Since the story broke last week, I've been thinking about a PKI-based message program (think email, but not actually email) built on top of Freenet, to remove the need of any central server. I think I have a reasonable idea of how it would work, but I'm not convinced it would help anything.

Tools already exist to securely send messages. Someone who truly cares about their security will learn how to use them. People who don't care about security won't bother. Hell, people already put all of their information on the Internet for effectively everybody to view.

What would an easy-to-use, secure crypto app help with? I don't know.