Quotes About Security

Encryption matters, and it is not just for spies and philanderers.

Beyond collecting comprehensive data about the online activities of hundreds of millions of people, X-KEYSCORE allows any NSA analyst to search the system's databases by email address, telephone number, or identifying attributes such as an IP address.

The agency regards itself as needing no specific justification to collect any particular electronic communication,

Among other devices, the agency intercepts and tampers with routers and servers manufactured by Cisco to direct large amounts of Internet traffic back to the NSA's repositories.

adviser, repeatedly requested that the NSA spy on the internal discussions of key member states to learn their negotiation strategies. A May 2010 SSO report

Expecting the US government to operate a massive surveillance machine in complete secrecy without falling prey to its temptations runs counter to every historical example and all available evidence about human nature.

A population, a country that venerates physical safety above all other values will ultimately give up its liberty and sanction any power seized by authority in exchange for the promise, no matter how illusory, of total security. However, absolute safety is itself chimeric, pursued by never obtained. The pursuit degrades those who engage in it as well as any nation that comes to be defined by it.

Taken in its entirety, the Snowden archive led to an ultimately simple conclusion: the US government had built a system that has as its goal the complete elimination of electronic privacy worldwide. Far from hyperbole, that is the literal, explicitly stated aim of the surveillance state: to collect, store, monitor, and analyze all electronic communication

In the words of one security expert, Johannes Beck, "There are always cracks in a suit of armor. A terrorist only has to succeed once but security or counter-terrorist agencies whose task it is to prevent the terrorists have to succeed all the time.

each and all of our lives are put at increasing risk daily when we fly and for one reason only. The aggressive pursuit of profit—and the erosion of safety standards caused by that same relentless pursuit.

Greater ability to trust and connect with other people. Others and the world are viewed as safe and predictable, consistent with early experiences with the primary caregiver(s) (Snyder and Lopez 2007). A greater likelihood of viewing God as loving (Granqvist et al. 2007).

Marriage gives us the security of tying another person to us-and us to them. But marriage itself also serves as a general wall of protection from illness in ways that cohabitation does not.

The intelligence community, for the most part, has no accountability at all to the Congress, to us the American people, and so they feel that they above the law.

Emotional security, continuity, a sense of being loved unconditionally for oneself—all those turn out to be as important to a child's development as all but the most basic food and shelter.

The loss of a much-prized treasure is only half felt when we have not regarded its tenure as secure.

Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.

Between the Mediterranean and the borders of Iraq, in what was once Palestine, there are now two countries, one Jewish and one Arab, and there is no room for a third. The Palestinians must find the solution to their problem together with that Arab country, Jordan, because a 'Palestinian state' between us and Jordan can only become a base from which it will be more convenient to attack and destroy Israel.

Love is the very essence of life. It is the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Yet it is more than the end of the rainbow. Love is the security for which children weep, the yearning of youth, the adhesive that binds marriage, and the lubricant that prevents devastating friction in the home; it is the peace of old age, the sunlight of hope shinning through death.

I hope that you mothers will realize that when all is said and done, you have no more compelling responsibility, nor any laden with greater rewards, than the nurture you give your children in an environment of security, peace, companionship, love, and motivation to grow and do well.

As we have been continuously counseled for more than 60 years, let us have some food set aside that would sustain us for a time in case of need. But let us not panic nor go to extremes. Let us be prudent in every respect. And, above all, my brothers and sisters, let us move forward with faith in the Living God and His Beloved Son.

Two departments of the PLA—the General Staff Department's Third and Fourth Departments, respectively—are organized to systematically penetrate communications and computer systems, extract information, and exploit that information.15 It is far faster, cheaper, and more efficient for the PLA to steal new technology than to devote vast amounts of time and money to develop it.

From a financial security perspective, the danger is that China might disrupt U.S. financial markets by engaging in strategic selling of its holdings, which in turn could injure the U.S. economy. This renders the U.S. economy potentially hostage to Chinese policymakers and for that reason constitutes a national security risk.

Unlike the traditional paradigm of warfare, in which the military object is the destruction of enemy battalions, divisions, and corps, in the paradigm of irregular warfare the security objective is the population itself.

Perhaps the only thing worse than having a mole is the fear of having a mole.