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Quotes About Security

While the Germans intercepted and recorded many hours of SIGSALY transmissions, they were never able to interpret them.
~ Steven Johnson
Encrypted digital watermarking," explains Balthazar. "Information gets hidden in information, like a code inside the pixels. Only visible with the right kind of key. It's called steganography. Here," pointing at the cylinder, "they're using a similar technique, but done at the nano-level, with DNA as the information carrier. GFP is green fluorescent protein, in this case jellyfish genes woven into the atoms of the metal. The heat from your hand is the key.
~ Steven Kotler
While we've painted the guardians of the pale in a somewhat reactionary light, let's give the gatekeepers their due. What lies beyond the pale isn't always safe and secure. Outside the fence of state-sanctioned consciousness, there are, to be sure, peaks of profound insight and inspiration. But there are also the swamps of addiction, superstition, and groupthink, where the unprepared can get stuck.
~ Steven Kotler
secure base." Out of Bowlby's attachment theory.
~ Steven Kotler
Each of the pathways to nuclear terrorism, when examined carefully, turns out to have gantlets of improbabilities.
~ Steven Pinker
In 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2009, there were no interstate conflicts at all.
~ Steven Pinker
of this, to repeat, means that nuclear terrorism is impossible, only that it is not, as so many people insist, imminent, inevitable, or highly probable.
~ Steven Pinker
But in 2014, Eisner, in consultation with the World Health Organization, proposed a goal of reducing the rate of global homicide by 50 percent within thirty years.15
~ Steven Pinker
While some additional plots were foiled by the Department of Homeland Security, many of their claims have turned out to be the proverbial elephant repellent, with every elephant-free day serving as proof of its effectiveness.
~ Steven Pinker
You might have to spread-eagle while a guard slides a wand up your crotch, you may have an elbow in your ribs and a seatback in your chin, but long-distance lovers get to see each other, and if your mother gets sick you can be there the next day.
~ Steven Pinker
Excluding 9/11 and Oklahoma, about twice as many Americans have been killed since 1990 by right-wing extremists as by Islamist terror groups.
~ Steven Pinker
People today think of the world as a uniquely dangerous place. It's hard to follow the news without a mounting dread of terrorist attacks, a clash of civilizations, and the use of weapons of mass destruction. But we are apt to forget the dangers that filled the news a few decades ago, and to be blasé about the good fortune that so many of them have fizzled out.
~ Steven Pinker
So holding many factors constant, we find that living in a civilization reduces one's chances of being a victim of violence fivefold.
~ Steven Pinker
As an Auyana man living in New Guinea under the Pax Australiana put it, "Life was better since the government came" because "a man could now eat without looking over his shoulder and could leave his house in the morning to urinate without fear of being shot.
~ Steven Pinker
The recoognition of a right to life,liberty and the pursuit of happiness and the mandate of government to secure the rights are too tepid for a morally viable society.
~ Steven Pinker
To take another low-death/high-fear hazard, rampage killings in American schools claim around 35 victims a year, compared with about 16,000 routine police-blotter homicides.25 Yet American schools have implemented billions of dollars of dubious safety measures, like installing bulletproof whiteboards and arming teachers with pepperball guns, while traumatizing children with terrifying active-shooter drills.
~ Steven Pinker
his book On Nuclear Terrorism, Levi laid out all the things that would have to go right for a terrorist nuclear attack to succeed, noting, "Murphy's Law of Nuclear Terrorism: What can go wrong might go wrong."278 Mueller counts twenty obstacles on the path and notes that even if a terrorist group had a fifty-fifty chance of clearing every one, the aggregate odds of its success would be one in a million.
~ Steven Pinker
Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.
~ Teresa of Avila
I love the Pope, I love seeing him in his Pope-Mobile, his three feet of bullet proof plexi-glass. That's faith in action folks! You know he's got God on his side.
~ Bill Hicks
Love is like a reservoir of kindness and pleasure, like silos and pools during a siege.
~ Yehuda Amichai
It is safe to be me. I love life. I am always safe and secure. I move forward in life with joy and ease. All is well in my world.
~ Louise Hay
Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.
~ Aaron Carter
We all love guarantees in life.
~ Ian Somerhalder
Always remember, nothing can touch you if you inwardly love God.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda