If you have a gun inside a case that’s ok, but if you just leave it out on the street that’s very dangerous. The same goes for a CCTV Camera. If you have a Camera on a closed network that’s only accessible to privileged individuals then that’s ok, but if you connect it to the internet that’s bad and vendors are either unaware or don’t care enough to change that.

If someone steals your password, you can change it. But if someone steals your thumbprint, you can’t get a new thumb. The failure modes are very different.

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

The only truly secure system is one that is powered off.

We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.

You can’t hold firewalls and intrusion detection systems accountable. You can only hold people accountable.

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

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.

Be careful and you will save many men from the sin of robbing you.

Security in IT is like locking your house or car – it doesn’t stop the bad guys, but if it’s good enough they may move on to an easier target.

A secure system is one that does what it is supposed to do, and nothing more.

CCTV is seen either as a symbol of Orwellian dystopia or a technology that will lead to crime-free streets and civil behavior. While arguments continue, there is very little solid data in the public domain about the costs, quantity and effectiveness of surveillance.

You can’t assume any place you go is private because the means of surveillance are becoming so affordable and so invisible.

If surveillance infiltrates our homes and personal relationships, that is a gross breach of our human and civil rights.

Surveillance cameras might reduce crime – even though the evidence here is mixed – but no studies show that they result in greater happiness of everyone involved.

The Internet is the most liberating tool for humanity ever invented, and also the best for surveillance. It’s not one or the other. It’s both.

I don’t think there’s much distinction between surveillance and media in general. Better media means better surveillance. Cams are everywhere.

It seems to limit you; when you’re working in an office, you’re a creature in a small cell under somebody’s supervision and surveillance.

The concept of surveillance is ingrained in our beings. God was the original surveillance camera.

Not enough people know or understand just how little freedom we have left.