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
worry people news
I tell people if it's in the news don't worry about it. Because by definition news is something that almost never happens.
water digital made
Digital files cannot be made uncopyable, any more than water can be made not wet.
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.
law needs mathematics
It is insufficient to protect ourselves with laws; we need to protect ourselves with mathematics.
war fighting interesting
It is sort of interesting that in our society this days we are very quick to apply the term 'war' to places where thare are no actual wars, and loath to apply the term 'war' when we are actually fighting wars.
abuse important surveillance
Surveillance of power is one of the most important ways to ensure that power does not abuse its status. But, of course, power does not like to be watched.
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.
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.
real writing scare
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.
strong design together
The mantra of any good security engineer is: 'Security is a not a product, but a process.' It's more than designing strong cryptography into a system; it's designing the entire system such that all security measures, including cryptography, work together.
generally hole terrorists
I generally think the terrorists do something new each time. It is a big hole in the system.
slow stadiums
At best, you're going to slow them down - if you're lucky. Because what you see at stadiums is completely ineffective.
protection sounds
Sounds like a protection racket, doesn't it? ... It is a protection racket.