Tim Cook Quotes

There are two types of companies in the world: those that know they've been hacked, and those that don't.

I don't know the capabilities of our enemies. But I found it quite easy to circumvent security at certain phone companies throughout the United States. So if an inquisitive kid can do it, why can't a cyberterrorist do it?

If you use a proprietary program or somebody else's web server, you're defenceless. You're putty in the hands of whoever developed that software.

One bug in an SMTP server can open up the whole machine for intrusion.

We remain vulnerable. There is no such thing as 100 percent security against terrorism.

Ports are the gaping hole in America's homeland security.

If I needed to know about a security exploit, I preferred to get the information by accessing the companies' security teams' files, rather than poring over lines of code to find it on my own. It's just more efficient.

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

No vigilance could keep them out….A conspiracy to assassinate, if there were such, could easily obtain a pass to see me for any one or more of its instruments.

Nobody should be too boastful or too proud about their security because there are people who have a major interest in cracking the security of networks, the security of companies.

A world in which there are no secrets that can be protected at all is going to be a pretty dangerous world.

A back door is a nonstarter. It means we are all not safe... I don't support a back door for any government, ever.

There's not a single flashlight app that's not spying on you right now.

Every breach you look at occurred because somebody inside did something they weren't supposed to do. Sometimes there's an accomplice, but most of the time, it's innocent.

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.

If the leaks continue, we are strong as our weakest link. And I'll say it a little differently in a pun. We're strong as our weakest leak.

I'd be the first to say that cybersecurity is a difficult and challenging matter.

Accessibility and openness are good politics but bad security.

We have the worst security!

All of us are like locks. No matter how strong the bolt, there’s always a key out there that opens it.

I like to say that the attacker always has the advantage.

I won’t tell you how I managed to break in, since I don’t want the authorities figuring out, but let’s just say that if you’re going to make a gate, make sure it reaches all the way to the ground.

Note that if I can get you to su and say something just by asking, you have a very serious security problem on your system and you should look into it.

The first sentence of the truth is always the hardest. Each of us had a first sentence, and most of us found the strength to say it out loud to someone who deserved to hear it. What we hoped, and what we found, was that the second sentence of the truth is always easier than the first, and the third sentence is even easier than that. Suddenly you are speaking the truth in paragraphs, in pages. The fear, the nervousness, is still there, but it is joined by a new confidence. All along, you've used the first sentence as a lock. But now you find that it's the key.

Let him have the key of thy heart, who hath the lock of his own.