Bruce Schneier, internationally renowned security expert and author, discusses his new book entitled, “Liars & Outliers: Enabling the Trust That Society Needs To Thrive.” Schneier starts the discussion by looking at society and trust and explains why he thinks the two are necessary for civilization. According to Schneier, two concepts contribute to a trustful society: first, humans are mostly moral; second, informal reputation systems incentivize trustworthy behavior. The discussion turns to technology and trust, and Schneier talks about how the information society yields greater consequences when trust is breached. He then describes how society deals with technology and trust and why he thinks the system is not perfect but working well overall…
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Audio: Layers of Security
How secure do you feel – on a personal level or even at a national level? Revealing the cracks in the systems is American cryptographer and security guru Bruce Schneier.
Audio: Liars and Outliers
Society runs on trust. We have no choice but to trust that the random people, institutions, and systems we interact with will cooperate and be trustworthy. Join Ben Merens and his guest Bruce Schneier as they discuss how security can protect us from defectors; and what enables us to trust strangers at the local, national, and global scale.
Audio: Dresser After Dark with Michael Dresser
Bruce Schneier discussed issues of trust on Dresser After Dark with host Michael Dresser.
Audio: Bruce Schneier on Liars and Outliers
Dennis Fisher talks with cryptographer and author Bruce Schneier about his new book, Liars and Outliers, the role of trust in society and security, the ways in which technology helps promote trust and how various groups and actors defect the norm and take advantage of that trust.
Audio: Bright Ideas with Bruce Schneier
Stephen Smith spoke with security expert Bruce Schneier about the importance of security in maintaining a flourishing society.
Audio: Interview: New Threats to the Internet Infrastructure
Jean Friedman interviewed Bruce Schneier about his talk at RSA 2012.
Audio: Guarding Without Guardians
Bruce Schneier is concerned that without trust, society itself may be impossible
Socrates famously asked if a person could lead a just life in an unjust society. A new book, Liars & Outliers, by Bruce Schneier doesn’t in so many words raise the question, Can a person lead a secure life in an insecure society? but it does answer it. There’s only so much we can do without there being a framework of trust: There have to be moral codes; peer pressures are needed; institutions have to have their own codes of conduct, and so on.
It’s hard to imagine such a book being written by anyone but Bruce Schneier, one of the world’s foremost authorities on security. He started out in cryptography and published some world-class algorithms, but he quickly came to realize that the mathematics was rarely the weak link in the security chain. His books, starting with the best-selling …
Audio: Ten Years Later, Are We Safer?
As the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks nears, many are asking if we’re safer now than we were before the attacks. Has heightened security and extra screening at the airport—including removing your shoes and belt—made you feel safer?
Host: Mark Trautwein
Guests:
- Barry Glassner, president of Lewis and Clark College and author of “The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things”
- Bruce Schneier, security technologist and author of “Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly About Security in an Uncertain World”
- Steve Weber, professor of political science at UC Berkeley and author of “The End of Arrogance: America in the Global Competition of Ideas”…
Audio: Scott Horton Interviews Bruce Schneier
Bruce Schneier discusses Joe Lieberman’s proposal for an internet “kill switch,” why shutting down the internet during a crisis would cause more harm than good, and how controversial websites like WikiLeaks use data redundancy spread out in different countries to prevent being shut down.
Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis.