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\item What is meant by the notion \emph{forward privacy}?
-\item Imagine you have an completely `innocent' email message,
- like birthday wishes to your grandmother? Why should you
- still encrypt this message and your grandmother take the
- effort to decrypt it?
+\item Imagine you have an completely `innocent' email message,
+ like birthday wishes to your grandmother? Why should you
+ still encrypt this message and your grandmother take the
+ effort to decrypt it?
+
+\item One part of achieving privacy (but not the only one) is
+ to properly encrypt your conversations on the Internet.
+ But this is fiercely resisted by some spy agencies.
+ These agencies (and some politicians for that
+ matter) argue that, for example, ISIL's recruiters
+ broadcast messages on, say, Twitter, and get people to
+ follow them. Then they move potential recruits to
+ Twitter Direct Messaging to evaluate if they are a
+ legitimate recruit. If yes, they move them to an
+ encrypted mobile-messaging app. The spy agencies argue
+ that although they can follow the conversations on
+ Twitter, they ``go dark'' on the encrypted message
+ app. To counter this ``going-dark problem'', the spy
+ agencies push for the implementation of back-doors in
+ iMessage and Facebook and Skype and everything else UK
+ or US-made, which they can use eavesdrop on
+ conversations without the conversants' knowledge or
+ consent.\medskip
+
+ What is the fallacy in the spy agencies going-dark
+ argument? (Hint: Think what would happen if the spy
+ agencies and certain politicians get their wish.)
+
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