Bruce Schneier Quotes

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• Amateurs hack systems, professionals hack people.
• Computer security can simply be protecting your equipment and files from disgruntled employees, spies, and anything that goes bump in the night, but there is…
• Hardware is easy to protect: lock it in a room, chain it to a desk, or buy a spare. Information poses more of a problem.…
• People often represent the weakest link in the security chain and are chronically responsible for the failure of security systems.
• If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology.
• Microsoft made a big deal about Windows NT getting a C2 security rating. They were much less forthcoming with the fact that this rating only…
• The user's going to pick dancing pigs over security every time.
• 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…
• The mantra of any good security engineer is: 'Security is a not a product, but a process.' It's more than designing strong cryptography into a…
• 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…
• 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 to…
• Given the credible estimate that we've spent $1 trillion on anti-terrorism security
• People don't understand computers. Computers are magical boxes that do things. People believe what computers tell them.
• For if we are observed in all matters, we are constantly under threat of correction, judgment, criticism, even plagiarism of our own uniqueness. We become…
• I am regularly asked what the average Internet user can do to ensure his security. My first answer is usually 'Nothing; you're screwed'.
• It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state.
• There are two types of encryption: one that will prevent your sister from reading your diary and one that will prevent your government.
• Terrorists can only take my life. Only my government can take my freedom.
• Terrorism isn't a crime against people or property. It's a crime against our minds, using the death of innocents and destruction of property to make…
• Something that looks like a protocol but does not accomplish a task is not a protocol—it’s a waste of time.

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