As Techdirt stories regularly report, governments around the world,
including those in the West, are greatly increasing their surveillance
of the Internet. Alongside a loss of the private sphere, this also
represents a clear danger to basic civil liberties. The good news is
that we already have the solution: encrypting communications makes it
very hard, if not entirely impossible, for others to eavesdrop on our
conversations. The bad news is that crypto is largely ignored by the
general public, partly because they don’t know about it, and partly
because even if they do, it seems too much trouble to implement.
On Techdirt.
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