Bruce Schneier — Quotes
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Author: Bruce Schneier Source: Goodreads
59 quotes, one page each — split at import because this page carried more quoted words than the wiki publishes on a single page.
No book given
- “Terrorism isn’t a crime against people or property…”
- “For if we are observed in all matters…”
- “Even though we don’t know which companies the…”
- “If you ask amateurs to act as front-line…”
Data and Goliath
Book page: schneier-data-and-goliath-part-1
- “We kill people based on metadata. banks-use-of-weapons…”
- “If something is free, you’re not the customer…”
- “Data is the pollution problem of the information…”
- “Privacy is an inherent human right, and a…”
- “In the 17th century, the French statesman Cardinal…”
- “The most common misconception about privacy is that…”
- “Complexity is the worst enemy of security, and…”
- “One of the most surreal aspects of the…”
- “Google controls two-thirds of the US search market…”
- “If you have nothing to hide, then you…”
- “We tend to focus on rare and spectacular…”
- “As former NSA general counsel Stewart Baker said…”
- “Surveillance makes us feel like prey, just as…”
- “By 2010, we as a species were creating…”
- “Privacy is an inherent human right, and a…”
- “There is value in dissent. And, perversely, there…”
- “In 2014, former NSA and CIA director Michael…”
- “Philosopher Jeremy Bentham conceived of his “panopticon” in…”
- “Estimates put the current number of Internet-connected devices…”
- “For many organizations, security comes down to basic…”
- “Those of us who fought the crypto wars…”
- “In 2015, a petabyte of cloud storage will…”
- “Increasingly, companies use their power to influence and…”
- “The panopticon is an architecture of social control…”
- “Mug shot extortion sites turn this sort of…”
- “For years, well before consumer tracking became the…”
- “You can think of the difference between tactical…”
- “Google knows more about what I’m thinking of…”
- “Lavabit was an e-mail service that offered more…”
- “Following someone covertly, either on foot or by…”
- “Our relationship with many of the Internet companies…”
- “Privacy is not a luxury that we can…”
- “Given current laws, trust is our only option…”
- “Buzzfeed is an entertainment website that collects an…”
- “Worldwide, Google has the capacity to store 15…”
- “Embedded in digital photos is information such as…”
- “Our personal information is being bought and sold…”
- “The bargain you make, again and again, with…”
- “Two of the NSA’s internal databases, code-named HAPPYFOOT…”
- “The UK company Cobham sells a system that…”
- “This is why regulation based on the concept…”
- “Today’s technology gives governments and corporations robust capabilities…”
- “The overwhelming bulk of surveillance is corporate, and…”
- “NSA analyst touches something in the database…”
- “Data is the exhaust of the information age…”
- “In 2014, a senior executive from the Ford…”
- “Anonymity is valuable for all the reasons I’ve…”
- “We are social animals, and there’s nothing more…”
- “Innocents and criminals alike use cell phones, e-mail…”
- “How did he know that?” we ask. How…”
Liars and Outliers
Book page: schneier-liars-outliers
- “One hundred years ago, everyone could have personal…”
- “It doesn’t matter how big your neocortex is…”