37 Quotes by Alex Stamos

Preventing surveillance of millions of people at a time is totally within our ability.

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.

Usernames and passwords are an idea that came out of 1970s mainframe architectures. They were not built for 2016.

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.

Developing safe products for people around the world will mean accounting for a much wider variety of devices, networks, infrastructure, and political environments.

Being a CISO is a tough job. I have the end responsibility for the personal information of over a billion people.

I generally use 'threat intelligence' when I'm talking about a product packaged and sold by a dedicated commercial entity and 'information sharing' as something that happens between security teams at trusted parties without renumeration.

People now know how important it is to build secure systems to underlie our civilization.

It turns out that we can build perfectly secure software, and yet people can still get hurt.