Quotes About Security

I guess you could pay off the management to let you bring in a SecUnit and weapons and do a hostage exchange, but they drew the line at giving you free feed access.

You know, if you don't want to be manually eviscerated with your own energy weapon then maybe you shouldn't go around killing research transports and antagonizing rogue SecUnits.

Along with the horror of what had just happened, there had been the dawning realization that they had fallen into thinking of their SecUnit as a faceless machine, a convenience, an interface with their security system. But it had taken a sentient being who understood fear and pain to talk its way through Volescu's blind terror.

I've had clients who thought they needed an absurd level of security. (And I'm talking absurd even by my standards, and my code was developed by a bond company known for intense xenophobic paranoia, tempered only by desperate greed.)

Human security had literally just noticed that something had tried to steal their client's head.

Humans always think they've covered their tracks and deleted their data, but they're wrong a lot.

Oh, I've no sense of self-preservation," Reynard replied easily. "That's what I depend on you for.

That's how SecUnits are taught to fight: throw your body at the target and kill the shit out of it

I couldn't pin down what was bothering me. Scan was negative, and this far away from the team there was no ambient sound except the whisper through the air system. Maybe it was the lack of security camera access, but I'd been in worse places with no cameras. Maybe it was something subliminal. Actually, it felt pretty liminal. Pro-liminal. Up-liminal? Whatever, there was no knowledge base here to look it up.

I had also been hit by at least four different recognition scans. These scans are usually searching for known humans or augmented humans that the station security is keeping tabs on, not random escaped SecUnits. (Random escaped SecUnits is not nearly as prevalent a problem as the entertainment feed would have you believe.)

I've had clients who thought they needed an absurd level of security. (And I'm talking absurd even by my standards, and my code was developed by a bond company known for intense xenophobic paranoia, tempered only by desperate greed.) I've also had clients who thought they didn't need any security at all, right up until something ate them.

lure humans in with promises of room privacy so it could record them in the public spaces.

When the company owned me and rented me out for surveys, my security protocol included datamining, which meant monitoring and recording the humans every second for the duration of the contract, which was excruciating in a lot of ways. Pretty much all the ways. (All the ways involving sex, bodily fluids, and inane conversations.)

If people won't be shooting at me what will I be doing?" Maybe I could be her bodyguard. "I think you can learn to do anything you want." She smiled. "We'll talk about that when we get you home.

It was obvious Station Security was out of its collective depth here. (At least it was obvious to me.)

Plus, it was Preservation and there were no scanning drones, no armed human security, just some on-call human medics with bot assistants and "rangers" who mainly enforced environmental regulations and yelled at humans and augmented humans to get out of the way of the ground vehicles.

God loves you. And if God is on your side, what is there to fear? Nothing. Now or ever.

The arms race is a race between nuclear weapons and ourselves.

The Rail Fence Cipher Suppose

When freedom from want and freedom from fear are achieved, man's remains will be in rigor mortis.

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.

We need not join the mad rush to purchase an earthly fallout shelter. God is our eternal fallout shelter.

The fact is that a car used by Gerry Adams and myself during the course of the Mitchell review was bugged by elements within British military intelligence.

I don't like being in houses alone.