209 Quotes by Bruce Schneier

It’s certainly easier to implement bad security and make it illegal for anyone to notice than it is to implement good security.

The bargain you make, again and again, with various companies is surveillance in exchange for free service.

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

I tell people if it’s in the news don’t worry about it. Because by definition news is something that almost never happens.

Many cyberweapons manufacturers sell hacking tools to governments worldwide. For example, FinFisher is an “offensive IT Intrusion solution,” according to the promotional material from the UK and German company that makes it, Gamma Group.

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.

Increasingly, companies use their power to influence and manipulate their users. Websites that profit from advertising spend a lot of effort making sure you spend as much time on those sites as possible, optimizing their content for maximum addictiveness.

As former NSA general counsel Stewart Baker said, “Metadata absolutely tells you everything about somebody’s life. If you have enough metadata you don’t really need content.

Corporate and government surveillance aren’t separate; they’re an alliance of interests.