Quotes About Vulnerability

A sneer is the weapon of the weak.

I never found out exactly what it was that had hurt my friend so–something working in him a long time, that finally found purchase. In future years I'd come to recognize similar things scrabbling for footholds within myself. They were already there, of course, even then. Sometimes at night I heard them breathing.

Do you know what it is to be really intimate, to feel safe with someone who will never betray you, will never force you to act unlike yourself? That was what we had.

A Nation State or Cyber-Mercenary won't hack e-voting machines one by one. This takes too long and will have minimal impact. Instead, they'll take an easier approach like spear phishing the manufacturer with malware and poison the voting machine update pre-election and allow the manufacturer to update each individual machine with a self-deleting payload that will target the tabulation process.

A vulnerability in an organization's IoT microcosm is a taunt to exploit by malicious hackers.

E-Voting machines are nothing more than dilapidated, barebones PCs with zero endpoint security.

Hacking a national election is simple. Exploit a vulnerability in the manufacturer's network, poison the tabulation software update with self-deleting malware and let the manufacturer send to their field reps and election consultants who update the election systems.

Medical devices and EHR systems are notoriously vulnerable to remote compromise

Most IoT devices that lack security by design simply pass the security responsibility to the consumer, thus, treating the customers as techno-crash test dummies. James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

The day an organization realizes they've been hacked they'll hire a forensic team to analyze the network only to identify the reality that they were hacked months or years ago, they just didn't know it.

The Frankensteined architectonic IoT microcosm of the prototypical critical infrastructure organization renders an infinite attack surface just begging to be exploited.

The health sector is in desperate need of a cyber hygiene injection

Wannacry is the Stuxnet of Ransomware

We have the technical sophistication of Tinker Toy's protecting the IoT microcosms of America's health sector organizations.

Funny, that no matter where you are in the world, there's always someone eager to help you destroy yourself. It

Funny, that no matter where you are in the world, there's always someone eager to help you destroy yourself.

Funny, that no matter where you are in the world, there's always someone eager to help you destroy yourself.

When you let the wolves guard the hen house, there's bound to be a few chicken dinners.

I'm sad.' 'I'm sorry and I'm here for you.' 'Aren't you going to tell me to cheer up? People always tell me to cheer up.' 'No, I still like you when you're sad.

Halil could sense the cruel-eyed man humming with the power to end his life, straining at the leash like a snarling dog.

It seemed the best thing was just to come right out and say it. You know, I said, I'm really not attracted to you. I mean, not that- Isn't that interesting, he said coolly. I'm really not attracted to you, either. But- You were there.

Harriet felt as though one of the gruesome transparencies of Your Developing Body-all womb, and tubes, and mammaries-had been projected over her poor dumb body; as if all anybody saw when they looked at her-even with her clothes on-were organs and genitalia and hair in unseemly places. Knowing that it was inevitable (just a natural part of growing up!) was no better than knowing that someday she would die. Death, at least, was dignified: an end to dishonor and sorrow.

Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it. And what could be more terrifying and beautiful, to souls like the Greeks or our own, than to lose control completely

Beauty is terror. We want to be devoured by it, to hide ourselves in that fire which refines us.