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I think we're at a watershed moment for cyberspace
if you fast forward fifty years down the road
future historians will look back and you know there is at time in the nineteen
nineties and two thousands when citizens of
the earth built this open distributed network and everyone can communicate
with each other freely
and then it shut down through censorship surveillance and militarization
[next speaker] We live in a surveillance state
increasingly consumers are using services provided them for free
and that business model as the unintended side effect of facilitating
easy cheap wholesale surveillance
[next speaker] both law enforcement folks as well as military folks saying
might be part of the terror network therefore everything has to be monitored
[next speaker] I see a real danger of the
state casting itself in the role of protector and then being seen
as the Enemy of the People.
[next speaker] It looks like we have two sites --- so there's a side of
governments that support openness and the other side is government where they have
black boxes
[next speaker] The approach to digital security has to be comprehensive
and we have to empower citizens as opposed to what some of these
authoritarian regimes are trying to do which is to disempowered people and to
not allow them to have control over their own lives and the tools
and their hands
[next speaker] We have to defend freedom of expression freedom expression goes hand in hand
with privacy
and I believe the freedom of Internet is the biggest contribution
to peace in the world
[next speaker] I work with a group of people in Morocco who were targeted
by a software called Da Vinci.
[next speaker] The number of these, what I call digital arms or heavily intrusive
systems, have the label 'made in Europe'
or 'made in the United States'
[next speaker] The digital arms trade is big
business and that means it won't stop
[[next speaker] What used to be our global commons for information
has become ground zero for intelligence agencies and military organizations
around the world
[next speaker] If one side says
I'm building a national Internet, from which
I can attack people, the rest of the world doesn't really have a choice
we are going to have to fight this out on
national basis
[next speaker] National security is important, but it's problematic when governments
reengineer a resource that the whole world uses
for communication and for organization
[next speaker] I think you're all running out of time
because the next really unpleasant event
will cause people like me to pay a great deal more attention to the issue of cyber controls
and no one will like the results.
[Ron Deibert] I think the future cyberspace is not going to be determined by
those of us living in Toronto or New York or even Silicon Valley
but by the next billion digital natives coming online from the
Global South
if we care about keeping cyberspace open and secure
we have to engage in a global dialogue