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Full disk encryption is too good, says US intelligence agency | ExtremeTech

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/105931-full-disk-encryption-is-too-good-says-us-intelligence-agency
It’s a tough situation: On the one hand, being able to crack full disk encryption is vital for the prosecution of white-collar criminals, child porn ringleaders, pharmaceutical spam barons, and the curtailment of terrorism — but on the other, it’s quite satisfying to know that, perhaps at long last, we have a way of escaping the ireful eye of Big Brother. Where do you stand on FDE?

Stunnel.org

http://www.stunnel.org/examples/generic_tunnel.html
"Lets say you want to use POP from your local machine to a remote machine, but don't have an SSL aware email client. What you can do is to have your machine talk to stunnel on the local machine, who then encrypts the packets and sends them another stunnel running on the remote machine, which forwards them in clear text to the POP server on that machine. "