All BRUCE SCHNEIER Quotes about “Security”

“If someone steals your password, you can change it. But if someone steals your thumbprint, you can't get a new thumb. The failure modes are very different.”
“Security is a process, not a product.”
“The user's going to pick dancing pigs over security every time.”
“Given the credible estimate that we've spent $1 trillion on anti-terrorism security”
“The whole notion of passwords is based on an oxymoron. The idea is to have a random string that is easy to remember. Unfortunately, if it's easy to remember, it's something nonrandom like 'Susan.' And if it's random, like 'r7U2*Qnp,' then it's not easy to remember.”
“The question to ask when you look at security is not whether this makes us safer, but whether it's worth the trade-off.”
“Hardware is easy to protect: lock it in a room, chain it to a desk, or buy a spare. Information poses more of a problem. It can exist in more than one place; be transported halfway across the planet in seconds; and be stolen without your knowledge.”
“If you ask amateurs to act as front-line security personnel, you shouldn't be surprised when you get amateur security.”
“People often represent the weakest link in the security chain and are chronically responsible for the failure of security systems.”
“The more technological a society is, the greater the security gap is.”
“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.”
“It's certainly easier to implement bad security and make it illegal for anyone to notice than it is to implement good security.”
“The mantra of any good security engineer is: "Security is a not a product, but a process." It's more than designing strong cryptography into a system; it's designing the entire system such that all security measures, including cryptography, work together.”
“A colleague once told me that the world was full of bad security systems designed by people who read Applied Cryptography”

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