Twitter said it has stepped up encryption of its service, in the latest effort by a technology company to beef up security following reports of spying on digital content by the National Security Agency.
The San Francisco-based microblogging service said in a blog post yesterday that it recently enabled a technology dubbed forward secrecy for traffic going through its websites, which makes it more difficult for hackers to decrypt information.
“Forward secrecy is just the latest way in which Twitter is trying to defend and protect the user’s voice,” the company said in the post.
Amid the fallout over NSA spying on digital information, technology companies including Google and Yahoo! have taken measures to strengthen security of their information. Many are using harder-to-crack code to shield their networks and online customer data from unauthorized U.S. spying. The companies, trying to distance themselves from concerns about user data, have said they do not provide NSA direct access to their servers
Source : Bloomberg
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