Jay Leiderman - People Quotes

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Hack has become a sort of all-encompassing term, when in fact some of this was social engineering, some of this was good old-fashioned regular 'there's a hole, I'm going to walk through it', said Leiderman. If you left your front door open people wouldn't really call it a break-in. To some extent Stratfor were unsecure to the point where it was like their front door was open and Mr Hammond allegedly, with some others, walked right in, and people are calling it a hack. As far as I'm aware, nothing was really hacked in the classic sense, he added.

Jay Leiderman
Since the revelations of NSA surveillance and mass data collection, Leiderman has consistently referred to this as the tin foil age. It is a reference to the days when if someone thought the government was spying on them they would be seen as crazy – the kind of person that would wear a tin foil hat to combat the government surveillance. Now that we are all aware that our government is collecting mass data on so many people, we don't think the tin foil hat wearing people were quite so crazy [sort of], hence the tin foil age.

Jay Leiderman
The thing about free speech and free expression is people that are interested in it are by their very nature always tending to explore the boundaries... In a society that prizes free expression and one that has a great premium upon the marketplace of ideas, it's hard to say that someone went too far in expressing themselves when really no harm was done.

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