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Edward Snowden Story Continues

in Ex-Facebook

Once, on Facebook I wrote:

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2015/02/edward_snowden_citizenfour_the_former_contractor_sparked_a_movement_that.html"

In 1995 I downloaded my first copy of PGP.EXE and promptly started encrypting everything. Regrettably, I didn’t have anything worth saving (fan poetry about Gillian Anderson aside) much less encrypting. Now that Snowden has pointed out what’s actually happening hopefully:

  1. There will be other cypherpunks (from my 1995 guide to web lingo courtesy of “Mondo 2000”)
  2. The UX for encryption features won’t be so goddam awful