A well-chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for prevention as cure.
— Robert Graves
A well-chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for prevention as cure.
— Robert Graves
Free! Security Awareness Questions of the Day Each day, a new question:
Phishing is a major problem because there really is no patch for human stupidity — Mike Danseglio, program manager in the Security Solutions group at Microsoft, April 4, 2006
In 2006, the attackers want to pay the rent. They don't want to write a worm that destroys your hardware. They want to assimilate your computers and use them to make money. — Mike Danseglio, program manager in the Security Solutions group at Microsoft, April 4, 2006
I walked into this classroom full of law enforcement officers and said, "Do you guys recognize any of these names?" I read off a list of the names. One federal officer explained, "Those are the names of judges in the US District Court in Seattle." And I said, "Well, I have a password file here with 26 passwords cracked." Those federal officers about turned green. — Don Belling, Boeing, quoted in The Art of Intrusion by Kevin Mitnick
Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes? [Who watches the watchers?] — quote contributed by Joy Walker - Thank you!
Badges? We ain't got no badges! We don't need no badges. I don't have to show you any stinkin' badges! — from the film "Treasure of Sierra Madre"
You can't hold firewalls and intrusion detection systems accountable. You can only hold people accountable. — Daryl White, DOI CIO
In theory, one can build provably secure systems. In theory, theory can be applied to practice but in practice, it can't. — M. Dacier, Eurecom Institute
I personally like to think of the Internet as a parallel universe, a cyber-world as opposed to the real-world. In cyber-world people do much the same thing as in the real-world, such as chat, work, or go shopping. And, as in the real-world, there are dangers. In the real-world, we spend years as children learning about the world and all its dangers before we can safely go out on our own. This is not the case in cyber-world. People wander into cyber-world as cyber-toddlers or even cyber-infants. How can these people be expected to look after themselves in this strange new world? ... I believe that education must be the first step to computer security. Cyber-world is too complex and dangerous to jump into without understanding the dangers.
— Jimi Loo, in Comments & Feedback to Noam Eppel's Article, "Security Absurdity: The Complete, Unquestionable, and Total Failure of Information Security. A long-overdue wake up call for the security community."
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week. — Evan Esar
If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee - that will do them in. — Bradley's Bromide
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them. — Isaac Asimov
The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents. — Nathaniel Borenstein
Fear not those who argue, but those who dodge. — Marie Ebner von Eschenbach
The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect. — Esther Dyson
The best way to get management excited about a disaster plan is to burn down the building across the street. — Dan Erwin, Security Officer, Dow Chemical Co.
A business will have good security if its corporate culture is correct. That depends on one thing: tone at the top. There will be no grassroots effort to overwhelm corporate neglect. — William Malik, Vice President and Research Area Director for Information Security at Gartner.
A good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street. — Doug Linder
Just as drivers who share the road must also share responsibility for safety, we all now share the same global network, and thus must regard computer security as a necessary social responsibility. To me, anyone unwilling to take simple security precautions is a major, active part of the problem. — Fred Langa
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