“How the NSA betrayed the world’s trust – time to act”

Mikko Hypponen talks about how foreigners are being watched and investigated more intensely whether they are suspected of wrongdoing or not.  In this TedTalk, Hypponen focuses on the NSA data center in Utah.  This data center is basically a supercomputer that was built to store data. This type of data center could store data for decades (Hypponen).  He explains that by law the government can only monitor foreigners, however, ninety-six percent of the planet are a foreigner to the U.S. (Hypponen).  This is kind of like “Arkangel” in the way that the mother is not supposed to be using the tablet when her daughter is older, but she uses a loophole and does it anyway without telling her.  The U.S.claims they are looking for terrorists but they are actually just watching the actions and behavior patterns of other countries.  Hypponen says that the government wants to make an encryption that seems safe but is actually slightly weakened so that the government can get into it.  The United States is already doing this by buying big companies, for instance, Skype, and slightly weakening them to make what once were safely encrypted companies into insecure companies (Hypponen). “Regulation and control of cryptography use on the Internet by national governments may lead to an imbalance in the citizen/government power relationship…” (Shearer).  Other countries are trying to build and create their own safe versions of operating systems and clouds services so that the United States does not have control over everyone’s data.  The United States is surveilling other countries and they do not like it.