Why End-to-End Encryption Apps Are Booming Post-Snowden Revelations 🔒

In the aftermath of Edward J. Snowden’s revelations about potential mass surveillance, there has been a sharp increase in the use of these “end to end” encryption apps, which render even the company<br />that owns the app or phone essentially unable to read or hear the communications between the two “end” users.<br />This time around, for example, there are widespread claims on social media that these leaked documents show that it was the C. I.A.<br />Since it doesn’t have a means of easy mass surveillance of such apps, the C. I.A.<br />The media, to its credit, eventually sorts things out — as it has belatedly started to do with the supposed C. I.A.<br />An accurate tweet accompanying the cache would have said something like, “If the C. I.A.