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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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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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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A colleague once told me that the world was full of bad security systems designed by people who read Applied Cryptography
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History has taught us: never underestimate the amount of money, time, and effort someone will expend to thwart a security system. It's always better to assume the worst. Assume your adversaries are better than they are. Assume science and technology will soon be able to do things they cannot yet. Give yourself a margin for error. Give yourself more security than you need today. When the unexpected happens, you'll be glad you did.
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People often represent the weakest link in the security chain and are chronically responsible for the failure of security systems.
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We don?t have a field in the database system that will say you're an evildoer.
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Microsoft's operating system was never designed with security in mind. For Microsoft, security is always an afterthought.
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What will happen when the CFO looks at his premium and realizes that it will go down 50 percent if he gets rid of all his insecure Windows operating systems and replaces them with a secure version of Linux? The choice of which operating system to use will no longer be 100 percent technical, ... Microsoft, and other companies with shoddy security, will start losing sales because companies don't want to pay the insurance premiums.
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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.