Edward Snowden's streamed question and answer session with about two dozen people from across the technology and policy world at SXSW has been dubbed as a "call to arms" for tech companies to thwart spying with better privacy tools, a participant of the event said.
Sunday Yokubaitis, president of online privacy company Golden Frog, said that Snowden advised tech firms to adopt more secure technology that could block surveillance altogether or make it too difficult to pursue en masse, reported The Verge.
According to Yokubaitis, a big focus of the talk was on "end-to-end encryption," which would mean no one (including companies) could access the contents of communications except the sender and recipient.
When reached for comment, Hugh Forrest of SXSW said that the meeting was kept private to create a more "intimate" atmosphere.
