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Data Privacy, One of These Days
For some odd reason, data privacy maven Bruce Schneier is an optimist. It’s odd because, according to Schneier, there’s practically no such thing as data privacy. Just about everything we do these days is under some form of electronic surveillance, with governments and corporations eager to record and analyze our every action.
But when Schneier holds forth on Friday at Harvard University, as part of the ongoing HUBweek festivities, he’ll reassure his listeners that the cause is not lost, that our online privacy will someday be ensured. Just give it a decade or two…
Video: Adam Ruins Security
Bruce Schneier appeared on an episode of truTV’s “Adam Ruins Everything.”
Read: Data and Goliath
This just happened. Oops.
If you read this book I want you to focus on the pickle. It’s a book about big data, surveillance and freedom vs convenience, but I want you thinking like this book is one of those MASSIVE corned beef sandwiches you get in New York. You know the ones where the slices of bread look like postage stamps under a virtual mountain of charred, savory flesh. The sandwich is the key but the pickle should not ever be forgotten because often times is the last thing you taste. Bruce Schneier’s book on big data is something that EVERY American over the age of, well, reading age, should read. Will they? No. Why? Because for some reason many Americans don’t seem to care about much of this. At least until something happens to them, at which time they turn around and try to explain what happened to an audience who…just…doesn’t…care. I did my own little …
Q&A with Bruce Schneier: What if Your Law Firm Is the Next Ashley Madison?
If the subject is security, chances are Bruce Schneier has an opinion on it, and that opinion has been published somewhere—on his blog, in the New York Times, on the BBC, in the Guardian, in Wired, in one of his 13 books. You get the point. On security, Schneier is among the most well-known and most prolific authorities in the world. Since coming to prominence in the mid-90s through his writings on cryptography, he has testified on the floor of Congress, served on several government committees, coined the term ‘security theater’ in the wake of 9/11, and hooked a global following of some quarter-million readers through his website and …
Data and Goliath by Bruce Schneier (Book Review)
Excerpt
Data and Goliath is a fascinating exploration of this post-Snowden world we live in. It shows how the back-doors that technology companies were forced to implement for the NSA, have actually become weapons for other agencies and hackers to use. We’re taken through the murky world of international espionage, and shown how we have all become collateral damage in this digital arms race. Schneier also explains that even when we try to protect ourselves by leaving Facebook or Gmail, the fact that our friends and relatives still use them means we’re caught up in this global informational dragnet…
Audio: Security and Privacy with Bruce Schneier
Listen to the Audio on SoftwareEngineeringDaily.com
“What we learn again and again is that security is less about what you think of, and more about what you didn’t think of.”
Questions
- In Data and Goliath, what are the motives of different goliaths?
- Why is the Ashley Madison case a watershed moment in security?
- Do you still feel we should break up the NSA?
- Will Google and Amazon become military contractors?
- How can we defend ourselves from DOS attacks from refrigerators?
- When we put processors in refrigerators, and cars, and thermostats, are we increasing the attack surface, and our vulnerabilities faster than we are improving our utility?…
Internet das Coisas Poderá Criar Caos Em Segurança Digital, Diz Especialista
Um hacker pode invadir uma smarTV, uma geladeira com internet ou outro tipo de produto da chamada “internet das coisas” e, uma vez com acesso, roubar informações de um computador ou de um celular que estiverem conectados à mesma rede. E, por causa da propagação desse tipo de aparelho, nossa segurança digital pode ficar (ainda) mais vulnerável a criminosos.
Essa é a visão de Bruce Schneier, considerado por alguns o maior especialista em segurança na internet no mundo, que vem ao Brasil nesta semana para falar durante um evento de tecnologia, o Mind the Sec…
"A Lot of Attacks from Western Countries Go through China," Says Bruce Schneier
The attack on Sony Pictures over the film The Interview was perpetrated by North Korea, according to security expert Bruce Schneier.
The former chief technology officer of BT Managed Security Solutions, now CTO at Resilient Systems, had expressed scepticism at the time of the attack that the secretive dictatorship had been behind the attack, motivated by the theme of the film: two hapless American agents who were supposed to assassinate the country’s leader, Kim Jong-un.
But in a video keynote speech at LinuxCon 2015, Schneier claimed that he had changed his mind. “Many of us, including myself, were skeptical for several months. By now it does seem obvious that it was North Korea, as amazing as that sounds,” he said…
Bruce Schneier: The Cyberwar Arms Race Is On
Security expert says we're in a cyberwar arms race, and with the Sony attack, North Korea has already taken the first shot at the United States.
LinuxCon is about Linux, cloud, and containers, but it’s also about security. In the past year, programmers have been reminded that merely being “open-source” doesn’t mean that your code is safe. Assuming you’re secure is a mistake. Because, as security maven Bruce Schneier explained to the LinuxCon audience via Google Hangouts, we’re in a cyber-arms race.
In particular Schneier focused on last fall’s Sony cyber attack. At the time, Schneier said that when the FBI said North Korea was behind the attack, he didn’t believe them. Now, he does.
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Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis.