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“In some ways, you can think of end-to-end encryption as honoring what the past looked like.” quote by Jan Koum — Download Open image

“In some ways, you can think of end-to-end encryption as honoring what the past looked like.”

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We need to think about encryption not as this sort of arcane, black art. It's a basic protection.

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There are two types of encryption: one that will prevent your sister from reading your diary and one that will prevent your government.

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Without encryption, you and I wouldn't be able to do our banking online. We wouldn't be able to buy things online, because your credit…

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Clipper took a relatively simple problem, encryption between two phones, and turned it into a much more complex problem, encryption between two phones but that can be decrypted by the government under certain conditions and, by making the problem that complicated, that made it very easy for subtle flaws to slip by unnoticed. I think it demonstrated that this problem…

The new iPhone encryption does not stop them from accessing copies of your pictures or whatever that are uploaded to, for example, Apple's cloud…

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I think it's interesting because the 1990s ended with the government pretty much giving up. There was a recognition that encryption was important. In…

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You don't need to be a spook to care about encryption. If you travel with your computer or keep it in a place where…

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Encryption would help prevent a lot of cyber attacks.

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[Eric]Goldman [a professor at Santa Clara University School of Law] says back in the 1990s, courts began to confront the question of whether software code is a form of speech. Goldman says the answer to that question came in a case called Bernstein v. U.S. Department of Justice. Student Daniel Bernstein who created an encryption software called Snuffle. He wanted…

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