Christopher Soghoian: How to avoid surveillance ... with the phone in your pocket
كريستوفر سوجهويان: كيف يمكنك تجنب المراقبة...من خلال الهاتف الذي يوجد داخل جيبك
Christopher Soghoian researches and exposes the high-tech surveillance tools that governments use to spy on their own citizens, and he is a champion of digital privacy rights. Full bio
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wiretapping assistance to governments.
للحكومات للتنصت على مكالماتها .
this assistance was manual.
and wires were connected by hand.
موصولة باليد.
من الصناعات الأخرى،
built surveillance features
that carry our calls
نتصل من خلالها
when you're talking to your spouse,
مع زوجتك ،
or your doctor on the telephone,
أو طبيبك على الهاتف،
be your own government;
a foreign intelligence service,
دائرة الاستخبارات الخارجية،
the surveillance system,
of the telephone companies.
have built surveillance as a priority,
بنت المراقبة كأولوية،
over the last couple years,
على مدى السنوات القليلة الماضية،
strong encryption technology
تقنية التشفير القوية
extremely difficult.
might have an iPhone,
قد يكون لديه آي فون،
to send a text message
لإرسال رسالة نصية
cannot easily be wiretapped.
لا يمكن بسهولة التنصت عليها.
the text messages themselves.
الرسائل بأنفسهم .
to make an audio call
لإجراء مكالمة صوتية
friends or loved ones,
الأصدقاء أو الأحباء،
of people around the world,
من الناس في جميع أنحاء العالم،
encryption technology into its product,
تشفيرقوية في منتجاتها،
in the Global South can easily communicate
الكرة الأرضية يمكنهم الاتصال بسهولة
often authoritarian,
to listen to any telephone call --
على المكالمات الهاتفية -
officials are not very happy.
غير سعداء بذلك .
these encryption tools are now available.
هذه أصبحت متوفرة .
encryption features into their products
التشفير في منجاتها
have democratized encryption.
لديها تشفير ديمقراطي .
like British Prime Minister David Cameron,
مثل رئيس الوزراء البريطاني ديفيد كاميرون،
emails, texts, voice calls --
البريد الإلكتروني، الرسائل، والمكالمات -
available to governments,
to their point of view.
مع وجهة نظرهم.
in a dangerous world,
في عالم خطر،
serious national security threats
أمنية قومية خطيرة
the FBI and the NSA to monitor.
الفدرالي ووكالة الأمن القومي بمراقبتها .
features come at a cost.
as a terrorist laptop,
communications devices.
if the drug dealers' telephone calls
can be intercepted,
فيجب أن يراقب ،
around the world be using devices
أن يستخدموا هذه الوسائل
systems that I've described --
الأنظمة التي تحدثت عنها -
and Microsoft built into their networks --
ومايكروسوفت في شبكاتها -
to lawful surveillance requests
المراقبة القانونية
by the Chinese government,
wanted to figure out
the US government was monitoring.
من قبل الحكومة الأمريكية .
built into the network
المراقبة على الشبكات
Greece's largest telephone company --
أكبر شركات الهواتف في اليونان -
the surveillance feature,
the Greek Prime Minister
الوزراء اليوناني
who did that were never caught.
أو المتسللين الذين قاموا بذلك
with these surveillance features,
مع ميزات المراقبة هذه ،
into a communications network
لشبكة اتصالات
who's going to go through it.
فيما يحدث أو فيمن يدخل من خلالها .
or the other side,
أو من طرف آخر ،
أشخاص طيبين .
I think that it's better
to be as secure as possible.
تكون آمنة قدر الإمكان.
wiretapping more difficult.
أكثر صعوية ،
are going to have a tougher time
ستمر بمراحل عصيبة
to live in a world
text messages could be surveilled
أو اتصال لأي شخص
and by foreign intelligence agencies.
ومن خلال وكالات الاستخبارات الأجنبية .
in that kind of world.
في مكان كهذا
you probably have the tools
of government surveillance
and already in your pockets,
المتواجدة أصلا داخل جيوبكم،
and how secure those tools are,
وقوية هذه الأدوات،
you've used to communicate really are.
تستخدمها ضعيفة .
I want you to tell your colleagues:
because they're cheap and easy,
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Christopher Soghoian - Privacy researcher and activistChristopher Soghoian researches and exposes the high-tech surveillance tools that governments use to spy on their own citizens, and he is a champion of digital privacy rights.
Why you should listen
TED Fellow Christopher Soghoian is a champion of digital privacy rights, with a focus on the role that third-party service providers play in enabling governments to monitor citizens. As the principal technologist at the American Civil Liberties Union, he explores the intersection of federal surveillance and citizen's rights.
Before joining the ACLU, he was the first-ever technologist for the Federal Trade Commision's Division of Privacy and Identity Protection, where he worked on investigations of Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and Netflix. Soghoian is also the creator of Do Not Track, an anti-tracking device that all major web browsers now use, and his work has been cited in court.
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