Privacy is implied. Privacy is not up for discussion. Mikko Hypponen More Quotes by Mikko Hypponen More Quotes From Mikko Hypponen You should have mechanisms of communication, like faxes, which are obviously getting removed from offices because nobody uses them anymore. Faxes are great when e-mail doesn't work. I wouldn't be throwing them away. Mikko Hypponen greatyoucommunicationwork Online crime is practically always international, because they almost always cross traditional national borders. Mikko Hypponen becausealwayscrimeborders We're risking the future of the net. People are already losing their trust. Once you get burned once - somebody steals your credit card, or makes a purchase on your account - people tend to stay away from online commerce and from trusting online services. Mikko Hypponen youfuturetrustpeople I believe in the freedom of the net, but I don't believe in the freedom of the net at the cost of having these online criminal gangs running completely loose and using the freedom of the net to steal everybody's money and take away the trust we have. Mikko Hypponen trustfreedommoneybelieve Surveillance changes history. We know this through examples of corrupt presidents like Nixon. Mikko Hypponen changeslikeknowhistory One thing we should all understand is that we are brutally honest with search engines. You show me your search history, and I'll find something incriminating or something embarrassing there in five minutes. We are more honest with search engines than we are with our families. Mikko Hypponen understandmeyouhistory There is a difference between the stuff that people put online themselves, like pictures and their trips and flights and meals they've eaten, than the stuff that they don't realize is also going into foreign computers. Like, for example, copies of your emails or every single online search you ever do, 'cause all that is being recorded as well. Mikko Hypponen picturescomputersyoupeople Nuclear scientists lost their innocence when we used the atom bomb for the very first time. So we could argue computer scientists lost their innocence in 2009 when we started using malware as an offensive attack weapon. Mikko Hypponen innocencefirst-timelosttime It's been a bit sad to see that out of Linux distributions, it was Android - the most successful mobile Linux distribution - that has really introduced the malware problem to the Linux world. Mikko Hypponen seesadproblemworld
