I am regularly asked what the average Internet user can do to ensure his security. My first answer is usually 'Nothing; you're screwed'.

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

If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology.

Network security sucks, and there's not much the school administration can do. Somebody who knows how will break in.

Hardware is easy to protect: lock it in a room, chain it to a desk, or buy a spare. Information poses more of a problem. It can exist in more than one place; be transported halfway across the planet in seconds; and be stolen without your knowledge

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