Anthem didn't encrypt hacked data; Google will search tweets; Radio Shack files Ch. 11 (Video)

Health insurer Anthem Inc. did not encrypt the 80 million Social Security numbers stolen by hackers last week, but that’s probably more common than you think. Despite calls to encrypt that data, some experts are still warning that encryption is no panacea.

A privacy lawyer quoted by The Wall Street Journal noted that the data must be unencrypted at some point to become useful, and so a dedicated hacker could eventually exploit that process.

Moreover, as Ars Technica argued, encryption might not…