Yeah that's a reasonable critique, I was trying to keep it approachable for non-technical viewers, maybe I could have gone into that a bit more but it felt largely out of scope for the video.

https://www.privacyguides.org/videos/2025/05/08/when-code-became-a-weapon/

To establish our understanding of why privacy and encryption are so important we need to learn from the events of history, this week we’re diving into the crypto wars. More specifically the US government’s attempts to restrict strong encryption being exported internationally.

I hope you all enjoy the video and also learn something!

Let us know what you think of this different style of video, we have some more similar videos lined up!