15 Quotes by Tom Newton

Leaks are the bread and butter of politicians. There's a long and steady tradition of leaking information by politicians and their operatives to sway public opinion or otherwise inform the public about what may or may not happen.

One of the risks that Microsoft faces, following its admission to search through all of its legacy code, is that it may have encouraged hackers to join in the search.

We have open courts to make public confidence in the truth-finding function of the courts.

We have to have court doors open to make sure they (the courts) are not involved in corrupt actions. As soon as you put asset information behind the cloak of secrecy, then no one will be able to determine that justice is being done.

While I appreciate that this bill will grant the police more powers to confiscate computers and so forth, serious criminality on the internet will remain unpunished while international law is neither congruent nor consistently enforced. Those worried about their own security would do well to protect themselves through technology as well as legislation.

While the U.K. has made great strides in this area, the police simply do not have the resources to cope with the level of electronic crime. The onus is on businesses to secure their own futures with a multi layered approach to protect systems from the latest virus and security threats.

We wish the governor would have vetoed it, but it's not like we're surprised. He and his family were victims of the behaviour that it was attempting to end.

As soon as you start, in a blanket fashion, shutting down public access to an entire category of records -- all financial records -- you're going to undo that public confidence in the courts.

I understand that laws like this are necessarily broad to prevent future loopholes, but this bill would seem to cover things as innocent as the Linux operating system and many legitimate security diagnostic tools, which in the wrong hands could be used for criminal purposes.