Quotes by Misha Glenny

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. I think if I was an American I’d be rather proud that American diplomats are quite assiduous in the way that they chronicle issues. Of course the impact has been that the whole culture of sharing is going down the tube.

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I think that we’re now deep into a struggle for control over the Internet and there are various actors – state, corporate, civic, criminal and military. The great genius of the Internet is its interconnectedness, but this is also what makes it an incredibly difficult problem when things start to go wrong with it and when people exploit for their own purposes.

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If there is an event for whatever reason, which interferes with the Internet or network communications, are people able to deal with it? It seems like our dependency on these systems is so great that the room for maneuver as it were is very small. So that is problematic.

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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 the contracts for government procurement on this. There is undoubtedly an element of this and that’s what encourages, in part, the whole idea of locking down the Internet.

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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 have landlines? Well, I couldn’t call anyone because I don’t know anyone’s number.

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One of the problem with cyber is that it lends itself to preemptive action. Your assets in cyber-warfare are your opponents’ vulnerabilities, therefore in order to quantify your assets you have to be able to ascertain how vulnerable your opponents are and that involves pre-emptive exploration of your opponents’ networks. So in that sense it lends itself to some pretty nasty stuff.

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The anonymity issue is a big question. As long as people can disguise cyber attacks and as long as there is a sort of question mark over who is responsible, then the problem will continue to exist. And of course what happens in response to that is that there is a move to try and refashion the Internet so that anonymity is impossible, which of course leads to fears among all sorts of groups – civil rights groups, NGOs, and political parties – that the Internet is going to be used simply as a method of control. So these are very sensitive issues.

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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 quite the same as cyber-warfare. They are regarded as related. The Chinese are trying to steal an economic march on the West, which is a consequence of the fact that we outsourced all of our manufacturing to China in the 1990s.

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The criminal justice system – although this applies less to the U.S., where rehabilitation is not seen as a valuable contribution to criminal justice – in Europe where rehab is supposed to be integral, we have no way of rehabilitating skilled hackers. On the contrary what we do is we demonize them and continue to do so after they come out of jail because we restrict their access to computers by law. Crazy world, crazy people.

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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.

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Quotes by Misha Glenny

Misha Glenny

If there is an event for whatever reason, which interferes with the Internet or network communications, are people able to deal with it? It seems like our dependency on these systems is so great that the room for maneuver as it were is very small. So that is problematic.

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.

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