Best Quotes by Bruce Schneier (Top 7)

  1. If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology.
  2. Terrorism isn't a crime against people or property. It's a crime against our minds, using the death of innocents and destruction of property to make us fearful. Terrorists use the media to magnify their actions and further spread fear. And when we react out of fear, when we change our policy to make our country less open, the terrorists succeed — even if their attacks fail. But when we refuse to be terrorized, when we're indomitable in the face of terror, the terrorists fail — even if their attacks succeed.
  3. Privacy is an inherent human right, and a requirement for maintaining the human condition with dignity and respect.
  4. It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state.
  5. If you ask amateurs to act as front-line security personnel, you shouldn't be surprised when you get amateur security.
  6. You can't defend. You can't prevent. The only thing you can do is detect and respond.
  7. ID can be hijacked, and cards can be faked. All of the 9/11 terrorists had fake IDs, yet they still got on the planes. If the British national ID card can't be faked, it will be the first on the planet.