27 June 2013 - encrypted internet
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Since the 1980’s I have advocated that all internet traffic should be
routinely encrypted. It wasn’t practical then, but that didn’t stop
me. Yet today, when it is practical, even my own website is not
served up encrypted: There is so little market demand that nobody has
bothered to make it easy. Privacy is a thing we only say we want; it’s
not worth the effort to reach out and take some.
clue:
My reasoning in the late 1980’s was that if we set a requirement,
then within five years everyone would have hardware encryption and
the cost would be negligible. Today no extra hardware is needed, but
the setup cost is still too high.
give me a clue so sweet and true
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