"When my mother gets a prompt 'Do you……" — Bruce Schneier
"When my mother gets a prompt 'Do you want to download this?' she's going to say yes. It's disingenuous for Microsoft to give you all of these tools with which to hang yourself, and when you do, then say it's your fault."
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40 Quotes by Bruce Schneier
Bruce Schneier has 40 quotes on this site.
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Amateurs hack systems, professionals hack people.
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Computer security can simply be protecting your equipment and files from disgruntled employees, spies, and anything that goes bump in…
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Hardware is easy to protect: lock it in a room, chain it to a desk, or buy a spare. Information…
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People often represent the weakest link in the security chain and are chronically responsible for the failure of security systems.
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If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the…
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Microsoft made a big deal about Windows NT getting a C2 security rating. They were much less forthcoming with the…
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The user's going to pick dancing pigs over security every time.
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If someone steals your password, you can change it. But if someone steals your thumbprint, you can't get a new…
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The mantra of any good security engineer is: 'Security is a not a product, but a process.' It's more than…
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The whole notion of passwords is based on an oxymoron. The idea is to have a random string that is…
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History has taught us: never underestimate the amount of money, time, and effort someone will expend to thwart a security…
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Given the credible estimate that we've spent $1 trillion on anti-terrorism security
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally…
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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes…
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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of…
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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
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We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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