Social engineering bypasses all technologies, including firewalls. — Kevin Mitnick
It is a virtual reflex for governments to plead security concerns when they undertake any controversial action, often as a pretext for something else. — Noam Chomsky
A network built by the people, for the people… — Micky Watkins
Privacy is not an option, and it shouldn't be the price we accept for just getting on the Internet. — Gary Kovacs
Transparency is for those who carry out public duties and exercise public power. Privacy is for everyone else. — Glenn Greenwald
Megaupload was a dual-use technology. You can use it for good things, and you can use it for bad things. — Kim Dotcom
Cryptography is the ultimate form of non-violent direct action. — Julian Assange
Wikileaks is a mechanism to maximize the flow of information to maximize the amount of action leading to just reform. — Julian Assange
Information flow is what the Internet is about. Information sharing is power. If you don't share your ideas, smart people can't do anything about them, and you'll remain anonymous and powerless. — Vinton Cerf
Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds. — John Perry Barlow
Only wimps use tape backup. Real men just upload their important stuff on ftp and let the rest of the world mirror it. — Linus Torvalds
Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master. — Sid Meier
One bug in an SMTP server can open up the whole machine for intrusion. — Wietse Venema
We are the strongest filter we can place before the lens. We point the lens both outward and inward. — John Paul Caponigro
Never do that by proxy which you can do yourself. — Italian Proverbs
A nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy. — Raymond Chandler
Nature will not be admired by proxy. — Winston Churchill
Movies are a collective art. Art by proxy. — Sylvester Stallone
Art appreciation, like love, cannot be done by proxy. — Robert Henri
Living by proxy is always a precarious expedient. — Simone de Beauvoir
Russia ought to get Iran to back out of the proxy wars they are involved in. — Michael T. Flynn
We are not interested in a proxy war. Our objective is to change Russia's behavior. — John F. Kerry
You don't know a thing about me — Kelly Clarkson
Kevin Quotes
It is illegal to steal my feelings and leave — Kevin Gates
Anything lost, can be found again, except for time wasted
A vision without action is merely a dream
Action, it's the grind, it's the hustle, it's the persistence — Kevin Gates
Wise men change, fools stay the same. — Kevin Gates
Everybody round you pretendin that they your partner, let you have a problem they won't even help you out — Kevin Gates
If you associate yourself with peer pressure or complacency, you're destined for failure. — Kevin Gates
So many people doubted me. They motivated me every single day, to be, who I am. — Kevin Durant
I wonder what the most intelligent thing ever said was that started with the word 'dude.' 'Dude, these are isotopes.' 'Dude, we removed your kidney. You're gonna be fine.' 'Dude, I am so stoked to win this Nobel Prize. I just wanna thank Kevin, and Turtle, and all my homies.' — Demetri Martin
Argentina won't be at Euro 2000 because they're from South America. — Kevin Keegan
Saying no”, argues the author Kevin Ashton, “has more creative power than ideas, insights and talent combined. No guards time, the thread from which we weave our creations. The math of time is simple: you have less than you think and need more than you know. — Kevin Ashton
Goalkeepers aren't born today until they're in their late twenties or thirties. — Kevin Keegan
Using statistical models to predict life expectancy isn't a definitive forecast. It's a statistical proxy based on risk factors and population data, providing insights but not individual certainties. — Gary Brecka
We are committed to a future where every investor – even individual investors – can have the option to participate in the proxy voting process if they choose. — Larry Fink
When America does not lead, the world is a dangerous and a tragic place. This is a bad deal. [Barack] Obama broke every rule of negotiation.Yes, our allies are not perfect, but Iran is at the heart of most of the evil that is going on in the Middle East through their proxy. — Carly Fiorina
Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy. — Wendell Berry
Art appreciation, like love, cannot be done by proxy: It is a very personal affair and is necessary to each individual. — Robert Henri
The letter we all love to receive is one that carries so much of the writer’s personality that she seems to be sitting beside us, looking at us directly and talking just as she really would, could she have come on a magic carpet, instead of sending her proxy in ink-made characters on mere paper. — Emily Post
Like everyone else, I am going to die. But the words - the words live on for as long as there are readers to see them, audiences to hear them. It is immortality by proxy. It is not really a bad deal, all things considered. — J. Michael Straczynski
I preferred that option, where my camera (and by proxy, me) could look them straight in the eye. The way they reacted to me was always interesting. Sometimes hard young men would reveal vulnerability and a softer side. In the case of teenage girls, I often got a fascinating glimpse of the woman inside. — Derek Ridgers
Time, presence and physical attentiveness are our most basic proxies for something ultimately unprovable: that we are understood. — Tom Chatfield
We had a world dominated by the Soviet Union on the one hand, and the Americans on the other hand. They called it the Cold War. But it wasn't cold. I am someone who comes from the third world. In the third world, the cold war wasn't cold. Millions had been killed. It was a proxy war. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
We don't know how to identify intelligence over interstellar distances, so what we do instead is use technology for a proxy. — Jill Tarter
I think it is to the advantage of my state to have the opportunity to come to meetings occasionally and to vote in person, rather than just by proxy. — Mitch McConnell
