Security quotes of the week

[Posted February 9, 2011 by jake]

The world of open source is full of cases where openness of information and process allow properly-functioning open-by-rule communities to address security issues fast. This is the real meaning of the idea that open source is good for security; no magic, just symbiosis.

-- Simon Phipps

Okay, so he's an idiot. And a bastard. But the real piece of news here is how easy it is for a UK immigration officer to put someone on the no-fly list with absolutely no evidence that that person belongs there. And how little auditing is done on that list. Once someone is on, they're on for good.

That's simply no way to run a free country.

-- Bruce Schneier

Security quotes of the week

Posted Feb 13, 2011 13:00 UTC (Sun) by Tet (guest, #5433) [Link]

That's simply no way to run a free country

No, it's not. But then again, we're not a free country...

That's simply no way to run a free country.

Posted Feb 22, 2011 18:22 UTC (Tue) by xkahn (subscriber, #1575) [Link]

The comments on Bruce Schneier's blog seem to indicate some skepticism that this really happened. It's still an interesting problem even if it didn't, but how would this be verified?