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

#security #solve #technology #then #think

Think of your existing power as the exponent in an equation that determines the value of information. The more power you have, the more additional power you derive from the new data. ↗

— Bruce Schneier

#data #derive #determines #equation #existing

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

#am #answer #asked #average #ensure

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

— Bruce Schneier

#could #facilitate #hygiene #install #police

It's frustrating; terrorism is rare and largely ineffectual, yet we regularly magnify the effects of both their successes and failures by terrorizing ourselves. ↗

— Bruce Schneier

#effects #failures #frustrating #ineffectual #largely

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

— Bruce Schneier

#confidence #duplicate #offers #review #years

People don't understand computers. Computers are magical boxes that do things. People believe what computers tell them. ↗

— Bruce Schneier

#boxes #computers #magical #people #tell

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

— Bruce Schneier

#every #every time #going #over #pick

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

#encryption #government #prevent #reading #sister

There's an entire flight simulator hidden in every copy of Microsoft Excel 97. ↗

— Bruce Schneier

#entire #every #excel #flight #hidden