Age-old Quote by Charles Platt

Frightened people want to protect themselves, sometimes without thinking about others. Often, they get angry and want to find someone to blame for catastrophe.…

— David Ignatius

A lot of people have a lot to gain from peddling scare stories about cyber 'warfare.'

— Heather Brooke

Fearmongering has always happened, which, through technology, is being spread faster.

— Jaggi Vasudev

'Social engineering,' the fancy term for tricking you into giving away your digital secrets, is at least as great a threat as spooky technology.

— Barton Gellman

We live in a world where we're all on computers and tablets and phones, all the time, so something as odd as computer hacking…

— Denis O'Hare

Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of.

— Angelina Jolie

Should we fear hackers? Intention is at the heart of this discussion.

— Kevin Mitnick

When people are scared, they need something done that will make them feel safe, even if it doesn't truly make them safer. Politicians naturally…

— Bruce Schneier

“Fear mongers make their scares all the more credible by backing up would-be experts’ assertions with testimonials from people the audience will find sympathetic.”

— Barry Glassner

If you want to scare people, you talk about evil.

— Noam Chomsky

It is standard practice for corrupt leaders who are seeking a certain political outcome to hype or manipulate a terror threat or a threat…

— Naomi Wolf

You scare the shit out of people so they can't see how scared you are.

— Gia Carangi