As Stuart noted, the UK Home Secretary Amber Rudd has decided that she doesn’t need to understand encryption in order to pontificate about it and tech security in general. Rather controversially, this is almost a position I have some sympathy with, but with some crucial qualifications. For example, understanding the coding language details of the technology – the ‘how’ it works – may not be that important to most users, but why it is useful and the how, when and where of its real-life application in the world can be vital knowledge.

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