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| Subject: Silicon Valley nerds seek revenge on NSA spies with coding Sun Nov 17, 2013 11:53 pm | |
| Google, Facebook and Yahoo are fighting back against the Nationa Security Agency by using harder-to-crack code to shield their networks and online customer data from unauthorised US spying.
The companies, burned by disclosures they’ve cooperated with US surveillance programs, are protecting user email and social-media posts with strengthened encryption that the US government says won’t be easily broken until 2030.
While the NSA may find ways around the barriers, the companies say they have to assure users their online connections are secure and data can’t be grabbed when transmitted over fiber-optic networks or digitally stored.
http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/security-it/silicon-valley-nerds-seek-revenge-on-nsa-spies-with-coding-20131117-hv3i7.html |
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