“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
“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
“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 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.” PeopleWorldJusticeCrazyComputerValuableJustice SystemCriminal JusticeHackersCrazy PeopleCrazy World Author:Misha Glenny
“What we're going to get as this next generation grows up is more hacking skills and this is spreading geographically also - Africa is about to come on the scene, South and Central America are going to be major sources of hackers. These people have got to be engaged with.” PeopleGrowing UpSceneNext GenerationHackers Author:Misha Glenny
