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
The Smart DNS feature lets you set up streaming on devices that don’t support VPN apps directly, like some smart TVs and gaming consoles, though this doesn’t encrypt your traffic.
From Salon • Dec. 10, 2025
Unlike Telegram, which does not automatically encrypt messages in its larger-size chat rooms, Signal limits the size of its group chats and keeps encryption as the default.
From Slate • Mar. 27, 2025
It follows criticism from government and police after Meta started to encrypt Messenger chats by default.
From BBC • Jan. 26, 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.
