Mark Rasch Quotations

I'd be very surprised if the FBI does not catch this guy.

I give out my address to certain Internet places because I need something shipped to me. I don't have a choice.

I would say the Fourth Amendment (guaranteeing protection against unreasonable searches) is the Fourth Amendment, and the fact that you're invading the privacy of millions as opposed to dozens should make it worse, not better.

I still get a little hungry around 10 or 11 at night, but now I try to eat more healthy snacks.

Most companies have a policy that says if you use our computers you consent to our monitoring.

There is nothing about computer security in the law -- nothing.

What I would as a parent argue is that I can consent to my kid's monitoring. Hey, it's my kid. I can read their mail, but the federal law doesn't make any distinction. If I'm reading anybody's communications without their consent or without a consent of one party, I'm violating federal law.

What banks have essentially done is put ATMs in people's living rooms. The security is only as good as that of the home computer.

There's no question in my mind that once we make the networks less secure because of CALEA, we will exploit that lack of security to intercept communications under every legal authority asserted by the government.

This is the government entity responsible for letting contracts for security. Clearly the people who log in would know about security.

They sell it, and they make money off the personal information that I have given them. And what we are recognizing now on the Internet is that personal information is commodity.

This guy didn't participate in the misappropriation, and probably didn't conspire with anybody to misappropriate it. Once it's posted online, it's just not secret anymore. At some point it becomes public information.

It's so widespread, ... It's used against many different countries, and law enforcement only has a small handle on it.

The bad guy will have gone through many, many steps to conceal his identity, through pirated or hacked accounts.

If you are a determined bad guy, you will find relatively easy ways to avoid detection. The good news is that most bad guys are not clever and not determined.

If you have a policy that says e-mail can be monitored but in 10 years you've never monitored anybody's e-mail, then your de facto policy is that e-mail is not monitored.

If I am driving in France, I would be subject to French traffic laws. If I am driving in Australia, Australian traffic laws. If I am driving the information super highway, you don't know whose laws apply.