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Отзыв о книге Брюса Шнайера «Liars and Outliers»
Примерно год назад (в августе 2012 года) в блоге Брюса Шнайера (Bruce Schneier) «Schneier on Security» появилось сообщение о том, что он рассылает некоторое количество экземпляров своей новой книги «Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive» [1] по сниженной цене (и с личной подписью) в обмен на публикацию отзыва об этой книге после прочтения. По причине того, что в последнее время переводы нехудожественных книг на русский язык достаточно посредственны, да и «специфические» книги переводятся у нас не очень скоро, уже несколько лет я стараюсь читать оригиналы книг (бумажные или электронные), изданных на английском языке. Данный блог (рассылку «Crypto-Gram») и предыдущие книги были мне интересны, поэтому учитывая то, что цена с учётом доставки, оказалась достаточно привлекательной (по сравнению с доставкой с Amazon, про цены на оригиналы на Озоне я даже не говорю), я заказал экземпляр у Брюса Шнайера. Благодаря нашей почте, книгу я получил только в начале ноября. Из-за проблем со свободным временем чтение и составление отзыва пришлось отложить на новогодние праздники, а затем и до отпуска. Несколько дней назад я прочитал книгу и теперь выполняю своё обещание. Приношу свои извинения Брюсу Шнайеру за столь длительную задержку…
Applied Cryptography Engineering
If you’re reading this, you’re probably a red-blooded American programmer with a simmering interest in cryptography. And my guess is your interest came from Bruce Schneier’s Applied Cryptography.
Applied Cryptography is a deservedly famous book that lies somewhere between survey, pop-sci advocacy, and almanac. It taught two generations of software developers everything they know about crypto. It’s literate, readable, and ambitious. What’s not to love?
Just this: as an instruction manual, Applied Cryptography is dreadful. Even Schneier seems to concede the point…
Book Review: Schneier on Security
I had long ago listened to Schneier on TED and his expose on the fallacy of airport security, and security in general. But this book made me realize his activism is not limited to airport security—he talks on a broad range of topics including the privacy, government transparency (where it kinda didn’t sit well with me) and his advocacy around the how bad a job the US government in general, and organizations such as FBI, CIA and TSA in specific with respect to protecting its citizens. Here I do want to make a point—while his concepts are certainly global, his inferences are time and again to the Americans—whether due to the fact that most of the readers would anyways be Americans, or he views the world as “Americans and others”, I am not sure. Overall it is a decent read, but if I were to summarize his points into few bullet points, they are as follows:…
Security Experts Bruce Schneier and Mikko Hypponen on the NSA, PRISM and Why We Should Be Worried
As Edward Snowden is linked to one country after the next, the media has its eye fixed on where he will next request asylum. (Today, it’s Russia.) Meanwhile, back at US headquarters, as NSA officials speak in a House Judiciary Committee hearing, the agency is still doing what it’s doing. To get more information on exactly what that means, the TED Blog wrote to two security experts, Bruce Schneier (watch his talk) and Mikko Hypponen (see his talk), to ask them about what it is we should be worried about. Turns out, pretty much everything.
For people who work in security, is the existence of PRISM surprising? Which aspects of it are routine or expected or even necessary, and which are genuinely dangerous?…
Secrets and Lies: Nine Years Later
UPDATE: Just found out that most of the book was actually copyright 2000, even more impressive!
I just finished reading Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World and wanted to write up some of my thoughts while it was still fresh in my mind. The book was published in early 2004, hundreds of years ago in tech-time. However I was really surprised at just how pertinent it still is.
This book was written before Stuxnet, before the PRISM scandal…heck, the book was written BEFORE FACEBOOK, yet after reading Secrets and Lies I feel like Bruce Schneier saw them coming from a decade away. Like a Digital Nostradamus…
Berkman Center Announces 2013-2014 Community
Excerpt
The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University today announced the fellows, faculty associates, and affiliates who will join the community in the 2013-2014 academic year, continuing a tradition of providing a home for some of the most incisive minds in law, technology, and social science, alongside path-breaking entrepreneurs and activists.
“Our incoming community is brimming with vision, talent, and a commitment to understand and drive change across the world, both online and off,” Urs Gasser, Berkman’s Executive Director, said. “With curiosity, rigor, and friendship, this network will explore and transform our collective knowledge, use, and governance of the Internet and digital technologies. We are privileged to bring these incredible people together at Berkman in the coming year.”…
The Security Processes
I have been reading Bruce Schneier’s Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World for some time now. Why it took me so long to finally read it, I don’t know – any security geek worth his salt needs the background this book provides. Granted, technology has changed and advanced since this book was first published in 2000, making some of the examples irrelevant in today’s environment, but the basics of security that they illustrate have not.
In Chapter 24, Mr. Schneier outlines and explains security processes in depth and states the obvious that most of us either never think about or take for granted:…
Bruce Schneier´s Liars & Outliers
We learn to trust strangers from a very young age. Not just uncles, cousins and neighbors, but also teachers, policemen, doctors and even newsreaders on TV. Compared to our ancestors and other animal species, humans have raised trust to unknown heights. Bruce Schneier, in his new book Liars & Outliers, takes us on a tour of how that trust came to be, how it manages to work in the majority of cases and why it doesn’t work in the rest.
Schneier uses Francis Fukuyama’s definition of trust, which holds that other members of society act in a predictable, honest and co-operative way, based on shared norms. This is enormously helpful for society as a whole, because there are costs and risks involved in dealing with others and establishing their trustworthiness. If society can organize itself so that we can safely trust other members, that saves us a lot of time and money…
Security guru: FBI Internet-Tapping Good for Criminals, Bad for Everyone Else
If you’re looking for more evidence that politicians don’t get technology, look no further than the FBI’s proposal to make Internet communications easier to wiretap. Specifically, the FBI wants to force companies to design their email, IM, VoIP, and other Internet-based communication products such that law-enforcement agents can eavesdrop on conversations—naturally, in the name of collecting evidence against evil-doers.
Although the plan reportedly has support from the Obama Administration, it doesn’t have the backing of a guy who knows a thing or two about security: …
Interview: "It's Pretty Much Impossible" To Protect Online Privacy
From online companies tracking users’ digital footprints to the trend for more and more data to be stored on cloud servers, Internet privacy seems like a thing of the past—if it ever existed at all. RFE/RL correspondent Deana Kjuka recently spoke about these issues with online security analyst Bruce Schneier, author of the book “Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust Society Needs to Survive.”
RFE/RL: It is no secret that online companies like Google, Facebook, and Twitter are tracking users’ digital footprints. How accurate are these online profiles? What are they used for, other than advertising?…
Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis.