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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

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Only amateurs attack machines; professionals target people.

It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state.

Secrets and Lies (2000)

It's certainly easier to implement bad security and make it illegal for anyone to notice than it is to implement good security.

Anyone, from the most clueless amateur to the best cryptographer, can create an algorithm that he himself can't break.

Digital files cannot be made uncopyable, any more than water can be made not wet.

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Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.

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