Quotes About Technology

There is, of course, a deep irony in the fact that technology, which was supposed to cut the ties between people and places and allow people everywhere to work from almost anywhere, turns out to flourish in fairly compact geographic locations.

Universities are the talent magnets and anchors of the innovation-driven knowledge economy. But for decades, CMU has been generating talent and technology and subsequently losing them to more mature tech hubs like Silicon Valley.

If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology.

I am regularly asked what the average Internet user can do to ensure his security. My first answer is usually 'Nothing you're screwed'.

People don't understand computers. Computers are magical boxes that do things. People believe what computers tell them.

We kill people based on metadata.

Data is the pollution problem of the information age, and protecting privacy is the environmental challenge.

One hundred years ago, everyone could have personal privacy. You and your friend could walk into an empty field, look around to see that no one else was nearby, and have a level of privacy that has forever been lost. As Whitfield Diffie has said: "No right of private conversation was enumerated in the Constitution. I don't suppose it occurred to anyone at the time that it could be prevented

Complexity is the worst enemy of security, and our systems are getting more complex all the time.

In 2014, former NSA and CIA director Michael Hayden remarked, "We kill people based on metadata.

By 2010, we as a species were creating more data per day than we did from the beginning of time until 2003. By 2015, 76 exabytes of data will travel across the Internet every year.

Google knows more about what I'm thinking of than I do, because Google remembers all of it perfectly and forever.

Estimates put the current number of Internet-connected devices at 10 billion.

Those of us who fought the crypto wars, as we call them, thought we had won them in the 1990s. What the Snowden documents have shown us is that instead of dropping the notion of getting backdoor government access, the NSA and FBI just kept doing it in secret.

In 2015, a petabyte of cloud storage will cost $100,000 per year, down 90% from $1 million in 2011.

By 2010, we as a species were creating more data per day than we did from the beginning of time until 2003.

I used to say that Google knows more about what I'm thinking of than my wife does. But that doesn't go far enough. Google knows more about what I'm thinking of than I do, because Google remembers all of it perfectly and forever.

we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology.

Surveillance is the business model of the Internet for two primary reasons: people like free, and people like convenient. The truth is, though, that people aren't given much of a choice. It's either surveillance or nothing, and the surveillance is conveniently invisible so you don't have to think about it.

The most insidious RATs can turn your computer's camera on without turning the indicator light on. Not all ratters extort their victims; some just trade photos, videos, and files with each other.

Retail store surveillance systems register our presence, even if we are doing nothing but browsing and even if we pay for everything in cash.

We are social animals, and there's nothing more powerful or rewarding than communicating with other people. Digital means have become the easiest and quickest way to communicate.

Worldwide, Google has the capacity to store 15 exabytes.

A 2010 investigation found that 1,931 different corporations are working on intelligence, counterterrorism, or homeland security inside the US.