209 Quotes by Bruce Schneier

Writer and Internet activist Clay Shirky has noted that “institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.

Why is it that we all – myself included – believe these stories? Why are we so quick to assume that the TSA is a bunch of jack-booted thugs, officious and arbitrary and drunk with power? It’s because everything seems so arbitrary, because there’s no accountability or transparency in the DHS.

The science and engineering of programming just isn’t good enough to produce flawless software, and that isn’t going to change anytime soon. The.

Surveillance is the business model of the Internet for two primary reasons: people like free, and people like convenient.

483,000 government contractors hold top-secret clearances: a third of the 1.4 million people cleared at that level.

Mug shot extortion sites turn this sort of thing into a business. Mug shots are public record, but they’re not readily available. Owners of mug shot sites acquire the photos in bulk and publish them online, where everybody can find them, then charge individuals to remove their photos from the sites.

And before any of that can happen, there must be some major changes in the way society views and values privacy, security, liberty, trust, and a handful of other abstract concepts that are defining this.

You can load your own documents onto your Kindle, but Amazon is able to delete books it has already sold you. In 2009, Amazon automatically deleted some editions of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four from users’ Kindles because of a copyright issue. I know, you just couldn’t write this stuff any more ironically.

Data is the exhaust of the information age.