Alex Stamos

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

“I don't think it's wrong for companies to work with the government. What's important is being trustworthy and honest with customers.”

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

“I'm not a futurist, so I don't spend a lot of time thinking about 20 years from now.”

“Adversaries will do the simplest thing they need to do to make an attack work.”

“We will continue to invest in our people and technology to help provide a safe place for civic discourse and meaningful connections on Facebook.”

“Attackers are able to amortize the cost of exploit, malware, and infrastructure development across many targets.”

“Internet advertising security and the fight against malware is a top priority for Yahoo.”

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

“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.”

“There's always a momentum in how users do stuff. Making small changes can have huge knock-on effects for whole companies.”

“We are moving to a world where all content is encrypted all the time.”

“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.”

“If you send emails to your spouse or your lawyer or family members, you want to have these messages be confidential.”

“The definition of hate speech in some countries is problematic.”

“There have been a lot of questions since the 2016 U.S. election about Russian interference in the electoral process.”

“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.”

“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.”

“There's a big focus in the security industry on incredibly sophisticated attacks and on very sophisticated threat actors.”

“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.”