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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

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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.

A private bookmark. Not a position, and never counted.

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  1. Matthew Green To be honest though, it doesn’t matter how secure something is if people aren’t actually using it. blog.cryptographyengineering.com

    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.
  2. Moxie Marlinspike By contrast, WhatsApp was able to introduce end-to-end encryption to over a billion users with a single software update. signal.org

    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.

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