In the last few years phones and apps have been touting themselves as better than other phones/services because their messaging has end-to-end encryption, or some other variant of secure messaging. Why do we care?
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Simple, because you don’t want anyone except for the person you intend the “message” to to be able to read it.
Sure, you probably don’t care if someone else is able to read most of your messages, but some of them you might and it’s just easier to encrypt all of your messages as opposed to having the users select to encrypt individual messages, because what if they forget? There is no downside from the user’s point of view to encrypting the message, so there is no reason to not do it by default.
Note: Message in this context means any exchange of information/communication.
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