Cheap, seamless, end-to-end encryption is still a game-changer to the social order. We protected messages before with envelopes and seals and basic ciphers that

Cheap, seamless, end-to-end encryption is still a game-changer to the social order. We protected messages before with envelopes and seals and basic ciphers that law enforcement could break if the need arose. It doesn't mean popular encryption is a bad thing. But it is a new thing, with impacts on the social that we don't understand or know how to compensate for. Like people getting "news" primarily through encrypted chats, creating a dream environment for Macedonian fake news authors who make money by stoking their racism. Who could have anticipated that?