Bill McCollum Quotes

Privacy may actually be an anomaly.

I really believe that we don't have to make a trade-off between security and privacy. I think technology gives us the ability to have both.

You can't trust the internet.

The last refuge of privacy cannot be placed solely in law or technology. It must repose in both, and a thoughtful combination of the two can help us thread a path between having all our secrets trivially discoverable and preserving nothing for our later selves for fear of that discovery.

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

As more of our medical records are stored electronically, the threats to our privacy will increase.

Cybersecurity is a new issue for the international community at large. First of all, the technologies are new and the attacks are invisible. Traditionally, if you perceived a threat, it could be seen. It was physical. But not in cyberspace.

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

Privacy violations should be considered criminal offences.

Online censorship, mass and targeted surveillance and data collection, digital attacks on civil society and repression resulting from online expression force individuals around the world to seek security to hold opinions without interference and seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds. Many seek to protect their security through encryption, the scrambling of data so only intended recipients may access it

Like all security, privacy is hard.

The solution to government surveillance is to encrypt everything.

I'm a Luddite with computers, and I'm slightly worried about being hacked as well.

I won't be satisfied until I've put the entire security industry out of work.

Without strong encryption, you will be spied on systematically by lots of people.

The Internet has fashioned a new and complicated environment for an age-old dilemma that pits the demands of security against the desire for freedom.

Everyone is a proponent of strong encryption.

It's kind of interesting, because hacking is a skill that could be used for criminal purposes or legitimate purposes, and so even though in the past I was hacking for the curiosity, and the thrill, to get a bite of the forbidden fruit of knowledge, I'm now working in the security field as a public speaker.

Whether greater cybersecurity requires a greater sacrifice of our digital freedoms is an important debate that we should be having, preferably with all the facts in front of us.

We have to examine very carefully any privacy-reducing technology.

I don't hate technology, I don't hate hackers, because that's just what comes with it, without those hackers we wouldn't solve the problems we need to solve, especially security.

Data leaks are impossible to reverse, so the best strategy is to prevent intruders from having prolonged, unfettered access to the systems in the first place.

There is no data base that is totally secure. The hackers are always one step ahead and have a vested interest in obtaining the data.

The only truly secure system is one that is powered off, cast in a block of concrete and sealed in a lead-lined room with armed guards -- and even then I have my doubts.

There are two kinds of cryptography in this world: cryptography that will stop your kid sister from reading your files, and cryptography that will stop major governments from reading your files.