Schneier on Security

Bruce Schneier is a legendary figure in the security community, well-known for his expertise in cryptography and more recently for his insight into the surveillance activities of the National Security Agency (NSA). Schneier currently serves as the CTO of incident response management vendor Co3 Systems. In an interview with eWEEK at the RSA conference here, Schneier detailed his views on the NSA’s surveillance activities. When it comes to domestic surveillance and metadata collection, Schneier firmly believes that the Federal Bureau of Investigation is the right agency to handle that data. He noted that the FBI already has domestic security capabilities and is responsible for the national fingerprint database. “The FBI is where we have laws and we have transparency,” Schneier said. “Spying on Americans is not the job of the U.S. military; it’s the job of the FBI.”Schneier added that anything that involves actually breaking into networks should fall under a military command. In his view, the NSA should be focused on defense and communication security, making software and networks more secure…

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Security expert Bruce Schnier comments on U.S. President Barack Obama’s proposed changes to surveillance programs.

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Renowned security expert Bruce Schneier talks with Eben Moglen about what we can learn from the Snowden documents, the NSA’s efforts to weaken global cryptography, and how we can keep our own free software tools from being subverted.

Snowden, the NSA, and Free Software

Since Edward Snowden’s disclosures about widespread NSA surveillance, Americans and people everywhere have been presented with a digital variation on an old analog threat: the erosion of freedoms and privacy in exchange, presumably, for safety and security.

Bruce Schneier knows the debate well. He’s an expert in cryptography and he wrote the book on computer security; Applied Cryptography is one of the field’s basic resources, "the book the NSA never wanted to be published," raved Wired in 1994. He knows the evidence well too: lately he’s been helping the …

Following the row over claims German chancellor Angela Merkel’s phone was hacked by the US, Channel 4 News speaks to security expert Bruce Schneier and asks if the NSA has gone too far.

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International cyber security expert, Bruce Schneier weighs in on the U.S recent spying scandal.

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Rumours of the NSA hacking Angela Merkel’s encrypted phone have got the world wondering how it would even be possible.

Becky Anderson talks to security technologist Bruce Schneier about protecting phones from infiltration by third parties and how the German Chancellor’s phone may have been vulnerable.

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The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) interviewed Bruce Schneier on the following questions:

1. Do you think India needs privacy legislation? Why/ Why not?

2. The majority of India’s population lives below the line of poverty and barely has any Internet access. Is surveillance an elitist issue or should it concern the entire population in the country? Why/ Why not?

3. “I’m not a terrorist and I have nothing to hide…and thus surveillance can’t affect me personally.” Please comment.

4. Can free speech and privacy co-exist? What is the balance between privacy and freedom of expression?…