Quotes About Security

Machinic desire can seem a little inhuman, as it rips up political cultures, deletes traditions, dissolves subjectivities, and hacks through security apparatuses, tracking a soulless tropism to zero control. This is because what appears to humanity as the history of capitalism is an invasion from the future by an artificial intelligent space that must assemble itself entirely from its enemy's resources.

The prime minister had abused his position as minister in charge of the SIS to embarrass another politician only months before an election.

Marghe was perturbed by her sense of security in Aoife's presence, recognizing the feeling for what it was: the passing of responsibility for her personal safety from herself to Aoife. That scared her almost as much as Uaithne had.

There is no perfect security. There's always something. Always.

Good surveillence and good books don't mix.

Maybe when I come home at night I want comfort and the smell of coffee and to feel safe. For the first time, I understood something about Dornan before he did.

there were at least three that we know of, public efforts and proposals by Russia to be considered for Nato membership, begin the process. And all of those were turned down. So the prospect moving forward was of Nato being the non-Russia, the security organization aimed at Excluding Russia from European security.... as John Mearsheimer will tell you, it's not about what people claim, it's about what the other side believes that you might do to them.

Tu sais que t'es chez toi quand t'as trouvé un trou où calancher en paix.

Complexity is the main enemy of security.

Cryptography and security engineers need to know more than how current cryptographic protocols work; they need to know how to use cryptography.

Some saw cryptography as a great technological equalizer, a mathematical tool that would put the lowliest privacy-seeking individual on the same footing as the greatest national intelligence agencies.

Cryptography by itself is fairly useless. It has to be part of a much larger system.

A lock by itself is a singularly useless thing. It needs to be part of a much larger system. This larger system can be a door on a building, a chain, a safe, or something else.

Even though cryptography is only a small part of the security system, it is a very critical part. Cryptography is the part that has to provide access to some people but not to others. This is very tricky.

Cryptography takes on the role of the lock: it has to distinguish between "good" access and "bad" access. This is much more difficult than just keeping everybody out.

It is all too easy to spend hours arguing over the exact key length of cryptographic systems, but fail to notice or fix buffer overflow vulnerabilities in a Web application.

The function of cryptographic protocols is to minimize the amount of trust required.

The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.

but what he liked above everything else was a cheque. "It is a thing," he used to say, "to which it is not easy to find an equivalent; it requires no food, it does not take up much room, it stays in one's pocket, and if it falls, it is not broken.

She cares too much, that little one. It is not safe. No, it is not safe." —HERCULE POIROT

Not without an army of ninjas behind me am I letting you into my house.

Cyber attacks are not what makes the cool war 'cool.' As a strategic matter, they do not differ fundamentally from older tools of espionage and sabotage

What's a handshake after all, except a socially acceptable way to make sure the other guy doesn't have a knife behind his back

It's not radical Islam that worries the US -- it's independence