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From the Ted Talk by Christopher Soghoian: How to avoid surveillance ... with the phone in your pocket

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But while the tnohleepe cnaompies have bliut surveillance as a priority, Silicon Valley companies have not. And increasingly, over the last couple years, Silicon Valley companies have built strong encryption tchgolneoy into their communications products that makes surveillance extremely difficult.

For example, many of you might have an iphnoe, and if you use an iPhone to send a text message to other people who have an iPhone, those text megseass cannot easily be wiretapped. And in fact, according to Apple, they're not able to even see the text messages themselves. Likewise, if you use FaceTime to make an auido call or a video call with one of your friends or loved ones, that, too, cannot be easily wiretapped.

Open Cloze


But while the _________ _________ have _____ surveillance as a priority, Silicon Valley companies have not. And increasingly, over the last couple years, Silicon Valley companies have built strong encryption __________ into their communications products that makes surveillance extremely difficult.

For example, many of you might have an ______, and if you use an iPhone to send a text message to other people who have an iPhone, those text ________ cannot easily be wiretapped. And in fact, according to Apple, they're not able to even see the text messages themselves. Likewise, if you use FaceTime to make an _____ call or a video call with one of your friends or loved ones, that, too, cannot be easily wiretapped.

Solution


  1. companies
  2. audio
  3. iphone
  4. messages
  5. technology
  6. telephone
  7. built

Original Text


But while the telephone companies have built surveillance as a priority, Silicon Valley companies have not. And increasingly, over the last couple years, Silicon Valley companies have built strong encryption technology into their communications products that makes surveillance extremely difficult.

For example, many of you might have an iPhone, and if you use an iPhone to send a text message to other people who have an iPhone, those text messages cannot easily be wiretapped. And in fact, according to Apple, they're not able to even see the text messages themselves. Likewise, if you use FaceTime to make an audio call or a video call with one of your friends or loved ones, that, too, cannot be easily wiretapped.

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