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
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.
winning mind terrorism
Terrorism is a crime against the mind. We win by refusing fear.
airports weapons prison
We can't keep weapons out of prisons; we can't possibly expect to keep them out of airports.
house parks cameras
If the FBI parks a van bristling with cameras outside your house, you are justified in closing your blinds.
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.
water people trying
Trying to make bits uncopyable is like trying to make water not wet. The sooner people accept this, and build business models that take this into account, the sooner people will start making money again.
dream jobs smart
When a big company lays you off, they often give you a year's salary to 'go pursue a dream.' If you're stupid, you panic and get another job. If you're smart, you take the money and use the time to figure out what you want to do next.
government alliances surveillance
Corporate and government surveillance aren't separate; they're an alliance of interests.
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.
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
law needs mathematics
It is insufficient to protect ourselves with laws; we need to protect ourselves with mathematics.
may information cryptography
Cryptography products may be declared illegal, but the information will never be
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.
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.