Bruce Schneier Rating Quotations

What will happen when the CFO looks at his premium and realizes that it will go down 50 percent if he gets rid of all his insecure Windows operating systems and replaces them with a secure version of Linux? The choice of which operating system to use will no longer be 100 percent technical, ... Microsoft, and other companies with shoddy security, will start losing sales because companies don't want to pay the insurance premiums.

Microsoft's operating system was never designed with security in mind. For Microsoft, security is always an afterthought.

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

It's the dominant operating system out there, so it's going to attract the attention. On the other hand, Windows has extremely sloppy security,