209 Quotes by Bruce Schneier

Mark is one of the more respected people out there doing this kind of work,

Microsoft's operating system was never designed with security in mind. For Microsoft, security is always an afterthought.

We don?t have a field in the database system that will say you're an evildoer.

Using current mathematics and technology, it is impossible to even consider factoring a 1024-bit number. I'm not willing to make any hard predictions about tomorrow.

We could ground all airplanes and not have any more airplane crashes, ... The key is whether the good uses of the Net outweigh the bad. Life is like that. You just have to take the good with the bad.

The real threat is fraud due to impersonation, and the tactics of impersonation will change in response to the defenses. Two-factor authentication will force criminals to modify their tactics, that's all. In the long term, all it does is move the bad guys to a new tactic.

We'd be crazy to assume that the bad guys aren't thinking of this.

We all think of the movie scenarios - the kinds of things that we would expect to see in a movie plot. Terrorists sneaking a bomb into the Super Bowl, for example. The problem is, terrorists don't care. They don't care whether it's a football game or an airport or a restaurant or a movie theater. It doesn't matter to them.

You have to make the entity in the position to solve the problem, responsible for the problem. Otherwise, it doesn't get solved.