Hello internet. We need to talk about locks, the physical and the digital.

In the physical world, locks aren't as good as you think they are.

The lock on your door stops worries not burglars, as two minutes of searching will reveal.

Spend more get more, but all fail with tools and time enough.

That physical locks are bad at locking mostly doesn't matter in normal life because burglars are constrained by the physical world.

A burglar must cruise the neighborhood spending their time to pick a target which makes a house that looks secure most of the way toward being secure.

Each target house can then only be attacked one at a time and comes with a risk of being physically caught in the act. But digital is different.

The constraints of the physical no longer apply.

On the internet, a digital lock must protect you from not just the neighborhood burglar, but all burglars everywhere.

For, on the internet, there's no such thing as distance.

Internet burglars don't crack digital locks personally.

They build burglar bots that try millions of combinations just to see what opens.

One lock down the street or a country full on the other side of the world, it's all the

same.

Actually, other side of the world is better.

A dude in East Whateverlandia stealing your identity has a near zero chance of getting caught.

This is bad news, but thanks to mathematics, digital locks can be made unbreakable.

This is encryption, a digital lock that without the password cannot be opened.

Burglar bots will plow through all the possibilities, but a secure password will take longer than the

heat death of the universe to guess.

No password, no entry, no matter how much of elite hacker your mom is.

Your private files stay private.

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