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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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Being a CISO is a tough job. I have the end responsibility for the personal information of over a billion people.
Alex Stamos
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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 think... all of the best public cryptographers in the world would agree that you can't really build back doors in crypto. That it's like drilling a hole in the windshield.
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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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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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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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Almost every OS X server service offers weak or broken authentication mechanisms.
Alex Stamos
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The definition of hate speech in some countries is problematic.
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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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Attackers are able to amortize the cost of exploit, malware, and infrastructure development across many targets.
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Security people aren't brilliant; we aren't smarter than everyone else.
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I'm not a futurist, so I don't spend a lot of time thinking about 20 years from now.
Alex Stamos