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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Air travel survived decades of terrorism, including attacks which resulted in the deaths of everyone on the plane. It survived 9/11. It'll survive the next successful attack. The only real worry is that we'll scare ourselves into making air travel so onerous that we won't fly anymore.
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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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In my back pocket I have a way to break the system, but I can't publish it until I know I'm right.
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Everyone else is just as bad. I think if you gave that same grading to corporate America, you'd see all the Fs also.
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The administration is deliberately choosing a less secure technology without justification. If there were a good reason to choose that technology, then it might make sense. But there isn't.
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I'm worried about data leakage. It's frustrating because I want to use a good desktop search program.
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I'm worried about data leakage, ... It's frustrating because I want to use a good desktop search program.
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It's certainly feasible, but it's my guess it's not economic, ... My guess is it is cheaper for the airline to absorb this loss, which doesn't happen often, than to fix the problem.
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Anytime you see Microsoft doing stuff for security, it's good, it's important.
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We all think of the movie scenarios - the kinds of things that we would expect to see in a movie plot. Terrorists sneaking a bomb into the Super Bowl, for example. The problem is, terrorists don't care. They don't care whether it's a football game or an airport or a restaurant or a movie theater. It doesn't matter to them.
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Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly About Security in an Uncertain World.
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You have to make the entity in the position to solve the problem, responsible for the problem. Otherwise, it doesn't get solved.
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There's one important aspect of this fingerprint that the article did not talk about: how easy is it to forge? Can someone analyze 100 images from a given camera, and then doctor a pre-existing picture so that it appeared to come from that camera?
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The way to fix this is we need a better ability to know where to look. It's the drinking out of the fire hose problem. Turning up the fire hose isn't going to help.