Encryption

In My Humble Opinion
1

I had CNN on earlier today, and they kept going on about how U.S. Intelligence agencies can’t decrypt messages on phones and whatnot. They mentioned it so often I thought ‘The lady doth protest too much, methinks.’

AFAIK, they’re not lying. But if I were a spy, I wouldn’t tell the opposition, ‘Hey, guess what? I can read what you wrote!’ (Which may be why Coventry wasn’t warned about the 11/14/1940 raid.)

2

I can’t see what you did there.

3

They’ve been going for so long (years) about how tech companies should build backdoors and points of failure in their software to let the authorities look in that I, too, am :dubious: about how big a threat this is or if it is indeed a huge reverse-psych con.