Internet security was largely an after-thought for the early Internet, as its primary purpose was to facilitate open, end-to-end, any-to-any communications and information exchange for bridging and accelerating research efforts.

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So in 2009, Ravindran and three classmates dropped out of college to focus on bridging this information gap through the development of a text message-based search engine.

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What is true for the United States and Europe also holds true for countries such as Mexico: Technological progress in the mobile telephony market has led to unprecedented access to information and services, reduction in consumer cost and has lifted millions of people of people out of poverty, bridging the digital divide.

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