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

The whole notion of passwords is based on an oxymoron. The idea is to have a random string that is easy to remember. Unfortunately, if it's easy to r….

For if we are observed in all matters, we are constantly under threat of correction, judgment, criticism, even plagiarism of our own uniqueness. We b….

But in this country, while you have to be competent to pull off a terrorist attack, you don't have to be competent to cause terror. All you need to d….

It's frustrating; terrorism is rare and largely ineffectual, yet we regularly magnify the effects of both their successes and failures by terrorizing….

There are two kinds of cryptography in this world: cryptography that will stop your kid sister from reading your files, and cryptography that will st….

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

The real targets of terrorism are the rest of us: the billions of us who are not killed but are terrorized because of the killing. The real point of ….

Beware the Four Horsemen of the Information Apocalypse: terrorists, drug dealers, kidnappers, and child pornographers. Seems like you can scare any p….

The user's going to pick dancing pigs over security every time..

No one can duplicate the confidence that RSA offers after 20 years of cryptanalytic review..

If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology..

Privacy is a fundamental human need..

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 ….

Think of your existing power as the exponent in an equation that determines the value of information. The more power you have, the more additional po….

Chaos is hard to create, even on the Internet. Here's an example. Go to Amazon.com. Buy a book without using SSL. Watch the total lack of chaos..

If the FBI parks a van bristling with cameras outside your house, you are justified in closing your blinds..

It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state..

Metadata equals surveillance; it's that simple..

Choosing providers is not a choice between surveillance/not; it's just choosing which feudal lord gets to spy on you..

We can't keep weapons out of prisons; we can't possibly expect to keep them out of airports..