Bruce Schneier
Essays and Op Eds
Forbes Columns
How To Not Catch Terrorists (Mar 26 2007)Why Vista's DRM Is Bad For You (Feb 12 2007)
Solving Identity Theft (Jan 22 2007)
They're Watching (Jan 8 2007)
Why Spam Won't Go Away (Dec 12 2006)
Did Your Vote Get Counted? (Nov 13 2006)
Casual Conversation, R.I.P. (Oct 18 2006)
Minneapolis Star Tribune Op Eds
Security at What Cost? (Feb 23 2008)Privatizing the Police Puts Us at Greater Risk (Feb 27 2007)
Focus on Terrorists, Not Tactics (Aug 13 2006)
We're Giving Up Privacy and Getting Little in Return (May 31 2006)
Your Vanishing Privacy (Mar 5 2006)
Unchecked Presidential Power (Dec 20 2005)
The Erosion of Freedom (Nov 21 2005)
Toward a Truly Safer Nation (Sep 11 2005)
How Long Can the Country Stay Scared? (Aug 27 2004)
Unchecked Police And Military Power Is A Security Threat (Jun 24 2004)
A National ID Card Wouldn't Make Us Safer (Apr 1 2004)
Better Get Used to Routine Loss of Personal Privacy (Dec 21 2003)
Wired News Columns
America's Dilemma: Close Security Holes, or Exploit Them Ourselves (May 1 2008)Prediction: RSA Conference Will Shrink Like a Punctured Balloon (Apr 17 2008)
The Difference Between Feeling and Reality in Security (Apr 3 2008)
Inside the Twisted Mind of the Security Professional (Mar 20 2008)
The Myth of the "Transparent Society" (Mar 6 2008)
When the Internet Is My Hard Drive, Should I Trust Third Parties? (Feb 21 2008)
With iPhone, "Security" Is Code for "Control" (Feb 7 2008)
What Our Top Spy Doesn't Get: Security and Privacy Aren't Opposites (Jan 24 2008)
Steal This Wi-Fi (Jan 10 2008)
Why "Anonymous" Data Sometimes Isn't (Dec 13 2007)
How Does Bruce Schneier Protect His Laptop Data? With His Fists — and PGP (Nov 29 2007)
Did NSA Put a Secret Backdoor in New Encryption Standard? (Nov 15 2007)
How We Won the War on Thai Chili Sauce (Nov 1 2007)
Economics, Not Apathy, Exposes Chemical Plants To Danger (Oct 18 2007)
Gathering "Storm" Superworm Poses Grave Threat to PC Nets (Oct 4 2007)
Lesson From Tor Hack: Anonymity and Privacy Aren't the Same (Sep 20 2007)
NBA Ref Scandal Warns of Single Points of Failure (Sep 6 2007)
Time to Close Gaps in Emergency Communications (Aug 23 2007)
Disaster Planning Is Critical, but Pick a Reasonable Disaster (Jul 26 2007)
The Evolutionary Brain Glitch That Makes Terrorism Fail (Jul 12 2007)
Strong Laws, Smart Tech Can Stop Abusive "Data Reuse" (Jun 28 2007)
Portrait of the Modern Terrorist as an Idiot (Jun 14 2007)
Don't Look a Leopard in the Eye, and Other Security Advice (May 31 2007)
Virginia Tech Lesson: Rare Risks Breed Irrational Responses (May 17 2007)
Do We Really Need a Security Industry? (May 3 2007)
How Security Companies Sucker Us With Lemons (Apr 19 2007)
Vigilantism Is a Poor Response to Cyberattack (Apr 5 2007)
Why the Human Brain Is a Poor Judge of Risk (Mar 22 2007)
The Problem With Copycat Cops (Mar 8 2007)
Why Smart Cops Do Dumb Things (Feb 22 2007)
An American Idol for Crypto Geeks (Feb 8 2007)
In Praise of Security Theater (Jan 25 2007)
Secure Passwords Keep You Safer (Jan 15 2007)
MySpace Passwords Aren't So Dumb (Dec 14 2006)
My Data, Your Machine (Nov 30 2006)
Vote Early, Vote Often (Nov 16 2006)
The Boarding Pass Brouhaha (Nov 2 2006)
The Architecture of Security (Oct 19 2006)
Why Everyone Must Be Screened (Oct 5 2006)
Lessons From the Facebook Riots (Sep 21 2006)
Quickest Patch Ever (Sep 7 2006)
Refuse to be Terrorized (Aug 24 2006)
Drugs: Sports' Prisoner's Dilemma (Aug 10 2006)
How Bot Those Nets? (Jul 27 2006)
Google's Click-Fraud Crackdown (Jul 13 2006)
It's the Economy, Stupid (Jun 29 2006)
The Scariest Terror Threat of All (Jun 15 2006)
Make Vendors Liable for Bugs (Jun 1 2006)
The Eternal Value of Privacy (May 18 2006)
Everyone Wants to "Own" Your PC (May 4 2006)
The Anti-ID-Theft Bill That Isn't (Apr 20 2006)
Why VOIP Needs Crypto (Apr 6 2006)
Let Computers Screen Air Baggage (Mar 23 2006)
Why Data Mining Won't Stop Terror (Mar 9 2006)
U.S. Ports Raise Proxy Problem (Feb 23 2006)
Fighting Fat-Wallet Syndrome (Feb 9 2006)
Big Risks Come in Small Packages (Jan 26 2006)
Anonymity Won't Kill the Internet (Jan 12 2006)
Hold the Photons! (Dec 15 2005)
Airline Security a Waste of Cash (Dec 1 2005)
Real Story of the Rogue Rootkit (Nov 17 2005)
Fatal Flaw Weakens RFID Passports (Nov 3 2005)
Sue Companies, Not Coders (Oct 20 2005)
A Real Remedy for Phishers (Oct 6 2005)
A Sci-Fi Future Awaits the Court (Sep 22 2005)
Terrorists Don't Do Movie Plots (Sep 8 2005)
America's Flimsy Fortress (Wired Magazine, Mar 2004)
Walls Don't Work in Cyberspace (Wired Magazine, Jun 2003)
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