Bruce Schneier Quotes - Page 2

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• Digital files cannot be made uncopyable, any more than water can be made not wet.

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  Water, Digital, Made

  "The Futility of Digital Copy Prevention". Cryptogram newsletter, www.schneier.com. May 15, 2001.

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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.

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  Abuse, Important, Doe

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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.

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  Children, Government, Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse

  "Computer Crime Hype". www.schneier.com. December 16, 2005.

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• Liberty requires security without intrusion, security plus privacy.

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  Liberty, Privacy, Intrusion

  "The Eternal Value of Privacy". www.wired.com. May 18, 2006.

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• Privacy is a fundamental human need.

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  Needs, Fundamentals, Privacy

  "Data and Goliath: Privacy Expert Explains the Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World". Interview with Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez, www.democracynow.org. March 13, 2015.

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• Metadata equals surveillance; it's that simple.

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  Simple, Surveillance, Metadata

  "Metadata Equals Surveillance". www.schneier.com. September 23, 2013.

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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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  Mother, Giving, Tools

  "The Fox Is in Microsoft's Henhouse (and Salivating)" by Randall Stross, www.nytimes.com. December 19, 2004.

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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.

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  Looks, Trade, Asks

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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.

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  Worry, Car, Domestic Violence

  Bruce Schneier (2014). “Bruce Schneier on Trust Set”, p.447, John Wiley & Sons

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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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  Easier, Illegal, Security

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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.

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  People, Worry, News

  "The security mirage". TED Talk, www.ted.com. October 2010.

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• Computer security can simply be protecting your equipment and files from disgruntled employees, spies, and anything that goes bump in the night, but there is much more. Computer security helps ensure that your computers, networks, and peripherals work as expected all the time, and that your data is safe in the event of hard disk crash or a power failure resulting from an electrical storm. Computer security also makes sure no damage is done to your data and that no one is able to read it unless you want them to.

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  Night, Damage Is Done, Data

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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.

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  Sacrifice, Technology, People

  "Our Newfound Fear of Risk". www.schneier.com. September 3, 2013.

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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.

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  Fundamentals, Geek, Computer

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• The real targets of terrorism are the rest of us: the billions of us who are not killed but are terrorized because of the killing. The real point of terrorism is not the act itself, but our reaction to the act. And we're doing exactly what the terrorists want [...] Our politicians help the terrorists every time they use fear as a campaign tactic. The press helps every time it writes scare stories about the plot and the threat. And if we're terrified, and we share that fear, we help.

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  Real, Writing, Scare

  "Refuse to be Terrorized". www.wired.com. August 24, 2006.

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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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  Thinking, Data, Information

  Bruce Schneier (2014). “Bruce Schneier on Trust Set”, p.552, John Wiley & Sons

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

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  Technology, Hygiene, Police

  Bruce Schneier (2011). “Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World”, p.56, John Wiley & Sons

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• And honestly, if anyone thinks they can get an accurate picture of anyplace on the planet by reading news reports, they're sadly mistaken.

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  Reading, Thinking, News

  "Should Terrorism be Reported in the News?". Cryptogram newsletter, www.schneier.com. May 15, 2005.

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• 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.

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  Book, Example, Amazon

  "Bruce Schneier on Cryptography". Interview with Federico Biancuzzi, www.securityfocus.com. May 10, 2005.

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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.

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  Choices, Spy, Surveillance

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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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  Running, Silly, Cards

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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.

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  People, Important, Needs

  "Status Report: The Dishonest Minority". www.schneier.com. May 9, 2011.

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• Corporate and government surveillance aren't separate; they're an alliance of interests.

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  Government, Alliances, Surveillance

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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.

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  Nsa, Done, Damage

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• Given the credible estimate that we've spent $1 trillion on anti-terrorism security

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  Philosophical, Terrorism, Social

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