Ashton Carter: The cyber mission force represents American ideals in cyberspace. Keeping cyberspace open and free for everyone is its central focus.
Dmitri Alperovitch: You can't play both sides.
Bruce Schneier: We need to choose, as a matter of policy, communications systems that are secure for all users, or ones that are vulnerable to all attackers. It's security or surveillance.
Decius: We're still our own greatest threat.
Whit Diffie: You really should not live in fear of opening an attachment to a message. It ought to be confined; your computer ought to be able to handle it. And the fact that we have persisted for decades without solving these problems is partly because they're very difficult, but partly because there are lots of people who want you to be secure against everyone but them.
Bruce Schneier: Again and again, it's the same trade-off: individual value versus group value. I believe this is the fundamental issue of the information age, and solving it means careful thinking about the specific issues and a moral analysis of how they affect our core values. If we don't figure this out for ourselves, others will decide what they want to do with us and our data.
Eric Schmidt, in 2014: If you have important information, the safest place to keep it is in Google.
Eric Schmidt, in 2009: If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.
Theodor Holm Nelson: We are in a world nobody designed or expected, driving full tilt toward -- a wall? a cliff? a new dawn? We must choose wisely, as if we could.
The Horrror: Owner: It comes with a free Frogurt! Homer: [relieved] That's good. Owner: The Frogurt is also cursed. Homer: [worried] That's bad.
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