Security Flaw Quotes

Hacking is exploiting security controls either in a technical, physical or a human-based element.

In our rush to connect everything [via the Internet], we have created a monster of bad guys just waiting to take advantage of a weak line of code in a very complex program.

From a security perspective, if you're connected, you're screwed.

Anything out there is vulnerable to attack given enough time and resources.

There is no such thing as perfect security, only varying levels of insecurity.

Security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit; your machine can be taken over totally.

What the Snowden scenario proved is that the weakest link is not the technology, the weakest link is the individual; we shouldn't kid ourselves.

It proved once again the theory that no security system is a match for a stupid employee.

I won’t tell you how I managed to break in, since I don’t want the authorities figuring out, but let’s just say that if you’re going to make a gate, make sure it reaches all the way to the ground.

We have the worst security!

Note that if I can get you to su and say something just by asking, you have a very serious security problem on your system and you should look into it.

When the Internet was first - as an experiment and then when it - as it mushroomed, security was never an integral part of what the Internet was designed for. I mean, it just didn't - wasn't a consideration.

You can get the best locksmith in the world to design the best lock he can design, is it pick proof? No, it's not: it can be very hard to pick, but it is pickable. Because you can get, say, the next 10 best locksmiths, and give them unlimited money and time, they will figure out a way to pick it.

A well installed microcode bug will be almost impossible to detect.

A security system is only as secure as its secret. Beware of pseudo-secrets.

You know how in every heist movie they get past the security cameras that show the hallway leading to the diamonds by jamming the screens with a fake signal of everything looking safe and quiet? Usually a guard coughs so they don't notice the blip from switching to the bogus feed.

There have been people that suggest that we should have a back door. But the reality is if you put a back door in, that back door's for everybody - for good guys and bad guys.

That is the limit of IMDb. You can get into any IMDb page and hack stuff.

It turns out Dimitri had a friend, who had a friend, and despite the best security in the Moroi world, we managed to get into the Court's prison facilities.

You cannot have 300-some million Americans - and really, right, the global citizenry be at risk of having their phone conversations intercepted with a known flaw, simply because some intelligence agencies might get some data. That is not acceptable.