ABSTRACT
This concluding chapter ties together the previous chapters by engaging with the question of how the notion of publicness helps us to understand the politics of security. It highlights the ways in which the encryption discourse transcends ideas about sovereignty and national security, but at the same time cannot quite escape these notions. While the technological features of networked technology break through national frameworks, even dissidents who oppose state surveillance reaffirm distinctions such as the one between citizens and non-citizens. In sum, the encryption discourse reaffirms the existing political vocabulary while also operating outside established political categories.
