Bruce Schneier - Security Quotes

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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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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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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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Homeland security measures are an enormous waste of money.

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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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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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If the goal of security is to protect against yesterday's attacks, we're really good at it.

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

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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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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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The more technological a society is, the greater the security gap is.

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