Dan Geer Quotes

Freedom, security, convenience - choose two

Work like Hell. Share all you know. Abide by your handshake. Have fun.

The price of freedom is the probability of crime. The price of protection is the probability of slavery.

The Heartbleed problem can be blamed on complexity; all Internet standards become festooned with complicating option sets that no one person can know in their entirety. The Heartbleed problem can be blamed on insufficient investment; safety review for open source code is rarely funded, nor sustainable when it is. The Heartbleed problem can be blamed on poor planning; wide deployment within critical functions but without any repair regime.

You have privacy if you retain the effective capacity to misrepresent yourself.