Adam Osborne Quotes

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.

Cloud services cut both ways in terms of security: you get off-site backup and disaster recovery, but you entrust your secrets to somebody else's hands. Doing the latter increases your exposure to government surveillance and the potential for deliberate or inadvertent breaches of your confidential files.

If you entrust your data to others, they can let you down or outright betray you.

Data is valuable, so let's be mindful of how we're sharing it.

Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and have everyone else mirror it.

I think that all services will have downtime. No matter how much you prepare, have redundant systems, or audit, there will periodically be a black swan event that is completely unlike whatever you've experienced before. It even happens to Google!

Information agencies operate in an industry that values data. Restricted access to information is what makes it valuable.

Do you realize the FBI filing system from the '50s was much more secure? How could you have stolen that data? It was on notecards. Now someone with a thumb drive, or remotely, can take the equivalent of millions of those notecards.

I used the best technique that I knew to protect my files.

Most computers today have built in backup software.

Government and businesses cannot function without enormous amounts of data, and many people have to have access to that data.

When we had highly sensitive information, the DNA on the dress, that was held within our office and the FBI. There was no dissemination of that information.

Well-secured files don't do you much good if you lose them in a fire or hard drive crash.

Dropbox sweats the user experience details as commendably as it masters the considerable engineering challenges required to reliably sync files everywhere a user may need them.

Back up everything! You are not invulnerable. Catastrophic data loss can happen to you - one worm or Trojan is all it takes.

I think most organizations have an interest in key recovery, at least with respect to stored data.

So ensuring the integrity of the data and integrity and validity of the connection is a very important element in any company's strategy that is moving towards a Web service paradigm.

Digital data are more fragile than printed material.

TIA was being used by real users, working on real data - foreign data. Data where privacy is not an issue.

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

It's important to be informed about issues like usability, reliability, security, privacy, and some of the inherent limitations of computers.

The system should treat all user input as sacred.

Now we have a whole separate supplier of data for Able Danger who's verifying that same information.

No one really knows how many [SBU] records are covered or for how long, and there are practically none of the limits that we do have in the security classification world.