Christopher Soghoian: How to avoid surveillance ... with the phone in your pocket
克里斯托弗·索伊安: 如何用手机防止窃听
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.
政府窃听提供帮助。
this assistance was manual.
and wires were connected by hand.
built surveillance features
that carry our calls
when you're talking to your spouse,
or your doctor on the telephone,
be your own government;
a foreign intelligence service,
the surveillance system,
of the telephone companies.
have built surveillance as a priority,
over the last couple years,
在他们的通讯产品中
strong encryption technology
extremely difficult.
might have an iPhone,
to send a text message
cannot easily be wiretapped.
the text messages themselves.
to make an audio call
进行语音或视频通话,
friends or loved ones,
网络聊天软件(WhatsApp)
of people around the world,
encryption technology into its product,
in the Global South can easily communicate
often authoritarian,
to listen to any telephone call --
officials are not very happy.
these encryption tools are now available.
encryption features into their products
have democratized encryption.
like British Prime Minister David Cameron,
政府官员们,
电子邮件、短信、语音通话
emails, texts, voice calls --
available to governments,
to their point of view.
我非常理解他们的想法。
一个危险的世界,
in a dangerous world,
安全的因素,
serious national security threats
和国家安全局来监控。
the FBI and the NSA to monitor.
features come at a cost.
as a terrorist laptop,
communications devices.
if the drug dealers' telephone calls
或是恐怖分子的通话
can be intercepted,
around the world be using devices
systems that I've described --
监控系统——
and Microsoft built into their networks --
to lawful surveillance requests
by the Chinese government,
wanted to figure out
the US government was monitoring.
监控系统——
built into the network
Greece's largest telephone company --
the surveillance feature,
the Greek Prime Minister
who did that were never caught.
with these surveillance features,
或后门的问题的
into a communications network
who's going to go through it.
or the other side,
I think that it's better
to be as secure as possible.
wiretapping more difficult.
are going to have a tougher time
我们就会生活在一个
to live in a world
text messages could be surveilled
监控的世界中。
and by foreign intelligence agencies.
in that kind of world.
you probably have the tools
of government surveillance
and already in your pockets,
有多强大、多安全,
and how secure those tools are,
通讯的方法有多脆弱。
you've used to communicate really are.
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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