Daniel Lyons Quotes

If someone hacks your password, you can change it - as many times as you want. You can't change your fingerprints. You have only ten of them. And you leave them on everything you touch; they are definitely not a secret.

There has to be a better, smarter way to authenticate who somebody is. Social Security numbers are floating out there everywhere.

We have problems with our physical security, operational security through to management.

I've always shied away from online data storage. I don't even use my employers' network drives for anything sensitive. I want to control access myself.

It's very hard to keep an uncrackable encryption if you share it with the government.

If we start - premise that the information is mine, and we give the individual's rights, we worry about what happens during a breach. If you try to protect access to it, as opposed to not even making it available, you have less to worry about who will break the wall.

Usernames and passwords are an idea that came out of 1970s mainframe architectures. They were not built for 2016.

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.

Your date of birth is a security point for identity theft.

I haven't seen - I haven't heard the arguments that would make that case. And I haven't seen a proposal yet that satisfies the objections. The problem is, you create a key like this, and it can't - it's hard to say that it's going to be hidden. And then it becomes used both by our government in multiple cases, but also it could get out as far as hackers are concerned or other countries.

Social Security Number Cards by themselves were never intended to be personal identity documents because they cannot confirm that a person presenting a card is actually the person whose name appears on the card.

Cloud computing is a challenge to security, but one that can be overcome.

There are security risks not only from information falling into the wrong hands, but also from information failing to find its way into the right hands. The government’s current approach to protecting classified information does not recognize this risk from failing to share

We have an access problem; the wrong people have the access.

In the post-Snowden world, you need to enable others to build their own cloud and have mobility of applications. That's both because of the physicality of computing - where the speed of light still matters - and because of geopolitics.

The problem of end-to-end encryption isn't just a terrorism issue.

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

We talk a lot about operational control, and that's having a better understanding of who's coming in and who's leaving, what the threat really is. We're never really going to get that.

Security is a human problem.

There have been people that suggest that we should have a back door. But the reality is if you put a back door in, that back door's for everybody - for good guys and bad guys.

Almost every OS X server service offers weak or broken authentication mechanisms.

I'm a woman in technology, I think that we have to consider our border and use the technology we have to be sure that we secure it. If you build a six foot wall, somebody may jump eight feet. But, maybe there's surveillance... there's many high tech things that we can use to be sure we are protecting our borders.

Introducing ID cards isn't a matter of great national security importance.

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

As long as an attacker creates opportunities, everything is fine.