Google Is Quietly Making It Harder For The NSA To Monitor Internet Traffic

Google has changed some of its most important backend functionality -- and the changes make it harder for the National Security Agency (NSA) and other intelligence agencies to monitor Internet traffic. According to Search Engine Land's Danny Sullivan, Google is changing the way secure search works. Specifically, Google changed the default search mechanism to SSL for users who aren't signed in (SSL is a safer form of Internet encryption) and introduced several smaller features that make it harder for outside observers to follow traffic activity.