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Steven Levy nails it, again – why are we fighting for the right to privacy again?

Steven Levy has an excellent article about the current attempt to squash privacy and encryption by the FBI and why this all sounds so familiar, it’s because we already had this battle before, twice, in the 1990s… and both times wisdom prevailed. Will it prevail again?

https://backchannel.com/why-are-we-fighting-the-crypto-wars-again-b5310a423295

Remember the dreaded “Clipper” chip and everyone worrying about Net Nannies with the Gores at the helm? Hell, our entire electronic commerce system only works because of public key cryptography. If agencies are allowed back doors into that, then there ultimately is no way to trust electronic financial transactions at all.

Excellent reading, and thank you Apple for fighting the good fight for the rest of us.

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