Mikko Hypponen Quotes

Our lives sometimes depend on computers performing as predicted.

I'm not on Twitter or Facebook and don't even use email. I don't trust computers: one day they'll all break down, and everyone will be knackered.

The more sophisticated we get, the more advanced our buildings and vehicles become, the more vulnerable we are.

Since our complex societies are highly susceptible to interferences and accidents, they certainly offer ideal opportunities for a prompt disruption of normal activities.

We tend to look at computers and the Internet as items of nicety. In the 21st century, they will be items of necessity.

The modern era of continuity planning began under President Ronald Reagan.

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

The diverse threats we face are increasingly cyber-based. Much of America's most sensitive data is stored on computers. We are losing data, money, and ideas through cyber intrusions. This threatens innovation and, as citizens, we are also increasingly vulnerable to losing our personal information.

I hate the fact that so much of our life is computerised rather than mechanised.

One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'

One thing about these storms, we know how disruptive things can be when we depend on the system to keep working. What would happen if the terrorists do it? Knock down the power, destroy bridges, cut the water supply?

People are mostly focused on defending the computers on the Internet, and there's been surprisingly little attention to defending the Internet itself as a communications medium.

The availability of reliable and redundant communications is critical for our public safety.

Planes don't fly, trains don't run, banks don't operate without much of what IBM does.

One thing about computers and iPhones is they're making people mentally lazy.

In the developed world, we are surrounded by electronics - from the computers on our desks to the smart phones in our pockets to the thermostats in our homes to our data in the virtual cloud.

As individuals and as a nation we have become dependent on a vast digital infrastructure. That, in turn, has made us vulnerable to cybercriminals and foreign adversaries that target that infrastructure.

We need to invest in telecommunication infrastructure with redundancies to combat denial of service attacks.

In our country, the vast majority of our critical infrastructure and intellectual property is of course in the hands of the private sector.

The PC is an important part of our business and will continue to be for a long, long time.

The internet is shared critical infrastructure for everyone on earth. It's not supposed to be a domain of warfare. We're not supposed to be putting the Unied States' economy on the frontlines in the battleground.

What has a great value to us as a nation is the internet itself. The internet is critical infrastructure to the United States. We use the internet for every communication that businesses rely on every day.

If an adversary didn't target our power plants but they did target the core routers, the backbones that tie our internet connections together, entire parts of the United States could be cut off. That would have a tremendous impact on us as a society and it would have a policy backlash.

The United States is more reliant on the technical systems. We're more reliant on the critical infrastructure of the internet than any other nation out there. And when there's such a low barrier to entering the domain of cyber-attacks we're starting a fight that we can't win.

When we talk about computer network exploitation, computer network attack, we're not just talking about your home PC. We're talking about your cell phone, and we're also talking about internet routers themselves. The NSA is attacking the critical infrastructure of the internet to try to take ownership of it. They hack the routers that connect nations to the internet itself.