Craig Ferguson Quotes

Every time you write an email, it is in the public domain. There are all these ways where security is not as good as people believe.

If we don't act now to safeguard our privacy, we could all become victims of identity theft.

For email, the old postcard rule applies. Nobody else is supposed to read your postcards, but you'd be a fool if you wrote anything private on one.

The leakage of information means you're going to be able to read everybody's e-mail.

Prior to email, our private correspondence was secured by a government institution called the postal service. Today, we trust AOL, Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook, or Gmail with our private utterances.

There has to be a better, smarter way to authenticate who somebody is. Social Security numbers are floating out there everywhere.

I think a lot of stuff like people's emails getting hacked or that an email you sent is stored on a hard drive somewhere, that kind of stuff worries me a little bit. It's a weird thought that someone else could get into my information that easily. That stuff's pretty scary.

I want my government to do something about my privacy - I don't want to just do it on my own.

We've come to expect so little from online privacy measures that public displays of concern about the matter are more or less for show. Being devastated to discover you've been tagged in somebody else's photo has an air of the melodramatic about it at this point.

Many well-meaning attempts to address public concern about privacy reflect an outdated understanding of the contemporary data ecosystem.

There is no secure data center in the world; they have all been broken into. We can help you prepare for it and minimize the damage when it does occur.

In terms of security and privacy, what people care about the most is the privacy of their messages.

I think over time more people will become more aware of how vulnerable their data is.

The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual.

She [Hillary Clinton] used her personal email extensively while outside the United States, including sending and receiving work-related emails in the territory of sophisticated adversaries.

Mitt Romney's email was hacked! So if you start getting messages that sound like they're from a bot, he's fixed the problem.

It is a fiction to imagine that the haphazard paper chits of old are more private than the modern digital alternative. Paper records have always presented a security risk.

DMs are a lot like email - and should have the same privacy protections as a mailed letter.

The conversation we should be having is, what does Russia have from Hillary Clinton's server?

There is no world of absolute, complete privacy or a world of complete national security.

I divide the entire set of Fortune Global 2000 firms into two categories: those that know they've been compromised and those that don't yet know.

Great software has seemingly limitless potential to solve human problems - and it can spread around the world in the blink of an eye. Malicious code moves just as quickly, and when software is created for the wrong reason, it has a huge and growing capacity to harm millions of people.

If a serious and sophisticated attacker has enough time he or she will get into a digital network. Governments and private corporations need to be able to detect an attacker on their network quickly, quarantine him completely and then kick him off.

There should be an understanding and trust that your privacy and data will be protected.

In our effort to tackle terrorism, we should look into all possible avenues of cyber-crime, its linkages with the terrorist world, and how these could be dealt with.