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

There are two types of encryption: one that will prevent your sister from reading your diary and one that will prevent your government.

From 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.

From 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.

From Bruce Schneier

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.

From Bruce Schneier

I am regularly asked what the average Internet user can do to ensure his security. My first answer is usually 'Nothing; you're screwed'.

From 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.

From Bruce Schneier

You can't defend. You can't prevent. The only thing you can do is detect and respond.

From Bruce Schneier

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

From 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.

From Bruce Schneier

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