Be it Pig Latin or the infamous Enigma from WWII, encryption is the practice of converting plain text to jibberish. With the proper decryption rules — maybe your cereal box decoder ring — the jibberish is translated back into plain text for reading. How should we conceptualize security on the internet, then?
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