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4 people · 22 quotes · 16 May 2016 to 22 Jul 2026
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Dearlove challenges claims that leaving the EU would reduce UK security.
“The argument that we would be less secure if we left the EU is, in reality, rather difficult to make.”
Dearlove argues terrorism does not present a systemic threat to the nation despite horrible individual attacks.
“I don't think terrorism in its current form, you know, presents a systemic threat to the nation. It presents, the possibility of horrible happenings, which we are learning how to deal with.”
Gurley says bug bounties are the only offensive security solution versus defensive dam-building approaches.
“It is the only offensive solution. Most of the security solutions are defensive where you're just building a bigger and bigger dam and trying to hold people out.”
Dearlove says politicians and phones have always been a problem, not unique to any single politician.
“Have Politicians and always been a problem. It is not a unique problem to any single politician.”
Dearlove states politicians and phones have always been a problem across all politicians, not unique to any individual.
“Politicians and always been a problem. It is not a unique problem to any single politician.”
Dearlove claims every politician he has known, foreign and British, has used phones unwisely.
“Every single politician I have ever known, foreign and British, have used their phones in a way which probably is unwise.”
Gurley cites CrowdStrike as example of network effects in enterprise security through shared threat intelligence across customers.
“But they posted a memo four years ago titled the CrowdStrike Security Cloud Network Effect.”
Gurley explains CrowdStrike's network effect where threat-sharing makes the largest security network most valuable.
“the way that it worked for them and the way that the marginal customer ends up with more utility is if the threats are shared across a network, then if you belong to the biggest network, then you get the shared learning of everyone in that network, which lowers your threat exposure.”
Patel reveals his team found security flaws in other clouds allowing them to snoop customer traffic via InfiniBand.
“of work. This is this is actually some stuff that we've noticed on other clouds that we've tested, whether it's, you know, things related to InfiniBand p keys and we're able to snoop in other nodes of real live customer traffic. And, obviously, we tell them, like, we're like, yo, this is not okay.”
Patel describes finding security vulnerabilities on other clouds allowing access to customer traffic and server BMCs.
“things related to InfiniBand p keys and we're able to snoop in other nodes of real live customer traffic.”
Dearlove argues any Chinese corporation is ultimately controlled by the Communist Party and must obey in crisis.
“The fact is you cannot get around the security problem that any Chinese corporation is ultimately under the control of the Chinese Communist Party. If in a crisis they are told to jump.”
Dearlove asserts any Chinese corporation is ultimately under Chinese Communist Party control.
“The fact is you cannot get around the security problem that any Chinese corporation is ultimately under the control of the Chinese Communist Party.”
Dearlove warns Chinese cars have cellular modules that could be reprogrammed remotely to immobilize vehicles in a crisis.
“Because in every Chinese car there is a cellular module which is connected to the internet of things and that car in a crisis can be reprogrammed by the manufacturer in China.”
Dearlove warns China could immobilize Chinese cars remotely and bring UK cities to a halt in a crisis.
“Chinese could bring in a crisis UK city to a grinding halt, bang, with a flick of a switch in Beijing.”
Dearlove says Palantir's intellectual property must be of massive interest to Russians and Chinese, requiring protective organization.
“But for example, your intellectual property must be of massive interest to the Russians and the Chinese. So you almost need a sort of protective organization.”
Dearlove argues Palantir uniquely adapted modern democratic security structures to the world of data.
“pull together the diversity and complexity of a modern democratic security structure and make it, let's say, fully adapt it to the world of data in a way that no one else has seemed to have had the conceptual approach.”
Dearlove says the proposed Chinese embassy site is sensitive due to communications cables running underneath or near it.
“And the reason it's sensitive in my understanding is because of the communications cables that run underneath it or very close to it.”
Dearlove opposes the Chinese embassy in the City of London due to sensitive communications cables underneath.
“And putting a Chinese embassy on top of that in a strategic place in the city of London seems to me an unnecessarily foolish and risky step to take and we should say no.”
Dearlove criticizes Trump's security statement for failing to explicitly name Russia as a global threat.
“you can't write a statement about security without including clear reference to Russia as a global threat.”
Dearlove argues air cover is the only practical security guarantee Ukraine would accept.
“I think the only practical security guarantee personally is a guarantee of air cover because the Ukrainians will not accept, I think, boots on the ground and neither will the Russians.”
Huang says NVIDIA built local AI systems because he's not confident sharing company conversations in the cloud.
“I am not confident. I am not secure about putting all of NVIDIA's conversations in the cloud, which is the reason why we build it locally. We've built a super AI system locally.”
Patel observes his employees' jobs have radically changed, now needing access beyond their job titles because AI enables broader roles.
“But actually with AI, a lot of the people that are on my team, their jobs have radically changed over the last few years.”