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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Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly About Security in an Uncertain World.
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We'd be crazy to assume that the bad guys aren't thinking of this.
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if anyone thinks they can get an accurate picture of anyplace on the planet by reading news reports, they're sadly mistaken.
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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.
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Don't make the mistake of thinking you're Facebook's customer, you're not – you're the product,
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If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology.
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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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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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Mark is one of the more respected people out there doing this kind of work,
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Using current mathematics and technology, it is impossible to even consider factoring a 1024-bit number. I'm not willing to make any hard predictions about tomorrow.
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We could ground all airplanes and not have any more airplane crashes, ... The key is whether the good uses of the Net outweigh the bad. Life is like that. You just have to take the good with the bad.
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What you and I are saying is much less important than the fact that you and I are talking. Against traffic analysis, encryption is irrelevant.
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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.