"The whole notion of passwords is based on an oxymoron. The idea is to have a random string that is easy to remember. Unfortunately, if it's easy to remember, it's something nonrandom like 'Susan.' And if it's random, like 'r7U2*Qnp,' then it's not easy to remember."

- Bruce Schneier

"More people are killed every year by pigs than by sharks, which shows you how good we are at evaluating risk."

-Bruce Schneier

"The only difference between the fool, and the criminal who attacks a system is that the fool attacks unpredictably and on a broader front."

-Tom Gilb

"Being able to break security doesn't make you a hacker anymore than being able to hotwire cars makes you an automotive engineer."

- Eric Raymond

"Publishers often refer to prohibited copying as piracy. In this way, they imply that illegal copying is ethically equivalent to attacking ships on the high seas, kidnapping and murdering the people on them."

-Richard Stallman

"We Russians don't drink any more. We now work on computers. We use computers to send viruses to the West and then we poach your money. We have the best hackers in the world."

- Vladimir Zhirinovsky

"If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology."

Bruce Schneier

"The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered and his states and all their clans are preserved."

-Confucius  (551 BC - 479 BC)

"I'd sit there and first I'd look through the comments, pick through the security holes, and then I'd see what the developer did to fix it because they'd always leave it well commented - thank you very much - and then I'd work back and figure out how I could write exploit code to exploit their vulnerabilities."

- Kevin Mitnick

"You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it."

-Scott McNealy

"The only truly secure system is one that is powered off, cast in a block of concrete and sealed in a lead-lined room with armed guards."

Gene Spafford

"Hoaxes use weaknesses in human behaviour to ensure they are replicated and distributed. In other words, hoaxes prey on the Human Operating System." - Stewart Kirkpatrick

"You can't consider the problem of defense without first understanding the problem of attack."

Doug Tygar, a professor of computer science and information management at UC Berkeley