People often represent the weakest link in the security chain and are chronically responsible for the failure of security systems.

It is sort of interesting that in our society this days we are very quick to apply the term 'war' to places where thare are no actual wars, and loath to apply the term 'war' when we are actually fighting wars.

It is insufficient to protect ourselves with laws; we need to protect ourselves with mathematics.

There are two types of encryption: one that will prevent your sister from reading your diary and one that will prevent your government.

Cryptography products may be declared illegal, but the information will never be

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

Computer security can simply be protecting your equipment and files from disgruntled employees, spies, and anything that goes bump in the night, but there is much more. Computer security helps ensure that your computers, networks, and peripherals 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.