Security Trade-Offs Quotes

Security is a false God. Begin to make sacrifices to it and you are lost.

Freedom cannot be trifled with. You cannot surrender it for security unless in a state of war, and then you must guard carefully the methods of so doing.

If security were all that mattered, computers would never be turned on, let alone hooked into a network with literally millions of potential intruders.

Some in Washington say that you have to trade your liberty for security.

It isn't that secrets are never needed in security. It's that they are never desirable.

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.

When we face a choice between adding features and resolving security issues, we need to choose security.

The more urgent the message, the more slowly it moves—but those are the penalties of security.

How much liberty do with want to give up for a false sense of security?

So people have to decide. Do they want to have the security? Do they want to continue to plug the gap [in border security] that GAO has identified and recognize that there will be some costs to doing that? Or do we want to make sure that business isn't hampered and that people can move back and forth readily, and recognize that, if we don't put some barriers in place, we're going to wind up with dangerous people coming into the country?

We cannot afford no security, but we also cannot afford total security.

The question to ask when you look at security is not whether this makes us safer, but whether it's worth the trade-off.

There's no way to avoid a burden on your freedom. The costs themselves are a burden on your freedom. The restrictions that are necessary in order to get rid of the terrorists are a burden to your freedom. So there's no way in the short run to avoid a restriction on your freedom.

When the lights go out at a power plant sometime in the future, we're going to know that that's a consequence of deprioritizing defense for the sake of an advantage in terms of offense.