How Privacy Software Improved In 2013 Following The NSA Revelations

Since Edward Snowden's whistleblowing about NSA mass surveillance this summer, there has been a flurry of improvements in privacy software. Here are some of the year's most notable.

Given concerns about NSA mass surveillance, the general public has taken an interest in privacy as never before. In response, developers have worked on beefing up the security of their privacy tools as well as making them more user-friendly. The list below is by no means exhaustive, but it provides a glimpse into some of the most impressive and impactful privacy software of the year. When discussing privacy tools, it's always important to remember that none of these is a magic bullet--but they do provide significant improvements over the technologies we would normally use and that they replace or augment.

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