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How Does End-to-End Encryption Actually Work?

In 2013, a journalist in Hong Kong handed a stranger a laptop and asked him to read the files on it. The stranger was Glenn Greenwald, the files were Edward Snowden’s, and…

1,762 words 9 min read November 3, 2026