GoingDark
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Homeland Security's big encryption report wasn't fact-checked
If you watch Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Blacklist, or any other TV show with make-believe espionage, you probably hear the term "going dark" at least once a week. In the real world, "going dark" has become FBI shorthand for when baddies can't be spied on, or manage to vanish into thin internet, at the fault of encryption. And it's at the heart of an oft-virulent tug-of-war between entities such as the FBI, Apple, civil liberties groups, conspiracy theorists, and lawmakers.
