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

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


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



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



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

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



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Amateurs hack systems, professionals hack people.



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

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



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



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Security is a process, not a product.



If someone steals your password, you can change it. But if someone steals your thumbprint, you can't get a new thumb. The failure modes are very different.

If someone steals your password, you can change it. But if someone steals your thumbprint, you can't get a new thumb. The failure modes are very different.



Don't make the mistake of thinking you're Facebook's customer, you're not - you're the product.

Don't make the mistake of thinking you're Facebook's customer, you're not - you're the product.



I am regularly asked what the average Internet user can do to ensure his security. My first answer is usually 'Nothing; you're screwed'.

I am regularly asked what the average Internet user can do to ensure his security. My first answer is usually 'Nothing; you're screwed'.





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This page presents the quote "If you ask amateurs to act as front-line security personnel, you shouldn't be surprised when you get amateur security.". Author of this quote is Bruce Schneier. This quote is about see-something-say-something, social-control, false-positives, paranoia, security, surveillance,.