Quotes About Security

In most Western countries the extreme differential in power needed to enslave doesn't exist, and the idea of slavery is abhorrent. When most of the population has a reasonable standard of living and some financial security (whether their own or assured by government safety nets), slavery can't thrive.

To err is human. To really screw up requires the root password."—UNKNOWN

As Stephen Katz, former CISO of Citibank, once said, "Controls don't slow the business down; like brakes on a car, controls allow you to go faster.

The notion that "those who built the airplane are not allowed to fly it" is called "separation of duty" and is required for security reasons to ensure that no single person can introduce uncontrolled production changes.

I've come across otherwise smart people who are of the mistaken belief that if they hold on to a task, something only they know how to do, it'll ensure job security. These people are knowledge hoarders. This doesn't work. Everyone is replaceable. No matter how talented they are. Sure it may take longer at first to find out how to do that special task, but it will happen without them.

The application of Blockchain technology is rapidly becoming a core component of our infrastructure!

Quantum Encryption is essential to protect our digital assets and infrastructure from attackers.

The maximum sentence was twenty years for each free phone call. Twenty years for each call! I was facing a worst-case scenario of 460 years.

One noted software libertarian, Richard Stallman, even refused to protect his account with a password.

The difference can be summed up in one word: authorization. I don't need authorization to get in. It's the word that instantly transforms me from the World's Most Wanted Hacker to one of the Most Wanted Security Experts in the world. Just like magic.

Anyone who thinks that security products alone offer true security is settling for the illusion of security.

F___k being a script kiddie if you can avoid it — be a hacker.

In the midst of this culture of openness and sharing, we need to think carefully about the information we're volunteering to the world. Sometimes the world is listening.

Social engineering uses influence and persuasion to deceive people by convincing them that the social engineer is someone he is not, or by manipulation. As a result, the social engineer is able to take advantage of people to obtain information with or without the use of technology.

Take a moment and surf over to Panopticlick.com. This is a site built by the Electronic Frontier Foundation that will determine just how common or unique your browser configuration is compared to others, based on what's running on your PC or mobile device's operating system and the plug-ins you may have installed.

In security, you are only as secure as the weakest link.

Il fattore umano è l'anello più debole della sicurezza

Byte or Get Bitten

The results were extraordinary. Over 70 percent of those who scored high on the Self-Report Psychopathy Scale correctly picked out the handkerchief-smuggling associate, compared to just 30 percent of the low scorers. Zeroing in on weakness may well be part of a serial killer's toolkit. But it may also come in handy at the airport.

Zeroing in on weakness may well be part of a serial killer's toolkit. But it may also come in handy at the airport.

Good men sleep peacefully in their beds at night,' George Orwell once articulated, 'because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

Massive tracking and total surveillance is here to stay.

Communities saturated with anonymity will either self-destruct or shift from the purely anonymous to the pseudo-anonymous, as in eBay, where you have a traceable identity behind a persistent invented nickname.

The ad urged readers to make their own declaration of independence in 1951. "Declare that government is responsible TO you—rather than FOR you," it continued. "Declare that freedom is more important to you than 'security' or 'survival.' Declare that the rights God gave you may not be taken away by any government on any pretense.