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
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If someone steals your password, you can change it. But if someone steals your thumbprint, you can't get a new thumb. The failure modes are very different.
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Privacy is an inherent human right, and a requirement for maintaining the human condition with dignity and respect.
ideas remember easy
The whole notion of passwords is based on an oxymoron. The idea is to have a random string that is easy to remember. Unfortunately, if it's easy to remember, it's something nonrandom like 'Susan.' And if it's random, like 'r7U2*Qnp,' then it's not easy to remember.
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Security is a process, not a product.
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Anyone, from the most clueless amateur to the best cryptographer, can create an algorithm that he himself can't break.
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The real targets of terrorism are the rest of us: the billions of us who are not killed but are terrorized because of the killing. The real point of terrorism is not the act itself, but our reaction to the act. And we're doing exactly what the terrorists want [...] Our politicians help the terrorists every time they use fear as a campaign tactic. The press helps every time it writes scare stories about the plot and the threat. And if we're terrified, and we share that fear, we help.
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The more technological a society is, the greater the security gap is.
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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.
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The fundamental driver in computer security, in all of the computer industry, is economics. That requires a lot of re-education for us security geeks.
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No one can duplicate the confidence that RSA offers after 20 years of cryptanalytic review.
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It's frustrating; terrorism is rare and largely ineffectual, yet we regularly magnify the effects of both their successes and failures by terrorizing ourselves.
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The user's going to pick dancing pigs over security every time.
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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.
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There are two kinds of cryptography in this world: cryptography that will stop your kid sister from reading your files, and cryptography that will stop major governments from reading your files.