Terry McMillan Quotes

Hardware is easy to protect: lock it in a room, chain it to a desk, or buy a spare. Information poses more of a problem. It can exist in more than one place; be transported halfway across the planet in seconds; and be stolen without your knowledge.

Digital data are more fragile than printed material.

Database: the information you lose when your memory crashes.

A lot of times you can lose the MP3s - it's a lot of labor to be finding it again, putting things back up. You gotta back up, back up, back up.

Information imposes certain criteria on how it can be stored.

People simply don't have room, physical room, to keep, for instance, 2-inch tape in the sort of quantities that are required to hold a full archive. It's not just a matter of having three or four boxes, it's 40, 90 boxes of 2-inch tape, and very few people have the resources that sort of stuff properly.

Despite the value of open data, most labs make no systematic effort to share data with other scientists.

If I had some information, the last thing I would ever do with it is send it to Wikileaks.

Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves.

The value of having a computer, to me, is that it'll remember everything you do. It's a databank.

The idea that information can be stored in a changing world without an overwhelming depreciation of its value is false. It is scarcely less false than the more plausible claim that after a war we may take our existing weapons, fill their barrels with information.

While most of the world's information is beginning to be stored electronically, most of the world's expertise still resides in books.

All of my memories are now on hard drives. I'll change phones or I'll change my laptop, and all my photos stay.

Users are innocent for they can not really make sure if their information is safe or not.

We know there are lots of leaks everywhere. There's nothing we can do about that, except not leak ourselves.

Never tell a computer to forget it.

Encryption works. Properly implemented strong crypto systems are one of the few things that you can rely on. Unfortunately, endpoint security is so terrifically weak that NSA can frequently find ways around it.

I actually am fairly uncomfortable about it, even if our firm stipulation was that they cannot tell us what to do. We are simply doing what we do anyways - securing software - and they have no say in the matter. I try to convince myself that our grant means a half of a cruise missile doesn't get built.

Netflix is very protective with their information .

The fact that this highly classified information of very, very important people in many cases was so poorly protected demonstrates that cyber security is just one more area where the Obama administration has failed.

More proof that trusting the Feds to protect our information is like hiring Homer Simpson to guard the donuts.

I don't own encryption, Apple doesn't own encryption. Encryption, as you know, is everywhere. In fact some of encryption is funded by our government.

You must know your faith with the same precision with which a specialist in information technology knows the operating system of a computer.

Cryptography products may be declared illegal, but the information will never be

Information can't be put in any container that isn't leaky.