Top 37 Mikko Quotes
#1. What makes us Americans is our shared commitment to an ideal - that all of us are created equal, and all of us have the chance to make of our lives what we will.
Barack Obama
#3. It's more than unsettling to realize there are large companies out there developing backdoors, exploits and trojans.
Mikko Hypponen
#4. Stories of the beleaguered Saints and of their suffering and death will be repeated again and again ... Stories of their rescue need to be repeated again and again. They speak of the very essence of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#5. It's going to be interesting to watch presidential elections in around 2040, when voters can dig up candidates' teenage angst pics and posts from old social media and discussion forum archives.
Mikko Hypponen
#7. It's been a bit sad to see that out of Linux distributions, it was Android - the most successful mobile Linux distribution - that has really introduced the malware problem to the Linux world.
Mikko Hypponen
#8. I've spent my life defending the Net, and I do feel that if we don't fight online crime, we are running a risk of losing it all.
Mikko Hypponen
#9. The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality.
Jean Piaget
#10. You can get the best locksmith in the world to design the best lock he can design, is it pick proof? No, it's not: it can be very hard to pick, but it is pickable. Because you can get, say, the next 10 best locksmiths, and give them unlimited money and time, they will figure out a way to pick it.
Mikko Hypponen
#11. Online crime is practically always international, because they almost always cross traditional national borders.
Mikko Hypponen
#12. Privacy is implied. Privacy is not up for discussion.
Mikko Hypponen
#13. We want to detect malware, regardless of its source or purpose. Politics don't even enter the discussion, nor should they. Any malware, even targeted, can get out of hand and cause 'collateral damage' to machines that aren't the intended victim.
Mikko Hypponen
#14. But remember, there are two ways to dehumanize someone: by dismissing them, and by idolizing them.
David Wong
#15. Diets are rubbish. I eat healthily, and often have a day when I stuff myself.
Trinny Woodall
#16. 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 storing our private information. Other countries do surveillance as well. But nobody has the global visibility that United States does.
Mikko Hypponen
#17. You should have mechanisms of communication, like faxes, which are obviously getting removed from offices because nobody uses them anymore. Faxes are great when e-mail doesn't work. I wouldn't be throwing them away.
Mikko Hypponen
#18. One thing we should all understand is that we are brutally honest with search engines. You show me your search history, and I'll find something incriminating or something embarrassing there in five minutes. We are more honest with search engines than we are with our families.
Mikko Hypponen
#19. I see beauty in the future of the Internet, but I'm worried that we might not see that. I'm worried that we are running into problems because of online crime. Online crime is the one thing that might take these things away from us.
Mikko Hypponen
#20. We're risking the future of the net. People are already losing their trust. Once you get burned once - somebody steals your credit card, or makes a purchase on your account - people tend to stay away from online commerce and from trusting online services.
Mikko Hypponen
#21. Look at me and tell me it meant nothing to you, and I will let you go.
Sylvain Reynard
#22. You will not even have enough time to go online and download all the patches to your computer before it is infected.
Mikko Hypponen
#24. 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 in 2009 when we started using malware as an offensive attack weapon.
Mikko Hypponen
#25. It's so cheap to store all data. It's cheaper to keep it than to delete it. And that means people will change their behavior because they know anything they say online can be used against them in the future.
Mikko Hypponen
#26. It's high time for a fresh European alternative to enter the market, taking the existing Internet behemoths head on. What the world needs now is a cloud storage service that is not subject to uncontrolled access by intelligence agencies.
Mikko Hypponen
#27. Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk.
Henry Miller
#28. I'm a hacker, but I'm the good kind of hackers. And I've never been a criminal.
Mikko Hypponen
#29. 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 surveillance they can do on U.S. citizens. The problem is that 96 percent of the planet is not U.S. citizens.
Mikko Hypponen
#31. I believe in the freedom of the net, but I don't believe in the freedom of the net at the cost of having these online criminal gangs running completely loose and using the freedom of the net to steal everybody's money and take away the trust we have.
Mikko Hypponen
#32. Stuxnet, Duqu and Flame are not normal, everyday malware, of course. All three of them were most likely developed by a Western intelligence agency as part of covert operations that weren't meant to be discovered. The fact that the malware evaded detection proves how well the attackers did their job.
Mikko Hypponen
#33. Anonymous is like an amoeba: it's got too many different operations run by truly different people which might not share a single person with another operation, but they use the same branding - they are part of the Anonymous brand, just like al-Qaida.
Mikko Hypponen
#34. 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 a sample sheet of text out of the typewriter. And this was done so the government could track where text was coming from.
Mikko Hypponen
#35. 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 all the time, there will never be a solution that is 100 percent perfect.
Mikko Hypponen
#36. Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.
Charles Lamb
#37. Surveillance changes history. We know this through examples of corrupt presidents like Nixon.
Mikko Hypponen
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