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The complexity and presentation of encryption tools are the biggest things preventing them from being used by everyday people. I have a CS degree from a univer
by acabal 15y ago
The complexity and presentation of encryption tools are the biggest things preventing them from being used by everyday people. I have a CS degree from a university you've heard of, have been using Linux for much of my computing career, and am a professional programmer, and even I found the I2P front page and "gentle introduction" intimidating and obtuse. I spent 15 minutes reading it and I literally have no idea exactly what it does.
It's even more important to start encrypting everything when agencies like the NSA are building datacenters of never-before-seen size to store everyone's communications forever. Without getting too tin-foil-hat about things, it's not a big stretch for me to imagine--given what NSA is publicly doing today--a world where the government can pull up things you said in an offhand email two decades ago as evidence against you.
Encryption everywhere is so important now and will only get more important as governments wise up to technology. Someone needs to make it easy for people to do.