This wide-scale encryption push is long overdue. I've been waiting at least 20 years, ever since I started messing around with PGP, and when "export strength" versions of IE had 40bit encryption.
Somehow I didn't think it would play out like this though, with the collapse of democracy in the US, rouge three-letter agencies, Snowden's whistle blowing. Truth is stranger than fiction.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
