title: Can encryption save lives? Secure messaging and its infrastructure as <i>loci</i> of convergence between cyber warfare and conventional warfare: The case of Ukraine
abstract: The controversies surrounding the right to privacy of individuals in a hyperconnected world are longstanding debates, where particular emphasis is placed on encryption technologies, which encode information by converting its original representations into alternative forms that computers cannot decipher, thus ensuring the security of communications. These technologies are at the heart of a public controversy, in which privacy advocates a clash with claims that encryption is a threat to general se
journal: Media War & Conflict