Security quotes of the week

And in the meantime, my distrust of Intel's crypto has moved from "standard professional paranoia" to "actual legitimate concern".

And while you're lying awake at night worrying whether the Men in Black have backdoored the CPU in your laptop, you're missing the fact that the software that's using the random numbers has 36 different buffer overflows, of which 27 are remote-exploitable, and the crypto uses an RSA exponent of 1 and AES-CTR with a fixed IV.

But it would be naive for anyone -- for any of us -- to assume that Russia would not attempt to leverage a situation like this for their own purposes of Internet control. Whether or not they succeed is a wholly different question, and all of us will have a say in that, one way or another.

Yes, planned or not, incidental or not, actions do have consequences, and it would be ironic indeed if Edward Snowden's stated quest to promote the cause of freedom around the world, had the unintentional effect of helping to crush Internet freedoms at the hands of his benefactors of the moment.