Bruce Schneier Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Anyone, from the most clueless amateur to the best cryptographer, can create an algorithm that he himself can't break.”
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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 technology.”
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“More people are killed every year by pigs than by sharks, which shows you how good we are at evaluating risk.”
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“No one can duplicate the confidence that RSA offers after 20 years of cryptanalytic review.”
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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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“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 children, fettered under watchful eyes, constantly fearful that-either now or in the uncertain future-patterns we leave behind will be brought back to implicate us, by whatever authority has now become focused upon our once-private and innocent acts. We lose our individuality, because everything we do is observable and recordable.”
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“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,' then it's not easy to remember.”
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“There are two kinds of cryptography in this world: cryptography that will stop your kid sister from reading your files, and cryptography that will stop major governments from reading your files.”
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“Don't make the mistake of thinking you're Facebook's customer, you're not – you're the product,”
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“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 us fearful. Terrorists use the media to magnify their actions and further spread fear. And when we react out of fear, when we change our policy to make our country less open, the terrorists succeed -- even if their attacks fail. But when we refuse to be terrorized, when we're indomitable in the face of terror, the terrorists fail -- even if their attacks succeed.”
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“Amateurs hack systems, professionals hack people.”
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“The user's going to pick dancing pigs over security every time.”
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“Think of your existing power as the exponent in an equation that determines the value of information. The more power you have, the more additional power you derive from the new data.”
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“Air travel survived decades of terrorism, including attacks which resulted in the deaths of everyone on the plane. It survived 9/11. It'll survive the next successful attack. The only real worry is that we'll scare ourselves into making air travel so onerous that we won't fly anymore.”
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“Despite fearful rhetoric to the contrary, terrorism is not a transcendent threat. A terrorist attack cannot possibly destroy our country's way of life; it's only our reaction to that attack that can do that kind of damage.”
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“When a big company lays you off, they often give you a year's salary to 'go pursue a dream.' If you're stupid, you panic and get another job. If you're smart, you take the money and use the time to figure out what you want to do next.”
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“Microsoft knows that reliable software is not cost effective. According to studies, 90% to 95% of all bugs are harmless. They're never discovered by users, and they don't affect performance. It's much cheaper to release buggy software and fix the 5% to 10% of bugs people find and complain about.”
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“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. If the British national ID card can't be faked, it will be the first on the planet.”
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“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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“Technical problems can be remediated. A dishonest corporate culture is much harder to fix.”
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“Only amateurs attack machines; professionals target people.”
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“Beware the Four Horsemen of the Information Apocalypse: terrorists, drug dealers, kidnappers, and child pornographers. Seems like you can scare any public into allowing the government to do anything with those four.”
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“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 when something is so common that its no longer news - car crashes, domestic violence - that we should worry.”
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“It's certainly easier to implement bad security and make it illegal for anyone to notice than it is to implement good security.”
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“if anyone thinks they can get an accurate picture of anyplace on the planet by reading news reports, they're sadly mistaken.”
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“Buy American Doesn’t Sell Well Anymore Because It Means Give A Copy To The NSA”
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“This is not the internet the world needs, or the internet its creators envisioned. We need to take it back. And by we, I mean the engineering community.”
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“I am regularly asked what the average Internet user can do to ensure his security. My first answer is usually 'Nothing; you're screwed'.”
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