It's certainly easier to implement bad security and make it illegal for anyone to notice than it is to implement good security.

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

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

Computer security can simply be protecting your equipment and files from disgruntled employees, spies, and anything that goes bump in the night, but there is much more. Computer security helps ensure that your computers, networks, and peripherals work as expected all the time, and that your data is safe in the event of hard disk crash or a power failure resulting from an electrical storm. Computer security also makes sure no damage is done to your data and that no one is able to read it unless you want them to.

When a big company lays you off, they often give you a year's salary to 'go pursue a dream.' If you're stupid, you panic and get another job. If you're smart, you take the money and use the time to figure out what you want to do next.

People often represent the weakest link in the security chain and are chronically responsible for the failure of security systems.

Surveillance is the business model of the Internet.