News in the Category "Liars and Outliers"
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Nie Ma Działania Bez Zaufania
Bruce Schneier to jeden z najbardziej znanych na świecie ekspertów z zakresu kryptografii i bezpieczeństwa informacji. Jest autorem 11 książek oraz setek artykułów, jego blog „Schneier on Security” jest codziennie odwiedzany przez tysiące internautów. Bruce opublikował właśnie nową książkę pt. „Liars & Outliers: Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive”.
Tym razem nie jest to jednak typowa książka o bezpieczeństwie, czego można się było spodziewać znając poprzednią twórczość oraz zainteresowania Schneidera. Bruce na swoim blogu sam przyznał, że książka bardzo ewaluowała w trakcie pisania. Ostatecznie powstała wyjątkowa publikacja – książka o zaufaniu i jego wpływie na społeczeństwo w którym funkcjonujemy…
Book Review: Liars and Outliers
It is said that the song Wipe Out launched a generation of drummers. In the world of information security, the classic Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C by Bruce Schneier may have been the book that launched a generation of new cryptographers. Schneier’s latest work of art is Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive. For those that are looking for a follow-up to Applied Cryptography, this it is not. In fact, it is hard to classify this as an information security title and in fact the book is marked for the current affairs/sociology section. Whatever section this book ultimately falls in, the reader will find that Schneier is one of the most original thinkers around…
REVIEW: Bruce Schneier, Liars and Outliers: …
Chapter one is what would ordinarily constitute an introduction or preface to the book. Schneier states that the book is about trust: the trust that we need to operate as a society. In these terms, trust is the confidence we can have that other people will reliably behave in certain ways, and not in others. In any group, there is a desire in having people cooperate and act in the interest of all the members of the group. In all individuals, there is a possibility that they will defect and act against the interests of the group, either for their own competing interest, or simply in opposition to the group. (The author notes that defection is not always negative: positive social change is generally driven by defectors.) Actually, the text may be more about social engineering, because Schneier does a very comprehensive job of exploring how confident we can be about trust, and they ways we can increase (and sometimes inadvertently decrease) that reliability…
Bruce Schneier’s Liars and Outliers: How Do You Trust in a Networked World?
John Scalzi’s Big Idea introduces Bruce Schneier’s excellent new book Liars and Outliers, and interviews Schneier on the work that went into it. I read an early draft of the book and supplied a quote: “Brilliantly dissects, classifies, and orders the social dimension of security-a spectacularly palatable tonic against today’s incoherent and dangerous flailing in the face of threats from terrorism to financial fraud.” Now that the book is out, I heartily recommend it to you.
It’s all about trust, really. Not the intimate trust we have in our close friends and relatives, but the more impersonal trust we have in the various people and systems we interact with in society. I trust airline pilots, hotel clerks, ATMs, restaurant kitchens, and the company that built the computer I’m writing this short essay on. I trust that they have acted and will act in the ways I expect them to. This type of trust is more a matter of consistency or predictability than of intimacy…
Trust and Society: A Review of Liars & Outliers by Bruce Schneier
When I was asked to review this book I was very pleased as I was able to get away from my day job of researching and analyzing new malware and spam. I’m not a book reviewer but here’s what I thought of his book.
Bruce Schneier’s new book, Liars & Outliers, is subtitled “Enabling the trust that society needs to thrive”, and the word society’ is key here.
Unlike many of the books that Schneier has written, this is not a technical book but it does describe—clearly and concisely—the problems that we, the computer security professionals, provide technical solutions for…
Trust and Society
I used to think that Bruce Schneier was out of touch with industry CISOs, but now I think that they are out of touch with him. He’s come on tremendously in recent years. I saw him present to the United Nations last year and he was awesome, reflecting a lot of research and deep thinking about important issues such as trust, risk, surveillance and cyber warfare.
I shall be ordering a copy of his new book Liars and Outliers. It’s about trust, a subject I find both relevant and fascinating. Trust is a phenomenon that few security researchers seem to understand. The problem is that it’s a means to an end, and makes little sense when studied in isolation from its purpose…
Liars & Outliers, o cómo se articula la confianza
Liars & Outliers es el nuevo libro de Bruce Schneier que recibí hace unas semanas por cortesía de Wiley. Aunque el libro sale a la venta en los próximos días, ya se puede pedir en pre-order y ciertamente si ya han leído otros libros de Schneier, seguramente no se arrepentirán de buscar este Liars & outliers. Pero antes de que nadie se aburra, vamos con algo de chicha sobre el libro 🙂
Schneier, como es habitual, construye un ensayo sólido al que dota de un relato y un hilo conductor que te va desglosando en capítulos-píldora de unas 20 páginas. Por hacer un símil rápido, y salvando las (enormes) distancias, …
Liars and Outliers: Thoughts on Societal Trust in Bruce Schneier’s New Book
The subtitle of Liars and Outliers is “Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive,” and it’s a good explanation of the author’s direction. He looks at how trust mechanisms work, whether you’re ordering products online from people you’ve never met, or you’re paying a neighborhood kid to mow your lawn. In order for commerce to function, there must be a certain level of trust.
But how do we build these trust models? And what do we do when someone cheats us? Schneier labels those who don’t cooperate in society as ‘defectors’ because they go against the rules. Normally we might associate their behavior with lying, cheating, and stealing, but in Schneier’s model, defectors can play a role in changing societies that are unjust, such as with slavery or apartheid. I think this approach may confuse the issue somewhat, since the main point of the book is trust in a commercial sense—can you safely do business with this person or company?…
Why The Global System is Killing Trust
Trust is an essential building block of any economic and social system. Systems that attempt to operate without it inevitably fail. A loss of trust typically precedes a collapse in legitimacy.
That’s our future. Here’s why:
Let’s start with a philosopher “king” of crypt0-security, Bruce Schneier. He has a new book out called “Liars and Outliers.” The book is all about the mechanisms for building trust. There are four mechanisms:
- moral controls,
- reputational pressure (shame),
- institutional pressure (legal system), and
- security controls (encryption, locks, etc.)…
Book Review: Liars and Outliers
During the 2003 London march to protest the beginning of the Iraq war, we shuffled very, very slowly over a clogged Waterloo Bridge. Monitoring helicopters waggled overhead. I marvelled at living in a society where 2 million people could protest under the eye of police without fear—that the government went on to ignore those 2 million protesters is a different issue.
That is a demonstration of trust, the subject of Bruce Schneier’s latest book, Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive. Schneier is well known for his security books such as Applied Cryptography and Secrets and Lies. But, as he argues at the beginning of Liars and Outliers, if you do not understand how trust works you cannot make good decisions about security…
Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis.