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Secret courts making secret rulings on secret laws, and companies flagrantly lying to consumers about the insecurity of their products and services, undermine the very foundations of our society. -- Bruce Schneier
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ID can be hijacked, and cards can be faked. All of the 9/11 terrorists had fake IDs, yet they still got on the planes. If the British national ID card can't be faked, it will be the first on the planet. -- Bruce Schneier
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Data is the pollution problem of the information age, and protecting privacy is the environmental challenge. -- Bruce Schneier
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Anyone, from the most clueless amateur to the best cryptographer, can create an algorithm that he himself can't break. -- Bruce Schneier
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If someone steals your password, you can change it. But if someone steals your thumbprint, you can't get a new thumb. The failure modes are very different. -- Bruce Schneier
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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. -- Bruce Schneier
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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. -- Bruce Schneier
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Increasingly, companies use their power to influence and manipulate their users. Websites that profit from advertising spend a lot of effort making sure you spend as much time on those sites as possible, optimizing their content for maximum addictiveness. -- Bruce Schneier
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Trying to make bits uncopyable is like trying to make water not wet. The sooner people accept this, and build business models that take this into account, the sooner people will start making money again. -- Bruce Schneier
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Surveillance is the business model of the Internet. -- Bruce Schneier
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I tell people if it's in the news don't worry about it. Because by definition news is something that almost never happens. -- Bruce Schneier
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Privacy is a fundamental human need -- Bruce Schneier
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Surveillance of power is one of the most important ways to ensure that power does not abuse its status. But, of course, power does not like to be watched. -- Bruce Schneier
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NSA analyst touches something in the database, -- Bruce Schneier
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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. -- Bruce Schneier
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No one can duplicate the confidence that RSA offers after 20 years of cryptanalytic review. -- Bruce Schneier
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If you ask amateurs to act as front-line security personnel, you shouldn't be surprised when you get amateur security. -- Bruce Schneier
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Choosing providers is not a choice between surveillance/not; it's just choosing which feudal lord gets to spy on you. -- Bruce Schneier
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I used to say that Google knows more about what I'm thinking of than my wife does. But that doesn't go far enough. Google knows more about what I'm thinking of than I do, because Google remembers all of it perfectly and forever. -- Bruce Schneier
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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. -- Bruce Schneier
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It doesn't matter how big your neocortex is or how abstractly you can reason: unless you can trust others, your species will forever remain stuck in the Stone Age. -- Bruce Schneier
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As former NSA general counsel Stewart Baker said, "Metadata absolutely tells you everything about somebody's life. If you have enough metadata you don't really need content. -- Bruce Schneier
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One of the most surreal aspects of the NSA stories based on the Snowden documents is how they made even the most paranoid conspiracy theorists seem like paragons of reason and common sense. -- Bruce Schneier
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Those of us who fought the crypto wars, as we call them, thought we had won them in the 1990s. What the Snowden documents have shown us is that instead of dropping the notion of getting backdoor government access, the NSA and FBI just kept doing it in secret. -- Bruce Schneier
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The very definition of news is something that hardly ever happens. If an incident is in the news, we shouldn't worry about it. It's when something is so common that its no longer news - car crashes, domestic violence - that we should worry. -- Bruce Schneier
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Why is it that we all - myself included - believe these stories? Why are we so quick to assume that the TSA is a bunch of jack-booted thugs, officious and arbitrary and drunk with power? It's because everything seems so arbitrary, because there's no accountability or transparency in the DHS. -- Bruce Schneier
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Hardware is easy to protect: lock it in a room, chain it to a desk, or buy a spare. Information poses more of a problem. It can exist in more than one place; be transported halfway across the planet in seconds; and be stolen without your knowledge. -- Bruce Schneier
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It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state. -- Bruce Schneier
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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. -- Bruce Schneier
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The most common misconception about privacy is that it's about having something to hide. "If you aren't doing anything wrong, then you have nothing to hide," the saying goes, with the obvious implication that privacy only aids wrongdoers. -- Bruce Schneier
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Security is a process, not a product. -- Bruce Schneier
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The more technological a society is, the greater the security gap is. -- Bruce Schneier
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If something is free, you're not the customer; you're the product. -- Bruce Schneier
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Only amateurs attack machines; professionals target people. -- Bruce Schneier
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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. -- Bruce Schneier
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Chaos is hard to create, even on the Internet. Here's an example. Go to Amazon. Buy a book without using SSL. Watch the total lack of chaos. -- Bruce Schneier
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The science and engineering of programming just isn't good enough to produce flawless software, and that isn't going to change anytime soon. The -- Bruce Schneier
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Something that looks like a protocol but does not accomplish a task is not a protocol - it's a waste of time. -- Bruce Schneier
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You can think of the difference between tactical and strategic oversight as the difference between doing things right and doing the right things. Both are required. -- Bruce Schneier
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Buy American Doesn't Sell Well Anymore Because It Means Give A Copy To The NSA -- Bruce Schneier
