“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.” PeopleThinkingProblemPurposeDifficultStruggleMilitaryGeniusInternetVariousInterconnectedness Author:Misha Glenny
“There are governments who are regulating things in different ways and those forms of regulation often don't square up. So you have a real legislative mess, in the meanwhile various bad people are developing all sorts of tools to exploit the Internet for their own gain and the militaries are beginning to develop some extremely frightening offensive capabilities in cyber. Yet all of this is taking place outside of any international agreement or even framework.” PeopleDifferentRealInternetVariousMessCapabilityFrighteningOffensiveBad People Author:Misha Glenny
“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.” GrowthSecurityInternetSolutionsTechnological Author:Misha Glenny
“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.” PeopleTryingLongProblemMovingPoliticalPartyImpossibleInternetResponsibleResponseCivil RightsSensitiveDisguisePolitical PartiesAnonymityQuestion Mark Author:Misha Glenny
“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.” RememberCommunicationInternetComputerSpeedPrioritiesFabulous Author: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.” PeopleReasonCommunicationInternetInterfere Author:Misha Glenny
“The Internet obviously changes things; we've seen that in the music industry above all else. As an author, I'm now having to deal with the fact that it's happening in the publishing industry as well. And publishing is going through a very difficult time. Some view it as positive, some negative, but nobody really knows how to deal with it. If you're an author it looks very challenging because your work can be pirated so easily and there's very little you can do about it.” DifficultChallengesInternetNegativePublishingDifficult TimesMusic Industry Author:Misha Glenny
“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.” AgeDesireEnvironmentSecurityInternetDemandComplicatedPitsDilemma Author:Misha Glenny
“There are two types of companies in the world: those that know they've been hacked, and those that don't.” KnowsWorldTwoCompanyTypeInternetHacked Author:Misha Glenny
“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 and intellectual communication, and what is not.” CountryGovernmentNamesSecurityHugeCommunicationInternetIntellectualSeries Author:Misha Glenny
