Gene Spafford Quotes About Security

• 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

  Block, Security Systems, Rooms

  "Computer Recreations: Of Worms, Viruses and Core War" by A. K. Dewdney, Scientific American, www.koth.org. March 1989.

• Using encryption on the Internet is the equivalent of arranging an armored car to deliver credit card information from someone living in a cardboard box to someone living on a park bench.

  Gene Spafford

  Car, Encryption, Credit

  "Rants & Raves", www.wired.com. November 25, 2002.

• 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. Security needs to be built in from the start - not slapped on after the fact.

  Gene Spafford

  Quality, Usual, Needs

• People in general are not interested in paying extra for increased safety. At the beginning seat belts cost $200 and nobody bought them.

  Gene Spafford

  People, Safety, Cost

• Securing an environment of Windows platforms from abuse - external or internal - is akin to trying to install sprinklers in a fireworks factory where smoking on the job is permitted.

  Gene Spafford

  Jobs, Smoking, Abuse

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