Christopher Soghoian: How to avoid surveillance ... with the phone in your pocket
Christopher Soghoian: Jak uniknąć podsłuchu... przy pomocy własnego telefonu.
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.
podsłuchiwanie łączy.
this assistance was manual.
zajmowali się tym ludzie.
and wires were connected by hand.
ktoś podłączał kable.
built surveillance features
wbudowały monitoring
that carry our calls
umożliwiające połączenia
w funkcję do inwigilacji.
when you're talking to your spouse,
rozmawiasz z małżonkiem,
or your doctor on the telephone,
albo lekarzem przez telefon,
be your own government;
a foreign intelligence service,
the surveillance system,
of the telephone companies.
have built surveillance as a priority,
funkcja inwigilacji jest priorytetem,
z Doliny Krzemowej.
over the last couple years,
strong encryption technology
potężną technologię szyfrującą
extremely difficult.
might have an iPhone,
to send a text message
cannot easily be wiretapped.
przechwycić te wiadomości.
the text messages themselves.
do tych SMS-ów.
to make an audio call
do połączeń głosowych
z przyjaciółmi i rodziną,
friends or loved ones,
of people around the world,
ludzi na całym świecie,
encryption technology into its product,
szyfrowania w swoim produkcie,
in the Global South can easily communicate
łatwo się porozumieć
often authoritarian,
często autorytarnych,
to listen to any telephone call --
rozmowom telefonicznym
officials are not very happy.
nie są zadowoleni.
these encryption tools are now available.
szyfrowania są już dostępne.
encryption features into their products
kodowanie w swoich produktach
have democratized encryption.
zdemokratyzowały szyfrowanie.
like British Prime Minister David Cameron,
Wielkiej Brytanii, David Cameron,
emails, texts, voice calls --
maile, SMS-y, połączenia głosowe,
available to governments,
to their point of view.
w niebezpiecznym świecie,
in a dangerous world,
dla bezpieczeństwa narodowego,
serious national security threats
the FBI and the NSA to monitor.
FBI i Agencji Bezpieczeństwa Narodowego.
features come at a cost.
as a terrorist laptop,
jak laptop terrorysty
urządzeń komunikacyjnych.
communications devices.
if the drug dealers' telephone calls
dealera narkotyków
can be intercepted,
mogą być przechwycone,
around the world be using devices
powinien używać urządzeń,
systems that I've described --
systemów inwigilacji
and Microsoft built into their networks --
wbudowane w sieci Google i Microsoft,
to lawful surveillance requests
aby umożliwiać legalny podsłuch,
by the Chinese government,
wanted to figure out
the US government was monitoring.
monitoruje rząd USA.
built into the network
Greece's largest telephone company --
greckiej firmy telekomunikacyjnej,
the surveillance feature,
premiera Grecji
the Greek Prime Minister
who did that were never caught.
ani hakerów, którzy to zrobili.
with these surveillance features,
funkcji inwigilacji
into a communications network
who's going to go through it.
kto przez nią przechodzi.
or the other side,
czy przeciwko wam,
I think that it's better
to be as secure as possible.
wiretapping more difficult.
are going to have a tougher time
to live in a world
text messages could be surveilled
mogą być monitorowane
and by foreign intelligence agencies.
oraz obce agencje wywiadowcze.
in that kind of world.
you probably have the tools
of government surveillance
rządowej inwigilacji,
and already in your pockets,
and how secure those tools are,
jak bardzo bezpieczne są te narzędzia,
you've used to communicate really are.
swoje rozmowy telefoniczne.
I want you to tell your colleagues:
powiedzcie współpracownikom.
narzędzi komunikacji.
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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