The UK’s Home Office, Rolling Stone reports, is ramping up for a new offensive against end-to-end encryption, starting with a $750,000 payment to advertising agency M&C Saatchi for a publicity campaign aimed at scaring the bejabbers out of parents. “Patriotism,” Samuel Johnson said in 1775, “is the last refuge of a scoundrel.” These days, it More

The post “For the Children”: The Last Refuge of Anti-Encryption Scoundrels appeared first on CounterPunch.org.

This post was originally published on CounterPunch.org.