Bruce Schneier
At CFP Open panel on Net Freedom, photo by sfllaw (1 May 2007)
Born: 15 January 1963, New York City
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- Attackers exploit the rarity of failures. permalink
Bruce Schneier - Beyond Fear (2003) - Beware the Four Horsemen of the Information Apocalypse: terrorists, drug dealers, kidnappers, and child pornographers. Seems like you can scare any public into allowing the government to do anything with those four. permalink
Bruce Schneier - Schneier on Security blog (16 December 2005) - Chaos is hard to create, even on the Internet. Here's an example. Go to Amazon.com. Buy a book without using SSL. Watch the total lack of chaos. permalink
Bruce Schneier - Did you ever wonder why tweezers were confiscated at security checkpoints, but matches and cigarette lighters — actual combustible materials — were not?... If the tweezers lobby had more power, I'm sure they would have been allowed on board as well. permalink
Bruce Schneier - Beyond Fear (2003) - Digital files cannot be made uncopyable, any more than water can be made not wet. permalink
Bruce Schneier - "The Futility of Digital Copy Prevention" in Cryptogram newsletter (15 May 2001) - Homeland security measures are an enormous waste of money. permalink
Bruce Schneier - Beyond Fear (2003) - If the goal of security is to protect against yesterday's attacks, we're really good at it. permalink
Bruce Schneier - Beyond Fear (2003) - It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state. permalink
Bruce Schneier - Secrets and Lies (2000) - More people are killed every year by pigs than by sharks, which shows you how good we are at evaluating risk. permalink
Bruce Schneier - Beyond Fear (2003) - Only amateurs attack machines; professionals target people. permalink
Bruce Schneier - "Semantic Attacks: The Third Wave of Network Attacks" in Cryptogram newsletter (16 December 2000) - People make bad security trade-offs when they're scared. permalink
Bruce Schneier - Beyond Fear (2003) - The point of terrorism is to cause terror, sometimes to further a political goal and sometimes out of sheer hatred. The people terrorists kill are not the targets; they are collateral damage. And blowing up planes, trains, markets or buses is not the goal; those are just tactics. 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. permalink
Bruce Schneier - "Refuse to be Terrorized" in Wired (24 August 2006) - The system didn't fail in the way the designers expected. permalink
Bruce Schneier - Beyond Fear (2003) - There are two kinds of cryptography in this world: cryptography that will stop your kid sister from reading your files, and cryptography that will stop major governments from reading your files. permalink
Bruce Schneier - Applied Cryptography 2nd edition Source Code in C (1996) - We can't keep weapons out of prisons; we can't possibly expect to keep them out of airports. permalink
Bruce Schneier - "Prison Shivs" in Cryptogram newsletter (15 May 2005)
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