Gavin de Becker
The Guardian
What holds, and what fails, under pressure, standards and accountability.
Gavin de Becker reads as The Guardian because protection is not a theme in his work, it is the work itself. A security expert and author of The Gift of Fear, he treats vigilance as a discipline that can be taught rather than a temperament one is born with. His appearance on The Diary of a CEO showed a leader who earns trust by taking threat seriously so others do not have to.
“The main function of my company is anti-assassination. We develop and deploy anti-assassination strategies. Under that are lesser outcomes like other kinds of crimes, destruction of reputation, threats designed to cause anxiety and fear.”
“There is absolutely no protection viable for the confidentiality of your phone if a government wants you. Even when Apple puts out a new solution, thousands of people immediately start working on the next exploit.”
“Human beings did not get the biggest claws or the biggest teeth or the biggest muscles. We got the biggest brains. The nuclear defense system that all human beings have is intuition.”
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