The Coder Who Encrypted Your Texts
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#2Thank god this man exists.
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#3I am thinking about why encryption was only used by the military in the first place, back when the infamous Bell monopoly on phone service existed. I think cracking encryption was one of the reasons computers was created in the first place, right?
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#4I am thinking about why encryption was only used by the military in the first place, back when the infamous Bell monopoly on phone service existed. I think cracking encryption was one of the reasons computers was created in the first place, right?
Who could listen to people's phone calls, and how many people were concerned about that happening?
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#5I get a lot of credit for the stuff that Open Whisper Systems does, but it's not all me by a long shot. Trevor Perrin, Frederic Jacobs, Christine Corbett, Tyler Reinhard, Lilia Kai, Jake McGinty, and Rhodey Orbits are the crew that really made all this work happen.
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#6I am thinking about why encryption was only used by the military in the first place, back when the infamous Bell monopoly on phone service existed. I think cracking encryption was one of the reasons computers was created in the first place, right?
Who could listen to people's phone calls, and how many people were concerned about that happening?
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#7I am thinking about why encryption was only used by the military in the first place, back when the infamous Bell monopoly on phone service existed. I think cracking encryption was one of the reasons computers was created in the first place, right?
Who could listen to people's phone calls, and how many people were concerned about that happening?
Breathing in on your phone has traditionally been the FBI's dominion, in any case.
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#8I get a lot of credit for the stuff that Open Whisper Systems does, but it's not all me by a long shot. Trevor Perrin, Frederic Jacobs, Christine Corbett, Tyler Reinhard, Lilia Kai, Jake McGinty, and Rhodey Orbits are the crew that really made all this work happen.
Well thank you, and everyone else, for the hard work!
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#9I am thinking about why encryption was only used by the military in the first place, back when the infamous Bell monopoly on phone service existed. I think cracking encryption was one of the reasons computers was created in the first place, right?
Who could listen to people's phone calls, and how many people were concerned about that happening?
Yea, I know this kind of control is not possible on the Internet.
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#10Thank god this man exists.
Yes, but isn't that in an of itself somewhat depressing.