Bruce Schneier - Secrets and Lies (2000)

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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 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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People often represent the weakest link in the security chain and are chronically responsible for the failure of security systems.

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It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state.

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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 insufficient to protect ourselves with laws; we need to protect ourselves with mathematics.

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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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There's an entire flight simulator hidden in every copy of Microsoft Excel 97.

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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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