Chaos is hard to
Chaos is hard to create, even on the Internet. Bruce Schneier
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Chaos is hard to create, even on the Internet. Bruce Schneier
Despite fearful rhetoric to the contrary, terrorism is not a transcendent threat. A terrorist attack cannot possibly destroy our country’s way of life; it’s only our reaction to that attack that can do that kind of damage. 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
We can’t keep weapons out of prisons; we can’t possibly expect to keep them out of airports. Bruce Schneier
Air travel survived decades of terrorism, including attacks which resulted in the deaths of everyone on the plane. It survived 9/11. It’ll survive the next successful attack. The only real worry is that we’ll scare ourselves into making air travel so onerous that we won’t fly anymore. Bruce Schneier
When my mother gets a prompt ‘Do you want to download this?’ she’s going to say yes. It’s disingenuous for Microsoft to give you all of these tools with which to hang yourself, and when you do, then say it’s your fault. Bruce Schneier
When a big company lays you off, they often give you a year’s salary to ‘go pursue a dream.’ If you’re stupid, you panic and get another job. If you’re smart, you take the money and use the time to figure out what you want to do next. Bruce Schneier
Cryptography products may be declared illegal, but the information will never be Bruce Schneier
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. Bruce Schneier
Societies without a reservoir of people who don’t follow the rules lack an important mechanism for societal evolution. Vibrant societies need a dishonest minority; if society makes its dishonest minority too small, it stifles dissent as well as common crime. Bruce Schneier