Infosecurity: Edward Snowden was a surprise speaker at TED2014 in Vancouver. Beamed in via a telepresence robot from his exile in Russia, he spoke to TED presenter Chris Anderson, and was joined by ‘father of the web’ Sir Tim Berners-Lee. Snowden said there is more to come, and that encryption remains the internet’s best defense.
“The biggest thing that an internet company in America can do today, right now, without consulting lawyers, to protect users of the internet around the world is to enable web encryption on every page you visit,” he said at TED2014. Everyone, he continued, needs to move to an encrypted browsing habit by default.
