# Privacy Highlight: We Almost Didn't Get Encryption

- Channel: [Ethereum Denver](https://streameth.org/ethereum-denver)
- Date: 2023-10-07
- Duration: 21:12
- Watch: https://streameth.org/watch/yt-iZX40TFq8Ts
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZX40TFq8Ts

## Description

A history of attempts to encroach on the individual's privacy, including the Clipper Chip in the 1990s. How the Cypherpunks & other actors saved us from being backdoored, among other examples

Dean Tribble
Ryan Lackey
David Campbell
Alien / Sherri Davidoff
Michelle Lai