Bruce Schneier Quotes

There's been spying for years, there's been surveillance for years, and so forth, I'm not going to pass judgement on that, it's the nature of our society.

We are living in a world where everything is based on security.

Anything can be justified by security.

I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me.

You weren’t in any real danger. We knew exactly where you were all the time.

Secondly, security. Both the challenges we face in the world and the responsibilities that our country has in protecting our people, are major issues. We need to do more in the context of domestic security.

I hear that from so many different governments, people coming to me and saying, 'You should be careful'. But I don't want to go around with bodyguards.

We have the responsibility to protect our people and that's why we're building this fence. We've suffered from 19,000 terrorist attacks during the last three years.

We felt it was very important for an entity like CCTV to make its presence felt... To generate a space and to define a space, that is the main thing.

Law can never make us as secure as we are when we do not need it.

Security is no replacement for liberty.

The Seven Elevens in downtown Houston are better protected than the largest oil refinery in the world.

We cannot measure our safety in terms of miles on a map any more.

There are two kinds of cryptography in this world: cryptography that will stop your kid sister from reading your files, and cryptography that will stop major governments from reading your files.

There are two kinds of cryptography in this world: cryptography that will stop your kid sister from reading your files, and cryptography that will stop major governments from reading your files.

Stopping people you don’t trust is an essential ingredient. It is part of owning and governing the territory you’re patrolling

The world going 100 percent mobile actually means the world going 100 percent trackable.

Online censorship, mass and targeted surveillance and data collection, digital attacks on civil society and repression resulting from online expression force individuals around the world to seek security to hold opinions without interference and seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds. Many seek to protect their security through encryption, the scrambling of data so only intended recipients may access it

We cannot sacrifice our humanity in the name of security - or we risk losing both.

It may be that by watching everywhere we go, by watching everything we do, by analyzing every word we say, by waiting and passing judgment over every association we make and every person we love, that we could uncover a terrorist plot, or we could discover more criminals. But is that the kind of society we want to live in?

When I travel officially... and when I travel on a private basis, I have protection that is less suffocating. But I am protected everywhere.

I am exceptionally fond of all the brave servicemen and women who have worked, and continue to work, to keep us safe and secure, and protect our values.

I don't have a battery of agents to surround me in a cocoon.

How many guards are doing what I'm doing guarding 1 through 5? How many bigs are guarding 1s the way I'm guarding 5s?

Our faith in technology is no longer fully consistent with our belief in liberty.