Encryption & the Law

Paul Rosenzweig, Professorial Lecturer in Law at the George Washington University, explains what encryption is and the legal issues that arise from its use.

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[Cxrruptwd]

Why aren't there more people creating this cool content?!

[muntee]

What if the private key does not exist on a computer at all. What if the encryption/decryption is all done offline by another system?

[MrBenMcLean]

This is great! Why aren't conservative groups like the Heritage Foundation on board with basic facts about technology and the Internet like this?

[CrashOut]

OMG bro I got to roast you!!!
Where are your eyebrows???

Did you encrypted them and YouTube is buffering trying to decrypt it or is it just lost somewhere in google. Man I clicked search and it spits out "error 404 eyebrows not found"?

In all seriousness, there's going to be a point where we just encrypt everything.

[theprocrastinationnation]

*sniff sniff* Someone smell some extreme bias in here?