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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Imagine you’re sending a super secret message to your buddy. You don’t want anyone else to read it, right? End-to-end encryption is like putting that message in a super special lockbox that only your buddy has the key to. So even if someone tries to sneak a peek, they can’t figure out what’s inside. That’s why we’re all excited about it for our messages – it’s like a secret code that keeps our stuff safe!
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