Richard Cohen Quotes

Hackers are seen as shadowy figures with superhuman powers that threaten civilization.

The fact of the matter is that the United States faces real threats from criminals, terrorists, spies, and malicious cyber actors.

Folks are wandering around that proverbial parking lot of the Internet all day long, without giving it a thought to whose attachments they're opening, what sites they're visiting. And that makes it easy for the bad guys.

The nature and scope of security threats in the cyber era are four-dimensional compared to the early nuclear age.

The reason I said the Internet is dangerous is that a couple smart guys could hack into a computer and shut down the Eastern seaboard if they wanted to. It's a terrible, out-of-control thing.

There are cyber threats out there, this is a dangerous world, and we have to be safe, we have to be secure no matter the cost.

Government never adapts quickly to new challenges, but our slow-footedness on cyber is unparalleled.

Cyberespionage and cyberattack is exploding from our adversaries inside our country. We don't seem capable of stopping it.

It shouldn't just be Russia we're concerned about, because many countries that are not our friends have been hacking into American accounts across the board.

What we're looking at is a future where cars will be comfortable and safe and offer the luxuries of both home and office. That means lots of sensors and software, as well as the critical safety systems to protect the car's information from hackers.

I really didn't understand why hackers would want to hack into a classroom. Are they going to learn algebra? Maybe calculus?

For better or worse, we have to bridge this divide between developing cars that drive by the book and cars that drive how you and I drive.

AI is going to be extremely beneficial, and already is, to the field of cybersecurity. It's also going to be beneficial to criminals.

As our digitally connected world continues to expand, the inherent vulnerabilities in the systems we rely on provide ever greater opportunities for those who want to exploit them.

It is interesting that cyberwarfare is developing into something conventional and attacking objects, infrastructure, and critical services.

A smart car is not just about giving you information, but it is also about keeping you safe.

As we work to secure our data and communications from hackers, we must recognize that our citizens face a far broader array of threats.

Counterterrorism, cyberterrorism, it's real.

I have one of the self-driving Teslas; it drives itself periodically. It's a marvel of science, but it's still frightening. I think we've got a while before regulators and the general public wrap their heads around the path that will lead to the ubiquity of driverless cars. There's no doubt Uber will be a leader in that space.

Computer scientists have built a set of massive DNS databases, which provide fragmentary histories of communications flows, in part to create an archive of malware: a kind of catalog of the tricks bad actors have tried to pull, which often involve masquerading as legitimate actors.

I don't think we have wrapped our heads around how much technology has allowed the manipulation of individuals and democracies.

Great software has seemingly limitless potential to solve human problems - and it can spread around the world in the blink of an eye. Malicious code moves just as quickly, and when software is created for the wrong reason, it has a huge and growing capacity to harm millions of people.

The big unknown is, at what point is a cyberattack so significant that it warrants a physical-world response.

Bad actors like Russia, Iran, and China have demonstrated time and time again they have both the capabilities and the intent to use the cyber domain as an operating space to wreak havoc.

The Internet is a worldwide platform for sharing information. It is a community of common interests. No country is immune to such global challenges as cybercrime, hacking, and invasion of privacy.