Quotes

Get It Try It

They got all mad and sent me a nasty e-mail. They said I should have reported this to Apple security rather than to the Washington Post. I told them 'I gave you the exploit - what else do you want me to do?'
 - Charlie Miller

The chickens have come home to roost for Google. Their arrogance and refusal to listen to friendly advice has resulted in the privacy of tens of millions being placed under threat. Governments and organisations are realising that companies like Google have a warehouse full of data. And while that data is stored it is under threat of being used and putting privacy in danger.
 - Simon Davies Privacy International July 2008 on Viacom/Google ruling

While the majority of Gmail users are likely to be individuals, there will be a substantial number of small businesses and other enterprises using the system - in time possibly numbering in the millions within Europe. These organisations are required to fulfil a range of conditions under data protection law. It is our contention that the Gmail service will not allow these requirements to be fulfilled.
 - Simon Davies Privacy International 2004

Given a choice between dancing pigs and security users will pick dancing pigs every time.
 - Ed Felten

DNS cache poisoning is older than Jesus. Why do you think this is special? Sent from my mobile device; please forgive any typos.
 - Randy Bias to TidBITS

I think there's a certain amount of hyperbole going on here.
 - 'ron (apparently)' to TidBITS

Right. This makes sense to me. That's why I'm confused about the headline, which feels fairly melodramatic. I guess it's good fun to bash Apple these days on security.
 - Randy Bias to TidBITS

Still, it's always frustrating, as an old school security practitioner, to see the media blow things out of proportion simply for FUD purposes. Disappointing, but I should be used to it by now.
 - Randy Bias to TidBITS

Google's hypocrisy is breathtaking. Perhaps in Google's world privacy does not exist but in the real world individual privacy is fundamentally important and is being chipped away bit by bit every day by companies like Google.
 - Ken Boehm NLPC

The fact that every American is now subject to this type of scrutiny with the click of a mouse is frightening.
 - Ken Boehm NLPC

Yeah and you're the only race on this planet, fucktard.
 - Brendon C Bleebwart

The average user is nothing but an eggplant with legs, lacking the brains to complain or boycott.
 - Anonymous

That's a no-brainer. Of course it's a violation of international law. That's why it's a covert action. The guy's a terrorist. Go grab his ass.
 - Al Gore

Snow Leopard is going to be the best OS X release ever. Apple is going to get rid of all carbon code, Quicktime is getting a Cocoa overhaul, Safari is getting a new js engine and pass acid 3, we may se ZFS as the standard file system. The system will be optimized for multi-core computing and enterprise deployment. Dashcode will most likely get an overhaul so it integrates with SproutCore, this will be Apples .Net. Xcode will support this new compiler technology. Everything will be faster!!! This release may not have much for consumers, but the devs are all having a nerdgasm.
 - Aron Allen aka 'officerdick'

Good nickname, fuckhead. Fits you. Loves it.
 - Brendon C Bleebwart

I'll see you at the debates, bitches!
 - Paris Hilton

We're going. That's fucked up. And hearing other people say 'you can't do that' - you can only say 'you can't do that' so many times to Matt and me before we're gonna do it. Finally we just had to tell Isaac 'dude we totally love working with you and this is nothing personal, it's just we're South Park and if we don't do this we're belittling everything else we've ripped on'.
 - Trey Parker

Between Apple incompetence, OpenDNS's lesser evilness, Warner, Comcast, the Chinese firewall, and a shitload of other monsters, we are in a pretty tight spot. Voodoo dolls don't work anymore, pessimism drags you down into procrastination, trusting big corporations is like keeping your door unlocked on the Halloween night. What's a decent person to do in these fucked up times?
 - Dali Rău

I come from a wonderful country with wonderful people. But we were living with a system telling us how to live.
 - Nadia Comaneci

It's the Olympics. Pain is irrelevant.
 - Michaela Breeze

Basically I am so sick of 'Bozo' and his third rate rock combo that if I never hear any U2 tune again it will be too soon. And as for having yet another rich little ego twit thinking he can save the world - I have a message: 'grow up and ditch the narcissism thing before you end up like a certain other celeb that is as crazy as you'.
 - Dr K

To be frank I have seen the Macfanboism only in US. US is in particular over-religious place. People get there religious over different things all the time. Apple is literally religious about making good stuff, so some people start following: and it is only logical.
 - 'ThePhilips'

Well it is CNet. They will go to any lengths to dig dirt on any Apple product - even if it means trolling Apple's support forum.
 - 'OhEsTen'

I was driving down Folsom Street in San Francisco and I got a dropped call 10 times. I get dropped calls just standing in one place.
 - Stephen Yarbough

There's a spot on a street in the financial district where I can face east and get 3G but turning west will lose connection for a minute before switching to EDGE.
 - Charles Jade

We believe these issues are typical of an immature chipset and radio protocol stack where we are almost certain Infineon is the 3G supplier.
 - Richard Windsor

As it stands we are currently at the second step in a process of customer service that will be familiar to longtime Mac users.

1. There is a problem with an Apple product.
2. Apple won't admit to it.
3. Someone threatens legal action.
4. Apple do a recall.