encrypt
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Companies may tell you, for example, that they encrypt biometric data, but they may not tell you the details, so there’s no way to tell how strong their safeguards are.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026
“When the allegations about the NSA vacuuming up all of our information emerged in 2013, we began to encrypt everything online including our websites, chat applications, and phone apps,” Wisniewski told me.
From Slate • Feb. 16, 2024
It follows criticism from government and police after Meta started to encrypt Messenger chats by default.
From BBC • Jan. 26, 2024
Chinese engineers have turned to it to encrypt data.
From New York Times • Jan. 10, 2024
By turning the rings, you could encrypt each plaintext letter with a different scrambled alphabet.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
