It's frustrating; terrorism is rare and largely ineffectual, yet we regularly magnify the effects of both their successes … - Bruce Schneier

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I knew A. J. Muste very well. I tried for a while to be like he was, and that is a total pacifist. But then Margot [my wife] hit me hard in the stomach one day to prove to me that I wasn't as perfect a pacifist as I thought I was.

Bruce Schneier

It's frustrating; terrorism is rare and largely ineffectual, yet we regularly magnify the effects of both their successes and failures by terrorizing ourselves.

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The fundamental driver in computer security, in all of the computer industry, is economics. That requires a lot of re-education for us security geeks.

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The real targets of terrorism are the rest of us: the billions of us who are not killed but are terrorized because of the killing. The real point of terrorism is not the act itself, but our reaction to the act. And we're doing exactly what the terrorists want [. . . ] Our politicians help the terrorists every time they use fear as a campaign tactic. The press helps every time it writes scare stories about the plot and the threat. And if we're terrified, and we share that fear, we help.

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The user's going to pick dancing pigs over security every time.

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I tell people if it's in the news don't worry about it. Because by definition news is something that almost never happens.

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It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state.

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