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It is pretty cool how easy the internet and personal computers have made it to communicate with encryption (piefed.social)
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The internet is mostly known for being a nightmare for your privacy, but I also think there is another side to that coin. I mean, it is insanely easy (and common) these days to do all your internet communication with messengers, that have pretty much unbreakable encryption (Signal). That was not possible for the average person before computers and the internet. The government could easily read all you private letters.

Also, all our web traffic is fully encrypted with https (although that is more of a security than a privacy thing) and most modern phones automatically do full disk encryption for your files. It is also trivialilly easy to use a proper end to end encrypted cloud storage (proton, tuta etc.) or even use unsafe cloud storage like Google Drive as long as you encrypt your files locally before uploading.

I know, the internet is still a net negative for most peoples privacy, but it is pretty cool how far we've come with encryption.

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[-] Dryad@lemmy.world 23 points 2 days ago

You’ve made some excellent points highlighting how common and needed encryption is. Which also highlights how important it is to defend the right to encryption from government overreach.

A key under the mat for the cops is a key under the mat for the neredowells as well. Which also begs the question, how comfortable are with the cops showing up in your living room uninvited?

[-] DeckPacker@piefed.social 6 points 2 days ago

You are either AI or talk like you are

[-] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 1 points 1 day ago

Which part made you say that? (genuine question, their comment just seems well written to me, is all)

[-] DeckPacker@piefed.social 2 points 23 hours ago

Mainly the first part, especially the "You've made some excellent point highlighting... " just sounds very off to me.

[-] Dryad@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago

Oh dear… *commences sycophancy routine

[-] DeckPacker@piefed.social 19 points 2 days ago

I guess, I was wrong, sorry

[-] Dryad@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

No worries, better to be cautious and not trust by default in the current climate.

[-] KryptoSynth@ani.social 0 points 2 days ago

happens to some of us

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