Bruce Schneier
Bruce Schneier
Bruce Schneieris an American cryptographer, computer security and privacy specialist, and writer. He is the author of several books on general security topics, computer security and cryptography...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth15 January 1963
CountryUnited States of America
believe thug tsa
Why is it that we all - myself included - believe these stories? Why are we so quick to assume that the TSA is a bunch of jack-booted thugs, officious and arbitrary and drunk with power? It's because everything seems so arbitrary, because there's no accountability or transparency in the DHS.
simple surveillance metadata
Metadata equals surveillance; it's that simple.
lying law insecurity
Secret courts making secret rulings on secret laws, and companies flagrantly lying to consumers about the insecurity of their products and services, undermine the very foundations of our society.
house parks cameras
If the FBI parks a van bristling with cameras outside your house, you are justified in closing your blinds.
country media needs
But in this country, while you have to be competent to pull off a terrorist attack, you don't have to be competent to cause terror. All you need to do is start plotting an attack and - regardless of whether or not you have a viable plan, weapons or even the faintest clue - the media will aid you in terrorizing the entire population.
liberty privacy intrusion
Liberty requires security without intrusion, security plus privacy.
country way damage
Despite fearful rhetoric to the contrary, terrorism is not a transcendent threat. A terrorist attack cannot possibly destroy our country's way of life; it's only our reaction to that attack that can do that kind of damage.
thinking data information
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.
security-systems people world
A colleague once told me that the world was full of bad security systems designed by people who read Applied Cryptography
choices spy surveillance
Choosing providers is not a choice between surveillance/not; it's just choosing which feudal lord gets to spy on you.
government alliances surveillance
Corporate and government surveillance aren't separate; they're an alliance of interests.
winning mind terrorism
Terrorism is a crime against the mind. We win by refusing fear.
book watches example
Chaos is hard to create, even on the Internet. Here's an example. Go to Amazon.com. Buy a book without using SSL. Watch the total lack of chaos.
worry car domestic-violence
The very definition of news is something that hardly ever happens. If an incident is in the news, we shouldn't worry about it. It's when something is so common that its no longer news - car crashes, domestic violence - that we should worry.