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