Christopher Soghoian: How to avoid surveillance ... with the phone in your pocket
Christopher Soghoian: Kako izbjeći nadzor... koristeći vaš telefon u džepu
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.
usluge prisluškivanja vladama.
this assistance was manual.
ta pomoć bila je ručna.
and wires were connected by hand.
i žice su spajane rukom.
built surveillance features
that carry our calls
koje nose naše pozive
when you're talking to your spouse,
or your doctor on the telephone,
ili liječnikom preko telefona,
be your own government;
a foreign intelligence service,
ili netko tko vas uhodi
the surveillance system,
tko provali u sustav nadziranja,
of the telephone companies.
telefonskih tvrtki.
have built surveillance as a priority,
izgradile sustav nadzora kao prioritet,
over the last couple years,
strong encryption technology
snažnu enkripcijsku tehnologiju
extremely difficult.
might have an iPhone,
to send a text message
tekstualne poruke
cannot easily be wiretapped.
the text messages themselves.
to make an audio call
da biste ostvarili audio poziv
friends or loved ones,
od prijatelja ilji voljenih,
jednostavno nadzirano.
u vlasništvu Facebooka
of people around the world,
diljem svijeta,
encryption technology into its product,
tehnologiju u svoj proizvod,
in the Global South can easily communicate
mogu komunicirati
often authoritarian,
to listen to any telephone call --
mogli prisluškivati telefonske pozive
officials are not very happy.
nisu bili najsretniji.
these encryption tools are now available.
postoje.
encryption features into their products
enkripciju u svoje proizvode
kupnje je najvažnije.
have democratized encryption.
od strane tehnoloških kompanija.
like British Prime Minister David Cameron,
kao britanski premijer David Cameron
emails, texts, voice calls --
-- e-mailovi, poruke, pozivi --
available to governments,
to their point of view.
s njihovim stajalištem.
in a dangerous world,
u opasnom svijetu,
serious national security threats
nacionalnoj sigurnosti
the FBI and the NSA to monitor.
da NSA i FBI nadziru.
features come at a cost.
as a terrorist laptop,
kao teroristički laptop,
communications devices.
if the drug dealers' telephone calls
dilera droge
can be intercepted,
around the world be using devices
koristiti uređaje
systems that I've described --
za nadziranje koji sam opisao --
and Microsoft built into their networks --
i Microsoft ugradili u svoje mreže --
to lawful surveillance requests
za zakonite zahtjeve za nadzorom
by the Chinese government,
od strane kineske vlade,
wanted to figure out
the US government was monitoring.
je nadzirala američka vlada.
built into the network
Greece's largest telephone company --
najveće telefonske tvrtke u Grčkoj --
the surveillance feature,
the Greek Prime Minister
grčkog premijera
who did that were never caught.
koji su to napravili nikad nisu uhvaćeni.
with these surveillance features,
s ovim opcijama za nadzor,
into a communications network
u sustav za komunikaciju
who's going to go through it.
toga tko kroz njih prolazi.
or the other side,
s vaše ili tuđe strane,
I think that it's better
to be as secure as possible.
wiretapping more difficult.
prisluškivanje.
are going to have a tougher time
to live in a world
da živimo u svijetu
text messages could be surveilled
mogu biti nadzirani
and by foreign intelligence agencies.
i stranih službi nadzora.
in that kind of world.
you probably have the tools
of government surveillance
and already in your pockets,
and how secure those tools are,
sigurni i snažni ti alati,
you've used to communicate really are.
komunikacije.
I want you to tell your colleagues:
Želim da kažete svojim kolegama.
za enkripciju komunikacije.
because they're cheap and easy,
povoljni i laki,
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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