Quotes About Security

A little-appreciated downside of the technology revolution is that, mainly without thinking about it, we have given up 'locational privacy.'

Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary.

I am of mixed minds about the issue of privacy. On one hand, I understand that information is power, and power is, well, power, so keeping your private information to yourself is essential - especially if you are a controversial figure, a celebrity, or a dissident.

Personal privacy is a closely held American value.

With existing technology, we can enforce airport security without sacrificing our personal privacy.

I think there is a possible future where maybe we do just take a hard turn away from the Internet and we do start valuing our privacy again.

At one point I thought changing my name might help with privacy, but that was before the Internet.

You can't talk about big data without talking about things like privacy and ownership.

There is no such thing as absolute privacy in America.

If a police officer is looking for a criminal, he or she might stop a number of people in that particular area and ask to see their driver's license. No one bellyaches about civil rights or privacy issues. We're just happy the cops are trying to find the bad guy.

I really think we need to see how we can expand our privacy laws.

People have a right to privacy, but they also have a right to live. Fundamentally, we need cybersecurity and need to secure communications as well.

I never understood what the big deal is about privacy.

Increasing cyber-physical system complexity brings security challenges as well as privacy challenges.

Our national security requires us to be strong and fearless, but not at the cost of personal privacy.

Everybody has lost their digital privacy.

The Patriotic Act allows the American government to snoop around anybody's business at any time. Nobody has privacy anymore. Everybody can hack into anybody's system and find out everything about that person's life because it's all on a computer.

You have to assume once you go online, anything you put there can be made public. Yet while you're online, you feel like it's a private, sacred space. But you're really broadcasting to the world.

If 300 million people were to offer up the details of their private lives, you would need to hire another 300 million people just to keep up.

One of the things that I always say about bioterrorism, whether it's ourselves at the federal level, folks at the state level, or folks in the private industry, we've done many great things, especially since 9/11.

Aside from my work, in my everyday private life, I'm not a very adventureous person. I don't look for change.

Sometimes, fame does scare me. When people know where you are and what you're doing, that can be frightening because I'm such a private person. So I like to try and keep things light-hearted and stay as private as possible.

We should enable the private sector to engage in self-defense in the cyber world like we do in the physical world.

Our federal resources, our U.S. marshals, and the federal court system are being used, I think, by the private sector.