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People don't understand computers. Computers are magical boxes that do things. People believe what computers tell them.
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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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The more technological a society is, the greater the security gap is.
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Only amateurs attack machines; professionals target people.
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Cryptography products may be declared illegal, but the information will never be
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A colleague once told me that the world was full of bad security systems designed by people who read Applied Cryptography
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There's an entire flight simulator hidden in every copy of Microsoft Excel 97.
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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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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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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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It is insufficient to protect ourselves with laws; we need to protect ourselves with mathematics.
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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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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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People make bad security trade-offs when they're scared.
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If the goal of security is to protect against yesterday's attacks, we're really good at it.
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In China, programs have to be certified by the government in order to be used on computers there, which sounds an awful lot like the Apple store.
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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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Did you ever wonder why tweezers were confiscated at security checkpoints, but matches and cigarette lighters — actual combustible materials — were not?... If the tweezers lobby had more power, I'm sure they would have been allowed on board as well.
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Technical problems can be remediated. A dishonest corporate culture is much harder to fix.
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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 applied if the computer was not attached to a network and had no network card, and had its floppy drive epoxied shut, and was running on a Compaq 386. Solaris's C2 rating was just as silly.
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It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state.
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Homeland security measures are an enormous waste of money.
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I can't build technology that operates differently depending on your morality.
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When the U.S. Government says that security against terrorism is worth curtailing individual civil liberties, it's because the cost of that decision is not borne by those making it.
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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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January 15, 1963
(age 61)
Bio:
Bruce Schneier is an American cryptographer, computer security and privacy specialist, and writer. He is the author of several books on general security topics, computer security and cryptography.
Known for:
Applied Cryptography (1994)
Secrets and Lies (2000)
Liars and Outliers (2012)
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