John Pescatore Quotations

If you're afraid of 'back doors,' you better be testing all your software.

the rise of targeted attacks has poked big holes in a lot of companies' intrusion-detection strategies.

Clipper was a heavy-handed way of forcing a particular design into things, and the reason Clipper failed is the same reasons that this will fail. Users lose out if cryptography is weakened or ineffective or much harder to use.

Princeton is definitely a really tough crew to beat. I think our crew rowed a race somewhere between OK and good -- I think they have a little bit more in them.

the benefit back to them does not exceed the risk they perceive in making that information available.

People who sell this data need to have a verification system, and they don't. The enforcement is lax.

The spreading of the worm has slowed down slightly, but the real cost is going back and cleaning computers.

We knew it was going to be at least 20 percent lower than competitors' prices. We didn't think they would dump it at a super-duper low price.

AES will likely not replace more than 30 percent of DES operations before 2004,

Gartner believes these factors will converge by the end of 2007.