I see the issue as being that secure tools, such as GnuPGP, are still way too complicated and confusing for the average activist to use, thus people don't bother and use low-tech solutions to communicate for day-to-day protesting. If someone is organising something big and scary, they'd learn to use PGP and use it.
I see the issue as being that secure tools, such as GnuPGP, are still way too complicated and confusing for the average activist to use
Yes, I think that is very true. That's why I think two of the goals of a modern cypherpunk movement should be to: A. educate people on how to use encryption and related tools, and B. work on making tools that are simpler to use / easier to understand in the first place.
The advent of social networking can actually help make this stuff easier for normal people. The hardest part is managing a web of trust. If you can automate building your web of trust on top of existing social network connections, you can get strong crypto that's easy to use.
