Dan Geer quotes
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“You have privacy if you retain the effective capacity to misrepresent yourself.”
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“The Heartbleed problem can be blamed on complexity; all Internet standards become festooned with complicating option sets that no one person can know in their entirety. The Heartbleed problem can be blamed on insufficient investment; safety review for open source code is rarely funded, nor sustainable when it is. The Heartbleed problem can be blamed on poor planning; wide deployment within critical functions but without any repair regime.”
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“Work like Hell. Share all you know. Abide by your handshake. Have fun.”
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“The price of freedom is the probability of crime. The price of protection is the probability of slavery.”
-- Dan Geer
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Source : "Naţionalitatea în artă" ("Nationality in Art") by A. C. Cuza, Bucureşti: Cartea Romaneasca, 1905.
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“The charms of seclusion are seldom combined with the conveniences of civilization.”
Source : Ethel Smyth (1922). “Streaks of life”
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“I follow my course with the precision and security of a sleepwalker.”
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“Security is a process, not a product.”
Source : Bruce Schneier (2011). “Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World”, p.257, John Wiley & Sons
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