Tony Kushner Quotes

We are increasingly dependent on these electronic infrastructures. As technology advances we are more vulnerable.

I am convinced that there are only two types of companies: those that have been hacked and those that will be. And even they are converging into one category: companies that have been hacked and will be hacked again.

The internet, our greatest tool of emancipation, has been transformed into the most dangerous facilitator of totalitarianism we have ever seen. The internet is a threat to human civilization.

'Social engineering,' the fancy term for tricking you into giving away your digital secrets, is at least as great a threat as spooky technology.

The hacking trend has definitely turned criminal because of e-commerce.

The single biggest existential threat that's out there, I think, is cyber.

The Internet is not nearly as fail-safe as the phone system.

If you don't treat [computer and Internet] security like a religious fanatic, you are going to be hurt like you can't imagine.

The DNC hack shows the rapid increase in sophistication of nation states (and Russia in particular) in using the Internet to project powers. We're seeing skilled malicious actors pushing the boundaries of what they can accomplish.

Cyberspace

Hacktivism: The merger of hacking and political activism can wreak enormous havoc.

I think that Internet as such, as a phenomenon is worth prohibiting because it gives nobody anything good.

In our rush to connect everything [via the Internet], we have created a monster of bad guys just waiting to take advantage of a weak line of code in a very complex program.

As our use of technologies grows exponentially, so do our country's vulnerabilities. Our national security depends on the stability and reliability of our communications infrastructure. The cyber threat to IT and national security systems has never been greater.

The Internet definitely could be a weapon of mass destruction - it's not going to come in a bomb, it's going to come as a cyberattack. It's pretty amazing to see what a small group of people can do if they really know how to control the universe.

It's no surprise that hackers working for North Korea, Iran's mullahs, Vladimir V. Putin in Russia, and the People's Liberation Army of China have all learned that the great advantage of cyberweapons is that they are the opposite of a nuke: hard to detect, easy to deny, and increasingly finely targeted.

The Internet has made us richer, freer, connected and informed in ways its founders could not have dreamt of. It has also become a vector of attack, espionage, crime and harm.

If you give me half an hour on the Internet, I can hate myself completely by the end of that 30 minutes.

Unfortunately cybercrime is the crime of our generation.

Сyber-warfare is obviously the future. It's a real concern, but we lie so much about what we do that it's hard to know what's going on unless you really follow it.

The current days of the Internet will soon be over.

In the future, the cyber threat will equal or even eclipse the terrorist threat.

The entire report [on Russians hackers attacks] is based on unnamed sources who are perhaps doing something they shouldn't be doing by speaking to reporters or someone talking out of line about something that is absolutely not true.

Everybody knows if it's on the Internet, some brilliant hacker can get at it.

Cyber-related risks are a global threat of bloodless war. India can work towards giving world a shield from the threat of cyber warfare.