William L. Jenkins Quotes

I saw firsthand the toll that fraud can take on the victims and their families.

Today, we realize there are those actively seeking to harm us, to destroy our infrastructure and take lives.

I had a weird situation were someone used my name to extort money from a woman. He took her for 60 or 80 thousand dollars. He is in prison now. It was on Sally.

What I did in my youth is hundreds of times easier today. Technology breeds crime.

There was a second problem that was still not a technical problem... the project became classified. I couldn't work on it after having gone to all that trouble. I was considered a security risk, so I could not get a clearance.

There is no such thing as perfect security, only varying levels of insecurity.

A lot of individuals out there carry a lot of proprietary information on their mobile devices, and they're not protected. It's a very target-rich environment.

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

We don't need a nation that has national identity cards.

The United States strongly condemns the illegal disclosure of classified information. It puts people's lives in danger, threatens our national security, and undermines our efforts to work with other countries to solve shared problems.

The great lesson of 9/11 is that improper hoarding of information can cost lives and harm national security.

A defenseless country cannot be secure.

We will continue to hold accountable financial institutions that, in the pursuit of their own financial interests, misuse public funds and cause harm to hard working Americans.

As our use of technologies grows exponentially, so do our country's vulnerabilities. Our national security depends on the stability and reliability of our communications infrastructure. The cyber threat to IT and national security systems has never been greater.

Foreign agents are taking advantage of loopholes in our laws.

Great weight should be given to the judgment of professionals on what information, if disclosed, would harm national security.

Security is a human problem.

Introducing ID cards isn't a matter of great national security importance.

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.

If the leaks continue, we are strong as our weakest link. And I'll say it a little differently in a pun. We're strong as our weakest leak.

I'd be the first to say that cybersecurity is a difficult and challenging matter.

If Israeli intelligence that has been shared with the United States - whether the National Security Agency, the C.I.A., the Defense Department, or the White House - is not safely guarded, Israel faces a major threat to its security. Cooperation with America's agencies is deeply embedded in Israel's intelligence community.

The consequences of leaking sensitive information is that Americans and coalition forces die, and we lose trust with foreign spies, and our national security is put at risk.

I think to leave Europe would be a threat on the one hand to our economic security and on the other our national security.

As safe and secure as you believe you are is as vulnerable as you can turn out to be.