The Trojan Horse of Privacy

The Trojan Horse of Privacy
Back in the early 1990s, a rag-tag group of legendary cryptographers battled Big Government’s attempts to cripple strong cryptography with everything from key escrow to the infamous clipper chip, which would have given law enforcement a back door to decrypt voice and text messages. The cypherpunks fought back against weak encryption and the U.S. government hijacking everyone’s public keys so it could spy on people with ease. The rebels won, beating back the clipper chip and crushing attempts to subvert major encryption standards.They won the battle but they lost the war.Dan Jeffries is an author, futurist, systems architect and thinker.…