F-Secure snubs the upcoming RSA 2014 conference
Posted by: Timothy Weaver on 12/27/2013 11:45 AM
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F-Secure's chief research officer Mikko Hypponen says that RSA is an imperialist running dog.
“I don’t really expect your multibillion dollar company or your multimillion dollar conference to suffer as a result of your deals with the NSA. In fact, I'm not expecting other conference speakers to cancel. Most of your speakers are american anyway – why would they care about surveillance that’s not targeted at them but at non-americans. Surveillance operations from the US intelligence agencies are targeted at foreigners. However I’m a foreigner. And I’m withdrawing my support from your event.”
He was scheduled to give a speech entitled: "Governments as Malware Authors", at RSA 2014.
All of this is fallout from the allegation that RSA helped the NSA undermine cryptography standards.
“I don’t really expect your multibillion dollar company or your multimillion dollar conference to suffer as a result of your deals with the NSA. In fact, I'm not expecting other conference speakers to cancel. Most of your speakers are american anyway – why would they care about surveillance that’s not targeted at them but at non-americans. Surveillance operations from the US intelligence agencies are targeted at foreigners. However I’m a foreigner. And I’m withdrawing my support from your event.”
He was scheduled to give a speech entitled: "Governments as Malware Authors", at RSA 2014.
All of this is fallout from the allegation that RSA helped the NSA undermine cryptography standards.
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