Quotes by 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.

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Anyone, from the most clueless amateur to the best cryptographer, can create an algorithm that he himself can’t break.

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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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But in this country, while you have to be competent to pull off a terrorist attack, you don’t have to be competent to cause terror. All you need to do is start plotting an attack and – regardless of whether or not you have a viable plan, weapons or even the faintest clue – the media will aid you in terrorizing the entire population.

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Population

Buy American Doesn’t Sell Well Anymore Because It Means Give A Copy To The NSA

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Mean

Nsa

Cryptography products may be declared illegal, but the information will never be

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May

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

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Water

I am regularly asked what the average Internet user can do to ensure his security. My first answer is usually ‘Nothing; you’re screwed’.

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Internet Users

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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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.

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Quotes by Bruce Schneier

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.

Anyone, from the most clueless amateur to the best cryptographer, can create an algorithm that he himself can’t break.

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.

Buy American Doesn’t Sell Well Anymore Because It Means Give A Copy To The NSA

Cryptography products may be declared illegal, but the information will never be

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

I am regularly asked what the average Internet user can do to ensure his security. My first answer is usually ‘Nothing; you’re screwed’.

I tell people: if it’s in the news, don’t worry about it, because by definition, news is something that almost never happens.

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.

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