Private Sector Beefs Up Security to Fend Off NSA
The revelation that the NSA has kept millions of records on just about everything from just about everyone may be one of the single biggest news stories this year. And now, private companies have started getting serious about locking out big brother.
The revelation that the NSA has kept millions of records on just about everything from just about everyone may be one of the single biggest news stories this year. And now, private companies have started getting serious about locking out big brother.
The big tech companies including Microsoft, Google and Apple are all looking to step up their encryption to 2048-bit. Facebook too, long considered one of the most flagrant abusers of user privacy, will be stepping up not only their encryption keys, but the way information is stored and managed such that their systems can "fail well."
While this is certainly a step in the right direction, and it's unlikely that any organization could breech 2048-bit encryption en masse, the NSA has plenty of other tools -- notably, keeping zero-day exploits secret to use them in their search for data.
Bloomberg has the full report.

that may be the understatement of the year.
The KGB of the 21st Century - the terrorists won.
it's like raising an american flag over the mcdonalds in beijing china instead of the communist flag.
Sadly, I have to agree.
Proof? Before making a sensationalist claim back it up. Everyone has acknowledged they obtain metadata, that's far from everything. And while it covers a large number of people that doesn't include everyone.
It is sad....
I'm sorry but Snowden was no saint, he can stand there and say that he did what he did because he thought it was wrong all he wants but if that were true why did he reveal himself as the source?
He did what he did to become famous, if he was so intent on doing the right thing he would have leaked the secrets and stayed in his position where he could have continued to spy on what the government was doing. He should have stayed in the US and fought for what he thought was right, not plaster himself all over the media and legged it
The only thing Snowden did is to make it popular to masses. And now private companies are afraid that awareness may limit the expansion of their business and cautiousness may limit their own possibility to sniff data for profit. So they are just making what's necessary to calm down the Joe and keep things going the same way as they did till now - nothing is really about any security or privacy.