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Surveillance makes us feel like prey, just as it makes the surveillors act like predators.
— Bruce Schneier
More people are killed every year by pigs than by sharks, which shows you how good we are at evaluating risk.
— Bruce Schneier
People don't understand computers. Computers are magical boxes that do things. People believe what computers tell them.
— Bruce Schneier
The user's going to pick dancing pigs over security every time.
— 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.
— Bruce Schneier
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
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
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
Data is the pollution problem of the information age, and protecting privacy is the environmental challenge.
— Bruce Schneier
If something is free, you're not the customer; you're the product.
— Bruce Schneier
Anyone, from the most clueless amateur to the best cryptographer, can create an algorithm that he himself can't break.
— Bruce Schneier
Only amateurs attack machines; professionals target people.
— Bruce Schneier
It is insufficient to protect ourselves with laws; we need to protect ourselves with mathematics.
— Bruce Schneier
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
We can't keep weapons out of prisons; we can't possibly expect to keep them out of airports.
— Bruce Schneier
Surveillance is the business model of the Internet.
— Bruce Schneier
Metadata equals surveillance; it's that simple.
— Bruce Schneier
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
A colleague once told me that the world was full of bad security systems designed by people who read Applied Cryptography
— Bruce Schneier
Terrorism is a crime against the mind. We win by refusing fear.
— Bruce Schneier
Security is a process, not a product.
— Bruce Schneier
Liberty requires security without intrusion, security plus privacy.
— Bruce Schneier
It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state.
— Bruce Schneier
Technical problems can be remediated. A dishonest corporate culture is much harder to fix.
— Bruce Schneier
Given the credible estimate that we've spent $1 trillion on anti-terrorism security
— Bruce Schneier
People often represent the weakest link in the security chain and are chronically responsible for the failure of security systems.
— Bruce Schneier
NSA analyst touches something in the database,
— Bruce Schneier
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
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
If you ask amateurs to act as front-line security personnel, you shouldn't be surprised when you get amateur security.
— Bruce Schneier
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
S security expert Bruce Schneier has said, Making bits harder to copy is like making water that's less wet.
— Cory Doctorow
Corporate and government surveillance aren't separate; they're an alliance of interests.
— Bruce Schneier
You can't defend. You can't prevent. The only thing you can do is detect and respond.
— Bruce Schneier
Choosing providers is not a choice between surveillance/not; it's just choosing which feudal lord gets to spy on you.
— Bruce Schneier
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
No one can duplicate the confidence that RSA offers after 20 years of cryptanalytic review.
— Bruce Schneier
Data is the exhaust of the information age.
— Bruce Schneier
Something that looks like a protocol but does not accomplish a task is not a protocol - it's a waste of time.
— Bruce Schneier
If the FBI parks a van bristling with cameras outside your house, you are justified in closing your blinds.
— Bruce Schneier
We kill people based on metadata.
— Bruce Schneier
Privacy is a fundamental human need
— Bruce Schneier