Words matter. These are the best Alex Stamos Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Developing safe products for people around the world will mean accounting for a much wider variety of devices, networks, infrastructure, and political environments.
If you send emails to your spouse or your lawyer or family members, you want to have these messages be confidential.
Being a CISO is a tough job. I have the end responsibility for the personal information of over a billion people.
Internet advertising security and the fight against malware is a top priority for Yahoo.
We are moving to a world where all content is encrypted all the time.
I don’t think it’s wrong for companies to work with the government. What’s important is being trustworthy and honest with customers.
Usernames and passwords are an idea that came out of 1970s mainframe architectures. They were not built for 2016.
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.
There’s a big focus in the security industry on incredibly sophisticated attacks and on very sophisticated threat actors.
What we’re trying to do at Yahoo is build our products so they’re safe and trustworthy, not just secure.
People now know how important it is to build secure systems to underlie our civilization.
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.
We have perfected the art of finding problems without fixing real-world issues. We focus too much on complexity, not harm.
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.
The reuse of passwords is the No. 1 cause of harm on 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.
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.
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.
It turns out that we can build perfectly secure software, and yet people can still get hurt.
Preventing surveillance of millions of people at a time is totally within our ability.
There’s always a momentum in how users do stuff. Making small changes can have huge knock-on effects for whole companies.
Adversaries will do the simplest thing they need to do to make an attack work.
I think anybody who uses email in the center of our life needs encryption.
I have spent my career building and improving secure, trustworthy systems, and I am very proud to be working on security at Yahoo.
I’m not a futurist, so I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about 20 years from now.
