Alex Stamos
Alex Stamos

What we're trying to do at Yahoo is build our products so they're safe and trustworthy, not just secure.

Alex Stamos
Alex Stamos

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.

Alex Stamos
Alex Stamos

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
Alex Stamos

Usernames and passwords are an idea that came out of 1970s mainframe architectures. They were not built for 2016.

Alex Stamos
Alex Stamos

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.

Alex Stamos
Alex Stamos

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

Alex Stamos
Alex Stamos

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.

Alex Stamos
Alex Stamos

Developing safe products for people around the world will mean accounting for a much wider variety of devices, networks, infrastructure, and political environments.

Alex Stamos
Alex Stamos

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
Alex Stamos

Almost every OS X server service offers weak or broken authentication mechanisms.

Alex Stamos
Alex Stamos

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

Alex Stamos
Alex Stamos

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

Alex Stamos
Alex Stamos

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

Alex Stamos
Alex Stamos

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
Alex Stamos

I think anybody who uses email in the center of our life needs encryption.

Alex Stamos
Alex Stamos

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.

Alex Stamos
Alex Stamos

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

Alex Stamos
Alex Stamos

Being a CISO is a tough job. I have the end responsibility for the personal information of over a billion people.

Alex Stamos
Alex Stamos

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.

Alex Stamos
Alex Stamos

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.