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What’s the Best Way to Use the Cloud to Store Personal Data?
Excerpt
Cloud storage can be a worrisome proposition, particularly as our digital archives grow. Should you back up everything to the cloud, or just some things? Is there data you shouldn’t store in the cloud? And which services should you trust?
No definitive blueprint exists for proper care of your archives, but there are a number of strategies to consider as digital security becomes more of a concern. The Wall Street Journal hosted an email conversation with three experts on cloud storage and the security and privacy issues around it: Alexis Hancock, a staff technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation; Ray Lucchesi, president and founder of Silverton Consulting, a storage consulting-services agency; and Bruce Schneier, a security technologist who lectures on public policy at Harvard Kennedy School. Edited excerpts follow…
Not Just about the Data
Cybersecurity expert Bruce Schneier explains why IoT is a new kind of threat
The Internet of Things (IoT) finds its way into your life slowly at first. An Alexa device in the kitchen is soon accompanied by a connected camera for your doorbell. Before you know it, you’re surrounded by gadgets made cheaply by companies that believe security is, at best, an afterthought.
The IoT is fraught with vulnerability issues, and hackers may enlist these devices as players in malicious botnets. That said, the IoT’s security problems are often overblown in the media. Every new technology has its stumbles, but those mistakes can be corrected. …
Audio: Bruce Schneier on How Insecure Electronic Voting Could Break the United States—and Surveillance Without Tyranny
Listen to the Audio or Read the Full Transcript on 80000Hours.com
Nobody is in favor of the power going down. Nobody is in favor of all cell phones not working. But an election? There are sides. Half of the country will want the result to stand and half the country will want the result overturned; they’ll decide on their course of action based on the result, not based on what’s right.
Bruce Schneier
November 3 2020, 10:32PM: CNN, NBC, and FOX report that Donald Trump has narrowly won Florida, and with it, re-election.
November 3 2020, 11:46PM:…
Video: "Click Here To Kill Everybody" Book Review by Cybersecurity Expert Scott Schober
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Forget the fact that this esteemed security expert is also a cryptographer and author of seminal cybersecurity books including Data and Goliath and Liars and Outliers…does Click Here to Kill Everybody live up to its own hype or is is just all theatrics?
Although I’ve never met Bruce Schneier, I can gather from his personality and the way my colleagues speak of him that he is the security expert’s expert. Up until June of this year, Bruce was the CTO for Resilient Systems, a private company that offered incident response solutions. Basically, IBM saw that they were doing good work cleaning up corporate security messes all over the infosec world and entered into an agreement with them not too long before acquiring them back in 2016. Schneier, their CTO had already made a name for himself as a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School and also as a burgeoning writer of many technical publications on cryptography and books on cybersecurity…
Cyber Canon Book Review: Click Here to Kill Everybody: Security and Survival in a Hyper-connected World
Bottom Line: I recommend this book for the Cybersecurity Canon Hall of Fame.
Review: Click Here to Kill Everybody: Security and Survival in a Hyper-connected World is Schneier’s best book to date. I recommend that every cybersecurity professional read it.
Schneier begins this book with the premise that everything is becoming a computer, and computers are increasingly connected to and affect one another in ways that provide exponential opportunities for personal convenience and market leverage. This dynamic also provides governments and militaries around the world with unique opportunities to gain advantage against their adversaries or potential adversaries…
Wanted: "Public-Interest Technologists" to Inform Raging Debates on Cybersecurity Policy
LAS VEGAS. Technologists are the missing voice in cyber policy debates on issues ranging from encryption to supply-chain security, says Bruce Schneier of Harvard Law’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, who made several presentations here calling for development of a robust “public- interest technologist” community to help shape laws and rules for this technology century.
As an example, he pointed to a “25-year debate on ‘going dark,’” or whether government should be able to access encrypted communications, and said, “It’s a scare term. We’ll never get the policy right if the policy makers get the technology wrong.”…
Book Review: Data and Goliath
After sitting in my reading list for years, I finally got to read “Data and Goliath” by Bruce Schneier. Overall, this book is as well written as all of Schneier’s books, and is just as scientifically accurate (to the best that I could tell). However, whoever the audience for his book is, they may find it missing essential parts that make it not just a pleasant read, but also a useful one.
This book is written so clearly that reading it will flow well for security professionals and the general public alike. I recommended it to a few acquaintances who are not security savvy nor even technologists, but who should know more about the information exchange ecosystem that they fuel with their personal data…
"Tu Coche Ya Está Conectado a Internet y Ahora Cualquiera Puede Usarlo para Matarte"
“¿Alarmista? ¡Qué va! Es un gran título, estoy orgulloso de él. Recuerda: los títulos están para vender libros”. Bruce Schneier suelta una carcajada recostado en el sofá de su casa en Minneapolis (Minesota), donde vive desde hace años. En realidad tendría que estar en Madrid con motivo de la publicación en castellano de su último libro, ‘Haz clic aquí para matarlos a todos” (Ed. Temas de Hoy – Planeta), pero al final el café se ha quedado en videollamada. Criptógrafo, profesor en Harvard y uno de los expertos en ciberseguridad más renombrados a nivel mundial…
Click Here to Kill Everybody: A Review
This week I read Click Here to Kill Everybody, a book that is at the same time worrying and encouraging. A security nightmare is waiting to happen, but there is still time to save the world. Yeah, the book is a tad dramatic, but generally a great read that I can recommend.
More and more devices are connected to the internet, and it is not just traditional devices with browsers, like desktop computers, laptops, tablets and smartphones. It’s also things like washing machines and fridges. Even in mission critical things like thermostats, pacemakers and nucleair power plants. We, humans, are in the middle of this new world: we give input to and accept output from our devices. In his book …
Bruce Schneier Is Leaving IBM
Bruce Schneier announced in a blog post that his three-year stint at IBM is officially over:
“Today is my last day at IBM.
If you’ve been following along, IBM bought my startup Resilient Systems in Spring 2016. Since then, I have been with IBM, holding the nicely ambiguous title of ‘Special Advisor.’ As of the end of the month, I will be back on my own.
I will continue to write and speak, and do the occasional consulting job. I will continue to teach at the Harvard Kennedy School. I will continue to serve on boards for organizations I believe in….”…
Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis.