Security Public Relations Excuse Bingo

Via Bruce, who features himself. :)

I’m going to be naughty and paste all the items, otherwise you’d be there all day hitting refresh.

• You’re so negative
• Our proactive technology solutions prevent that
• Our proprietary encryption algorithms prevent that
• We have CISSP certified engineers
• That’s just theoretical mumbo-jumbo
• You’ll be hearing from our lawyers
• You’ve got a conflict of interest
• That’s only there for backward compatibility
• We meet all government standards
• We meet all industry standards
• It doesn’t need to be very secure
• Nothing is 100% secure
• We take security very seriously
• We don’t comment on security matters
• No comment
• You are in violation of the DMCA
• We already knew about it
• Nobody will ever try to do this
• What kind of a person looks for flaws?
• No one would ever think of that
• Our success speaks for itself
• You’re paranoid
• You’re just an academic
• You’re only helping the bad guys
• Why do you hate America?
• You don’t understand the context
• The product was tested by security experts
• We employ top security experts
• Who are you to criticize, anyway?
• This is probably fixed in the next release
• No one has complained before
• No one has ever found any problems
• It’s a feature our users want
• Let’s see you design something better
• You’re just looking for attention
• You must be being paid by our competition
• We’ve always done it this way
• Everybody does it this way
• We follow industry standard practices
• We think it is secure enough
• You’re being irresponsible
• If you hadn’t told anyone, it would still be secure
• La, la, la we’re not listening
• It’s secure enough for our customers
• We use crypto- graphy
• We read Schneier’s book
• What do you have against us?
• Why are you trying to harm our industry?
• It would be too expensive to fix that
• Our customers love our product
• We’re fully ISO-9001 compliant
• Nobody’s perfect