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"Security is a double-edged sword: While a fence sure protects the fenced, it also imprisons the protected."

"Is it security you want? There is no security at the top of the world."

"Above all, staring at my old bedroom ceiling, I feel safe. Cocooned from the world; wrapped up in cotton wool. No one can get me here. No one even knows I'm here. I won't get any nasty letters and I won't get any nasty phone calls and I won't get any nasty visitors. It's like a sanctuary. I feel as if I'm fifteen again, with nothing to worry about but my Homework. (And I haven't even got any of that.)"

"Then again, my case was all about the misappropriation of source code because I wanted to become the best hacker in the world and I enjoyed beating the security mechanisms."

"Our seniors' retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market."

"If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loud!"

"Since September 11, the U.S. has significantly improved its security to prevent another attack."

"First, the security and privacy of sensitive taxpayer information is absolutely essential."

"The training and equipping of Iraqi security forces should be accelerated."
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"This will surprise some of your readers, but my primary interest is not with computer security. I am primarily interested in writing software that works as intended."


"I don't expect an overnight change of all desktops to what the US Military used to call B3 level security. And even that would not stop users from shooting themselves into the foot."


"Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists."


"I was going to visit IBM for six months as a visiting scientist. Now, six months is a lot of time, so I came with a whole list of projects that I might want to work on."


"Windows favors multi-threading, which means that a service is implemented by one single process."


"Coming back to the topic of computer security, the TCP Wrapper is an example of such a safety net. I wrote it when my systems were under attack by someone who appeared to walk through walls."


"At the time the Sendmail program had a very poor reputation with respect to security, with four root vulnerabilities per year for two successive years."
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