> Honestly, encrypted communications for the average person, being a relatively recent development, is much weirder. Not at all. For nearly all of human histor

> Honestly, encrypted communications for the average person, being a relatively recent development, is much weirder. Not at all. For nearly all of human history, privacy of communication was the norm with a few understood exceptions. If you had a conversation with someone it was just about always private forever. Unless the location was bugged with microphones, but that wouldn't be the case unless you were already under investigation. Most importantly, it wasn't possible to go back in time and bug the room for a conversation last week. Phone lines could be tapped but not all phone lines were recorded all the time, wasn't yet technically possible. So again you'd be private unless already under investigation and the tap couldn't happen retroactively. It's only now that reality has changed dramatically and all messaged are recorded (e.g. here by facebook) and are available retroactively and across the whole population (i.e. they don't need to target someone specific, just run a query for phrases and see who pops up).