One of the most significant technologies being targeted by the intelligence services is encryption. Online, encryption surrounds us, binds us, identifies us. It protects things like our credit card transactions and medical records, encoding them so that — unless you have the key — the data appears to be meaningless nonsense. Encryption is one of the elemental forces of the web, even though it goes unnoticed and unremarked by the billions of people that use it every day. But that doesn’t mean that the growth in the use of encryption isn’t controversial. For some, strong encryption is the cornerstone of security and privacy in any digital communications, whether that’s for … Continue reading Steve Ranger