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

You have to make the entity in the position to solve the problem, responsible for the problem. Otherwise, it doesn't get solved.

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

Think of your existing power as the exponent in an equation that determines the value of information. The more power you have, the more additional power you derive from the new data.

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