Why is it that we all - myself included - believe these stories? Why are we so quick to assume that the TSA is a bunch of jack-booted thugs, officious and arbitrary and drunk with power? It's because everything seems so arbitrary, because there's no accountability or transparency in the DHS.
Bruce SchneierA colleague once told me that the world was full of bad security systems designed by people who read Applied Cryptography
Bruce SchneierTechnical problems can be remediated. A dishonest corporate culture is much harder to fix.
Bruce Schneier