Frases de Bruce Schneier

Bruce Schneier é um criptógrafo estadunidense, especialista em segurança computacional e escritor. Ele é o autor de muitos livros sobre segurança computacional e criptografia e é fundador e chefe de tecnologia da BT Counterpane Wikipedia  

✵ 15. Janeiro 1963   •   Outros nomes بروس اشنایر
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Bruce Schneier: Frases em inglês

“If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology.”

preface to 2015 edition of Secrets and Lies
Cryptography
Contexto: A few years ago I heard a quotation, and I am going to modify it here: If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology.

“Against the average user, anything works; there's no need for complex security software. Against the skilled attacker, on the other hand, nothing works.”

The Fallacy of Trusted Client Software, Schneier, Bruce, 2001-08, Cryptogram newsletter, 2018-08-12 https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2000/08/the_fallacy_of_trust.html,
Digital Rights Management

“Elections serve two purposes. The first, and obvious, purpose is to accurately choose the winner. But the second is equally important: to convince the loser.”

American Elections Are Too Easy to Hack. We Must Take Action Now, Schneier, Bruce, 2018-04-18, The Guardian, 2018-08-12 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/18/american-elections-hack-bruce-scheier,
Elections

“Technical problems can be remediated. A dishonest corporate culture is much harder to fix.”

Visa and Amex Drop CardSystems, Schneier, Bruce, 2005-08-15, Cryptogram newsletter, 2006-09-08 http://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-0508.html#16,

“Only amateurs attack machines; professionals target people.”

Semantic Attacks: The Third Wave of Network Attacks, 2000-10-15, Schneier, Bruce, Schneier on Security blog, 2010-08-31 http://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-0010.html#1,

“We can't keep weapons out of prisons; we can't possibly expect to keep them out of airports.”

Prison Shivs, Schneier, Bruce, 2005-05-15, Cryptogram newsletter, 2009-12-27 http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/08/prison_shivs.html,
Human perception of reality, risk and terrorism

“The lesson here is that it is insufficient to protect ourselves with laws; we need to protect ourselves with mathematics. Encryption is too important to be left solely to governments.”

[John Wiley & Sons, 1996, Applied Cryptography 2nd edition Source Code in C, Bruce Schneier, http://www.schneier.com/book-applied.html]
Cryptography

“It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state.”

Secrets and Lies (2000), p. 53
Politics and societal issues of the digital age

“Not being angels is expensive”

Bruce Schneier livro Liars and Outliers

Liars & Outliers, Bruce Schneier, ISBN 978-1-118-14330-8, p. 43

“The very definition of news is something that hardly ever happens. If an incident is in the news, we shouldn't worry about it. It's when something is so common that its no longer news – car crashes, domestic violence – that we should worry.”

[The Guardian, 2008-09-04, A fetishistic approach to security is a perverse way to keep us safe, http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/sep/04/terrorism.terrorismandtravel, Schneier, Bruce, 2012-08-01]
Human perception of reality, risk and terrorism

“Beware the Four Horsemen of the Information Apocalypse: terrorists, drug dealers, kidnappers, and child pornographers. Seems like you can scare any public into allowing the government to do anything with those four.”

Computer Crime Hype, 2005-12-16, Schneier, Bruce, Schneier on Security blog, 2006-09-08 http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/12/computer_crime_1.html,
Politics and societal issues of the digital age

“Chaos is hard to create, even on the Internet. Here's an example. Go to Amazon. com. Buy a book without using SSL. Watch the total lack of chaos.”

Biancuzzi, Federico, 2005-05-10, 2006-09-08, Bruce Schneier on Cryptography, SecurityFocus http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/324,
Politics and societal issues of the digital age

“In China, programs have to be certified by the government in order to be used on computers there, which sounds an awful lot like the Apple store.”

[Schneier, Bruce (speaker), 19 June 2013, 2013, Bruce Schneier: Talks at Google, English, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3NJ-Ow2Lvg, 18:56, Google Inc.]

“… if anyone thinks they can get an accurate picture of anyplace on the planet by reading news reports, they're sadly mistaken.”

Should Terrorism be Reported in the News?, Schneier, Bruce, 2005-05-15, Cryptogram newsletter, 2006-09-08 http://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-0505.html#3,
Human perception of reality, risk and terrorism

“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.”

[John Wiley & Sons, 1996, Applied Cryptography 2nd edition Source Code in C, Bruce Schneier, http://www.schneier.com/book-applied.html]
Cryptography

“Digital files cannot be made uncopyable, any more than water can be made not wet.”

The Futility of Digital Copy Prevention, Schneier, Bruce, 2001-05-15, Cryptogram newsletter, 2006-09-08 http://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-0105.html#3,
Digital Rights Management

“More people are killed every year by pigs than by sharks, which shows you how good we are at evaluating risk.”

IT Conversations: Bruce Schneier, Schneier, Bruce, Doug Kaye, 2004-04-16 http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail119.html,
Human perception of reality, risk and terrorism

“Anyone, from the most clueless amateur to the best cryptographer, can create an algorithm that he himself can't break.”

Memo to the Amateur Cipher Designer, Schneier, Bruce, 1998-10-15, Cryptogram newsletter http://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-9810.html#cipherdesign, (aka Schneier's Law)
Cryptography

“It's certainly easier to implement bad security and make it illegal for anyone to notice than it is to implement good security.”

Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World - Bruce Schneier
Cryptography

“Well-designed security systems fail gracefully.”

Airport Security Failure, Schneier, Bruce, 2006-03-14, Schneier on Security, 2022-06-31 https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/03/airport_securit_2.html,
Human perception of reality, risk and terrorism