Washington: Twitter has reportedly added an advanced security technology that makes spying on its users harder, an attempt to thwart the alleged government surveillance.
The short messaging service used traditional HTTPS encryption since 2011 and has now introduced an advanced layer of protection for HTTPS known as 'forward secrecy'.
The company said that served completely over HTTPS since inception, and now it has become clearer how important the step to introduce stricter technology to protect their users' privacy, Huffington Post reports.
Following revelations about the US' alleged mass surveillance programmes in which web giants like Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and Facebook have been named, the tech giants are increasingly pushing forth measures to gain back users' trust.
Internet security expert Dan Kaminsky said that ' forward secrecy' prevents attackers from exploiting one potential weakness in HTTPS.
Kaminsky further explained that the more advanced technique repeatedly creates individual keys as new communications sessions are opened, making it impossible to use a master key to decrypt them, the report added.
