Alex Stamos Quotes
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There are major funding gaps for security research generally, particularly when it comes to defensive security practices and tools that will contribute to the protection and defense of the Internet.
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It turns out that we can build perfectly secure software, and yet people can still get hurt.
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For most companies, they don't want to ever talk about security unless it's an absolute emergency and they've had a breach. And I think that's a mistake.
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Yahoo is a global technology company that provides personalized products and services, including search, advertising, content, and communications in more than 45 languages in 60 countries. As a pioneer of the World Wide Web, we enjoy some of the longest-lasting customer relationships on the Web.
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I don't think it's wrong for companies to work with the government. What's important is being trustworthy and honest with customers.
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If you send emails to your spouse or your lawyer or family members, you want to have these messages be confidential.
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There are a lot of Yahoo users who live in countries where their freedom of expression and freedom of association is not respected and where the government is trying to put malware on their computers to track them.
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Attackers are able to amortize the cost of exploit, malware, and infrastructure development across many targets.
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The definition of hate speech in some countries is problematic.
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Almost every OS X server service offers weak or broken authentication mechanisms.
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Being a CISO is a tough job. I have the end responsibility for the personal information of over a billion people.
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What we're trying to do at Yahoo is build our products so they're safe and trustworthy, not just secure.
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Security people aren't brilliant; we aren't smarter than everyone else.