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encryption is (mostly) not magic

Posted: Wednesday, December 21st, 2011 @ 3:17 pm in crypto, mozilla, privacy, security, web | 12 Comments »

A few months ago, Sony’s Playstation Network got hacked. Millions of accounts were breached, leaking physical addresses and passwords. Sony admitted that their data was “not encrypted.” Around the same time, researchers discovered that Dropbox stores user files “unencrypted.” Dozens (hundreds?) closed their accounts in protest. They’re my confidential files, they cried, why couldn’t you [...]