Mikko Hypponen

Alternative services would mean that there would be services available to compete with Google, Facebook, Amazon, Dropbox, Skype, etc., and they would…

— Mikko Hypponen

You will not even have enough time to go online and download all the patches to your computer before it is infected.

— Mikko Hypponen

Online crime is practically always international, because they almost always cross traditional national borders.

— Mikko Hypponen

Foreigners like me have no privacy rights whatsoever. Yet we keep using U.S.-based services all the time, making us a legal target…

— Mikko Hypponen

The vast majority of the online crime cases, we don't even know which continent the attacks are coming from. And even if…

— Mikko Hypponen

Privacy is implied. Privacy is not up for discussion.

— Mikko Hypponen

Surveillance changes history. We know this through examples of corrupt presidents like Nixon.

— Mikko Hypponen

I see beauty in the future of the Internet, but I'm worried that we might not see that. I'm worried that we…

— Mikko Hypponen

It's high time for a fresh European alternative to enter the market, taking the existing Internet behemoths head on. What the world…

— Mikko Hypponen

U.S. intelligence has the legal right to monitor foreign communications as they go through to U.S. service providers. However, even though something…

— Mikko Hypponen

There is a difference between the stuff that people put online themselves, like pictures and their trips and flights and meals they've…

— Mikko Hypponen

How many of the 'Fortune' 500 are hacked? 500.

— Mikko Hypponen

I believe in the freedom of the net, but I don't believe in the freedom of the net at the cost of…

— Mikko Hypponen

Governmental surveillance is not about the government collecting the information you're sharing publicly and willingly; it's about collecting the information you don't…

— Mikko Hypponen

We want to detect malware, regardless of its source or purpose. Politics don't even enter the discussion, nor should they. Any malware,…

— Mikko Hypponen

It's been a bit sad to see that out of Linux distributions, it was Android - the most successful mobile Linux distribution…

— Mikko Hypponen

Everything is being run by computers. Everything is reliant on these computers working. We have become very reliant on Internet, on basic…

— Mikko Hypponen

It's so cheap to store all data. It's cheaper to keep it than to delete it. And that means people will change…

— Mikko Hypponen

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…

— Mikko Hypponen

In the 1980s, in the communist Eastern Germany, if you owned a typewriter, you had to register it with the government. You…

— Mikko Hypponen

Today, in 2011, if you go and buy a color laser printer from any major laser printer manufacturer and print a page,…

— Mikko Hypponen

The United States has an unfair advantage, as most of the popular cloud services, search engines, computer and mobile operating systems or…

— Mikko Hypponen

It's going to be interesting to watch presidential elections in around 2040, when voters can dig up candidates' teenage angst pics and…

— Mikko Hypponen

We're risking the future of the net. People are already losing their trust. Once you get burned once - somebody steals your…

— Mikko Hypponen

[Computer viruses] switch from one country to another, from one jurisdiction to another - moving around the world, using the fact that…

— Mikko Hypponen