The grill: Eugene Kaspersky

18.10.2011

Hacktivists which crack websites because of political or religious issues, I don't think that is a good thing. But if they hack a website which has bad content or not so legal, these ones are a shade of grey. If you talk about hacks on websites that are questionable than I will never do that myself. My principles won't let me do that.

With WikiLeaks, I think it's dangerous to publish every piece of information that can damage others. For example, if your neighbour forgot their key and left it in their door, it's a bad idea to cry to the whole city, "Hey that man forgot to lock his door".

If we receive information which is confidential, usually about vulnerabilities in software, we help to fix this mistake. When it is fixed, we delete this information. We don't want to have 15 minutes of fame, that is not my style. We are working to protect this world and make it more secure.

Personally, I am conservative with information. For example, there are comments made by politicians and they are leaked it damages cooperation between these countries. It works against international cooperation. If you want to have a war than it is good. If you want to have a global economy that works better than it is bad.