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

Buy American Doesn’t Sell Well Anymore Because It Means Give A Copy To The NSA.

There are two types of encryption: one that will prevent your sister from reading your diary and one that will prevent your government..

Air travel survived decades of terrorism, including attacks which resulted in the deaths of everyone on the plane. It survived 9/11. It'll survive th….

People often represent the weakest link in the security chain and are chronically responsible for the failure of security systems..

Privacy is an inherent human right, and a requirement for maintaining the human condition with dignity and respect..

The more technological a society is, the greater the security gap is..

Hardware is easy to protect: lock it in a room, chain it to a desk, or buy a spare. Information poses more of a problem. It can exist in more than on….

And honestly, if anyone thinks they can get an accurate picture of anyplace on the planet by reading news reports, they're sadly mistaken..

Societies without a reservoir of people who don't follow the rules lack an important mechanism for societal evolution. Vibrant societies need a disho….

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..

Chaos is hard to create, even on the Internet..

The more we expect technology to protect us from people in the same way it protects us from nature, the more we will sacrifice the very values of our….

A colleague once told me that the world was full of bad security systems designed by people who read Applied Cryptography.

When a big company lays you off, they often give you a year's salary to 'go pursue a dream.' If you're stupid, you panic and get another job. If you'….

More people are killed every year by pigs than by sharks, which shows you how good we are at evaluating risk..

The very definition of news is something that hardly ever happens. If an incident is in the news, we shouldn't worry about it. It's when something is….

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

Liberty requires security without intrusion, security plus privacy..

People don't understand computers. Computers are magical boxes that do things. People believe what computers tell them..

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