Quotes from 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.

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.

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.

The definition of hate speech in some countries is problematic.

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

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

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