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We have an illusion of security, we don’t have security.
Isaac Yeffet

A false sense of security is the only kind there is.
Michael Meade

We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

The decision we make about communication security today will determine the kind of society we live in tomorrow.
Whitfield Diffie

With efficiency, you focus in making the entire program faster. If there is one or two outlier cases, you typically don’t worry about them. But with security, it’s exactly the opposite. You secure the average but the outliers are really the ones you worry about. Because those are the ones that attackers look for.
Matt Bishop

History has taught us: never underestimate the amount of money, time, and effort someone will expend to thwart a security system. It’s always better to assume the worst. Assume your adversaries are better than they are. Assume science and technology will soon be able to do things they cannot yet. Give yourself a margin for error. Give yourself more security than you need today. When the unexpected happens, you’ll be glad you did.
Bruce Schneier

An element of virtually every national security threat and crime problems the FBI faces is cyber-based or facilitated. We face sophisticated cyber threats from state-sponsored hackers, hackers for hire, organized cyber syndicates, and terrorists.
James Comey

In the hacking world, security is more of a response than a proactive measure. They wait for hackers to attack and then they patch, based on the attacks.
Michael Demon Calce

Let’s face it: the future is now. We are already living in a cyber society, so we need to stop ignoring it or pretending that is not affecting us.
Marco Ciapelli

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image.
Stephen Hawking

Cyber security is not something you learn in a Masters Degree. It is something you learn from years of experience across the broad spectrum of IT. This cannot be bypassed.
Randall Frietzche

A lot of hacking is playing with other people, you know, getting them to do strange things.
Steve Wozniak

Hackers are breaking the systems for profit. Before, it was about intellectual curiosity and pursuit of knowledge and thrill, and now hacking is big business.
Kevin Mitnick

It’s true, I had hacked into a lot of companies, and took copies of the source code to analyze it for security bugs. If I could locate security bugs, I could become better at hacking into their systems. It was all towards becoming a better hacker.
Kevin Mitnick

We shouldn’t ask our customers to make a tradeoff between privacy and security. We need to offer them the best of both. Ultimately, protecting someone else’s data protects all of us.
Tim Cook

Only people with dull lives can afford to forego privacy.
Jan Chipchase

A secure system is one that does what it is supposed to.
Eugene Spafford

Whereas a missile comes with a return address, a computer virus generally does not.
William Lynn

I believe we will all be responsible for our own security – no vendor, service provider, or even government entity will save us.
Sean Martin

Security culture can achieve more than prohibition culture.
Stephane Nappo