Google Introduces USB Encryption Device

The USB security key checks for an authentic connection to Google services, encrypts information and makes accounts virtually unphishable.

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Privacy has become paramount in the minds of users, as well as tech companies. Last year, Google chairman Eric Schmidt noted that encryption was the only real way to keep user data out of the hands of governments. With the release of a Google USB security key, that’s a possibility.

Google already uses two-factor authentication to protect its users. However, that system isn’t without its problems, so Google has decided to add an additional layer of encryption to the process by replacing a text message and input code with a USB device.

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