Interesting physical analogy but difference is scale. Scale changes stakes. No encryption=can't function online.https://twitter.com/tedlieu/status/701465947526172672 …
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Historical, transformative nature of encryption isn't that it keeps things private—like a safe—but that it's mundane to everything online.
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We've always had shredders, safes, etc. but it was hard and expensive to keep things [most] one-way readable, no unwanted access.
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Now a mundane technology simultaneously allows governments access to gabazillion more things, but also makes some things ~100% inaccessible.
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Huge deal, both ways, both the glut of information available to governments that is now searchable, and a sliver of information that is not.
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