Computer Security Quotes

We've created life in our own image.

The problem of viruses is temporary and will be solved in two years.

The fundamental driver in computer security, in all of the computer industry, is economics. That requires a lot of re-education for us security geeks.

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

If you spend more on coffee than on IT security, you will be hacked. What's more, you deserve to be hacked.

Passwords are like underwear: you don’t let people see it, you should change it very often, and you shouldn’t share it with strangers.

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

This will surprise some of your readers, but my primary interest is not with computer security. I am primarily interested in writing software that works as intended.

People dont want to talk about death, just like they dont want to talk about computer security. Maybe I should have named my workstation Fear. People are so motivated by fear.

Coming back to the topic of computer security, the TCP Wrapper is an example of such a safety net. I wrote it when my systems were under attack by someone who appeared to walk through walls.

People have to be free to investigate computer security. People have to be free to look for the vulnerabilities and create proof of concept code to show that they are true vulnerabilities in order for us to secure our systems.

Computer security can simply be protecting your equipment and files from disgruntled employees, spies, and anything that goes bump in the night, but there is much more. Computer security helps ensure that your computers, networks, and peripherals work as expected all the time, and that your data is safe in the event of hard disk crash or a power failure resulting from an electrical storm. Computer security also makes sure no damage is done to your data and that no one is able to read it unless you want them to.

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

Security wins many battles but loses the security war. We are definitely going backwards in computer security.

My background, I really am a computer hacker. I've studied computer science, I work in computer security. I'm not an actively a hacker, I'm an executive but I understand the mindset of changing a system to get the outcome that you want. It turns out to make the coffee, the problem is actually how the beans get turn into green coffee. That's where most of the problems happen.

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.

I think computer viruses should count as life.

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.

Companies spend millions of dollars on firewalls and secure access devices, and it's money wasted because none of these measures address the weakest link in the security chain: the people who use, administer and operate computer systems