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" Almost every OS X server service offers weak or broken authentication mechanisms. "
Service
Weak
Broken
" Attackers are able to amortize the cost of exploit, malware, and infrastructure development across many targets. "
Cost
Development
Infrastructure
" Being a CISO is a tough job. I have the end responsibility for the personal information of over a billion people. "
Job
Tough
Responsibility
" Developing safe products for people around the world will mean accounting for a much wider variety of devices, networks, infrastructure, and political environments. "
World
Accounting
Political
" 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. "
Talk
Think
Want
" I don't think it's wrong for companies to work with the government. What's important is being trustworthy and honest with customers. "
Government
Important
Work
" 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. "
Find
Company
Value
" If you send emails to your spouse or your lawyer or family members, you want to have these messages be confidential. "
Want
You
Family
" 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. "
Information
Security
Intelligence
" I have spent my career building and improving secure, trustworthy systems, and I am very proud to be working on security at Yahoo. "
Security
Building
I Am
" Internet advertising security and the fight against malware is a top priority for Yahoo. "
Internet
Fight
Advertising
" 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. "
Doors
Best
Back
" I think anybody who uses email in the center of our life needs encryption. "
Center
I Think
Life
" People now know how important it is to build secure systems to underlie our civilization. "
Important
People
Know
" Preventing surveillance of millions of people at a time is totally within our ability. "
Time
Surveillance
People
" Security people aren't brilliant; we aren't smarter than everyone else. "
People
Security
Brilliant
" 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. "
Freedom
Famous
Tools
" The definition of hate speech in some countries is problematic. "
Definition
Hate
Some
" 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. "
Computers
Live
Freedom
" 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. "
Security
Tools
Research
" There's always a momentum in how users do stuff. Making small changes can have huge knock-on effects for whole companies. "
Momentum
Stuff
Always
" 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. "
See
Tools
Great
" We are moving to a world where all content is encrypted all the time. "
Where
Content
Moving
" What we're trying to do at Yahoo is build our products so they're safe and trustworthy, not just secure. "
Trying
Trustworthy
Safe
" 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. "
Important
Advertising
Life
" 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. "
Technology
Advertising
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