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After Washington Post rolls out HTTPS, its editorial board bemoans encryption debate
Opinion: The national daily displays staggering naivety and hypocrisy in just 530 words. By Zack Whittaker.
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Why appeasing governments over encryption will never work
David Cameron and the director of the FBI have both asked for ‘backdoors’ to be included in encryption software. By John Naughton. -
No one wants to protect your privacy
In 2013, Edward Snowden unleashed an earthquake, of which aftershocks are still being felt. The revelation that spy agencies in the US, UK, Canada and Australia were working to undermine online encryption and had built backdoors in to the internet services we all use was shocking...
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Because they're embedded in politics, not tech. Policymakers as well as their pals follow the crowd, instead of doing their own research. It's the equivalent of an emotionally distraught lemming (albeit, lemmings aren't suicidal as myth dictates) - taken by connotative sentences better fit for advertisements (after all, the government IS selling something) than really founded logic.