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"Google's executive chairman Eric Schmidt is highly optimistic -- he thinks that government censorship can be ended within a decade, Bloomberg reports.\r\n\r\nThe key to that? Encryption.\u00A0Schmidt said in a speech, hosted by the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, that &amp;quot;the solution to government surveillance is to encrypt everything.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nHe acknowledges that the NSA and other countries have probably broken some of the encryption standards used today, but &amp;quot;it's always a cat-and-mouse game&amp;quot; and in the race for stronger protection over Internet traffic, he thinks the censors will lose. As of now, Google and other Internet companies have already made their networks more secure in response to the NSA revelations.\r\n\r\nAs for China, the country which is literally obsessed with patrolling the Internet, Schmidt says he thinks Chinese citizens will start using technology that authorities there won't be able to control or stop.\u00A0\u201CYou cannot stop it if it\u2019s a good idea broadly held,\u201D Schmidt says.\r\n\r\n\u27A4 Google's Schmidt Sees Encryption Killing Censorship [Bloomberg]\r\n\r\nHeadline image via Manan Vatsyayana/AFP/Getty Images"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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