The concept of the 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 has been around for thousands of years. For example, the scytale (skytale), a tool the Spartans created back in the 5th century b.c. to code and communicate secret intelligence during military campaigns. The carrier assigned to the mission would be given strict orders and coordinates on where to transport the scytale, which was a cylinder stick wrapped with a strip of parchment wound the Spartans made from sheep skin. The parchment wound would be carved with letters out of sync only the cipher can decode.
Can you imagine being a carrier back then and what great responsibility that position held to get the message to the recipient. Just think about it, you're commanded under the rule of Spartan King Leonidas during the time when he and 300 of his bravest warriors held off the far larger Persian army at Thermopylae. Given the fact that the king and his 300 were all killed in that battle. The sacrificing of their lives was the foundation the Spartans needed to claim victory. It bought the carrier's enough time to warn the rest of Greece to prepare and lastly defeat the Persians.
Encryption was as important back then just like it is today. It's a tool used to protect our most sensitive information that could destroy us and make our lives a living hell if retrieved into the wrong hands. The question I ask is, why isn't all social media sites using this technology to protect their subscribers? Hypothetically speaking, if encryption technology was used, could it possibly shut the back door to opportunist scamming making record profits?
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