Encryption's Importance For Digital Security And Online Privacy

This article talks about the need for encryption. Email, e-commerce, digital cash, the NSA's Echelon Project all lead to reasons why crypto is necessary. "... more and more of our private communications are being routed through electronic channels. . . . This article talks about the need for encryption. Email, e-commerce, digital cash, the NSA's Echelon Project all lead to reasons why crypto is necessary. "... more and more of our private communications are being routed through electronic channels. Channels like e-mail are simply too easy to intercept and scan for interesting keywords. This can be done routinely, automatically, and imperceptibly on a very large scale."

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