209 Quotes by Bruce Schneier

Microsoft made a big deal about Windows NT getting a C2 security rating. They were much less forthcoming with the fact that this rating only applied if the computer was not attached to a network and had no network card, and had its floppy drive epoxied shut, and was running on a Compaq 386. Solaris's C2 rating was just as silly.

Given the credible estimate that we've spent $1 trillion on anti-terrorism security

Terrorists can only take my life. Only my government can take my freedom.

Something that looks like a protocol but does not accomplish a task is not a protocol—it’s a waste of time.

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.

Digital files cannot be made uncopyable, any more than water can be made not wet.

When my mother gets a prompt 'Do you want to download this?' she's going to say yes. It's disingenuous for Microsoft to give you all of these tools with which to hang yourself, and when you do, then say it's your fault.

Chaos is hard to create, even on the Internet.

This is not the internet the world needs, or the internet its creators envisioned. We need to take it back. And by we, I mean the engineering community.