{"id":26555,"date":"2017-04-01T15:18:47","date_gmt":"2017-04-01T20:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=26555"},"modified":"2017-04-01T15:18:47","modified_gmt":"2017-04-01T20:18:47","slug":"nytimes-sunday-review-trump-is-president-now-encrypt-your-email","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=26555","title":{"rendered":"NYTimes Sunday Review: Trump Is President. Now Encrypt Your Email."},"content":{"rendered":"

NYTimes Sunday Review: Trump Is President. Now Encrypt Your Email.<\/a> by Max Read:
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In the weeks after Donald J. Trump won the election, a schism threatened to break my group of friends in two. Not a political argument brought about by the president-elect, or a philosophical fight over the future of the country, but a question of which app we should be using to chat: GroupMe or Signal?<\/p>\n

On the one hand, GroupMe, a popular group-messaging app, had cartoons we could add to our conversations, and we\u2019d been using it for years. On the other, Signal offered secure, encrypted communication, and we were facing the first term of a president who has said Edward J. Snowden should be executed, demanded a boycott of Apple when the company refused to crack the iPhone of the San Bernardino, Calif., gunman for the F.B.I., and openly admired the \u201cpower\u201d of the hackers who leaked emails from the Democratic National Committee. Sure, we were mostly plotting bars to meet at, not targets for terrorist attacks. But given the incoming administration\u2019s professed attitude, a little extra security couldn\u2019t hurt. Then again: GroupMe\u2019s cartoons were really fun.<\/p>\n

We weren\u2019t the only people asking ourselves this kind of question. In the months since the hacking of the Democrats and Mr. Trump\u2019s election, information security has become a concern to a much larger group of people than the professionals, activists, journalists and paranoiacs you\u2019d expect. …<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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