Chelsea Manning: ‘I’m Trying to Put the Cryptography Back in Crypto’
Along the same theme of promoting privacy, she argued that the internet’s basic infrastructure, which is more than a half-century old, is not suited to keeping information private. Privacy shouldn’t be something “slapped on top” of the existing internet, but something considered from the start, Manning added.
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