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Now We Must 'Pledge Allegiance' To Apple Or Google To Stay Safe
As we all buy smartphones and use the cloud, we are doing something that’s never been done before: trusting a few big IT companies with our lives. That’s not necessarily in our best interest, but we have no choice.
So says world-famous security expert Bruce Schneier.
Schneier’s latest book, “Liars and Outliers,” looks at the psychology needed to keep humans safe.
Business Insider talked with Schneier and heard his thoughts. He told us:
Security in Perspective: Liars and Outliers
Most of us experience “security” from one of two vantage points: as the threatened or as the threat. The power held over us by those who peddle, prescribe, and implement security can be—let’s just say it can chafe a bit. Bruce Schneier is known for lampooning the wasteful and invasive security measures in our airports, warning of the dangers posed by unchecked surveillance, and blogging about squids. In Liars and Outliers, though, he offers a paradigm that could (should) transform how we view security.
The core idea is that societies require trust to function. Societies exert various kinds of forces—moral, reputational, institutional, and security—on their members to encourage behavior that induces trust and trustworthiness. Most often, security becomes necessary as societies grow too large for the other mechanisms to be effective. So the ultimate goal of security is to increase trust, and it does so not on its own but as a supplement to these other mechanisms…
Liars & Outliers
I’ve been a Bruce Schneier fan for years. I read his blog often enough that I don’t feel the need to read his books. But then he offered a discount on a signed edition of his latest book– with the one stipulation that I write a review of it. So here’s the review.
A lot of brilliant thinkers tend to get stuck in their own perspective. There are plenty of mathematical geniuses who can’t contemplate the implications of their ideas. Plenty of programmers who can’t understand why users don’t recognize the brilliance of their user interfaces. Bruce Schneier isn’t one of them. His rose to fame with …
Obligatorisk Læsning
Jeg har lige lagt Bruce Schneiers “Liars and Outliers” fra mig og det bliver ikke nemt at gøre den retfærdighed i en boganmeldelse.
De fleste af jer har aldrig hørt om Bruce Schneier før, men blandt IT folk er han et idol, hvis bøger om kryptografi er obligatoriske klassikere i branchen.
Denne gang har han skrevet en bog om sikkerhed der ikke handler om computere og faktisk kun halvvejs handler om sikkerhed.
Bogen er i bund og grund en analyse af hvordan mennesker omgås hinanden, hverken mere eller mindre, men det er ikke nogen særlig hjælpsom opsummering, for det dækker alt fra affaldshåndtering over skattelovgivning til computersikkerhed…
De la Confianza
Bruce Schneier, Liars & Outliers: Enabling the Trust That Society Needs to Thrive. (Mentirosos y excéntricos. Haciendo posible la confianza que la sociedad necesita para prosperar.) John Wiley & Sons Inc., Indianapolis, USA, 2012. 366 páginas.
Desde que en un giro más o menos calculado a mi retorcida trayectoria profesional (sobre la que prefiero no entrar en este blog) presté más atención a la hirsuta disciplina de la seguridad informática, sigo con interés las opiniones de Bruce Schneier, una eminencia en el área. Me gusta sobre todo su franqueza a la hora de distinguir entre las políticas y medidas que realmente aumentan la seguridad con las que, frecuentemente mucho más costosas, tan sólo son una exhibición de cara a la galería. Un ejemplo notorio, las medidas que las histéricas democracias occidentales infligen a su población con la excusa del terrorismo: desproporcionadas, caras, molestas y muy poco efectivas, consistiendo más bien en un …
Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive
Full disclosure: I’m a pretty big Bruce Schneier fan and I did get this book at a discount for promising to review it. This is me fulfilling my end of the promise.
Schneier is a security guy. Not this kind, more about security in technology. He’ll be the first to point out your security flaws, tell you how terrible your password is, and publicize a companies mishandling of said password. This book is different. It’s a lot less about technology and security and more about the psychology of trust in humans. (Don’t worry, there’s still some TSA bashing on pg. 197)…
To Endow Trust
Liars and Outliers Enabling the Trust That Society Needs to Thrive by Bruce Schneier Wiley, Indianapolis, IN, 2012. 382 pp. $24.95, C$27.95. ISBN 9781118143308.
When the extent of the financial crisis came to light in 2008, former chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan had to admit to Congress that he had “made a mistake in presuming that the self interest of organizations was such that they were best capable of protecting their own shareholders and the equity in the firms”—a mistake that turned out to be very costly, and not only to the American economy. It might be unfair to blame Greenspan for his misperception of the self-interest of organizations. Until very recently, there was no way for someone to objectively and impartially measure the nature of human social behavior. From Aristotle to George W. Bush, decisions have been made based on personal beliefs about how selfishly or cooperatively other people will act…
Stick Punters' Mugs on E-banking Pages, That'll End Fraud – Schneier
Crypto guru urges creative thinking from security pros
Cryptography guru Bruce Schneier called for more creative thinking and a broader perspective as a means to tackle security problems.
For example, the music industry, faced with an explosion in online file-sharing, hired security pros to develop anti-piracy measures, such as digital rights management technology. But these inconvenienced punters while doing little or nothing to stem copyright infringement. A better approach was making songs affordable and easy to buy, a model that has since lined Apple’s deep pockets.
“This [the latter approach] is not something a security person would think up,” Schneier said at the RSA Europe conference. “Security professionals would be too focused on building a better door lock.”…
RSA Conference: Governments Trying to "Seize Control" of the Internet
A famed computer security expert believes governments are trying to seize control of the internet, but will fail in the long term to reach that goal.
Bruce Schneier, BT’s chief technology officer and author of several important books on security, said that governments that didn’t understand the internet were trying to take control of it. He looked at US proposals of creating an ‘internet kill-switch’, claiming that policy makers were crazy to even think of a single mechanism to shut-off all internet traffic.
He said: “You see these types of government proposals, and they come from law enforcement, lobbyists or the military, and we’re going to see more of those. Short-term we’re going to see a bunch of years where governments are going to seize more control over this dangerous ‘anarchistic net’ and rein it back in.”…
RSA London 2012: Governments Will Fail in Bid to Control Internet, claims Bruce Schneier
The world’s governments are destined to fail in their attempts to control the internet, according to BT security expert Bruce Schneier.
Schneier claimed that the internet is currently going through a dark period, with legislators creating ill-conceived cyber policies that are damaging rather than helping online developments.
“Governments are starting to use it [the internet] for power,” said Schneier at a press conference in London.
“We’re hitting a period in internet history where governments are seizing more control; one where governments that don’t understand the internet are trying to interfere with it.”…
Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis.