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Re:Message encryption a 'problem' – UK home secretary by MarcScott on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @01:41PM (#14903293)
I tried to be as non-technical as possible when I wrote this as an introduction to what cryptography is all about.

http://coding2learn.org/blog/2017/06/11/dear-theresa/

The problem is that the subject is inherently complex, and abstractions and analogies can only go so far.

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Re:Message encryption a 'problem' – UK home secretary by dm319 on Thursday August 03, 2017 @10:53AM (#14920078)
That's pretty good, but for the people I'm thinking of, including Theresa May, that's about 10X too long. I like the last 5 points. It reminded me of Cory Doctorow's 'and now you've got two problems'.

Sadly we need something that is not much more than a paragraph. Maybe something that would fit in a tweet. Something that competes with 'people want to blow you up, surrender your privacy so we can catch them'.

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