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# How the NSA Tried to Backdoor Every Phone
- URL: https://www.privacyguides.org/videos/2025/07/03/clipper-chip/
- Published: 2025-07-03T18:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-09-10T02:07:49.000Z
- Description: Imagine a world where every conversation you had, every message you sent, every piece of data on your phone, was an open book to the government. In 1993, the NSA tried to do just that by inserting a tiny chip into everyone's phone.
- Author: Jordan Warne
- Tags: Videos, The History and Future of the Encryption Wars

This is the second part of our series on the Crypto Wars, a monumental moment in history that shaped digital privacy forever.

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