Digital Security and Privacy Risks

Don't nod when you can motion.

Don't speak when you can nod.

And don't ever put anything in a text message.

At the CIA on our very first day, they told us not to ever say or do

anything that we would be ashamed to see on the front page of the Washington Post.

I took that seriously.

The truth of the matter is, because of technology the way it is today,

our whole lives are out there potentially for someone to see,

for someone to use against us.

So be careful what you say, be careful what you write, even in jest,

because it can be taken out of context to target you.

And what about digital security?

You talked about the

fact that it's possible for these forces, and not just the US, but other countries,

to be able to

hack and crack your devices and see anything on your devices. I think we all go

around assuming that our devices are secure. They're not secure at all, at all.

It's not just NSA,

CIA, FBI that you have to worry about.

It's the British,

the French, the Germans, the Canadians, the Australians, the New Zealanders,

the Russians, the Chinese, the Israelis, the Iranians.

I mean, everybody has these capabilities, everybody.

So you've got to be very, very careful.

Capabilities to do what? To intercept communications.

I've heard you say that they can hack car systems, so they could theoretically

hack into my car. Yes, we know that from WikiLeaks.

There was something in 2017 called the Vault 7 revelations.

There was a CIA software engineer who was disgruntled

and instead of going to the Russians or the Chinese,

he went to WikiLeaks and he downloaded thousands,

tens of thousands of pages of documents classified above top secret.

And they became what we.