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31 Oct 2008, 7:22 am
The annual demagoguing over sex offenders at Halloween is a classic example of what security expert Bruce Schneier calls "security theater," hyping (and pretending to solve) a threat that in reality is extremely remote, even to the point of diverting resources from policing activities like DWI enforcement that would protect more people and save more lives. [read post]
8 Jun 2010, 4:55 am
As security theorist Bruce Schneier wrote recently in a recent column for CNN:Pervasive security cameras don't substantially reduce crime. [read post]
11 Mar 2014, 8:00 am
In the Atlantic, Bruce Schneier analyzes the eroding distinction between peacetime cyber espionage and actual cyberattacks. [read post]
21 Feb 2015, 6:55 am
Bruce Schneier told us about the Equation Group—probably the NSA—and its ability to embed spyware deep inside targeted computers. [read post]
8 Aug 2014, 10:11 am
Bruce Schneier explains why the story is actually not as scary as it sounds. [read post]
5 Feb 2015, 11:30 am
Just after SecureDrop’s first deployment by the New Yorker, a team of cybersecurity experts led by Alexi Cxeskis—and which also included Bruce Schneier and Appelbaum himself—conducted a detailed security assessment of the system in August 2013. [read post]
11 Apr 2015, 5:57 am
Jack linked us to his review of Bruce Schneier’s new book, Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World. [read post]
8 Aug 2012, 3:19 pm
Even if this kind of thing did work reasonably well, as Bruce Schneier and others (me too) have pointed out, the inevitable false positives—like, let's say, flagging somebody for "lack of visible enjoyment" who turns out to have Parkinson's—make these systems pretty much useless by "ensuring that any real terrorists identified are lost in a sea of falsely accused innocents. [read post]
15 Feb 2014, 8:28 am
Jack flagged an intriguing analysis, by Bruce Schneier, of the public-versus-private-storage of metadata question. [read post]
15 Apr 2007, 11:37 am
This idea was proposed after 9/11 in Texas and rejected for very good reasons: Emergency plans benefit from public vetting and input, and those created in secret tend to ignore problems that would surface if exposed to the light of day before a catastrophic event.Computer security experts like Bruce Schneier preach incessantly that "open source" approaches - or making public security problems instead of concealing them - over time enhance security. [read post]
26 May 2015, 10:41 am
ICYMI: This Weekend, on Lawfare Bruce Schneier explained why the current debate regarding reform of Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act is actually not all that important. [read post]
22 Nov 2011, 12:58 pm
Security expert Bruce Schneier wrote then that “The Sony code modifies Windows so you can’t tell it’s there, a process called ‘cloaking’ in the hacker world. [read post]
18 Jun 2014, 8:31 am
Others who are reliable, like Bruce Schneier, are shifting to commercial products, despite the risks of unknown backdoors. [read post]
16 Jul 2011, 7:51 am
It's as if the court read the TSA's press releases and swallowed them whole.Much has been written by people with actual knowledge on the subject, like security expert Bruce Schneier, explaining at great length and in substantive detail why the TSA's initiatives do not serve legitimate purposes, do not make anyone safer and constitute security theater rather than actual security. [read post]
30 Oct 2012, 9:21 am
Create Policies and Processes to Protect the Client File (and All Your Data) Computer security specialist Bruce Schneier observed that "security is not a product, it's a process. [read post]
5 Apr 2007, 1:26 pm
Also on Wired today, Bruce Schneier's thesis on why vigilantism is a poor response to cyberattack. [read post]
20 Nov 2018, 11:15 am
Bruce Schneier erklärt die Unmöglichkeit von sicherem E-Voting: «This means no Internet voting. [read post]
7 Aug 2012, 12:12 pm
And the old paper-in-wallet trick, loved by security expert Bruce Schneier, works as well. [read post]
4 Sep 2013, 10:05 am
Bruce Schneier in The Atlantic writes on the need for an independent prosecutor to investigate the NSA surveillance programs. [read post]
16 Jan 2015, 11:15 am
Bruce Schneier argued that technological advances give us an opportunity for more openness and accountability in governance. [read post]
