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David and Goliath: What Do We Do about Surveillance?
From spyware designed to catch students misbehaving to police tracking rioters by phone, we are spied on as never before, reveals a book by Bruce Schneier
“DEAR subscriber, you have been registered as a participant in a mass disturbance.” This text was sent by the Ukrainian government last year to everyone with a cellphone known to have been near a protest in the capital, Kiev.
Just what you’d expect from an ex-Soviet country? Not so fast. In the US and Europe, police are also seeking information on phones linked to specific places and times—and always without a warrant. We’re all spied on. Our phones are bugged, our laptops inveterate informants. Reports on activities that define you—where you go, who you meet, what you buy—are sold to the highest bidder. But do we notice? And do we care?…
Bruce Schneier Talks Privacy, Politics, Books and More
As author of a dozen books plus hundreds of shorter works on security and privacy, security technologist Bruce Schneier, Chief Technology Officer of Resilient Systems, is one of the better known—and frequently quoted—experts in these areas. His "Schneier on Security" blog and Crypto-Gram monthly newsletter are read by an estimated quarter-million people. You can follow him on Twitter @schneierblog.
Schneier’s most recent book—a New York Times bestseller—is "Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World", which, Schneier said in his blog, "is a book about surveillance, both government and corporate. It’s an exploration in three parts: what’s happening, why it matters, and what to do about it."…
The Essential Guide To Digital Life: Bruce Schneier’s Data And Goliath
If you’d asked me a year ago, ‘do you worry about government surveillance?’, I would have said no. But today, my answer would be an empathic YES.
The scary part is that, like most Canadians, I hadn’t worried about that kind of surveillance until the current debate around C-51. (If you don’t know what that is, check it out here.) This terrifying bill would, among many other things, make it illegal to talk positively of terrorism on the internet. Just look at the news in Canada on any day lately, and you’ll see a report or an opinion on it. I personally like …
Wanted: Slingshots
Bruce Schneier has built a career explaining the principles of security in plain English, helping the uninitiated to think clearly and critically about managing risk, and exposing the nonsense peddled by government spokesmen and high-tech hucksters. He is at once a great popularizer and a great debunker.
Schneier’s new book, Data and Goliath, examines the prevalence, mechanisms, uses, and dangers of mass surveillance.
This book scared the hell out of me.
That doesn’t happen very often. Having spent 20 years writing about political repression, police brutality, counterinsurgency, and torture, I’ve come to expect the worst as a matter of habit. Schneier’s book, however, shows that the present state of mass surveillance—its scale, intrusiveness, and implications—surpasses what I could have imagined. It was not the big stuff, like the National Security Agency’s goal of total global omniscience (epitomized in the slogan ‘Collect it all’), but the smaller details that gave me chills. ‘It’s less Big Brother,’ Schneier writes, ‘and more hundreds of tattletale little brothers.’…
"We the People Have a Lot of Work to Do" Says Schneier in a Must-Read Book on Security and Privacy
“The surveillance society snuck up on us,” says Bruce Schneier in Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Capture Your Data and Control Your World. It’s a thought-provoking, absorbing, and comprehensive guide to our new big data world. Most important, it’s a call for a serious discussion and urgent action to stop the harms caused by the mass collection and mining of data by governments and corporations. To paraphrase Schneier’s position on anonymity—we either need to develop more robust techniques for preserving our freedom, or give up on the idea entirely…
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
Excerpt
“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…
Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis.