Mikko Hypponen Quotes

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• You will not even have enough time to go online and download all the patches to your computer before it is infected.
• Privacy is implied. Privacy is not up for discussion.
• [Computer viruses] switch from one country to another, from one jurisdiction to another - moving around the world, using the fact that we don't have…
• 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,…
• In the 1980s, in the communist Eastern Germany, if you owned a typewriter, you had to register it with the government. You had to register…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• Laws and regulations are supposed to restrict the kind of surveillance governments do. In fact, the U.S. government is quite restricted in what kind of…
• 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 and…
• Online crime is practically always international, because they almost always cross traditional national borders.
• Surveillance changes history. We know this through examples of corrupt presidents like Nixon.
• Nuclear scientists lost their innocence when we used the atom bomb for the very first time. So we could argue computer scientists lost their innocence…
• 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…
• Antivirus systems need to strike a balance between detecting all possible attacks without causing any false alarms. And while we try to improve on this…

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