Times Pulls Article Blaming Encryption in Paris Terror Attack
Increasingly we're seeing 'encryption' discussed in mainstream media as a tool that can only be used for nefarious ends. Kind of like how they talked about "cookies" in the late 90s and early 00s.<p>It's unfortunate that there's no way [without a lot of money] to launch a campaign that highlights the fact that most sensitive online transactions rely on encryption - banking, purchasing, etc - to protect you from The Bad People who want to steal your critical financial information.<p>That  would also highlight that it's not just about keeping secrets from the government - in fact, that's the smallest fraction of it.