Every time you use encryption, you’re protecting someone who needs to use it to stay alive.

If we only use encryption when we’re working with important data, then encryption signals that data’s importance. If only dissidents use encryption in a country, that country’s authorities have an easy way of identifying them. But if everyone uses it all of the time, encryption ceases to be a signal. No one can distinguish simple… Continue reading Every time you use encryption, you’re protecting someone who needs to use it to stay alive.