Mikko Hypponen Gangs Quotations

I believe in the freedom of the net, but I don't believe in the freedom of the net at the cost of having these online criminal gangs running completely loose and using the freedom of the net to steal everybody's money and take away the trust we have.

We seem to have a botwar on our hands, ... There appears to be three different virus-writing gangs turning out new worms at an alarming rate ­ as if they would be competing who would build the biggest network of infected machines.

We seem to have a botwar on our hands, ... There appears to be three different virus-writing gangs turning out new worms at an alarming rate ­ as if they would be competing who would build the biggest network of infected machines.

We seem to have a botwar on our hands. There appears to be three different virus-writing gangs turning out new worms at an alarming rate ­ as if they would be competing who would build the biggest network of infected machines.

We seem to have a botwar on our hands. There appear to be three different virus-writing gangs turning out new worms at an alarming rate, as if they would be competing who would build the biggest network of infected machines.

There appears to be three different virus writing gangs turning out new worms at an alarming rate -- as if they would be competing who would build the biggest network of infected machines.

The most significant change has been the evolution of virus writing hobbyists into criminally operated gangs bent on financial gain.