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Article

20 Nov 2013

Author:
Alina Selyukh, Reuters

Google's Schmidt predicts end of censorship within a decade

Google Inc Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt has a bold prediction: Censorship around the world could end in a decade, and better use of encryption will help people overcome government surveillance…[T]he executive…made a pitch for ending censorship in China and other countries with restricted freedom of speech by connecting everyone to the Internet and protecting their communication from spying…"The solution to government surveillance is to encrypt everyone," Schmidt said…referring to the process of encoding data to secure it. He acknowledged that encryption can be broken and said Snowden's revelations showed the NSA has indeed done it, but added: "With sufficiently long keys and changing the keys all the time, it turns out it's very, very difficult for the interloper of any kind to go in and do that." Google has recently increased the length and complexity of its encryption keys…

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