Julian Assange Quotes

To be a hacker - when I use the term - is somebody who is creative and does wonderful things.

It is hard to write a simple definition of something as varied as hacking, but I think what these activities have in common is playfulness, cleverness, and exploration. Thus, hacking means exploring the limits of what is possible, in a spirit of playful cleverness. Activities that display playful cleverness have "hack value".

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

As a young boy, I was taught in high school that hacking was cool.

It's kind of interesting, because hacking is a skill that could be used for criminal purposes or legitimate purposes, and so even though in the past I was hacking for the curiosity, and the thrill, to get a bite of the forbidden fruit of knowledge, I'm now working in the security field as a public speaker.

I don't hate technology, I don't hate hackers, because that's just what comes with it, without those hackers we wouldn't solve the problems we need to solve, especially security.

Being able to break security doesn't make you a hacker anymore than being able to hotwire cars makes you an automotive engineer.

We contacted the FBI months ago, when the DNC issue came about. They've reviewed all of our systems. We have hacking detection systems in place.

Hacking is very interesting. Once they hack, if you don't catch them in the act, you're not going to catch them.

After a yearlong investigation, there is no evidence that anyone hacked the server I was using, and there is no evidence that anyone can point to, at all ... that any classified material ended up in the wrong hands.

Data leaks are impossible to reverse, so the best strategy is to prevent intruders from having prolonged, unfettered access to the systems in the first place.

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 -- and even then I have my doubts.

Deterrence is … a weak tool in the increasingly important realm of cyberspace, where it can be extremely difficult to be absolutely sure of an attacker’s identity.

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

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.

The whole information and communication technologies (ICT) infrastructure must be regarded as an 'ecosystem' in which everything is interconnected. It functions as a whole; it must be defended as a whole.

'Cyber-security' is one of those hot topics that has launched a thousand seminars and strategy papers without producing much in the way of policy.

Small businesses are the backbone of the American economy and employ almost half of the working population. Yet because of their size, they rarely have access to the same information security resources as large firms.

People now know how important it is to build secure systems to underlie our civilization.

Safety is not just about trying really hard and being really careful. You have to design technology that makes it possible for a computer to be safe.

CrowdStrike stands fully by its analysis and findings identifying two separate Russian intelligence-affiliated adversaries present in the DNC network in May 2016.

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

Any security issues, you have to be very hands on to really understand what's the exact problem, and then take quick action.

I generally use 'threat intelligence' when I'm talking about a product packaged and sold by a dedicated commercial entity and 'information sharing' as something that happens between security teams at trusted parties without renumeration.

Cyber attacks rain down on us from many places. You have to make your systems secure and safe and teach your people cyber hygiene.