“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 U.S. has the most advanced cyber-weaponry on the planet, and t if you look at the U.S. from the perspective of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, which runs most of its cyber activities, they look at you and they see Google and Facebook - the two largest depositories of personal data in the world - and they see the reach of the National Security Agency, which has huge digital capacity to know what is going on around the world. So the Chinese would see cyber as an un-level playing field, because the U.S. holds all sorts of advantages.” WorldRunningSecurityPerspectiveArmyChineseLiberationGoogleNational Security 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
“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
