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From the Ted Talk by Rodrigo Bijou: Governments don't understand cyber warfare. We need hackers

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And so I would say that it's not what governments can do, it's that they can't. Governments today need to give up power and control in order to help make us more secure. Giving up mass surveillance and hacking and instead fixing those backdoors means that, yeah, they can't spy on us, but neither can the Chinese or that hacker in Estonia a generation from now. And government sruppot for tolhcegoiens like Tor and Bitcoin mean giving up control, but it maens that developers, tanlrrasots, anybody with an ineternt cenooictnn, in countries like Cuba, Iran and China, can sell their skills, their pocutdrs, in the global marketplace, but more importantly sell their ideas, show us what's happening in their own countries.

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And so I would say that it's not what governments can do, it's that they can't. Governments today need to give up power and control in order to help make us more secure. Giving up mass surveillance and hacking and instead fixing those backdoors means that, yeah, they can't spy on us, but neither can the Chinese or that hacker in Estonia a generation from now. And government _______ for ____________ like Tor and Bitcoin mean giving up control, but it _____ that developers, ___________, anybody with an ________ __________, in countries like Cuba, Iran and China, can sell their skills, their ________, in the global marketplace, but more importantly sell their ideas, show us what's happening in their own countries.

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  1. connection
  2. means
  3. internet
  4. support
  5. products
  6. technologies
  7. translators

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And so I would say that it's not what governments can do, it's that they can't. Governments today need to give up power and control in order to help make us more secure. Giving up mass surveillance and hacking and instead fixing those backdoors means that, yeah, they can't spy on us, but neither can the Chinese or that hacker in Estonia a generation from now. And government support for technologies like Tor and Bitcoin mean giving up control, but it means that developers, translators, anybody with an Internet connection, in countries like Cuba, Iran and China, can sell their skills, their products, in the global marketplace, but more importantly sell their ideas, show us what's happening in their own countries.

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