We've made great progress coordinating better as a government.
From James Comey
The Internet is the most dangerous parking lot imaginable. But if you were crossing a mall parking lot late at night, your entire sense of danger would be heightened. You would stand straight. You'd walk quickly. You'd know where you were going. You would look for light.
There are those who've been hacked by the Chinese and those who don't know they've been hacked by the Chinese.
Folks are wandering around that proverbial parking lot of the Internet all day long, without giving it a thought to whose attachments they're opening, what sites they're visiting. And that makes it easy for the bad guys.
I love strong encryption. It protects us in so many ways from bad people. But it takes us to a place - absolute privacy - that we have not been to before.
ISIL is not your parents' al Qaeda. It's a very different model.
The notion that we would market devices that would allow someone to place themselves beyond the law troubles me a lot.
ISIL does something al-Qaida would never imagine: they test people by tasking them.
We have perpetrated a myth in our society that being brave means not being afraid, but that's wrong.
If you've ever talked to a special agent that you know well, and you ask he or she about a dangerous encounter they were involved in, they'll almost always give you the same answer: 'Yeah, I did it, but I was scared to heck the whole time.'
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