Barton Gellman Quotes

Choosing a hard-to-guess, but easy-to-remember password is important!

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.

Updating passwords and changing them all the time is something I'm involved in.

For the first time, individual hackers could afford to have home machines comparable in power and storage capacity to the minicomputers of ten years earlier - Unix engines capable of supporting a full development environment and talking to the Internet.

If you do write down your passwords, don't make it obvious which password corresponds to which account. Even better, write the passwords incorrectly and make up an easy rule for fixing them. You could decide to add 1 to each number in your password, so that 2x6Y is written as 3x7Y.

Love is great, but not as a password.

I suspect I am like most people on the Internet in that I sign up for all sorts of sites and frequently use the same passwords.

By now, you've heard endless warnings about the risk of short, trivial passwords. There's a good chance you ignore them.

The best thing to do is always keep randomly generated passwords everywhere and use a password tool to manage it, and then you don't have to remember those passwords at all, just the master password that unlocks the database.

When hackers have access to powerful computers that use brute force hacking, they can crack almost any password; even one user with insecure access being successfully hacked can result in a major breach.

If you use a bad password, your Bitcoin will get stolen.

His computer password is "password.

The whole notion of passwords is based on an oxymoron. The idea is to have a random string that is easy to remember. Unfortunately, if it's easy to remember, it's something nonrandom like 'Susan.' And if it's random, like 'r7U2*Qnp,' then it's not easy to remember.

Social engineering has become about 75% of an average hacker's toolkit, and for the most successful hackers, it reaches 90% or more.

Somebody will be able to overcome any encryption technique you use!

We are moving to a world where all content is encrypted all the time.

People tend to look at processing power as how to gauge a piece of hardware is powerful for us.

Accelerating technology innovations such as ubiquitous sensors, cheap computing power, and 5G networks will open entirely new opportunities and challenges.

I don't think Cyborg has ever felt the aggressiveness and the power that I will bring to her.

It may be well possible that phished passwords ended up being used at Sci-Hub. I did not send any phishing emails to anyone myself. The exact source of the passwords was never personally important to me.

All too often, vital electronic evidence has been made unavailable through encryption that doesn't allow for execution of legal process including court-approved search warrants.

Encryption would help prevent a lot of cyber attacks.

You know the interesting thing about encryption is that it cannot be secure just for some people.

I don't need to understand how encryption works to understand how it's helping the criminals.

Trying to explain Turing's work in encryption and decryption? It's complicated.