Cybersecurity Quotes by Eric S. Raymond

13 Cybersecurity quotes by Eric S. Raymond

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Eric S. Raymond’s take on security is firmly rooted in the ethos of openness. In this short set of 13 observations, he challenges the status‑quo, urging developers and users alike to think critically about code, community, and risk.

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It is widely grokked that cats have the hacker nature

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Berkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires.

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The workstation-class machines built by Sun and others opened up new worlds for hackers.

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A security system is only as secure as its secret. Beware of pseudo-secrets.

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Being able to break security doesn't make you a hacker anymore than being able to hotwire cars makes you an automotive engineer.

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In early 1993, a hostile observer might have had grounds for thinking that the Unix story was almost played out, and with…

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The beginnings of the hacker culture as we know it today can be conveniently dated to 1961, the year MIT acquired the…

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For the first time, individual hackers could afford to have home machines comparable in power and storage capacity to the minicomputers of…

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“Similarly, to be a hacker you have to get a basic thrill from solving problems, sharpening your skills, and exercising your intelligence.…

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We hackers are a playful bunch; we'll hack anything, including language, if it looks like fun (thus our tropism for puns). Deep…

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“The Linux world behaves in many respects like a free market or an ecology, a collection of selfish agents attempting to maximize…

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“The Lockean logic of custom suggests strongly that open-source hackers observe the customs they do in order to defend some kind of…

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“The Linux world behaves in many respects like a free market or an ecology, a collection of selfish agents attempting to maximize…

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It is widely grokked that cats have the hacker nature

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