• Kajika@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    We always had. Many people wrote personal notes/letters in cryptic ways to prevent unwanted readers from deciphering it.

    Imagine a word where we would teach children not to make their own cypher because this is illegal. What a distopian society.

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      1 year ago

      Kind of, but written communication for everyone hasn’t even always been a thing. And cryptic letters perhaps aren’t reliable secrecy for ordinary people against trained spying. And anonymity… not without other layers to your communication. And all of that not for your ordinary postcard home: it’s something you do in special situations.

      I don’t think the new law would outlaw encrypting messages to your friend with PGP; nor having a second phone that you leave at the library for anonymity.

      • nix@midwest.social
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        1 year ago

        I think it’s fair to say that secure ways to communicate have largely scaled with our social circles. Without writing you can’t keep in touch at a distance anyway.