First, a Firefox plugin that makes GPG encryption in Gmail pain-free.
Then, better ideas (or at least, better wording) to counter the NSA from Brasil (I'm looking at you, hamara Bharath).
Lavabit and Silent Circles fallen heroes rise from the ashes (of their companies) to vow to do what everybody was too afraid to do: get rid of SMTP (apparently it just looks to be too bloody hard to most people).
And finally, Mozilla presents one of the prettiest things I've seen in open-source, Lightbeam.