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A reference to the Clipper Chip (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip) in “Memento Mori" (S4E14) from 1997.
The history of the Clipper Chip project is a fascinating story about the politics and history around strong #cryptography, #surveillance, and #privacy in the early 90s.
See the writing on this topic by @mattblaze (https://www.mattblaze.org/papers/escrow-acsac11.pdf) and @matthew_d_green (https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2015/07/20/a-history-of-backdoors/).
It is worth studying and for those who did not live through it.
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I’m fascinated by these services for a reason: this is the first time that major companies have taken a stand on adding IP privacy to their offerings. It’s as big a deal as the rise of end-to-end encryption or TLS, but everyone noticed those things. Nobody is talking about this.
Also, what makes IP hiding services feasible today is the economics of the thing. With peering agreements and the extremely low bandwidth costs big tech cos can access, using 50GB/mo of Private Relay probably costs less than $1 in ingress/egress charges. Apple charges $1-10.
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