A colleague once told me that the world was full of bad security systems designed by people who read Applied Cryptography

Trying to make bits uncopyable is like trying to make water not wet. The sooner people accept this, and build business models that take this into account, the sooner people will start making money again.

I am regularly asked what the average Internet user can do to ensure his security. My first answer is usually 'Nothing; you're screwed'.

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.

Amateurs hack systems, professionals hack people.

If the FBI parks a van bristling with cameras outside your house, you are justified in closing your blinds.

Given the credible estimate that we've spent $1 trillion on anti-terrorism security