209 Quotes by Bruce Schneier

Surveillance is the business model of the Internet.

It is insufficient to protect ourselves with laws; we need to protect ourselves with mathematics.

Cryptography products may be declared illegal, but the information will never be

It is sort of interesting that in our society this days we are very quick to apply the term 'war' to places where thare are no actual wars, and loath to apply the term 'war' when we are actually fighting wars.

We no longer know whom to trust. This is the greatest damage the NSA has done to the Internet, and will be the hardest to fix.

The question to ask when you look at security is not whether this makes us safer, but whether it's worth the trade-off.

Surveillance of power is one of the most important ways to ensure that power does not abuse its status. But, of course, power does not like to be watched.

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.

Metadata equals surveillance; it's that simple.