While travelling near Tampa, Florida I passed the "Jehovah's Witness Assembly Hall" and was struck by the fact that that must be where they make them.

- Gene Spafford

But it doesn't have to be this way. We can do things better. We need to stop doing business as usual and start focusing on end-to-end quality. Securi…

- Gene Spafford

The Internet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhoea - massive, difficult to re-direct, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mi…

- Gene Spafford

Ability to type on a computer terminal is no guarantee of sanity, intelligence, or common sense.

- Gene Spafford

Using encryption on the Internet is the equivalent of arranging an armored car to deliver credit card information from someone living in a cardboard …

- Gene Spafford

Cryptography [without system integrity] is like investing in an armored car to carry money between a customer living in a cardboard box and a person …

- Gene Spafford

The only system which is truly secure is one which is switched off and unplugged, locked in a titanium lined safe, buried in a concrete bunker, and i…

- Gene Spafford

The only truly secure system is one that is powered off, cast in a block of concrete and sealed in a lead-lined room with armed guards.

- Gene Spafford

Securing an environment of Windows platforms from abuse - external or internal - is akin to trying to install sprinklers in a fireworks factory where…

- Gene Spafford