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Chances are high that you’re reading this article with a browser that was recently hacked.

Chrome came out smelling like a rose at the Pwn2Own Conference. Security researchers were able to easily exploit vulnerabilities in Firefox, Safari, and Internet Explorer, but were unable to crack Chrome. Security researchers attribute the strength of Google’s browser to its sandbox design.

A report released by Free Press claims that DPI could bring about the “end of the Internet as we know it” and could result in an “encryption arms race.” But DPI gear is already widely deployed around the world and the Internet apocalypse has yet to occur. But countries where DPI is widely used and traffic caps are in place aren’t hotbeds of Internet innovation, either.

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