Bruce Schneier: Governance

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“The lesson here is that it is insufficient to protect ourselves with laws; we need to protect ourselves with mathematics. Encryption is too important to be left solely to governments.”

Bruce Schneier

[John Wiley & Sons, 1996, Applied Cryptography 2nd edition Source Code in C, Bruce Schneier, http://www.schneier.com/book-applied.html]
Cryptography

“Beware the Four Horsemen of the Information Apocalypse: terrorists, drug dealers, kidnappers, and child pornographers. Seems like you can scare any public into allowing the government to do anything with those four.”

Bruce Schneier

Computer Crime Hype, 2005-12-16, Schneier, Bruce, Schneier on Security blog, 2006-09-08 http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/12/computer_crime_1.html, <br class="br">Politics and societal issues of the digital age

“In China, programs have to be certified by the government in order to be used on computers there, which sounds an awful lot like the Apple store.”

Bruce Schneier

[Schneier, Bruce (speaker), 19 June 2013, 2013, Bruce Schneier: Talks at Google, English, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3NJ-Ow2Lvg, 18:56, Google Inc.]

“There are two kinds of cryptography in this world: cryptography that will stop your kid sister from reading your files, and cryptography that will stop major governments from reading your files.”

Bruce Schneier

[John Wiley & Sons, 1996, Applied Cryptography 2nd edition Source Code in C, Bruce Schneier, http://www.schneier.com/book-applied.html]
Cryptography