Bruce Schneier
American cryptographer, computer security professional and writer
Lived from: 1963 -
Category: Writers (Contemporary)
Born: 15 january 1963
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Digital files cannot be made uncopyable, any more than water can be made not wet.
Source: Schneier, Bruce (2001)― Bruce Schneier -
... if anyone thinks they can get an accurate picture of anyplace on the planet by reading news reports, they're sadly mistaken.
Source: Schneier, Bruce (2005)― 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.
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Beware the Four Horsemen of the Information Apocalypse: terrorists, drug dealers, kidnappers, and child pornographers. Seems like you can scare any public into allowing the government to do anything with those four.
Source: Schneier, Bruce (2005)― Bruce Schneier -
Chaos is hard to create, even on the Internet. Here's an example. Go to Amazon.com. Buy a book without using SSL. Watch the total lack of chaos.
Source: Biancuzzi, Federico (2005)― Bruce Schneier -
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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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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It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state.
Source: Secrets and Lies (2000)― Bruce Schneier -
More people are killed every year by pigs than by sharks, which shows you how good we are at evaluating risk.
Source: Schneier, Bruce. Interview with Doug Kaye. IT Conversations: Bruce Schneier. 2004-04-16.― Bruce Schneier -
No one can duplicate the confidence that RSA offers after 20 years of cryptanalytic review.
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Technical problems can be remediated. A dishonest corporate culture is much harder to fix.
Source: Schneier, Bruce (2005)― Bruce Schneier -
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.
Source: Bruce Schneier (1996)― Bruce Schneier -
There are two types of encryption: one that will prevent your sister from reading your diary and one that will prevent your government.
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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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We can't keep weapons out of prisons; we can't possibly expect to keep them out of airports.
Source: Schneier, Bruce (2005)― Bruce Schneier -
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.
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When my mother gets a prompt 'Do you want to download this?' she's going to say yes. It's disingenuous for Microsoft to give you all of these tools with which to hang yourself, and when you do, then say it's your fault.
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When people are scared, they need something done that will make them feel safe, even if it doesn't truly make them safer. Politicians naturally want to do something in response to crisis, even if that something doesn't make any sense. But unfortunately for politicians, the security measures that work are largely invisible.
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You can't defend. You can't prevent. The only thing you can do is detect and respond.
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