End-to-End Encryption’s Central Role in Modern Self-Defense

Anti-encryption initiatives in the US are pitting law enforcement against technical protections. There is no confusion about the divide. She says that you can't be pro-choice and anti-encryption at the moment.

It can be seen through the lens of self-defense that encryption can be thought of in a different way.

Ryan Lackey says that secret communications are more valuable to resistance movements than small arms are. In a civil war scenario where some of your allies were in the opposition, you wouldn't need a single gun to win.

The Second Amendment states that there are parallels between firearms and ciphers. The central component of the law is the right to self-defense.

Beyond end-to-end encryption's ability to protect people from their government, police, and prosecutors, it also protects them from other people who want to hurt them. These defenses are the most powerful tools people have to protect their digital privacy. Gun advocates embrace their right to bear arms in a similar way.

It is logical and necessary for abortion providers, patients, or anyone who is pro-choice to embrace and defend encryption in general, but particularly so in light of the overturn of the Wade decision. When the Supreme Court reverses decades of precedent on a variety of issues at once, the most important generalizable conclusion is the benefits of access to end-to-end encryption.

There are laws that can change. Rules can be changed. Matthew Green says that the perfectly harmless conversation you had yesterday could hurt you in the future. We don't write down every conversation because we don't want to lose it. Digital communications have the same basic protections, that's why encryption is used.

Twenty-six states have either criminalized or will criminalize abortion. It is not known how those laws will be enforced. It is certain that millions of people who had nothing to hide before the Supreme Court's June 24 decision now face the possibility of being targeted and even imprisoned over their reproductive health. It will be essential for their self- defense. During a panel discussion at the 2016 RSA security conference in San Francisco, Marlinspike said that he thought it was possible to break the law.