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Security Quotes by Bruce Schneier
- 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
- I am regularly asked what the average Internet user can do to ensure his security. My first answer is usually 'Nothing; you're screwed'.
- Security is a process, not a product.
- The fundamental driver in computer security, in all of the computer industry, is economics. That requires a lot of re-education for us security geeks.
More Security Quotes
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- Freedom is not a luxury that we can indulge in when at last we have security and prosperity and enlightenment; it is,… — Henry Steele Commager
- None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth,… — Thomas B. Macaulay
- Love, acceptance, respect, to be desired, security, passion, are all things a woman may want in her relationship. — Senoraroy
- Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds. — John Perry Barlow
- The life of the community, both domestically and internationally, clearly demonstrates that respect for rights, and the guarantees that follow from them,… — Pope Benedict XVI
- In Rwanda that genocide happened because the international community and the Security Council refused to give, again, another 5000 troops which would… — Lakhdar Brahimi
- President Obama is determined that our foreign and national security policies not play into al-Qa'ida's strategy or its warped ideology. Al-Qa'ida seeks… — John O. Brennan