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Metadata equals surveillance; it's that simple. -- Bruce Schneier
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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. -- Bruce Schneier
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It is sort of interesting that in our society this days we are very quick to apply the term 'war' to places where thare are no actual wars, and loath to apply the term 'war' when we are actually fighting wars. -- Bruce Schneier
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The more we expect technology to protect us from people in the same way it protects us from nature, the more we will sacrifice the very values of our society in futile attempts to achieve this security. -- Bruce Schneier
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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. -- Bruce Schneier
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Privacy is an inherent human right, and a requirement for maintaining the human condition with dignity and respect. It is about choice, and having the power to control how you present yourself to the world. -- Bruce Schneier
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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. -- Bruce Schneier
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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 -- Bruce Schneier
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I am regularly asked what the average Internet user can do to ensure his security. My first answer is usually 'Nothing; you're screwed'. -- Bruce Schneier
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We no longer know whom to trust. This is the greatest damage the NSA has done to the Internet, and will be the hardest to fix. -- Bruce Schneier
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The user's going to pick dancing pigs over security every time. -- Bruce Schneier
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Mug shot extortion sites turn this sort of thing into a business. Mug shots are public record, but they're not readily available. Owners of mug shot sites acquire the photos in bulk and publish them online, where everybody can find them, then charge individuals to remove their photos from the sites. -- Bruce Schneier
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If the FBI parks a van bristling with cameras outside your house, you are justified in closing your blinds. -- Bruce Schneier
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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. -- Bruce Schneier
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Surveillance makes us feel like prey, just as it makes the surveillors act like predators. -- Bruce Schneier
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The fundamental driver in computer security, in all of the computer industry, is economics. That requires a lot of re-education for us security geeks. -- Bruce Schneier
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By 2010, we as a species were creating more data per day than we did from the beginning of time until 2003. By 2015, 76 exabytes of data will travel across the Internet every year. -- Bruce Schneier
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Corporate and government surveillance aren't separate; they're an alliance of interests. -- Bruce Schneier
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There's an entire flight simulator hidden in every copy of Microsoft Excel 97. -- Bruce Schneier
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Microsoft knows that reliable software is not cost effective. According to studies, 90% to 95% of all bugs are harmless. They're never discovered by users, and they don't affect performance. It's much cheaper to release buggy software and fix the 5% to 10% of bugs people find and complain about. -- Bruce Schneier
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Terrorists can only take my life. Only my government can take my freedom. -- Bruce Schneier
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You can't defend. You can't prevent. The only thing you can do is detect and respond. -- Bruce Schneier
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Liberty requires security without intrusion, security plus privacy. -- Bruce Schneier
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People often represent the weakest link in the security chain and are chronically responsible for the failure of security systems. -- Bruce Schneier
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The question to ask when you look at security is not whether this makes us safer, but whether it's worth the trade-off. -- Bruce Schneier
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Societies without a reservoir of people who don't follow the rules lack an important mechanism for societal evolution. Vibrant societies need a dishonest minority; if society makes its dishonest minority too small, it stifles dissent as well as common crime. -- Bruce Schneier
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Given the credible estimate that we've spent $1 trillion on anti-terrorism security -- Bruce Schneier
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Digital files cannot be made uncopyable, any more than water can be made not wet. -- Bruce Schneier
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This is not the internet the world needs, or the internet its creators envisioned. We need to take it back. And by we, I mean the engineering community. -- Bruce Schneier
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People don't understand computers. Computers are magical boxes that do things. People believe what computers tell them. -- Bruce Schneier
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We can't keep weapons out of prisons; we can't possibly expect to keep them out of airports. -- Bruce Schneier
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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. -- Bruce Schneier
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Estimates put the current number of Internet-connected devices at 10 billion. -- Bruce Schneier
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Terrorism is a crime against the mind. We win by refusing fear. -- Bruce Schneier
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There are two types of encryption: one that will prevent your sister from reading your diary and one that will prevent your government. -- Bruce Schneier
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We kill people based on metadata. -- Bruce Schneier
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Cryptography products may be declared illegal, but the information will never be -- Bruce Schneier
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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. -- Bruce Schneier
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Data is the exhaust of the information age. -- Bruce Schneier
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The mantra of any good security engineer is: 'Security is a not a product, but a process.' It's more than designing strong cryptography into a system; it's designing the entire system such that all security measures, including cryptography, work together. -- Bruce Schneier
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Technical problems can be remediated. A dishonest corporate culture is much harder to fix. -- Bruce Schneier
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It doesn't matter how good the card is if the issuance process is flawed. -- Bruce Schneier
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It is insufficient to protect ourselves with laws; we need to protect ourselves with mathematics. -- Bruce Schneier
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If anyone thinks they can get an accurate picture of anyplace on the planet by reading news reports, they're sadly mistaken. -- Bruce Schneier