Marc Goodman Quotes

#1. If you control the code, you control the world. This is the future that awaits us.

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#2. Facebook's own security department has shockingly acknowledged that over 600,000 accounts are compromised every day.

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#3. That also means the antivirus software you are running on your own computer is likely only catching 5 percent of the emerging threats targeting your machine. If your body's own immune system had a batting average like that, you would be dead in a matter of hours.

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#4. New opportunities for innovation open up when you start the creative problem-solving process with empathy toward your target audience. TOM KELLEY, IDEO Why

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#5. We are at the dawn of a technological arms race, an arms race between people who are using technology for good and those who are using it for ill.

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#6. Yet all attackers benefit from the asymmetric nature of the technology: the defender must build a perfect wall to keep out all intruders, while the offense need find only one chink in the armor through which to attack.

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#7. Who was this criminal mastermind behind Silk Road? Not at all whom you would expect. Ross Ulbricht was the kind of kid any parent would be proud of, an Eagle Scout from Austin, Texas, who had earned a master's degree in science and engineering.

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#8. Fifty-five percent of people use the same password across most Web sites, and 40 percent don't even bother to use one at all on their smart phones.

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#9. In an instant, all of his data, including every baby picture he had taken during his daughter's first year of life, were destroyed.

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#10. did you realize every time you speak a query into Apple's Siri artificial intelligence agent, your voice recording is analyzed and stored by the company for at least two years?

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#11. The ability of one to affect many is scaling exponentially - and it's scaling for good and it's scaling for evil.

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#12. But many of these Silicon Valley entrepreneurs hard at work creating our technological future pay precious little attention to the public policy, legal, ethical, and security risks that their creations pose to the rest of society.

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#13. The noted Yale computer science professor Edward Tufte once observed that there are only two industries that refer to their customers as users: computer designers and drug dealers. Importantly, you are equally as likely to recover damages from either of them for the harms their products cause.

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#14. Those very same metadata are contained in millions of photographs posted to sale and auction sites such as Craigslist and eBay. For example, a photograph of a diamond ring or an iPad posted on Craigslist might have embedded with it the precise location of your home where the photograph was taken.

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#15. where the victim (Citibank) was

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#16. Today 89 percent of employees are accessing work-related information on their mobile phones, and 41 percent are doing so without permission of their companies.

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#17. Each and every day around the world, display wars are taking place as governments, multinational corporations, criminals, and terrorists battle to shape and control what is seen online. What ensues is a real but covert war on reality, one that is meant to blind us to the truth.

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#18. To paraphrase an old philosophical question, if a tree falls on the Internet and no search engine indexes it, does it make any noise?

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#19. China has secretly developed an army of 180,000 cyber spies and warriors, mounting an incredible ninety thousand computer attacks a year against the U.S. Defense Department networks alone. The totality of the thefts and their impact on American national security are breathtaking.

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