Bruce Schneier Quotes (37 Quotes)


    It's certainly feasible, but it's my guess it's not economic, ... My guess is it is cheaper for the airline to absorb this loss, which doesn't happen often, than to fix the problem.

    The years of the military being at the leading edge of technology are gone because it moves so fast. In the real world, the rise of technology means that everyone has access to the exact same stuff. The limitations are basically just money. He (bin Laden) definitely has more money than the average terrorist.

    But with that connection comes new threats malicious hackers, criminals, industrial spies. These network predators regularly steal corporate assets and intellectual property, cause service breaks and system failures, sully corporate brands, and frighten customers,

    The user's going to pick dancing pigs over security every time.

    ID can be hijacked, and cards can be faked. All of the 911 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.


    Looks like kindergarten cryptography to me. It will keep your kid sister out, but it won't keep the police out. But what do you expect from someone who is computer illiterate

    If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology.

    Microsoft's operating system was never designed with security in mind. For Microsoft, security is always an afterthought.

    In New Orleans, the machines just crashed, ... They didn't work. And there was no backup planned there were no paper ballots.

    It's a huge betrayal of the public trust, and they know it.

    The end result is that insecure software is common,

    Mark is one of the more respected people out there doing this kind of work,

    We all think of the movie scenarios - the kinds of things that we would expect to see in a movie plot. Terrorists sneaking a bomb into the Super Bowl, for example. The problem is, terrorists don't care. They don't care whether it's a football game or an airport or a restaurant or a movie theater. It doesn't matter to them.

    You have something called ALE average loss expectancy. You multiply the probability of an event happening with the amount of damage you'll incur, and that'll tell you how much to spend on security. When you deal with events that have a very, very high damage amount, and a very, very low probability of occurrence, you multiply infinity by zero and get whatever you want.

    They're saying, 'We use this impressive lock on our screen door. Nobody's going to pick it.' Instead, they're going to take a rock and scissors and cut out the screen,

    There are two types of encryption: one that will prevent your sister from reading your diary and one that will prevent your government.

    No one can duplicate the confidence that RSA offers after 20 years of cryptanalytic review.

    Setting the default to dangerous doesn't work in any other industry.

    The way to fix this is we need a better ability to know where to look. It's the drinking out of the fire hose problem. Turning up the fire hose isn't going to help.

    We could ground all airplanes and not have any more airplane crashes, ... The key is whether the good uses of the Net outweigh the bad. Life is like that. You just have to take the good with the bad.

    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.

    You can't defend. You can't prevent. The only thing you can do is detect and respond.

    It's the dominant operating system out there, so it's going to attract the attention. On the other hand, Windows has extremely sloppy security,

    I generally think the terrorists do something new each time. It is a big hole in the system.

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

    Network security sucks, and there's not much the school administration can do. Somebody who knows how will break in.

    You have to make the entity in the position to solve the problem, responsible for the problem. Otherwise, it doesn't get solved.


    Beyond Fear Thinking Sensibly About Security in an Uncertain World.

    The administration is deliberately choosing a less secure technology without justification. If there were a good reason to choose that technology, then it might make sense. But there isn't.

    There's one important aspect of this fingerprint that the article did not talk about how easy is it to forge Can someone analyze 100 images from a given camera, and then doctor a pre-existing picture so that it appeared to come from that camera

    We'd be crazy to assume that the bad guys aren't thinking of this.

    During the Clinton years, we were fighting that kangaroo court - they never said no. Here we are now wishing for the little oversight that the court had.

    What will happen when the CFO looks at his premium and realizes that it will go down 50 percent if he gets rid of all his insecure Windows operating systems and replaces them with a secure version of Linux The choice of which operating system to use will no longer be 100 percent technical, ... Microsoft, and other companies with shoddy security, will start losing sales because companies don't want to pay the insurance premiums.

    It doesn't matter how good the card is if the issuance process is flawed.

    What you and I are saying is much less important than the fact that you and I are talking. Against traffic analysis, encryption is irrelevant.

    Using current mathematics and technology, it is impossible to even consider factoring a 1024-bit number. I'm not willing to make any hard predictions about tomorrow.


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