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This report aims to give a non-bias detailed view of the Ted Talk by Mikko Hypponen titled How the NSA betrayed the world's trust -- time to act.
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Mr. Hypponen talks about how the national security agency or NSA for short and other American agencies are monitoring foreign data connections that enters or passes US soil, which includes personal data such as emails, text messages, phone calls and other types of data and how our encryption methods are being weaken by installing backdoor access by said agencies.
He goes on to talk about how agencies are breaching the security of fellow countries and he gives an example that was leaked by Edward Snowden which details how a division called Network Analysis Center(NAC) inside the
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It seems to me that the response from the general public seems to be as Mr. Hypponen said in his talk when he talked about the “if you have nothing to hide” section of his talk, it seems that with words like terrorism being thrown around a lot in these modern times people feel like it is necessary for mass surveillance and I don’t agree with to a certain extent. I think that Mr. Hypponen got it pretty spot on when he said about only using surveillance when someone is suspected of criminal intent.
I would like to share a quote that really stuck with me it was where Mr. Hypponen

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