The vast majority of the online crime cases, we don’t even know which continent the attacks are coming from. And even if we are able to find online criminals, quite often there is no outcome. The local police don’t act, or if they do, there’s not enough evidence, or for some reason we can’t take them down. Mikko Hypponen Read Quote
I see beauty in the future of the Internet, but I’m worried that we might not see that. I’m worried that we are running into problems because of online crime. Online crime is the one thing that might take these things away from us. Mikko Hypponen Read Quote
I’ve spent my life defending the Net, and I do feel that if we don’t fight online crime, we are running a risk of losing it all. Mikko Hypponen Read Quote
U.S. intelligence has the legal right to monitor foreign communications as they go through to U.S. service providers. However, even though something is legal doesn’t make it right. I’m not American; I don’t really care about what data is being collected about American citizens. I’m worried about us, the foreigners. Mikko Hypponen Read Quote
The United States has an unfair advantage, as most of the popular cloud services, search engines, computer and mobile operating systems or web browsers are made by U.S. companies. When the rest of the world uses the net, they are effectively using U.S.-based services, making them a legal target for U.S. intelligence. Mikko Hypponen Read Quote
I’m a hacker, but I’m the good kind of hackers. And I’ve never been a criminal. Mikko Hypponen Read Quote
Everything is being run by computers. Everything is reliant on these computers working. We have become very reliant on Internet, on basic things like electricity, obviously, on computers working. And this really is something which creates completely new problems for us. We must have some way of continuing to work even if computers fail. Mikko Hypponen Read Quote
Alternative services would mean that there would be services available to compete with Google, Facebook, Amazon, Dropbox, Skype, etc., and they would be run by companies not based in the U.S.A. The rest of the world has simply failed in being able to compete with them, and we really should be doing better here. Mikko Hypponen Read Quote
Defending against military-strength malware is a real challenge for the computer security industry. Furthermore, the security industry is not global. It is highly focused in just a handful of countries. The rest of the countries rely on foreign security labs to provide their everyday digital security for them. Mikko Hypponen Read Quote
Today, in 2011, if you go and buy a color laser printer from any major laser printer manufacturer and print a page, that page will end up having slight yellow dots printed on every single page in a pattern which makes the page unique to you and to your printer. This is happening to us today. And nobody seems to be making a fuss about it. Mikko Hypponen Read Quote
