Barton Gellman Quotes

One common puzzle for the security-minded is how to work with confidential data on the road. Sometimes you can't bring your laptop, or don't want to. But working on somebody else's machine exposes you to malware and leaves behind all kinds of electronic trails.

You don't need to be a spook to care about encryption. If you travel with your computer or keep it in a place where other people can put their hands on it, you're vulnerable.

Enigma is really an investment in peace of mind. I keep a lot of confidential information on my laptop. I'm usually very careful about keeping my laptop under close physical control but had an unfortunate lapse and left it on a plane. That could have cost me dearly if not for the Enigma.

I currently use Ubuntu Linux, on a standalone laptop - it has no Internet connection. I occasionally carry flash memory drives between this machine and the Macs that I use for network surfing and graphics; but I trust my family jewels only to Linux.

I think Linux is a great thing, because Linux is an alternative to Windows, and because, of all the operating systems that are at all relevant today, Unix is the best of a bad lot.

I think Linux is a great thing, in the big picture. It's a great hacker's tool, and it has a lot of potential to become something more.

We should be careful not to vilify encryption itself, which is essential for privacy, data security, and global commerce.

If you are going to store your e-wallet on your own server, don't keep your e-wallet on your desktop, and make sure you use encryption. If you lose your computer, your bitcoins are lost forever.

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.

While many big-data providers do their best to de-identify individuals from human-subject data sets, the risk of re-identification is very real.

I really think we need to see how we can expand our privacy laws.

I promoted Hyderabad to the world by saying that there was privacy in India and their data will be sage. Data is wealth.

It's a day-one expectation that when you buy a processor, it's not going to leak your data.

I think, in general, data protection really matters.

You no longer can say that inside a company everything is trusted because you could bring in a contaminated device. And it's the same thing with data, because so much is no longer stored inside a company.

We want to ensure that as a user is moving through their world, their data is following them in an appropriate manner.

Ultimately, taxpayers deserve a government that leverages technology to serve them, rather than one that deploys unsecure, decades old technology, and keeps sensitive information in non-encrypted databases.

Cyber security is a dynamic space. The user faces different challenges every year because there are always new applications and data.

We need a basic protection for people having access to their data and knowing where their data is.

With the evolution of information technology, there have emerged new questions, for example, of data and privacy.

People want to have some assurance that their privacy, their data is going to be protected.

Our view is that sensitive, contractual, market-moving, private data should be kept private.

Brave plays the long game on behalf of users first, and also publishers, to win a better Web with fast, safe browsing, anonymous micropayments, and user control over data.

Computer security can simply be protecting your equipment and files from disgruntled employees, spies, and anything that goes bump in the night, but there is much more. Computer security helps ensure that your computers, networks, and peripherals work as expected all the time, and that your data is safe in the event of hard disk crash or a power failure resulting from an electrical storm. Computer security also makes sure no damage is done to your data and that no one is able to read it unless you want them to.

My own personal dream is that the majority of the web runs on open source software.