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How to Fix the Internet

How to Fix the Internet

Privacy's Defenders: No Privacy Without Encryption

Oct 13, 2026 · 33m

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Three decades ago, the U.S government treated encryption like a weapon, and it took some unlikely heroes to set it free: a grad student, a junior lawyer, and a fledgling digital rights group who sued the federal government.