Security Quotes

“Given a choice between dancing pigs and security, users will pick dancing pigs every time.”

“The security and stability of the Middle East are vital for the security and stability of the rest of the world.”

“We need to protect our borders. We need to secure our borders.”

“Complexity is the worst enemy of security.”

“The major psychological task of an adult is to create a psychic sense of security.”

“There is no security in a world of competing armaments.”

“If you think cryptography is the answer to your problem, then you don't know what your problem is.”

“Public-key cryptography is not a panacea. It's a tool, and like any tool, it can be misused.”

“We have to work the dark side, if you will.”

“Security is not something you can just sprinkle on at the end.”

“The first duty of government is to keep its citizens safe. But it is also the duty of government to protect our freedoms.”

“I'm trying to replace the need for trust with the certainty of mathematics.”

“The notion that you can somehow get privacy by obscuring things is a fallacy.”

“To what extent should one trust a statement that a program is free of Trojan horses? Perhaps it is more important to trust the people who wrote the software.”

“Terrorism is a common enemy for all of us and we have to fight it with a common strategy.”

“What you need for a secure system is a bunch of people who are paranoid.”

“There is no doubt that our nation's security and civil liberties are not mutually exclusive. We can and we must protect both.”

“Before public key cryptography, if you wanted to send a secret message to someone, you had to first agree on a secret key. This was a major bottleneck.”

“The attacks of September 11th were an attack on us all.”

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