We want to detect malware, regardless of its source or purpose. Politics don't even enter the discussion, nor should they. Any malware, even targeted, can get out of hand and cause 'collateral damage' to machines that aren't the intended victim. — Mikko Hypponen Copy Share Image
The truth is, consumer-grade antivirus products can't protect against targeted malware created by well-resourced nation-states with bulging budgets. They can protect you against run-of-the-mill malware: banking trojans, keystroke loggers and e-mail worms. But targeted attacks like these go to great… — Mikko Hypponen Copy Share Image
Alternative services would mean that there would be services available to compete with Google, Facebook, Amazon, Dropbox, Skype, etc., and they would be run… — Mikko Hypponen Copy Share Image
You will not even have enough time to go online and download all the patches to your computer before it is infected. — Mikko Hypponen Copy Share Image
Online crime is practically always international, because they almost always cross traditional national borders. — Mikko Hypponen Copy Share Image
Foreigners like me have no privacy rights whatsoever. Yet we keep using U.S.-based services all the time, making us a legal target for gathering… — Mikko Hypponen Copy Share Image
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… — Mikko Hypponen Copy Share Image
Surveillance changes history. We know this through examples of corrupt presidents like Nixon. — Mikko Hypponen Copy Share Image
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… — Mikko Hypponen Copy Share Image
It's high time for a fresh European alternative to enter the market, taking the existing Internet behemoths head on. What the world needs now… — Mikko Hypponen Copy Share Image
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… — Mikko Hypponen Copy Share Image
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… — Mikko Hypponen Copy Share Image
