Alex Stamos Quotes
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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.
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The reuse of passwords is the No. 1 cause of harm on the Internet.
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Usernames and passwords are an idea that came out of 1970s mainframe architectures. They were not built for 2016.
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There have been a lot of questions since the 2016 U.S. election about Russian interference in the electoral process.
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While preventing the distribution of malware through advertising is one part of the equation, it's important to address the entire malware ecosystem and to fight it at each phase of its life cycle.
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A lot of the people who are hacking on behalf of governments are doing so on a contract basis. And they also do other things. They will hack on behalf of spammers, and will just be hired for a specific job.
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We will continue to invest in our people and technology to help provide a safe place for civic discourse and meaningful connections on Facebook.
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Tech companies are famous for providing freedom for engineers to customize their environments & experiment with new tools... allowing for this freedom helps creativity and productivity.
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Preventing surveillance of millions of people at a time is totally within our ability.
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There's a big focus in the security industry on incredibly sophisticated attacks and on very sophisticated threat actors.
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The nice thing about my job being CSO at Facebook is that it is well understood here that there is not a trade-off between the trust people have in us and our growth.
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People now know how important it is to build secure systems to underlie our civilization.
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Adversaries will do the simplest thing they need to do to make an attack work.
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There's always a momentum in how users do stuff. Making small changes can have huge knock-on effects for whole companies.
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I think anybody who uses email in the center of our life needs encryption.
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We are moving to a world where all content is encrypted all the time.
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We have perfected the art of finding problems without fixing real-world issues. We focus too much on complexity, not harm.
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If you break into an oil company and you're able to find out what gas leases they're interested in, that could be a multi-billion dollar swing in value for one company over another a multi-decade period.
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I have spent my career building and improving secure, trustworthy systems, and I am very proud to be working on security at Yahoo.
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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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Internet advertising security and the fight against malware is a top priority for Yahoo.
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Too many companies are reluctant to share technical information about threats with each other, and most open platforms and tools don't see widespread adoption. As a result, lots of us are reinventing the wheel and solving the same problems without realizing that our neighbors have already built great solutions.
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Developing safe products for people around the world will mean accounting for a much wider variety of devices, networks, infrastructure, and political environments.
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I'm not a futurist, so I don't spend a lot of time thinking about 20 years from now.