Quotes About Security

From my perspective, the state has to assume responsibility for the integrity of international communications.

Paradoxically, in its quest to make Americans more secure, the NSA has made American communications less secure; it has undermined the safety of the entire internet.

Really bad people around the world, because of the genius of American innovation, use our products and infrastructure for their emails, for their communications.

We decentralise permissions over the use of our communications.

In America, we collect more digital communications from America than we do from the Russians.

When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.

Amateurs hack systems, professionals hack people.

This will surprise some of your readers, but my primary interest is not with computer security. I am primarily interested in writing software that works as intended.

Social engineering is using deception, manipulation and influence to convince a human who has access to a computer system to do something, like click on an attachment in an e-mail.

Passwords are like underwear: you don't let people see it, you should change it very often, and you shouldn't share it with strangers.

If you spend more on coffee than on IT security, you will be hacked. What's more, you deserve to be hacked.

A computer shall not harm your work or, through inaction, allow your work to come to harm.

In a world without fences, who needs Gates?

I'd like people to be educated on the voting machines, making sure that our democracy isn't being hijacked by computer technology. There's no reason there can't be a paper trail on those machines.

If security were all that mattered, computers would never be turned on, let alone hooked into a network with literally millions of potential intruders.

Because I don't believe that it's really desirable to have security on a computer, I shouldn't be willing to help uphold the security regime.

Being able to break security doesn't make you a hacker anymore than being able to hotwire cars makes you an automotive engineer.

His computer password is "password.

Security wins many battles but loses the security war. We are definitely going backwards in computer security.

Don't damage computer systems you break into (including crashing them); don't change the information in those systems (except for altering logs to cover your tracks); and share information.

It's the concept of having a computer voting machine that bothers me, more so than the specific poor implementation that we have from Diebold.

The typical computer network isn't like a house with windows, doors, and locks. It's more like a gauze tent encircled by a band of drunk teenagers with lit matches.

It's proper Netiquette to view in-App webpages in a mobile browser for better security. NetworkEtiquette.net

No, I am not afraid; the Lord said he would protect me, and I have full confidence in His word.