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Toomas Hendrik Ilves
1953 • Estonian • Politician
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Showing 6 quotesIn Germany, a country that for obvious reasons is far more attuned than most to the dangers of demagogy, populism, and nationalism, lawmakers have already proposed taking legal measures against fake news. When populist, nationalist fake news threatens the liberal democratic center, other Europeans may follow suit.— Toomas Hendrik Ilves
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Legal
It is hard to work with the nagging doubt that perhaps some foreign intelligence agency is reading all your correspondence, especially when you know they have done so in the past.— Toomas Hendrik Ilves
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Intelligence
That was something that shaped my thinking regarding Estonia: the idea that we should be getting our young people to work with computers.— Toomas Hendrik Ilves
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Computers
When hackers have access to powerful computers that use brute force hacking, they can crack almost any password; even one user with insecure access being successfully hacked can result in a major breach.— Toomas Hendrik Ilves
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Computers
The whole information and communication technologies (ICT) infrastructure must be regarded as an 'ecosystem' in which everything is interconnected. It functions as a whole; it must be defended as a whole.— Toomas Hendrik Ilves
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Communication
The thing people forget is that the entire world - or, at least, Europe, U.S., transatlantic, Russia, Soviet Union - that security architecture has been in place since 1945 and has been refined. Already, the U.N. charter that everyone signed is that you can't change borders through use of force or even threat of use of force.— Toomas Hendrik Ilves
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Architecture