Liberty requires security without intrusion, security plus privacy. — Bruce Schneier Copy Share Image
The more technological a society is, the greater the security gap is. — Bruce Schneier Copy Share Image
People often represent the weakest link in the security chain and are chronically responsible for the failure of security systems. — Bruce Schneier Copy Share Image
The question to ask when you look at security is not whether this makes us safer, but whether it's worth the trade-off. — Bruce Schneier Copy Share Image
Given the credible estimate that we've spent $1 trillion on anti-terrorism security — Bruce Schneier Copy Share Image
If you ask amateurs to act as front-line security personnel, you shouldn't be surprised when you get amateur security. — Bruce Schneier Copy Share Image
It's certainly easier to implement bad security and make it illegal for anyone to notice than it is to implement good security. — Bruce Schneier Copy Share Image
If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology. — Bruce Schneier Copy Share Image
I am regularly asked what the average Internet user can do to ensure his security. My first answer is usually 'Nothing; you're… — Bruce Schneier Copy Share Image
A colleague once told me that the world was full of bad security systems designed by people who read Applied Cryptography — Bruce Schneier Copy Share Image
The whole notion of passwords is based on an oxymoron. The idea is to have a random string that is easy to… — Bruce Schneier Copy Share Image
The fundamental driver in computer security, in all of the computer industry, is economics. That requires a lot of re-education for us… — Bruce Schneier Copy Share Image
The mantra of any good security engineer is: 'Security is a not a product, but a process.' It's more than designing strong… — Bruce Schneier Copy Share Image
If someone steals your password, you can change it. But if someone steals your thumbprint, you can't get a new thumb. The… — Bruce Schneier Copy Share Image
Hardware is easy to protect: lock it in a room, chain it to a desk, or buy a spare. Information poses more… — Bruce Schneier Copy Share Image
The more we expect technology to protect us from people in the same way it protects us from nature, the more we… — Bruce Schneier Copy Share Image
History has taught us: never underestimate the amount of money, time, and effort someone will expend to thwart a security system. It's… — Bruce Schneier Copy Share Image
Microsoft made a big deal about Windows NT getting a C2 security rating. They were much less forthcoming with the fact that… — Bruce Schneier Copy Share Image
Computer security can simply be protecting your equipment and files from disgruntled employees, spies, and anything that goes bump in the night,… — Bruce Schneier Copy Share Image
When people are scared, they need something done that will make them feel safe, even if it doesn't truly make them safer.… — Bruce Schneier Copy Share Image
It is sort of interesting that in our society this days we are very quick to apply the term 'war' to places where thare… — Bruce Schneier Copy Share
There are two types of encryption: one that will prevent your sister from reading your diary and one that will prevent your government. — Bruce Schneier Copy Share
Don't make the mistake of thinking you're Facebook's customer, you're not – you're the product, — Bruce Schneier Copy Share
Cryptography products may be declared illegal, but the information will never be — Bruce Schneier Copy Share
The real targets of terrorism are the rest of us: the billions of us who are not killed but are terrorized because of the… — Bruce Schneier Copy Share
A colleague once told me that the world was full of bad security systems designed by people who read Applied Cryptography — Bruce Schneier Copy Share
History has taught us: never underestimate the amount of money, time, and effort someone will expend to thwart a security system. It's always better… — Bruce Schneier Copy Share
ID can be hijacked, and cards can be faked. All of the 9/11 terrorists had fake IDs, yet they still got on the planes.… — Bruce Schneier Copy Share
It's certainly easier to implement bad security and make it illegal for anyone to notice than it is to implement good security. — Bruce Schneier Copy Share
The very definition of news is something that hardly ever happens. If an incident is in the news, we shouldn't worry about it. It's… — Bruce Schneier Copy Share
“Even though we don't know which companies the NSA has compromised – or by what means – knowing that they could have compromised any… — Bruce Schneier Copy Share
Computer security can simply be protecting your equipment and files from disgruntled employees, spies, and anything that goes bump in the night, but there… — Bruce Schneier Copy Share
Hardware is easy to protect: lock it in a room, chain it to a desk, or buy a spare. Information poses more of a… — Bruce Schneier Copy Share
