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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Network security sucks, and there's not much the school administration can do. Somebody who knows how will break in.
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ID can be hijacked, and cards can be faked. All of the 9/11 terrorists had fake IDs, yet they still got on the planes. If the British national ID card can't be faked, it will be the first on the planet.
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Looks like kindergarten cryptography to me. It will keep your kid sister out, but it won't keep the police out. But what do you expect from someone who is computer illiterate?
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Setting the default to dangerous doesn't work in any other industry.
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At best, you're going to slow them down - if you're lucky. Because what you see at stadiums is completely ineffective.
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The years of the military being at the leading edge of technology are gone because it moves so fast. In the real world, the rise of technology means that everyone has access to the exact same stuff. The limitations are basically just money. He (bin Laden) definitely has more money than the average terrorist.
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It's a great, powerful browser, and I don't need to look around for an alternative,
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It's a huge betrayal of the public trust, and they know it.
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It's the dominant operating system out there, so it's going to attract the attention. On the other hand, Windows has extremely sloppy security,
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They're saying, 'We use this impressive lock on our screen door. Nobody's going to pick it.' Instead, they're going to take a rock and scissors and cut out the screen,
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But with that connection comes new threats: malicious hackers, criminals, industrial spies. These network predators regularly steal corporate assets and intellectual property, cause service breaks and system failures, sully corporate brands, and frighten customers,
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I generally think the terrorists do something new each time. It is a big hole in the system.
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In New Orleans, the machines just crashed, ... They didn't work. And there was no backup planned; there were no paper ballots.
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We'd be crazy to assume that the bad guys aren't thinking of this.