Bruce Schneier - People Quotes

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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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Only amateurs attack machines; professionals target people.

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We're seeing so much nonsense after 9/11, and so many people are saying things about security, about terrorism that just makes no sense.

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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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People make bad security trade-offs when they're scared.

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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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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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