How to beat GCHQ & NSA criminal spying - perhaps?

[TonyGosling]

If you're on PC, download Pidgin. If you're on Mac, I can give very specific instructions but you'll want to download Adium as a start.

[outsider]

N.S.A. Devises Radio Pathway Into Computers:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/15/us/nsa-effort-pries-open-computers-n ot-connected-to-internet.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&smid=tw-nytimesworld &_r=0

“What’s new here is the scale and the sophistication of the intelligence agency’s ability to get into computers and networks to which no one has ever had access before,” said James Andrew Lewis, the cybersecurity expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. “Some of these capabilities have been around for a while, but the combination of learning how to penetrate systems to insert software and learning how to do that using radio frequencies has given the U.S. a window it’s never had before.”

[acrobat74]

Use PGP encryption, coupled with a very long public key.

Several tutorials on the web.