“Crime sucked the lifeblood from the new South Africa like a deadly leech, leaving it debilitated and wracked by fear and insecurity.” — Misha Glenny Copy Share Image
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 the Chinese People's Liberation Army, which runs most of its cyber activities, they look at you and they see Google and Facebook - the two largest depositories of personal data in the world - and they see the… — Misha Glenny Copy Share
It's great that the Internet can enhance and speed up our communications and that computers can do all the things they do. It's fabulous. At the same time, it changes our priorities. For example, before I would always remember people's telephone numbers and now I don't know anyone's number. So what happens if computer systems go down but you still… — Misha Glenny Copy Share
In 2010, you have roughly 38 billion dollars spent by government on cyber and telecoms security and another 60 billion or so by private corporations. So approximately 100 billion dollars spent on security, mostly on technological solutions, which the corporates are offering governments in particular; it's a very high growth area. So everyone is climbing over each other to get… — Misha Glenny Copy Share
What has happened is that we have seen a shift in the past twenty years in the very concept of hacking. So hacking twenty years ago was a neutral, positive concept. Somebody who was a hacker was someone with advanced computer skills, which could expose vulnerabilities and could explain why systems worked well or worked badly and they were generally… — Misha Glenny Copy Share
The Internet has fashioned a new and complicated environment for an age-old dilemma that pits the demands of security against the desire for freedom. — Misha Glenny Copy Share Image
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 civil liberties,… — Misha Glenny Copy Share Image
There are two types of companies in the world: those that know they've been hacked, and those that don't. — Misha Glenny Copy Share Image
The attack on the law firms and attacks like that are industrial espionage, searching for copyrighted materials to lift and so on; it's not… — Misha Glenny Copy Share Image
The internet is fracturing into a series of huge country-based intranets, in which governments define, in the name of security, what is legitimate personal… — Misha Glenny Copy Share Image
Clearly there are some things about WikiLeaks... the material is in part very interesting although none of it is a real game-changer. I think… — Misha Glenny Copy Share Image
My father, a Russian translator, wanted to distinguish me by calling me Misha, the Russian diminutive of his name, Michael. My name and work… — Misha Glenny Copy Share Image
If there is an event for whatever reason, which interferes with the Internet or network communications, are people able to deal with it? It… — Misha Glenny Copy Share Image
