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Encryption people have to switch on protects almost nobody; what protects people is what a service turns on for everyone.

Drawn from what Matthew Green and Moxie Marlinspike said

What these subjects mean

design How things should be made and judged: what makes a design good, who should do the designing, and what an interface is for.

privacy Keeping what people say to each other between them: end-to-end encryption, backdoors, and what a company will shut down rather than break.

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What they actually said

  1. Matthew Green Cryptographer and professor at Johns Hopkins University To be honest though, it doesn’t matter how secure something is if people aren’t actually using it. Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app?blog.cryptographyengineering.com · 25 Aug 2024All 4 korrents from this piece
    To be honest though, it doesn’t matter how secure something is if people aren’t actually using it.
  2. Moxie Marlinspike Cryptographer who created the Signal Protocol and founded Signal By contrast, WhatsApp was able to introduce end-to-end encryption to over a billion users with a single software update. Reflections: The ecosystem is movingsignal.org · 10 May 2016All 3 korrents from this piece
    By contrast, WhatsApp was able to introduce end-to-end encryption to over a billion users with a single software update.

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