If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you dont understand the problems and you dont understand the technology. – Bruce Schneier
I am regularly asked what the average Internet user can do to ensure his security. My first answer is usually Nothing youre screwed. – Bruce Schneier
People dont understand computers. Computers are magical boxes that do things. People believe what computers tell them. – Bruce Schneier
Air travel survived decades of terrorism, including attacks which resulted in the deaths of everyone on the plane. It survived 9/11. Itll survive the next successful attack. The only real worry is that well scare ourselves into making air travel so onerous that we wont fly anymore. – Bruce Schneier
Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularly is indispensable to the creations of the imagination. In proportion as men know more and think more they look less at individuals and more at classes. They therefore make better theories and worse poems. – Thomas Babington Macaulay