It's hard to surprise people with everything leaking on the Internet.
People are just beginning to learn how much their own personal privacy is being invaded and that they’re losing control over their own information.
Digital media are biased toward replication and storage. Our digital photos practically upload and post themselves on Facebook, and our most deleted e-mails tend to resurface when we least expect it. Yes, everything you do in the digital realm may as well be broadcast on prime-time television and chiseled on the side of the Parthenon.
It is amazing the information we give away. We make it easier and easier for criminals.
The minute more than two people know a secret, it is no longer a secret.
Information is a lot like water; it's hard to hold on to, and hard to keep from leaking away.
I've learned that social media and our private lives, you know, our private lives are not so private anymore, so it takes a little bit of getting used to.
Leaks are always bad news.
We know there are lots of leaks everywhere. There's nothing we can do about that, except not leak ourselves.
I also urge the Obama administration - both on its own and in cooperation with other responsible governments around the world - to use all legal means necessary to shut down WikiLeaks before it can do more damage by releasing additional cables. WikiLeaks' activities represent a shared threat to collective international security.
If Wikileaks didn't resolve that question for folks - at the end of the day, there are no secrets. We're living in a glass neighborhood, in a fishbowl, and technology, white hat hackers, the folks that are doing the right thing with hacking.
When a foreign adversary knows that an American official has deceived or withheld vital information from our government, it creates a fundamental counterintelligence vulnerability that can render that official irreparably compromised.
I will never unravel the mystery of how a script gets into the hands of certain people.
QQ is not secure. You might as well be sharing your information with the Public Security Bureau.
Once one news organization goes with it, it's tough to keep the lid on [a rumor].
Keeping a secret in the social media age often is impossible.
Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
I think it could be the biggest information problem that we face. 'If somebody is abroad and they even mention the name of an American citizen, bang, off goes the tap, and no more information is collected.
You can't buy your privacy back. Because I was already doing OK, and to have this abstract amount of money now, I cannot buy my privacy back.
A leak is an unauthorized disclosure of classified or sensitive information that is improper under any circumstance.
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.
Corporations understand the value of security because the leakage of their competitive information could be the end of the corporation.
People notice all kinds of stuff sloshing around in the classification system and that makes them think it's OK to leak. it’s like tuning an Edsel. When done, your car is tuned, but it's still a really old car that may not get you where you want to go. The classification system is haunted by Cold War ghosts and demons. …All the incentives operate in the direction of keeping things secret.
One of the reasons that I'm a lurker on Twitter is that every time I tweet an idea, I feel like I'm delivering something to the competition that I ought to be giving to a reporter here.
It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.
