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Computer Security Quotes

Companies spend millions of dollars on firewalls and secure access devices, and it's money wasted because none of these measures address the weakest link in the security chain: the people who use, administer and operate computer systems β€” Kevin Mitnick

The only truly secure system is one that is powered off, cast in a block of concrete and sealed in a lead-lined room with armed guards. β€” Gene Spafford

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. β€” Wietse Venema

Computer hacking quote Being fearless precisely when you are most scared is the best hack.
Being fearless precisely when you are most scared is the best hack.

Amateurs hack systems, professionals hack people. β€” Bruce Schneier

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. β€” Chris Pirillo

If you spend more on coffee than on IT security, you will be hacked. What's more, you deserve to be hacked. β€” Richard A. Clarke

Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back. β€” Bill Gates

We've created life in our own image. β€” Stephen Hawking

The fundamental driver in computer security, in all of the computer industry, is economics. That requires a lot of re-education for us security geeks. β€” Bruce Schneier

The problem of viruses is temporary and will be solved in two years. β€” John McAfee

Cyber Security Quotes

I dream of a Digital India where cyber security becomes an integral part of our National Security. β€” Narendra Modi

The choices we make now will shape the future of not just our countries, but the world at large. We should intensify our cooperation in confronting global challenges like Terrorism, Cyber Security and Climate Change. β€” Narendra Modi

We put up the very best cyber security - what I call infrastructure to stop them, but [hackers] constantly [didn't stop]. β€” Donna Brazile

I know our congressmen hasn't done it, has anybody put a server in their basement? Oh boy, Hillary Clinton's only - Hillary Clinton's only experience in cyber security involves her criminal scheme to violate federal law, engineering a massive cover up and putting the entire nation in harm's way. β€” Donald Trump

There are cyber threats out there, this is a dangerous world, and we have to be safe, we have to be secure no matter the cost. β€” Edward Snowden

The issue of cyber-security, cyber-crime, and cyber-malfeasance has an impact on a whole range of issues, not the least of which is civil liberties, political activity, and so on and so forth. β€” Misha Glenny

Cyber security will be an issue that I will be absolutely focused on as president. Because whether it's Russia, or China, Iran or North Korea more and more countries are using hacking to steal our information, to use it to their advantage. And we can't let that go on. β€” Hillary Clinton

European security may now depend on Germany, France, Britain and one or two others, and it's better to start planning now for the possibility of European-only cyber-defense, counter-terrorism, and conventional defense too. β€” Anne Applebaum

Of course we [with Angela Merkel] discussed our commitment to meeting shared security challenges from countering cyber threats to ensuring that Iran continues to live up to the terms of the Iran nuclear deal. β€” Barack Obama

The cyber review team will proceed with the most sensitive systems first, but ultimately all systems will be analyzed and made as secure as modern technology permits. And hopefully, that's gonna be our technology. β€” Donald Trump

More Computer Hacking Quotes

Amateurs hack systems, professionals hack people. β€” Bruce Schneier

While many hackers have the knowledge, skills, and tools to attack computer systems, they generally lack the motivation to cause violence or severe economic or social harm. β€” Dorothy E. Denning

If you spend more on coffee than on IT security, you will be hacked. What's more, you deserve to be hacked. β€” Richard A. Clarke

A lot of hacking is playing with other people, you know, getting them to do strange things. β€” Steve Wozniak

I don't even have any good skills. You know like nunchuck skills, bow hunting skills, computer hacking skills. Girls only want boyfriends who have great skills! β€” Jon Heder

When you zap things with light to build quantum computers, you're hacking existing systems. You're hijacking the computation that's already happening in the universe, just like a hacker takes over someone else's computer. β€” Seth Lloyd

Be afraid of the Chinese. I mean, the Chinese shoot down satellites in space; they hack into Google's computers; the Osama bin Laden people can't make their underwear blow up. β€” Francis Fukuyama

Further, the next generation of terrorists will grow up in a digital world, with ever more powerful and easy-to-use hacking tools at their disposal. β€” Dorothy E. Denning

Look, Sage. I don't know much about chemistry or computer hacking or photosynthery, but this is something I've got a lot of experience with." I think he mean photosynthesis, but I didn't correct him. "Use my knowledge. Don't let it go to waste. β€” Richelle Mead

Every ISP is being attacked, maliciously both from in the United States and outside of the United States, by those who want to invade people's privacy. But more importantly they want to take control of computers, they want to hack them, they want to steal information. β€” Darrell Issa

I only use the computer for editing. I don't have an eight-track, otherwise I probably never would have bought a computer. When I first got my Mac, I was exploring its possibilities and had fun with all of the sound hacking software, but I'm not interested in that approach. I toyed with the idea of releasing a 12-inch of all the stuff I did early on but good sense prevented me from doing so. β€” Kevin Drumm

China is stealing our intellectual property, our patents, our designs, our technology, hacking into our computers, counterfeiting our goods. β€” Mitt Romney

The reason I said the Internet is dangerous is that a couple smart guys could hack into a computer and shut down the Eastern seaboard if they wanted to. It's a terrible, out-of-control thing. β€” John Mellencamp

Actually, I caught myself thinking that I was hoping for someone to break into my apartment and steal my computer, or a big fire would take place in my apartment, or thinking of uninstalling my firewall so someone could hack into my computer. I just had all these dreams and eventually realized what I needed to do was delete the songs because I really wasn't happy with them. I needed a fresh beginning. β€” Jens Lekman

It all depends on what I'm working on and if there is a deadline involved. Anything that's headed toward a magazine or newspaper is hacked out on the computer; that's a matter of efficiency. I write longer pieces of prose on a typewriter because the act of retyping it for the computer is a useful tactic for revision. Poems tend to be written longhand. β€” Kevin Keck

It seems that nearly every week there is a problem where information is leaked or computers hacked. I'm conscious of keeping my details as safe as possible. I might be old but I'm still bright and prefer to go into my local branch and see a face. β€” Geoff Capes

We live in a world where we're all on computers and tablets and phones, all the time, so something as odd as computer hacking or a virus is really scary because it gets to the heart of our security. β€” Denis O'Hare

You shouldn't send an email from a computer that's associated with you if you don't want it to be tracked back to you. You don't want to hack the power plant from your house if you don't want them to follow the trail back and see your IP address. β€” Edward Snowden

When we talk about computer network exploitation, computer network attack, we're not just talking about your home PC. We're talking about your cell phone, and we're also talking about internet routers themselves. The NSA is attacking the critical infrastructure of the internet to try to take ownership of it. They hack the routers that connect nations to the internet itself. β€” Edward Snowden

We couldn't build quantum computers unless the universe were quantum and computing. We can build such machines because the universe is storing and processing information in the quantum realm. When we build quantum computers, we're hijacking that underlying computation in order to make it do things we want: little and/or/not calculations. We're hacking into the universe. β€” Seth Lloyd

Despair leads to boredom, electronic games, computer hacking, poetry and other bad habits. β€” Edward Abbey

Artemis felt like he was six again and caught hacking the school computers trying to make the test questions harder β€” Eoin Colfer

Google did a great job hacking the Web to create search - and then monetizing search with advertising. And Apple did a great job humanizing hardware and software so that formerly daunting computers and applications could become consumer-friendly devices - even a lifestyle brand. β€” Douglas Rushkoff

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