209 Quotes by Bruce Schneier

If you ask amateurs to act as front-line security personnel, you shouldn't be surprised when you get amateur security.

Data is the pollution problem of the information age, and protecting privacy is the environmental challenge.

One hundred years ago, everyone could have personal privacy. You and your friend could walk into an empty field, look around to see that no one else was nearby, and have a level of privacy that has forever been lost. As Whitfield Diffie has said: "No right of private conversation was enumerated in the Constitution. I don't suppose it occurred to anyone at the time that it could be prevented

It's a great, powerful browser, and I don't need to look around for an alternative,

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

It's a huge betrayal of the public trust, and they know it.

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

It's the dominant operating system out there, so it's going to attract the attention. On the other hand, Windows has extremely sloppy security,

If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology.