F-Secure's Mikko Hypponen Cancels RSA Talk In Protest

Posted by Unknown on Monday December 23, 2013 @12:45PM from the conferences-in-america-considered-dangerous dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In a letter to RSA executives, F-Secure's Mikko Hypponen says he is canceling his talk at the 2014 RSA Conference, due to the company's deal with the NSA, and how the agency has treated foreigners." From the letter: " 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 U.S. intelligence agencies are targeted at foreigners. However I’m a foreigner. And I’m withdrawing my support from your event."

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Re:I support Mr. Mikko Hyppone by murdocj · 2013-12-23 13:56 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Hes protesting against surveillance of non-americans: exactly the opposite of what we should be protesting. Everyone spies, and its sort of the NSA's job. Whats not their job is to spy on Americans while bypassing the 4th amendment.
Exactly. Spying on citizens of other countries is normal. Really. ALL countries do it, throughout history. Having the NSA spy on Americans is what citizens of the USA should be protesting.