My grandfather went most of his life without using or needing encryption, but now we live in a time where encryption is

Intertwined and almost all of our electronic communications

That shift to go from a world where everyday people didn't use encryption at all to a world where everyone uses it and doesn't even know it was a

Major transformation and there was nothing easy about it

There were powers at play that didn't want everyday people to encrypt their messages

But human rights and civil rights activists fought and fought and fought

You know the outcome of this story, but you may not know what it took for us to get here

So let's take a journey through time back to the 1990s and understand exactly what were to be known as

the crypto

or

This is dark net diaries true stories from the dark side of the internet. I'm Jack ReCiter

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Before we get started, I feel like I should say something

It's really hard for me to stay neutral on this topic because I'm such a privacy and security advocate

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