Christine McVie Quotes

For me, privacy and security are really important. We think about it in terms of both: You can't have privacy without security.

I've learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively.

This is like the telephone problem - no one wants to have the first one. But we are seeing a lot of people who want some sort of technology to solve the spam problem.

When someone sends you an email, they are knocking on your door. And when you open the attachment, without looking through the peephole to see who it is, you just opened the door and let a stranger into your life, where everything you care about is.

The freedom to connect to the world anywhere at anytime brings with it the threat of unscrupulous predators and criminals who mask their activities with the anonymity the Internet provides to its users.

Weak passwords are a crook's best friend. Make yours long and complex, and change them often - not just on your bank account but on your email and social media, too.

Turn on all security features like two-factor authentication. People who do that generally don't get hacked. Don't care? You will when you get hacked. Do the same for your email and other social services, too.

I had a personal email when I was in the Senate, as the vast majority of senators do. It was very convenient. I did all of my business on personal emails.

We live in a very insecure world with a very insecure communications platform.

I think anybody who uses email in the center of our life needs encryption.

All American voices are important, and the FBI's Protected Voices videos and resources will help all Americans protect themselves online.

We all need to decide what makes it safe and secure on the Internet. It can't be anybody else's decision. We have to have a voice.

If you don't treat [computer and Internet] security like a religious fanatic, you are going to be hurt like you can't imagine.

This is not a case about one isolated iPhone. Rather, this case is about the Department of Justice and the FBI seeking through the courts a dangerous power that Congress and the American people have withheld: the ability to force companies like Apple to undermine the basic security and privacy interests of hundreds of millions of individuals around the globe. The government demands that Apple create a back door to defeat the encryption on the iPhone, making its user’s most confidential and personal information vulnerable to hackers, identify thieves, hostile foreign agents, and unwarranted government surveillance.

This is America. And we've basically invented the computer, and we should invent ways to protect all those that use it.

On privacy issues, it's just like hundreds of years ago when people said, 'I would rather put my money under my pillow than in a bank.' But today, banks know how to protect money much better than you do. Today, we may not have the answers to privacy issues, but I believe our young people will come up with the solutions.

In some ways, you can think of end-to-end encryption as honoring what the past looked like.

Cybersecurity needs to be taken seriously by everyone.

I got rid of my Instagram and had a flip phone for two years. I only started one after a friend told me someone was impersonating me.

My life isn't interesting enough for anyone to hack my phone.

I saw something in the news, so I copied it. I put a piece of tape - I have obviously a laptop, personal laptop - I put a piece of tape over the camera. Because I saw somebody smarter than I am had a piece of tape over their camera.

In Internet in general, there are security, privacy, and many other issues.

Hillary Clinton and her media machine try to dismiss, but anybody who understands anything about how email works - and this is millennials in particular, who grew up on the Internet - know that you're an idiot to keep sensitive information on a server in your house.

People have a right to privacy, but they also have a right to live. Fundamentally, we need cybersecurity and need to secure communications as well.

Too many of us are vulnerable, and I look forward to working with AARP to advise people about the safest ways to conduct their financial transactions and manage social media.