Security Breach Quotes

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.

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 wouldn't have expected an audience of ours to burn down our equipment.

We did a 'Vanity Fair' spread for 'The Hunger Games,' and we were on set, and I saw a little head pop up from the tree. There were three teenage girls who snuck past security and made it into the forest.

It's dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.

I got more whistleblowers from the Secret Service than I do anywhere else. And if you look at that department and agency, it's the one place you can never, ever, ever make a mistake - ever.

For his own vindictive purposes, Jeffrey Sterling carelessly disclosed extremely valuable, highly classified information that he had taken an oath to keep secret.

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

Hackers rarely have full knowledge of the technology stack of a target.

Every intelligence operation carries risks.

Leaks are so damaging because they undermine trust.

Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.

Herr Burgermeister. What is the good of your speeches? I come to Sarajevo on a friendly visit and someone throws a bomb at me. This is outrageous!

OK, boys; let's go make a withdrawal.

What good does it do to spend millions to protect ourselves against espionage if our secrets just leak away.

This is not a case about one isolated iPhone. Rather, this case is about the Department of Justice and the FBI seeking through the courts a dangerous power that Congress and the American people have withheld: the ability to force companies like Apple to undermine the basic security and privacy interests of hundreds of millions of individuals around the globe. The government demands that Apple create a back door to defeat the encryption on the iPhone, making its user’s most confidential and personal information vulnerable to hackers, identify thieves, hostile foreign agents, and unwarranted government surveillance.

The last safe place is safe no more.

If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's.

This also turned out to be negative, so there is no material in the Central Intelligence Agency, either in the records or in the mind of any of the individuals, that there was any contact had or even contemplated with him.

President Obama has appointed a new head of the Secret Service. The new Secret Service director was so excited that he jumped over the White House fence for joy.

When somebody was looking in my locker, it was like going in my desk. Somebody happened to be looking in my locker when they shouldn't have been.

The mere fear that there is a mole within an agency can set off a chain reaction and a hunt for that particular mole which can paralyze the agency for weeks and months and years even, in a search

National security always matters, obviously. But the reality is that if you have an open door in your software for the good guys, the bad guys get in there, too.

I have no privacy anymore.

I worked with people like Edward Snowden. Well, not people who took stuff home.