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End-to-end encryption is my favorite technology.
- Prevents those with power from spying on everyone and ossifying their power
- Protects communications from smaller scale malicious actors
Such an important tech. Hopefully soon we can get quantum-secure cryptographic algorithms in wide use.
I wonder what things are going to be like when previously hoarded encrypted data begins to be decrypted en mass