Daniel Lyons Quotes

I suspect I am like most people on the Internet in that I sign up for all sorts of sites and frequently use the same passwords.

Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.

If someone hacks your password, you can change it - as many times as you want.

Weak passwords are a crook's best friend. Make yours long and complex, and change them often - not just on your bank account but on your email and social media, too.

It's amazing how much information we share in social media, then we wonder why people steal our identity.

I'm very protective of my online life, and I try and take as many security measures.

We must carefully consider card security solutions, such as adding photographs or machine-readable electronic strips, so to prevent further breaches of individual privacy that could result from changes to the design of Social Security Cards.

If someone hacks your password, you can change it - as many times as you want. You can't change your fingerprints. You have only ten of them. And you leave them on everything you touch; they are definitely not a secret.

Privacy is not an option, and it shouldn't be the price we accept for just getting on the Internet.

For me, privacy and security are really important. We think about it in terms of both: You can't have privacy without security.

Internet does not equal sodium pentothal.

QQ is not secure. You might as well be sharing your information with the Public Security Bureau.

People are worried about privacy, and its one of the reasons people are using a service like SnapChat.

Internet freedom is not possible without freedom from fear, and users will not be free from fear unless they are sufficiently protected from online theft and attack.

Anyone who steps back for a minute and observes our modern digital world might conclude that we have destroyed our privacy in exchange for convenience and false security.

I trust online banking. You know why? Because if somebody hacks into my account and defrauds my credit card company, or my online bank account, guess who takes the loss? The bank, not me.

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 idea that you can be totally anonymous in the digital age is increasingly hard to execute.

No computer or smartphone can ever be considered 100 percent 'safe.' We're all engaged in a perpetual battle with criminals and hostile governments trying to use computers and the Internet to steal information and identities.

In terms of security and privacy, what people care about the most is the privacy of their messages.

The most astonishing subset of the Deep Web is a collection of dark alleys called the Dark Web. The Dark Web is generally thought of as a collection of criminal elements intent on subverting the law, stealing our money, and possibly kidnapping our daughters.

Digital safety is no different to physical safety. You can do your upmost to minimise it. You can arm yourself to protect yourself, but in the end there are criminals everywhere and that's the way of the world.

The reuse of passwords is the No. 1 cause of harm on the Internet.

Privacy is an age of universal email collection and spying, with millions of CCTV cameras and warrantless spying pervasive; privacy has become virtually nonexistent and, therefore, extremely scarce and desirable. Bitcoin can be a completely anonymous transaction that maintains the user's privacy beyond the reach of any authority.

As we work to secure our data and communications from hackers, we must recognize that our citizens face a far broader array of threats.