Top Secret: From Ciphers to Cybersecurity: Traditionally secretive government intelligence services need to be more transparent in order to continue to operate in the modern digital world and protect against cyber threats by gaining public trust, warned the head of the UK's GCHQ spy agency.
Its director GCHQ, Jeremy Fleming, made his remarks at the launch of a new exhibition at London's Science Museum, which explores the history of cryptography, the codificationand cyber security from the First World War to the modern era.
The opening of the exhibition Top Secret: From Ciphers to Cybersecurity coincides with GCHQ's 100th anniversary and allows the general public to view documents, machinery and objects from the history of the Secret Service over the past 100 years. Needless to say many of the exhibits were hidden behind closed doors for too many years.
Among the items on display are encryption machines from the early 1900s and code-breaking machines from World War II. They were used at Bletchley Park, in a portable computer infected with WannaCry ransomware and on the damaged hard drive they discovered the information it contained.
"I welcome this transparency because the world has changed, it is no longer enough to operate secretly. We need to gain the trust of the people we seek to protect, "said Fleming, who said transparency was key to GCHQ's success.
If we want to prosper as a democratic nation in the digital age, openness is our strength. Transparency, which encourages innovation and entrepreneurship, will allow us to reap the benefits of the technological revolution. Transparency can give everyone access to tools and knowledge to keep themselves and their families safe in the digital world.
Η free exhibition will run until February 2020 and the agency hopes to inspire young people to think differently about cyber security, paving the way to protect the country from future digital threats.
"We need to inspire the next generation so that our children can understand and shape our digital future," Fleming said.
In the Aeneid, Virgil quoted Laocoon's phrase: "timeo Danaos et dona ferentes", or in Greek: "Φοβοῦ τοὺς Δαναοὺς καὶ δῶρα φέροντας", meaning to fear the Danes even when they bring gifts.
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