If we only use encryption when we’re working with important data, then encryption signals that data’s importance.
The two forms of encryption you use most often-https URLs on your browser, and the handset-to-tower link for your cell phone calls-work so well because you don’t even know they’re there.Įncryption should be enabled for everything by default, not a feature you turn on only if you’re doing something you consider worth protecting. It protects it from malicious attackers, and it protects it from accidents.Įncryption works best if it’s ubiquitous and automatic. It protects it from competitors, neighbors, and family members. But encryption protects the rest of us as well. It’s easy to see how encryption protects journalists, human rights defenders, and political activists in authoritarian countries.
This protection is important for everyone. It protects our conversations, whether video, voice, or text. It protects our data when it’s sitting on our computers and in data centers, and it protects it when it’s being transmitted around the Internet.
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