Security quotes of the week

My computer was arrested before me

… the FBI has access to … the emails of virtually everybody in the country.

Jellyfish are interesting to trojan writers. Deep at their heart they are colony creatures, with stealth capabilities. What could be more pertinent to those of us who feed on the world's information like opportunistic predators?

Right now my feeling is that the world has been lucky because most of the malicious software on the internet has been, at worst, a rapscallion, or a scofflaw, or perhaps a ne'er-do-well. And there are modern networks who fare pretty well against that kind of adversary. But longer term, there's going to be malware that resembles science fiction <http://www.immunityinc.com/downloads/TheLongRun.pdf>...or maybe jellyfish? :>

These companies own us, so they can sell us off -- again, like serfs -- to rival lords... or turn us in to the authorities.