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Review of Data and Goliath
During the Cold War, communist East Germany was perhaps the most spied-upon nation on earth, with one secret police informant for every 66 citizens.
Those were the good old days. In 21st-century America, we’ve got more informants than citizens, all of them digital. Our phones and computers incessantly rat us out, broadcasting our interests, friendships, and locations to governments and corporations alike, according to renowned cryptographer and Internet privacy advocate Bruce Schneier in his new book, “Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World.”…
All the Secret Ways You're Being Tracked That You Don't Even Realize
Your cellphone emits a signal that tags your location every minute of every day. Your Google search log records your private anxieties and interests. Your text messages and social media accounts capture every detail of your social life. Your store purchases produce records of your spending habits. Your photos are embedded with the date, time and location of the moment they were taken.
Everything you do and everywhere you go, you leave a trail of data that reveals intimate details of your life, and governments, corporations and hackers are keen on having more and more of it in their hands…
Expert Bruce Schneier: It’s Hard Not to Despair over the State of IT Security
The more things change the more they stay the same, goes an old saying. That certainly seems to be true in IT security.
Despite decades of experience almost every day there’s another story about a data breach, software vulnerability or new malware discovered.
So perhaps it’s no surprise that the 15th anniversary edition of veteran security expert Bruce Schneier’s book Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World begins with a foreword that admits how little things have changed since the book first came out in 2000.
Not, he said in an interview Monday, that there’s evidence the amount of malware itself has increased. But his arguments on the limits of cryptography, on authentication, threats and attacks haven’t changed. Nor in his prescription—vital to CEOs—that technology alone can’t secure the enterprise: There has to be defence in depth, and the organization has to be ready to respond to the inevitable intrusion…
Cyberattack Is Easier than Cyberdefence—Bruce Schneier
Cybersecurity guru Bruce Schneier to reveal lessons learned from the Sony hack scandal at the Gulf Information Security Expo and Conference (GISEC)
Cybercriminal attacks around the world will continue to rise as long as personal data provides the ability to commit fraud, and intellectual property is worth stealing, leaving both individuals and organisations vulnerable to harmful computer and network intrusions.
According to cybersecurity guru Bruce Schneier, one of the keynote speakers at Gulf Information Security Expo and Conference (GISEC), a cyberattack is much easier to implement than it is to install impenetrable cyberdefences.
The 3rd edition of GISEC, the region’s leading I.T. security platform, will take place from 26-28 April 2015 at Dubai World Trade Centre. The event will address key issues surrounding cybersecurity management, identity management and disaster recovery across different sectors…
Two Books Look at How Modern Technology Ruins Privacy
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“Even the East Germans couldn’t follow everybody all the time,” Bruce Schneier writes. “Now it’s easy.”
This may sound hyperbolic, but Schneier’s lucid and compelling Data and Goliath is free of the hysteria that often accompanies discussions about surveillance. Yes, our current location, purchases, reading history, driving speed and Internet use are being tracked and recorded. But Schneier’s book, which focuses mainly on the United States, is not a rant against the usual bad guys such as the U.S. government or Facebook. Schneier describes how our data is tracked by both corporate and government entities, often working together. And in many cases, the American people allow them to do it…
Verschlüsselungs-Experte Bruce Schneier "Dein Handy weiß alles über dich"
Sind Privatsphäre und Sicherheit wirklich ein Gegensatz? Bruce Schneier ist einer der bekanntesten Experten für Verschlüsselung. Er fordert, der Geheimdienst NSA solle zerschlagen werden.
Damit Bruce Schneier für einen kurzen Augenblick seine ruhige Art vergisst, reicht es aus, wie der Chef der zum Inlandsgeheimdienst gewandelten US-Bundespolizei FBI zu argumentieren. Etwa so: Haben Strafverfolgungsbehörden recht, wenn sie davor warnen, bald im Dunkeln zu tappen, weil sich Verbrecher immer stärker in den digitalen Raum verziehen? “Bullshit”, platzt Schneier in die Frage. “Das stimmt einfach nicht. Wenn man das FBI nach Beispielen fragt, werden sie plötzlich seltsam still. Wo sind denn all diese unaufgeklärten Verbrechen?” Noch nie sei es so einfach gewesen, Menschen auszuspionieren, sagt Schneier am Telefon: “Wir leben im Goldenen Zeitalter der Überwachung”…
Audio: ALP Supports Amended Version of Govt’s ISP Data Bill
Listen to the Audio on ABC.net.au
Transcript
MARK COLVIN: The ALP has agreed to support an amended version of the Government’s bill to force Internet Service Providers to keep their customers’ data for two years.
It’ll let government agencies see what we’ve all been doing on the phone or online.
Bipartisan support means the bill is likely to pass.
The bodies expected to get access range from various police and customs agencies to the Competition watchdog, the ACCC.
But there’s also a provision for the Attorney-General to let other agencies see your data at the stroke of a pen…
Security Guru Bruce Schneier: Your Privacy is Already Gone
In <cite>Data and Goliath</cite>, one of the world's foremost security experts piles on the evidence that privacy is dead -- and proposes a detailed plan to restore it
You can’t help but get a little depressed as you read Bruce Schneier’s latest book, “Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Capture Your Data and Control Your World.” It confirms over and over how all our supposed guaranteed personal privacy, digital or otherwise, is nothing but a façade. Here are some examples from the book:
- It doesn’t take much metadata to specifically identify and track anyone.
- “We kill people based on metadata.”—General Michael Hayden, former director of the NSA and the CIA
- The U.S. Post Office photographs (and keeps) the exterior back and front of every piece of mail sent in the United States, and this data is available to other agencies…
The Hard Questions
A mature democracy needs to carefully balance individual privacy, national security and business efficiency.
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New technologies are always a mixed blessing, their potential for good carrying with it the risk of evil. The deep challenge for a democracy is to develop legal rules, social practices and institutional arrangements that, at some reasonable cost, separate good from bad behavior. The exponential improvement in computation and communication technologies over the past few decades has posed this challenge in an acute form. Both large bureaucracies and determined individuals can now collect and organize huge amounts of information—and all of it,, in one sense or another, is about all of us…
Looking at the Promise and Perils of the Emerging Big Data Sector
Book Review of Data and Goliath by Bruce Schneier
There is a certain predictability to media and technology finance. Any company looking for money is inevitably characterized as similar to whatever has recently garnered the highest valuations.
For instance, when all of the software as a service (referred to in tech jargon as SaaS) companies traded in the public markets at 10 times revenue, other businesses looked desperately for something in their operations that could be tied, however tenuously, to SaaS.
The trouble with this approach is that bubbles tend to burst, as the SaaS one did last year. And once you have introduced yourself to investors—particularly in an initial public offering—it is hard to recharacterize your story later without losing all credibility…
Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis.