Mikko Hypponen: How the NSA betrayed the world's trust -- time to act
Mikko Hypponen: Come la NSA ha tradito la fiducia del mondo, è tempo di agire
As computer access expands, Mikko Hypponen asks: What's the next killer virus, and will the world be able to cope with it? And also: How can we protect digital privacy in the age of government surveillance? Full bio
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through revelations and leaks
e le fughe di notizie
a far trapelare informazioni,
americane stanno gestendo
through the United States.
of surveillance that are okay.
to tap the suspect's phone,
i programmi come PRISM.
con la sorveglianza di persone
to suspect of some wrongdoings.
cercando di minimizzare
non c'è niente di nuovo.
because we did not know this already.
perché non lo sapevamo.
We didn't know about PRISM.
Non sapevamo di PRISM.
We didn't know about Cybertrans.
Non sapevamo di Cybertrans.
si spingessero al punto
gli algoritmi di criptaggio.
solo per decifrare quel singolo file,
might have house alarms,
potrebbero avere qualche allarme domestico,
are doing their job.
stanno facendo il loro lavoro.
of the Internet traffic today is encrypted,
del traffico Internet oggi è criptato,
the collection from Microsoft
backdoor access to their data.
Sono stati attaccati.
by their own government.
altre informazioni
di intelligence.
di telecomunicazioni qui in Belgio.
dell'Unione Europea,
on Thursday evening in a pub.
il giovedì sera al bar.
but let's take an example.
ma prendiamo un esempio.
Amazon web services or sales support?
Amazon web service o servizi di vendita?
business leader does that every single day.
lo fa ogni giorno.
neanche lontanamente.
to the United States.
agli Stati Uniti.
in Messico e Brasile,
delle Nazioni Unite e del Parlamento Europeo,
cosa per combatterli?
to throw away the Constituion
just because there are terrorists?
and all the amendments
and fundamental freedoms
e le libertà fondamentali
is such an existential threat,
maybe that surveillance is okay
di non avere niente da nascondere,
di mantenere un segreto.
the very first thing I tweeted about this
la prima cosa che ho twittato
to U.S. intelligence.
tutto all'intelligence americana.
perché dovevo preoccuparmene?
Am I sending naked pictures or something?
Sto mandando foto di nudo o qualcosa del genere?
non erano affari suoi,
of your government's business either.
of information we are giving away,
of corrupt presidents like Nixon.
corrotti come Nixon.
of surveillance tools that are available today.
di sorveglianza disponibili oggi.
of expression and opinion,
di espressione e opinione,
delle nostre democrazie.
Marcus Ranum,
is right now treating the Internet
con le sue rivelazioni,
and software companies with these revelations --
for the U.S. cloud industry
No, non dovremmo preoccuparci.
for the rest of the world
and cloud services.
to solve the problem by itself.
risolvere il problema da solo.
sulla sicurezza, Haroon Meer,
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Mikko Hypponen - Cybersecurity expertAs computer access expands, Mikko Hypponen asks: What's the next killer virus, and will the world be able to cope with it? And also: How can we protect digital privacy in the age of government surveillance?
Why you should listen
The chief research officer at F-Secure Corporation in Finland, Mikko Hypponen has led his team through some of the largest computer virus outbreaks in history. His team took down the world-wide network used by the Sobig.F worm. He was the first to warn the world about the Sasser outbreak, and he has done classified briefings on the operation of the Stuxnet worm -- a hugely complex worm designed to sabotage Iranian nuclear enrichment facilities.
As a few hundred million more Internet users join the web from India and China and elsewhere, and as governments and corporations become more sophisticated at using viruses as weapons, Hypponen asks, what's next? Who will be at the front defending the world’s networks from malicious software? He says: "It's more than unsettling to realize there are large companies out there developing backdoors, exploits and trojans."
Even more unsettling: revelations this year that the United States' NSA is conducting widespread digital surveillance of both US citizens and anyone whose data passes through a US entity, and that it has actively sabotaged encryption algorithms. Hypponen has become one of the most outspoken critics of the agency's programs and asks us all: Why are we so willing to hand over digital privacy?
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