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

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

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

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

Privacy is a fundamental human need.

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

The more we expect technology to protect us from people in the same way it protects us from nature, the more we will sacrifice the very values of our society in futile attempts to achieve this security.