Part of the problem that we have currently in the Middle East is that[Bashar] Assad has hung on to power with the very strong support of Russia and Iran and with the proxy of Hezbollah being there basically fighting his battles. — Hillary Clinton
There are proxies, proxy servers on the internet, and this is very typical for hackers to use. They create what are called proxy chains where they gain access to a number of different systems around the world, sometimes by hacking these, and they use them as sort of relay boxes. — Edward Snowden
The data set of proxies of past climate used in Mann...for the estimation of temperature from 1400 to 1980 contains collation errors, unjustifiable truncation or extrapolation of source data, obsolete data, geographical location errors, incorrect calculation of principal components and other quality control defects. — Steve McIntyre
The irony of the matter is that the future generations do not have a vote. In effect, we hold their proxy. — Charles J. Hitch
I've always been into having stories told to me. I was a voracious reader, my father was also a teller of tales; and the kind of Baron Munchausen proxy of a tall tale was much more interesting than a true tale. — Damon Lindelof
The Mormons even baptized Anne Frank. It took Ernest Michel, then chairman of the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, three years to get Mormons to agree to stop proxy-baptizing Holocaust victims. — Maureen Dowd
Mia Farrow was the person I was really excited about getting to know, because Woody Allen is one of my heroes and, just by proxy, I was a huge fan of hers. — Sayings
Just as our Redeemer gave His life as a vicarious sacrifice for all men, and in so doing became our Savior, even so we, in a small measure, when we engage in proxy work in the temple, become as saviors to those on the other side. — Gordon B. Hinckley
The breakage and agony rending us today will be our salvation if they drive us by new routes to meet it. No one can proxy for us a masterpiece of loving or experience for us the rapture of art or launch for us book ships freighted with sweet bread to strengthen man. As of old we must be our own seers, musicians and explorers, and to an extent vaster than ever before. — Helen Keller
I know there is pressure to present a nice tidy story as regards 'apparent unprecedented warming in a thousand years or more in the proxy data' but in reality the situation is no quite so simple. — Keith Briffa
Iran has basically propped up Assad, who has waged an absolute war of horror against the Syrian people. And he has done anything he could to stay in power with the full support of the Iranians and including Iranian troops and Hezbollah from Lebanon, which are an Iranian proxy. — Hillary Clinton
I do write about people who are complex and are striving with something and can't quite get past their own stuff, which would be a proxy for myself because that's what the deal is with me. — Eric Bogosian
The Russians are clearly already engaged in a proxy war against the government of Ukraine. And that is something that we and the rest of the world have actively condemned and sanctioned Russia already heavily for, particularly the United States, as we have imposed now meaningful, tough sanctions in critical sectors, including the defense sector, the financial sector, and the energy sector. — Susan Rice
I don't think religious profiling or ethnic profiling is permissible, period. That is using religion or ethnicity as a proxy for suspicion. It just doesn't make any sense. — David D. Cole
A lot of things, whether it's Brexit, the U.S. election, things that are happening on Facebook Live, the way that Twitter in many cases was weaponized, obviously for good but then obviously for bad, for proxy. Governments who use it to troll and give voice to conspiracy theories, white supremacists, et cetera. I think that's not going away. — James Ponsoldt
What we've seen at least since 1979 is Iran making constant, calculated decisions that allow it to preserve the regime, to expand their influence where they can, to be opportunistic, to create what they view as hedges against potential Israeli attack in the form of Hezbollah and other proxies in the region. — Barack Obama
The biggest problems with Iran in the region are not due to the size of their resources, but due to the fact that they've been more effective in supporting proxies and stirring up dissension and conflict in the region than America or our allies have been in stopping those activities. — Barack Obama
Iran has proxies in Yemen, Syria, Iraq. You can push back against Iran without pulling out of the deal. — Peter R. Mansoor
Health care has become a proxy for a broader set of issues about how much government should be involved in our economy, particularly coming off a huge economic crisis. — Barack Obama
I came upon Diana Krall's jazz arrangement of "A Case of You" several years back. I've always wanted to pay homage to both her version and Joni's, and by proxy, my mom. She's the one that introduced me to that music. — Cheyenne Jackson
Asking Saudi Arabia and Iran to work together, when they can't stand each other and are engaged in a proxy battle right at this moment. — Hillary Clinton
Even as we implement the nuclear deal and welcome our Americans home, we recognize that there remain about differences between the United States and Iran. We remain steadfast in opposing Iran's destabilizing behavior elsewhere, including its against Israel and our Gulf partners and its support for violent proxies in places like Syria and Yemen. — Barack Obama
Visual media is the dominant art form in our present day culture, whereas poetry is, at best, a proxy. Yet poetry and film are both "dream factories." — Denise Duhamel
During the civil war, the Sudanese government armed the Misseriya nomads as proxy. Even though both groups had coexisted quite well prior to the conflict, it all become much more difficult as a consequence. — Rebecca Hamilton
A man may act as proxy for his own relatives; the ordinances of the Gospel which were laid out before the foundations of the world have thus been fulfilled by them, and we may be baptized for those whom we have much friendship for; but it must first be revealed to the man of God, lest we should run too far. — Sam Smith
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