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Today’s internet relies on encryption. But 30 years ago, the U.S government treated encryption like a weapon - until a grad student, a junior lawyer, and a fledgling digital rights group sued to fix that. Listen to Episode 2 of our "Privacy’s Defenders" podcast: “No Privacy Without Encryption.”

eff.orgPrivacy's Defenders Podcast: No Privacy Without EncryptionThree decades ago, the U.S government treated encryption like a weapon, and it took some unlikely heroes to set it free: a grad student, a junior lawyer, and a fledgling digital rights group who sued ...

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eff.orgPrivacy's DefenderFormer EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn's Journey Inside the Privacy Battles That Shaped Today's InternetFormer EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn has devoted her life to the fight for digital rights....

Pyroclastics

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The grand irony of it all was the NSA encryption Gore wanted to protect was weak and breakable. By denying its export, he forced foreign development that produced better, more efficient encryption that is extremely hard to break. And over which the US had no control except to ban it in the US.

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