Bruce Schneier Quotes

I can't say I'm particularly happy about all the spam and the viruses and the equivalent that we see on the Net, but I think technology can deal with many of the problems that we're now seeing, whether it's filtering or whatever, and laws may help a lot.

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

We all need to decide what makes it safe and secure on the Internet. It can't be anybody else's decision. We have to have a voice.

This is America. And we've basically invented the computer, and we should invent ways to protect all those that use it.

Hillary Clinton and her media machine try to dismiss, but anybody who understands anything about how email works - and this is millennials in particular, who grew up on the Internet - know that you're an idiot to keep sensitive information on a server in your house.

I don't want anyone hacking us. And I'm not only talking about countries. I'm talking about anyone, period.

By leaning on companies, by leaning on infrastructure providers, by leaning on researchers, graduate students, post-docs, even undergrads, to look at the challenges having an untrusted internet, where we have to put our communications on wires that are owned by a phone company that we can't trust, that's working in collaboration with a government that we can't trust, in areas around the world, we can restructure that communications fabric in a way that it's encrypted.

The solution to government surveillance is to encrypt everything.

I learned the technology and tradecraft of electronic security in self defense, with a lot of expert help.

The Internet has fashioned a new and complicated environment for an age-old dilemma that pits the demands of security against the desire for freedom.

Everyone is a proponent of strong encryption.

At the bottom, the elimination of spyware and the preservation of privacy for the consumer are critical goals if the Internet is to remain safe and reliable and credible.

Snowden was extremely good at digital self-defense. When he was employed by the C.I.A. and N.S.A., one of his jobs was to teach U.S. national security officials and C.I.A. employees how to protect their data in high-threat digital environments.

Cyberspace

In some ways, you can think of end-to-end encryption as honoring what the past looked like.

No computer or smartphone can ever be considered 100 percent 'safe.' We're all engaged in a perpetual battle with criminals and hostile governments trying to use computers and the Internet to steal information and identities.

Effective cybersecurity policy will depend on active and continued collaboration between public and private sectors.

The problem of end-to-end encryption isn't just a terrorism issue.

People have a right to privacy, but they also have a right to live. Fundamentally, we need cybersecurity and need to secure communications as well.

We take all potential threats to public and private sector systems seriously and will continue to investigate and hold accountable those who pose a threat in cyberspace.

It is a fiction to imagine that the haphazard paper chits of old are more private than the modern digital alternative. Paper records have always presented a security risk.

The Internet is a worldwide platform for sharing information. It is a community of common interests. No country is immune to such global challenges as cybercrime, hacking, and invasion of privacy.

When we're splitting our time between a physical and digital world, you have to stay safe online the same way you stay safe offline.

With the evolution of information technology, there have emerged new questions, for example, of data and privacy.

As president, improving cyber security will be an immediate and top priority for my administration.