Dan Geer famous quotes
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You have privacy if you retain the effective capacity to misrepresent yourself.
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The Heartbleed problem can be blamed on complexity; all Internet standards become festooned with complicating option sets that no one person can know in their entirety. The Heartbleed problem can be blamed on insufficient investment; safety review for open source code is rarely funded, nor sustainable when it is. The Heartbleed problem can be blamed on poor planning; wide deployment within critical functions but without any repair regime.
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Work like Hell. Share all you know. Abide by your handshake. Have fun.
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The price of freedom is the probability of crime. The price of protection is the probability of slavery.
-- Dan Geer
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Come, come, come. Without a monster or two it's not a quest, merely a gaggle of friends wandering about.
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Indo-European peoples and Semitic peoples are today still completely different... Jews almost everywhere form a special society... Muslims (the Semitic spirit is today represented mainly by Islam) and the Europeans stand face to face like two beings of different species, having nothing common in the way of thinking and feeling...
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I think there are two ways to depict a family. One is what it's really like, and one is what the audience would like it to be. Between you and me, I think the second one is what I would prefer.
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The charms of seclusion are seldom combined with the conveniences of civilization.
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No law can possibly meet the convenience of every one: we must be satisfied if it be beneficial on the whole and to the majority.
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To me, speed is really about convenience.
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If most of what we see via the media is not live, it must be edited: sifted for value, interpreted and re-presented for our convenience. We live in a disco, and the DJ is in charge.
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I follow my course with the precision and security of a sleepwalker.
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Amateurs hack systems, professionals hack people.
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Security is a process, not a product.
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