Marketplace Tech for Tuesday, September 10, 2013
Last week we learned the NSA was trying to weaken encryption online. Now Google has announced it's trying to step up encryption on all its data. But one suggested solution for users trying to avoid surveillance is to operate on an entirely separate network. A so-called mesh network is made of phones and other devices that talk to each other without the help of an Internet service provider.
Last week we learned the NSA was trying to weaken encryption online. Now Google has announced it’s trying to step up encryption on all its data. But one suggested solution for users trying to avoid surveillance is to operate on an entirely separate network. A so-called mesh network is made of phones and other devices that talk to each other without the help of an Internet service provider.
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