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

It's frustrating; terrorism is rare and largely ineffectual, yet we regularly magnify the effects of both their successes and failures by terrorizing ourselves.

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

People don't understand computers. Computers are magical boxes that do things. People believe what computers tell them.

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.

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

Only amateurs attack machines; professionals target people.