Mikko Hypponen: How the NSA betrayed the world's trust -- time to act
Mikko Hypponen: Cómo la NSA traicionó la confianza del mundo... Es hora de actuar
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
through the United States.
of surveillance that are okay.
to tap the suspect's phone,
to suspect of some wrongdoings.
que no hay nada nuevo aquí.
because we did not know this already.
qué está pasando.
We didn't know about PRISM.
No sabíamos nada de PRISM.
We didn't know about Cybertrans.
No sabíamos nada de Cybertrans.
de inteligencia de EE. UU.
llegan a extremos
del planeta para desencriptar un fichero,
indescifrable.
como resultado final.
might have house alarms,
are doing their job.
realizan su trabajo.
of the Internet traffic today is encrypted,
del tráfico de Internet hoy está cifrado,
the collection from Microsoft
backdoor access to their data.
Ellos han sido hackeados.
by their own government.
de élite de hackeadores
on Thursday evening in a pub.
but let's take an example.
Amazon web services or sales support?
business leader does that every single day.
ni siquiera de cerca.
to the United States.
vendiéndose a los EE. UU.
de los líderes europeos,
de México y Brasil,
y el Parlamento de la U.E.
to throw away the Constituion
a tirar su Constitución
just because there are terrorists?
and all the amendments
and fundamental freedoms
is such an existential threat,
a hacer cualquier cosa?
maybe that surveillance is okay
esa vigilancia está bien
en ello lo suficiente.
lo primero que me dicen,
the very first thing I tweeted about this
lo primero que tuité
to U.S. intelligence.
por la inteligencia de EE. UU.
Am I sending naked pictures or something?
¿Estaba enviando desnudos o cosas así?
of your government's business either.
of information we are giving away,
of corrupt presidents like Nixon.
of surveillance tools that are available today.
of expression and opinion,
is right now treating the Internet
and software companies with these revelations --
for the U.S. cloud industry
No, no debemos preocuparnos.
porque esto está mal,
for the rest of the world
and cloud services.
to solve the problem by itself.
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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