The attack on the law firms and attacks like that are industrial espionage, searching for copyrighted materials to lift and so on; it's not quite the….

I think that we're now deep into a struggle for control over the Internet and there are various actors - state, corporate, civic, criminal and milita….

The criminal justice system - although this applies less to the U.S., where rehabilitation is not seen as a valuable contribution to criminal justice….

When you're researching things that have happened, the clear narrative arc is not there already. This is the problem of writing nonfiction for me - w….

You don’t have to sleep with prostitutes or take drugs in order to have a relationship with organized crime. They affect our bank accounts. They affe….

The internet is fracturing into a series of huge country-based intranets, in which governments define, in the name of security, what is legitimate pe….

What has happened is that we have seen a shift in the past twenty years in the very concept of hacking. So hacking twenty years ago was a neutral, po….

The Internet has fashioned a new and complicated environment for an age-old dilemma that pits the demands of security against the desire for freedom..

The Internet obviously changes things; we've seen that in the music industry above all else. As an author, I'm now having to deal with the fact that ….

The issue of cyber-security, cyber-crime, and cyber-malfeasance has an impact on a whole range of issues, not the least of which is civil liberties, ….

There are governments who are regulating things in different ways and those forms of regulation often don't square up. So you have a real legislative….

In 2010, you have roughly 38 billion dollars spent by government on cyber and telecoms security and another 60 billion or so by private corporations.….

The anonymity issue is a big question. As long as people can disguise cyber attacks and as long as there is a sort of question mark over who is respo….

Clearly there are some things about WikiLeaks... the material is in part very interesting although none of it is a real game-changer. I think if I wa….

What we're going to get as this next generation grows up is more hacking skills and this is spreading geographically also - Africa is about to come o….

The U.S. has the most advanced cyber-weaponry on the planet, and t if you look at the U.S. from the perspective of the Chinese People's Liberation Ar….

It's great that the Internet can enhance and speed up our communications and that computers can do all the things they do. It's fabulous. At the same….

The sort of sweeping parochial espionage and attempts to extract information from all sorts of institutions are well documented, but I think in this ….

One of the problem with cyber is that it lends itself to preemptive action. Your assets in cyber-warfare are your opponents' vulnerabilities, therefo….

There are two types of companies in the world: those that know they've been hacked, and those that don't..

If there is an event for whatever reason, which interferes with the Internet or network communications, are people able to deal with it? It seems lik….