The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by acc

ident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents
. Nathaniel Borenstein
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Borenstein
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them. Isaac Asimov
We only need to be lucky once. You need to be lucky every time. The IRA to Marga
ret Thatcher, after a failed assassination attempt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton_hotel_bombing
If privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy. Philip Zimmermann
http://www.philzimmermann.com/EN/background/index.html
If you spend more on coffee than on IT security, you will be hacked. What's more
, you deserve to be hacked. White House Cybersecurity Advisor, Richard Clarke
Amateurs hack systems, professionals hack people. Bruce Schneier
Computer security can simply be protecting your equipment and files from disgrun
tled employees, spies, and anything that goes bump in the night, but there is mu
ch more. Computer security helps ensure that your computers, networks, and perip
herals 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 (Protect Your Macintosh, 199
4)
Hardware is easy to protect: lock it in a room, chain it to a desk, or buy a spa
re. Information poses more of a problem. It can exist in more than one place; be
transported halfway across the planet in seconds; and be stolen without your kn
owledge. Bruce Schneier (Protect Your Macintosh, 1994)
People often represent the weakest link in the security chain and are chronicall
y responsible for the failure of security systems. Bruce Schneier, Secrets and L
ies
If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't underst
and the problems and you don't understand the technology. Bruce Schneier
The only truly secure system is one that is powered off, cast in a block of conc
rete and sealed in a lead-lined room with armed guards. Gene Spafford
The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receiv
e either. Benjamin Franklin
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. Dwight D. E
isenhower
"Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, b
ecause as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We
also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things
we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns -- the ones we don't know w
e don't know. And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other f
ree countries, it is the latter category that tend to be the difficult ones."
Donald Rumsfeld, February 12, 2002, Department of Defense news briefing
http://www.defense.gov/transcripts/transcript.aspx?transcriptid=2636
Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes? [Who watches the watchers?] - Juvenal
One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it b
ecomes an emergency. Arnold Glascow
Never say anything on the phone that you wouldn't want your mother to hear at yo
ur trial. Sydney Biddle Barrows
Be careful and you will save many men from the sin of robbing you. Ed Howe
Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be. George Or
well
Security in IT is like locking your house or car it doesn't stop the bad guys,
but if it's good enough they may move on to an easier target. Paul Herbka
Cyberwarfare specialists cautioned this week that the Internet was effectively a
wilderness of mirrors, and that attributing the source of cyberattacks and other
kinds of exploitation is difficult at best and sometimes impossible. Despite the
initial assertions and rumors that North Korea was behind the attacks and sligh
t evidence that the programmer had some familiarity with South Korean software,
the consensus of most computer security specialists is that the attackers could
be located anywhere in the world. John Markoff (NY Times writer)
No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition. Benjammin Disr
aeli
'The Internet is the crime scene of the 21st Century. Manhattan District Attorne
y Cyrus Vance Jr., October 2010.
If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for reveal
ing them to the trees. Kahlil Gibran
Politically Correct Virus: Doesn't refer to itself as a virus - instead, refers
to itself as an "electronic microorganism." Mark Kaye
It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved. Niccolo Machiavelli