Bruce Schneier quotes - page 2

People don't understand computers. Computers are magical boxes that do things. People believe what computers tell them. (Bruce Schneier)
If the goal of security is to protect against yesterday's attacks, we're really good at it. View quote
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Once the technology is in place, there will always be the temptation to use it. And it is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state. View quote
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Security is a process, not a product. View quote
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The user's going to pick dancing pigs over security every time. View quote
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There's an entire flight simulator hidden in every copy of Microsoft Excel 97. View quote
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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. View quote
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No one can duplicate the confidence that RSA offers after 20 years of cryptanalytic review. View quote
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When a big company lays you off, they often give you a year's salary to 'go pursue a dream.' If you're stupid, you panic and get another job. If you're smart, you take the money and use the time to figure out what you want to do next. View quote
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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. View quote
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You can't defend. You can't prevent. The only thing you can do is detect and respond. (Bruce Schneier)
Air travel survived decades of terrorism, including attacks which resulted in the deaths of everyone on the plane. It survived 9/11. It'll survive the next successful attack. The only real worry is that we'll scare ourselves into making air travel so onerous that we won't fly anymore. View quote
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It's frustrating; terrorism is rare and largely ineffectual, yet we regularly magnify the effects of both their successes and failures by terrorizing ourselves. View quote
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Every time I write about the impossibility of effectively protecting digital files on a general-purpose computer, I get responses from people decrying the death of copyright. "How will authors and artists get paid for their work?" they ask me. Truth be told, I don't know. I feel rather like the physicist who just explained relativity to a group of would-be interstellar travelers, only to be asked: "How do you expect us to get to the stars, then?" I'm sorry, but I don't know that, either. View quote
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Attacks always get better, they never get worse. View quote
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