Rick Smolan Quotes

Hardware is easy to protect: lock it in a room, chain it to a desk, or buy a spare. Information poses more of a problem. It can exist in more than one place; be transported halfway across the planet in seconds; and be stolen without your knowledge.

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

There are two types of companies in the world: those that know they've been hacked, and those that don't.

Penetrating a company's security often starts with the bad guy obtaining some piece of information that seems so innocent, so everyday and unimportant, that most people in the organization don't see any reason why the item should be protected and restricted.

Even the best data security systems can't protect private taxpayer information from entrepreneurial foreign businesses than can make huge profits selling U.S. taxpayer information.

A computer shall not harm your work or, through inaction, allow your work to come to harm.

Think about it: if you were running a multi-million dollar company, and your database of customer information was stolen, would you want to tell your clients? No. Most companies did not until the laws required them to. It's in the best interest of organisations - when they're attacked and information is stolen - to tell nobody.

Secretary Clinton was warned repeatedly about her duty to secure classified information and that her unsecure server did not meet that standard.

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.

I worked with people like Edward Snowden. Well, not people who took stuff home.

While the Census Bureau already has a legal obligation to keep people's information confidential, we all know that in an age of cyber attacks and computer hacking that ensuring people's privacy can be difficult.

Americans have a right to the security of their personal information, and the entities that hold personal information have a responsibility to protect it.

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.

Our folks at the FBI and at DOJ are working their tails off every day to protect our nation's companies, our universities, our computer networks, and our ideas and innovation.

Once it becomes mandatory to report that you've had data stolen, blackmailing you is a waste of time. Blackmailing you to keep quiet - you can't, because you've got a legal obligation to tell everyone.

Hillary Clinton's been the worst violator of cyber security so far in the history of the United States.

The fact that this highly classified information of very, very important people in many cases was so poorly protected demonstrates that cyber security is just one more area where the Obama administration has failed.

From a counter-intelligence viewpoint, the OPM breach is really scary - but if we continue to see the erosion of purely commercial enterprises, where people lose confidence, the economy falters.

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

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

'The cloud' is effectively an augmentation of our brains' memories.

We value integrity of information, we value processes, cyber- security. These are things important to the government.

We need to pass measures that protect consumers' private information while also encouraging new technological innovations.

The stakes in the encryption debate are high, with significant consequences for personal privacy, the U.S. private sector, and our national security.

We all have legitimate concerns over the way our personal data is used and stored and it is right that there are protections to stop the theft and manipulation of our private information.