Apple's Use of Tokenization for Encryption
One small step for Apple... There are moments when technologies break into popular discussion. Often it takes a big company incorporating something new into a product launch. Using their brand and their voice, they introduce the world to a concept that technologists have known about for years. Apple did that last week. They may, in fact, have done it a....
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