Microsoft made a big deal about Windows NT getting a C2 security rating. They were much less forthcoming with the fact that this rating only applied if the computer was not attached to a network and had no network card, and had its floppy drive epoxied shut, and was running on a Compaq 386. Solaris's C2 rating was just as silly.

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

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

Only amateurs attack machines; professionals target people.

We no longer know whom to trust. This is the greatest damage the NSA has done to the Internet, and will be the hardest to fix.

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.

Anyone, from the most clueless amateur to the best cryptographer, can create an algorithm that he himself can't break.