self-compilation.

Nice try Obama.

If you can't innovate, litigate.

is that Skype is known to be stable. That is certainly news to me.

Don't forget the Nobel prize.

Easier than encryption, and likely to scramble a text enough to avoid all filters. There's probably an app for it.

http://androidsecuritytest.com/features/logs-and-services/loggers/carrieriq/ The bottom of this page has a section about detection including an app to detect hidden UIs.

Goatse, don't click.

I have to agree. I find it much faster to open a terminal (with a keybind), type mv $FILE $NEWFILE, close the terminal with another keybind, and go back to my business. The less I use the mouse the faster I am. I don't use Windows, but just by looking at that cluttered UI (seriously its a file manager not a airplane control panel) I am put off.

It is still possible to use a text installer with the ubuntu minimal iso. It is only 19 MB I believe and it downloads the packages as you go.