
“Today, encryption is used in many areas beyond traditional communications — it’s what ensures that our online bank accounts are secure; it can prevent someone from snooping on your Internet traffic at a coffee shop; and, most importantly, it’s what we rely on to secure our personal devices, like smartphones and computers, which contain our entire lives. Government officials have started pushing for ‘backdoors,’ where an encryption system is intentionally weakened so that government can access whatever data it wants. But this idea is a nonstarter.”
Read more: https://fee.org/articles/your-right-to-use-encryption/
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