Christopher Soghoian: How to avoid surveillance ... with the phone in your pocket
Kristofer Sagojan (Christopher Soghoian): Kratka istorija prisluškivanja - i kako ga izbeći
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.
vladama pri prisluškivanju.
this assistance was manual.
ta pomoć je bila manuelna.
and wires were connected by hand.
a žice su se povezivale rukom.
drugim industrijama,
promenila sve.
built surveillance features
osobine nadgledanja
that carry our calls
koje omogućavaju naše pozive
when you're talking to your spouse,
sa svojim bračnim drugom,
or your doctor on the telephone,
be your own government;
a foreign intelligence service,
strana obaveštajna služba,
the surveillance system,
koja provali u sistem nadgledanja,
of the telephone companies.
telefonske kompanije.
have built surveillance as a priority,
postavile nadgledanje kao prioritet,
over the last couple years,
tokom prethodnih par godina,
strong encryption technology
snažnu tehnologiju za šifrovanje
extremely difficult.
might have an iPhone,
možda imaju Ajfon,
to send a text message
cannot easily be wiretapped.
the text messages themselves.
to make an audio call
za audio poziv
od prijatelja ili voljenih osoba,
friends or loved ones,
of people around the world,
širom sveta,
encryption technology into its product,
jaku tehnologiju za šifrovanje,
in the Global South can easily communicate
mogu lako da komuniciraju
often authoritarian,
to listen to any telephone call --
da slušaju svaki telefonski razgovor,
officials are not very happy.
i nisu mnogo srećni.
these encryption tools are now available.
dostupna ova sredstva za šifrovanje.
encryption features into their products
zaštitu u svoje proizvode
have democratized encryption.
demokratizovale su enkripciju.
like British Prime Minister David Cameron,
britanski premijer Dejvid Kameron,
emails, texts, voice calls --
imejlovi, poruke, pozivi -
available to governments,
to their point of view.
kada je njihovo stanovište u pitanju.
in a dangerous world,
serious national security threats
i druge ozbiljne nacionalne pretnje
the FBI and the NSA to monitor.
i Nacionalna bezbednosna služba prate.
features come at a cost.
as a terrorist laptop,
communications devices.
if the drug dealers' telephone calls
can be intercepted,
around the world be using devices
trebalo da koristi uređaje
systems that I've described --
koji sam opisao -
and Microsoft built into their networks --
i Majkrosoft ugradili u svoje mreže -
to lawful surveillance requests
na zakonske zahteve za nadgledanje
by the Chinese government,
kineska vlada
wanted to figure out
the US government was monitoring.
prati američka vlada.
built into the network
sistem za nadgledanje ugrađen u mrežu
Greece's largest telephone company --
- grčke najveće telefonske kompanije -
the surveillance feature,
the Greek Prime Minister
da se prisluškuje grčki premijer
who did that were never caught.
nikada nisu uhvaćeni.
with these surveillance features,
vezanog za svojstvo nadgledanja
into a communications network
u komunikacionu mrežu,
who's going to go through it.
šta će kroz njega uraditi.
or the other side,
za vašu stranu ili drugu stranu,
I think that it's better
to be as secure as possible.
što je više moguće.
wiretapping more difficult.
are going to have a tougher time
to live in a world
text messages could be surveilled
mogu da prate
and by foreign intelligence agencies.
ili strane obaveštajne službe,
in that kind of world.
you probably have the tools
verovatno raspolažete načinima
of government surveillance
and already in your pockets,
i džepovima,
and how secure those tools are,
ova sredstva snažna i bezbedna
you've used to communicate really are.
koje ste koristili slabi.
svoje telefonske pozive.
I want you to tell your colleagues:
želim da kažete svojim kolegama:
komunikaciona sredstva.”
because they're cheap and easy,
samo zato što su jeftini 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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