Misha Glenny

The Internet has fashioned a new and complicated environment for an age-old dilemma that pits the demands of security against the desire…

— Misha Glenny

“Crime sucked the lifeblood from the new South Africa like a deadly leech, leaving it debilitated and wracked by fear and insecurity.”

— Misha Glenny

The internet is fracturing into a series of huge country-based intranets, in which governments define, in the name of security, what is…

— Misha Glenny

There are two types of companies in the world: those that know they've been hacked, and those that don't.

— Misha Glenny

The issue of cyber-security, cyber-crime, and cyber-malfeasance has an impact on a whole range of issues, not the least of which is…

— Misha Glenny

I think that we're now deep into a struggle for control over the Internet and there are various actors - state, corporate,…

— Misha Glenny

My father, a Russian translator, wanted to distinguish me by calling me Misha, the Russian diminutive of his name, Michael. My name…

— Misha Glenny

The attack on the law firms and attacks like that are industrial espionage, searching for copyrighted materials to lift and so on;…

— Misha Glenny

Clearly there are some things about WikiLeaks... the material is in part very interesting although none of it is a real game-changer.…

— Misha Glenny

You don’t have to sleep with prostitutes or take drugs in order to have a relationship with organized crime. They affect our…

— Misha Glenny

If there is an event for whatever reason, which interferes with the Internet or network communications, are people able to deal with…

— Misha Glenny

What we're going to get as this next generation grows up is more hacking skills and this is spreading geographically also -…

— Misha Glenny

“A little of this caviar finds its way to the fish restaurants around Istanbul's Taksim Square, but the bulk is sent on…

— Misha Glenny

What has happened is that we have seen a shift in the past twenty years in the very concept of hacking. So…

— Misha Glenny

When you're researching things that have happened, the clear narrative arc is not there already. This is the problem of writing nonfiction…

— Misha Glenny

The anonymity issue is a big question. As long as people can disguise cyber attacks and as long as there is a…

— Misha Glenny

There are governments who are regulating things in different ways and those forms of regulation often don't square up. So you have…

— Misha Glenny

The U.S. has the most advanced cyber-weaponry on the planet, and t if you look at the U.S. from the perspective of…

— Misha Glenny

The Internet obviously changes things; we've seen that in the music industry above all else. As an author, I'm now having to…

— Misha Glenny

It's great that the Internet can enhance and speed up our communications and that computers can do all the things they do.…

— Misha Glenny

The criminal justice system - although this applies less to the U.S., where rehabilitation is not seen as a valuable contribution to…

— Misha Glenny

One of the problem with cyber is that it lends itself to preemptive action. Your assets in cyber-warfare are your opponents' vulnerabilities,…

— Misha Glenny

The sort of sweeping parochial espionage and attempts to extract information from all sorts of institutions are well documented, but I think…

— Misha Glenny

In 2010, you have roughly 38 billion dollars spent by government on cyber and telecoms security and another 60 billion or so…

— Misha Glenny