End-to-end encryption’s central role in modern self-defense
Encryption has never been more important for protection—and civil disobedience.
Lackey points out that there are parallels between encryption and firearms, as laid out in the Second Amendment, an observation that others have explored at times. The crucial element, though, is the connection to a right to self-defense, which the Supreme Court’s Second Amendment absolutists cite repeatedly as the law’s “central component.”
In fact, at one time useful encryption software was regulated as a munition.
I think this is an important point to make. Encryption is self-defense. It's a kind of self-defense that we should have a legal right to use.
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