| On offensive cyber measures "If we start authorizing private actors to take offensive actions, particularly if there's a kinetic effect on the defense of different networks of other nations or groups, it really starts to tear at the core of our sovereign state system in ways that I think would be unpredictable. And we'll have a lot of second, third, fourth-order consequences that may not be entirely obvious from the beginning."—Stephenie Gosnell Handler, partner, at law firm Gibson Dunn On the use of AI among criminals "The thing about AI is that you don't have to be very smart to use it. We see everybody, from the sophisticated white-collar actor perpetuating million-dollar schemes, all the way to the gang banger who's hanging out on Roosevelt Ave., using AI in some form or another for their criminal activities."—Christopher Raia, assistant director in charge of the FBI's New York field office On declassifying threat intelligence "We've taken that approach: downgrade as much as we can and get out as much intelligence as possible to our industrial partners. I had one partner tell me that we are waterboarding him with intelligence and, uh, to back off a little bit. That was the biggest compliment I ever had."—Kristina Walter, chief of the National Security Agency's Cybersecurity Collaboration Center On the first hours after a cyberattack "I just said we needed a whole department head meeting right away. I was doing that because I had some people running around the office, pulling out the cords from all of the computers, as if unplugging them would fix it." —Lisa Black, former chief deputy county executive of Suffolk County, N.Y. | 
