The internet is a "US colony"

Web users are vulnerable to mass online spying because the US has too much power online, according to a leading security researcher.

Discussing revelations of US spying at his LinuxCon keynote speech, F-Secure’s chief research officer Mikko Hypponen argued that US dominance over the internet had come at the expense of democracy.

Hypponen quoted Tenable's chief security officer, Marcus Ranum, who has previously described the internet as "a US colony".

"We’re back in the age of colonisation," said Hypponen. "We should think about the Americans as our masters."


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