If someone steals your password, you can change it. But if someone steals your thumbprint, you can't get a new thumb. The failure modes are very different. — 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 remember. Unfortunately, if it's easy to remember, it's something nonrandom like 'Susan.' And if it's random, like 'r7U2*Qnp,'… — 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 Image
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 Image
Don't make the mistake of thinking you're Facebook's customer, you're not – you're the product, — Bruce Schneier Copy Share Image
Cryptography products may be declared illegal, but the information will never be — Bruce Schneier Copy Share Image
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 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
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 Image
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 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
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
![“The real targets of terrorism are the rest of us: the billions of us who are not killed but are terrorized because of the killing. The real point of terrorism is not the act itself, but our reaction to the act. And we're doing exactly what the terrorists want [...] Our politicians help the…” quote by Bruce Schneier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/786/bruce-schneier-8231_billions_the-real-targets-of-terrorism-are-the-re_114892.jpg)
