209 Quotes by Bruce Schneier

Privacy is an inherent human right, and a requirement for maintaining the human condition with dignity and respect. It is about choice, and having the power to control how you present yourself to the world.

Buy American Doesn’t Sell Well Anymore Because It Means Give A Copy To The NSA.

Embedded in digital photos is information such as the date, time, and location – yes, many cameras have GPS – of the photo’s capture; generic information about the camera, lens, and settings; and an ID number of the camera itself. If you upload the photo to the web, that information often remains attached to the file.

If someone steals your password, you can change it. But if someone steals your thumbprint, you can’t get a new thumb. The failure modes are very different.

It doesn’t matter how good the card is if the issuance process is flawed.

One analysis of 2013 financial reports calculated that the value of each user to Google is $40 per year, and only $6 to Facebook, LinkedIn, and Yahoo. This is why companies like Google and Facebook keep raising the ante.

We can’t keep weapons out of prisons; we can’t possibly expect to keep them out of airports.

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

Google knows more about what I’m thinking of than I do, because Google remembers all of it perfectly and forever.