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The Ethics (or not) of Massive Government Surveillance

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Encryption is the process of encoding and decoding messages so that only authorized people can view the content of the message. Cryptography in and of itself is not new to the digital age; cryptography has been recorded as far back as the Roman Empire (see Caesar Cipher). The Caesar cipher replaces each letter with a fixed number of places further alphabet. In this example is a shift of three causes the B to translate to the E in the cipher. However, cryptography before the digital age was primitive, because encryption schemes had to be easy enough for a human to decode. Computers have allowed the use of much more complex encryption schemes because we can rely on the computers to do the extremely tough number-crunching required to decode encrypted messages. A "backdoor" in computing is a method of bypassing the normal method of authentication. Backdoors are usually inserted into a program or algorithm before it is distributed widely. They are often hidden in part of the design of the

The Ethics (or not) of Massive Government Surveillance Encryption Backdoors Brief Rundown of Technology: Encryption is the process of encoding and decoding messages so that only authorized people can view the content of the message. Cryptography in and of itself is not new to the digital age; cryptography has been recorded as far back as the Roman Empire (see Caesar Cipher). The Caesar cipher replaces each letter with a fixed number of places further alphabet. In this example is a shift of three causes the B to translate to the E in the cipher. However, cryptography before the digital age was

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