torfone.org

U.S. Mail. Old school technology with old school legal protection.  8)

And old school ways to read your mail.

Govt tracks and maintains records of every parcel, its origin and destination.

How many pigeons do you need to actually make this work? You need pigeons to send key exchange prior to sending the message. Also pigeons to proof of receive the message. you might need at least 12 pigeons to make this work. Also you need to be able to check if the pigeons have been compromise, such as pigeons from another source which pretend to me the sender or receiver. Also this will be seasonal, you will not be able to transfer any messages during the pigeon hunting season.  ;D

True. But reading your mail is harder for the gov than say Internet traffic. The laws regarding mail are from a time when we had more protection from spying. I think it is still true that a letter is much more secure than an email. Similar to the difference between tapping a phone line vs. an Internet connection.  But who knows what the government is up to now. ::)

You forgot about the pigeons that check if the receiver is ready to receive. :D

So? Please tell me why I should care that my recommendation of a film to a friend resides as data on a harddrive in a basement in the middle of the desert, where upon nobody will ever read it.

Are you trolling? This thread is about secure ways, not about unsecure ways  :-\ No one cares about your film, but if you have to fight against industrial espionage then you need a secure way to communicate

What about using RetroShare? http://retroshare.sourceforge.net/

No, I am not trolling. If you're involved in work in a high profile business, then secure communication matters. But is that the case for those here seeking secure communication? I'd be curious to hear the motivations.

We are chatting about several new start up business ideas and looking to be more secure about it. Not exactly high profile but still not something we want to be snooped on.
Thanks for all the suggestions everyone! Btw the pigeon thing is funny but it is something I have been talking about for about 2 years. I live in the stick and I would be cool to have a few friends with flocks to send messages back and forth.

I like the encrypted pigeon idea. Unfortunately, the NSA has already developed a 12Ga. packet sniffer.  :-\

http://thehunterwiki.com/images/2/2d/Side-by-side-shotgun.jpg

So, if someone isn't involved in "high profile business" privacy doesn't matter?

Of course privacy matters. Have I indicated that it doesn't, or provided any methods that don't provide privacy if you're not a high profile business? By the way, don't you have a film to watch?

Im looking at your profile here at NSA HQ and because i dont like your views, i will disclose that you masturbate way too much to your wife, you also smoked some weed when you were young, are overweight and have back problems and this is going straight to your employer, who will have to pay a fortune in insurance in the future.
Good luck with your new life.

www.bitmessage.org

Exactly, even though it could be a good method for communication. But damn you will need lots of pigeons to send one message.  :D

Employer? Thats laughable. ;D I work for no one cali has been good to me bud

Use CB or Ham Radio

use one time pad to write mail and you are set.

Well the pigeons only fly one way, back to their cope. So you would have to exchange birds with the person you want to talk to. They would receive there birds back with messages from you and visa verse. Getting a phantom bird wont happen. As far as a key you would just make one with your partner prior to sending birds. We where thinking of doing this as more of a hobbie/shtf thing. You can also eat the birds and eggs unlike chickens doves mature in 9 weeks. You could also race from long distances. Hunting season would be a challenge though...
Im guessing a decent flock would be adound 30-90 birds.

The OS is just one layer. Switching to Linux is meaningless if you continue to use Facebook, Gmail, Yahoo, or really, ANY email or communications product that's not under your control (ie, any webmail product, any POP/IMAP mail account for which you don't directly own and manage the physical server (as opposed to running a virtualized instance elsewhere).

There is so much more at play here, that just blindly adopting Linux. It requires a rethinking of how you use the web to communicate and information.

You forgot about encryption and unless the law is different than in Canada, it requires a special license to do so on radio wave.

Haha, good point, and a long one. :)

Yi Yi awaits.

Encrypting messages to bitcoin addresses

Why communicate?
Shut up, enemies  are listening!