"What if everyone believed that law-abiding citizens should use postcards for their mail? If a nonconformist tried to assert his privacy by using an envelope, it would draw suspicion."
— Philip Zimmermann (Why I Wrote PGP, 1991)
#privacy #encryption #conformity
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2026-09-19 03:42:21 UTC
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2026-09-19 03:42:21 UTCEvent JSON
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