Why do we care about end-to-end encryption

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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?

Edit: Thanks for the answers, everyone!

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Anonymous 0 Comments

None of these explanations are ELI5.

End to end encryption means no one can see what you’re sending or receiving except the person at the other end. So no one can steal your information as it travels over the internet.

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