Dear friends,
We are living in weird times and, for some of us, in weird places. I wanted to make sure that you could contact me without having to fear that a third party might be reading over your/my shoulder. So here is what I wanted to suggest to you: you can encrypt your email using a very powerful encryption technique called public key cryptography. Though it is possible that, say, the NSA or the Russian or Israeli equivalents have some super-dooper secret way of cracking these codes, it is rather unlikely (also - check out this non-technical FAQ).
In terms of what software to use, I recommend GnuPG which will run on any computer regardless of operating system. Its also free (as in no cost) and free (as in freedom, open source). For those of you who never had any exposure to encryption there might be a little, but not much, reading to do.
Here is my public key which you can use to write to me:
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Version: GnuPG v1.4.14 (GNU/Linux)
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-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Kind regards,