Bruce Schneier Quotes About Computers

Quotes about: Computers

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

  Bruce Schneier

  Technology, Thinking, Understanding

  Bruce Schneier (2011). “Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World”, p.9, John Wiley & Sons

• Amateurs hack systems, professionals hack people.

  Bruce Schneier

  People, Computer, Hacks

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

  Bruce Schneier

  Believe, People, Magic

  Bruce Schneier (2000). “Secrets and lies: digital security in a networked world”, Wiley

• The fundamental driver in computer security, in all of the computer industry, is economics. That requires a lot of re-education for us security geeks.

  Bruce Schneier

  Fundamentals, Geek, Computer

• Computer security can simply be protecting your equipment and files from disgruntled employees, spies, and anything that goes bump in the night, but there is much more. Computer security helps ensure that your computers, networks, and peripherals work as expected all the time, and that your data is safe in the event of hard disk crash or a power failure resulting from an electrical storm. Computer security also makes sure no damage is done to your data and that no one is able to read it unless you want them to.

  Bruce Schneier

  Night, Damage Is Done, Data

• Microsoft made a big deal about Windows NT getting a C2 security rating. They were much less forthcoming with the fact that this rating only applied if the computer was not attached to a network and had no network card, and had its floppy drive epoxied shut, and was running on a Compaq 386. Solaris's C2 rating was just as silly.

  Bruce Schneier

  Running, Silly, Cards

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

  Bruce Schneier

  Average, Answers, Internet Users

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