Actually it has been revealed that encrypting only puts a flag of suspicion on your messages. NSA has some of the best encryption geeks in the world, so they'll probably break it.
The only way encrypting would become effective is if every user in the world started to do it all at once. But that would require coordination that would be neigh impossible.
So my recommendation would be not to do it. If they want to know you're having cybersex with someone playing as an animal, well there isn't anything illegal about that, however if the user is doing as you suggest and keeping their furry self hidden from the world if a government organization wanted to blackmail you by threatening to reveal that hidden aspect of you, they could. I can only really see them doing that though if you became a political inconvenience for them.
We're living in a world now where it seems, like it or not, we have to be prepared to have the most socially inconvenient things revealed about us at any moment. So if you keep your furry and IRL identity separate then that is fine, I've been quite successful and content doing that on my own. (I myself have found it useful for my OWN information gathering purposes, knowing where the people around me stand on the furry culture in a raw/unbiased manner. People tend to be nicer or meaner to people they KNOW are something depending on these feelings). However, be aware that you need to prepare your case, if someone does find out, don't treat it like a big deal and they will probably not. Prepare yourself mentally for that event, because it's going to happen. If it doesn't in your life, it'll probably happen after your death.
More often then not it will be your friends who reveal who you are unknowingly. If you have local meets and your family is also local if your group goes out anywhere there is always the risk of bumping into a family member or friend of the family while you're hanging out with those people wearing tails.
I currently KNOW where my greatest vulnerability is to my IRL identity is, but if it happens at this point, it happens. I prepared myself by doing nothing that I regret online. My fursona isn't in risque pictures, my words have been probably more professional than even most non-furry internet users.
I am fortunate though to have a family member who also engages in the fandom, so even though I'm underground I do have a IRL contact that I can trust and has a good head on their shoulders.
And if simply being a furry is your MOST socially inconvenient aspect of yourself you've done online, then well, that's not something to be ashamed of.
Actually it has been revealed that encrypting only puts a flag of suspicion on your messages. NSA has some of the best encryption geeks in the world, so they'll probably break it.
The only way encrypting would become effective is if every user in the world started to do it all at once. But that would require coordination that would be neigh impossible.
So my recommendation would be not to do it. If they want to know you're having cybersex with someone playing as an animal, well there isn't anything illegal about that, however if the user is doing as you suggest and keeping their furry self hidden from the world if a government organization wanted to blackmail you by threatening to reveal that hidden aspect of you, they could. I can only really see them doing that though if you became a political inconvenience for them.
We're living in a world now where it seems, like it or not, we have to be prepared to have the most socially inconvenient things revealed about us at any moment. So if you keep your furry and IRL identity separate then that is fine, I've been quite successful and content doing that on my own. (I myself have found it useful for my OWN information gathering purposes, knowing where the people around me stand on the furry culture in a raw/unbiased manner. People tend to be nicer or meaner to people they KNOW are something depending on these feelings). However, be aware that you need to prepare your case, if someone does find out, don't treat it like a big deal and they will probably not. Prepare yourself mentally for that event, because it's going to happen. If it doesn't in your life, it'll probably happen after your death.
More often then not it will be your friends who reveal who you are unknowingly. If you have local meets and your family is also local if your group goes out anywhere there is always the risk of bumping into a family member or friend of the family while you're hanging out with those people wearing tails.
I currently KNOW where my greatest vulnerability is to my IRL identity is, but if it happens at this point, it happens. I prepared myself by doing nothing that I regret online. My fursona isn't in risque pictures, my words have been probably more professional than even most non-furry internet users.
I am fortunate though to have a family member who also engages in the fandom, so even though I'm underground I do have a IRL contact that I can trust and has a good head on their shoulders.
And if simply being a furry is your MOST socially inconvenient aspect of yourself you've done online, then well, that's not something to be ashamed of.