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Book Review: Data and Goliath, by Bruce Schneier
This book has been difficult to review. It has proved tricky not because I didn’t enjoy the book or because it was boring or badly written, but because it was so pertinent. Every time I went to write about it, a news story would emerge referencing the subject and I would find that my opinions of the news were influenced by the book and my opinions of the book were influenced by the news. This is an important topic and everyone should make up their own minds based on a decent knowledge and understanding of the issues. This book provides an excellent basis for a discriminating reader to do just that (as such, you should probably stop reading this review and just buy the book!)…
Book Review: Data and Goliath—You Don’t Have Any Secrets Anymore
Privacy is becoming an antiquated concept. In “Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World” (ISBN: 9780393244816), security expert Bruce Schneier leads you through a labyrinth of surveillance that should scare the hell out of you.
Welcome to the NSA! We want to thank you for helping us with our collection of data about your work and personal habits. By using the computer, phone, public transportation, private vehicle, credit cards, library, banking systems, online shopping, or retail shopping, you are contributing to our data files. Wait, did we say files? We meant mega-warehouse. Either way, we here at the National Security Agency are pleased to get to know you…
Audio: Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Capture Your Data and Control Your World
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Cris Sheridan welcomes Bruce Schneier, Chief Technology Officer at Resilient Systems and author of Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World. Bruce writes “we are living in the golden age of surveillance” where almost everything we do is now being tracked and used without our knowledge. Bruce speaks with Cris about how much data we produce, the way corporations are using it, the problems associated with ubiquitous surveillance, and why this is a defining issue of our time…
Audio: Schneier v. Baker Puts Mayweather v. Pacquiao in the Shade
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Episode 65 would be ugly if it weren’t so much fun. Our guest is Bruce Schneier, cryptographer, computer science and privacy guru, and author of the best-selling Data and Goliath—a book I annotated every few pages of with the words, “Bruce, you can’t possibly really believe this.” And that’s pretty much how the interview goes, as Bruce and I mix it up over hackbacks, whether everyone but government should be allowed to use Big Data tools, Edward Snowden, whether “mass surveillance” has value in fighting terrorism, and whether damaging cyberattacks are really infrequent and hard to attribute. We disagree mightily—and with civility…
Review: ‘Data and Goliath’ Delves into Brave New World of Big Data, Hacking and Cyber Crime
DATA AND GOLIATH. By Bruce Schneier. Norton. 365 pages. $27.95.
“Data and Goliath” is a broad-ranging assessment of our interconnected world, with all of its risks and hidden dangers, by foremost security expert Bruce Schneier. His book makes clear that we are living in the golden age of government and corporate surveillance and control. And that says nothing of the hackers and cyber criminals.
Schneier paints a dismal picture, but he offers several concrete suggestions to correct, or at least minimize, most of the problems. Take the issue of data brokers: If your business would like a list of people who fall in the category of “adults with senior parents” or “potential inheritor” or “diabetic households,” Acxiom can provide them. InfoUSA and Equifax can, too. Schneier points out that every day we allow such companies to spy on us in exchange for services. “If something is free, you are not the customer, you are the product,” he writes…
Bruce Schneier's Data and Goliath—Solution or Part of the Problem?
Think of some of the ways the Enlightenment helped advance the human individual. The ability to shape your identity. The ability to own and control your stuff. Economic autonomy. All three help to define the modern world, they’re ways we know that “now” is not like “before”. All three are founded on the sanctity of the individual. And all three are interlinked.
For example, our identity means little if you can’t express it creatively, by protecting your inventions and creations, and having some say over their use. You don’t have economic autonomy if an individual cannot negotiate what spoils come from exploiting the value of their work. Privacy is built on the same respect, and it’s a more modern and much more culturally specific—laws and norms come from what societies think and feel about the individual. Japanese and Chinese views on privacy are as different as German and American ideas are different…
Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World (Review)
“We may not like to admit it, but we are under mass surveillance.” So says Bruce Schneier, in his book Data and Goliath, for a popular audience. Schneier is a well-known writer in cryptography, and more recently a public figure in discussions of computer and network security.
The first fifth of Data and Goliath establishes his thesis: we are entering a world of ubiquitous surveillance, by both governments and businesses. He presents numerous anecdotes and stories, many from the Snowden documents (where we learned of the many forms of electronic data collection used by the NSA) and others from the popular press (e.g., the family that found out about their daughter’s pregnancy by the targeted advertising she was receiving). The second fifth explains what is at stake: limits to our freedom of expression (for fear of being attacked with our own secrets), chilling effects on expressions of dissent, discrimination in commercial dealings, as well as a host of abuses. For example, the backdoor built by Ericsson into Vodafone products to support legal wiretaps was abused by unknown third parties in 2004 and 2005 to wiretap members of the Greek government. But surveillance is not all bad: the phone company needs to monitor the location of your mobile phone to direct calls to you…
"Against an Adequately Skilled, Adequately Funded Adversary, Our Defenses Don't Work"
Cryptologist Bruce Schneier tells RSA conference that focus should be on dealing with fallout of cyberattacks
Last year’s massive cyberattack on Sony—presumed to have been a nation state attack orchestrated by North Korea—presents many of the most pressing issues of catastrophic risk, says well known cryptologist and author Bruce Schneier, chief security officer at security company Resilient. In a talk at the RSA security conference in San Francisco, Schneier considered the timeline of the attack, and the response to it. During the event, hackers penetrated Sony’s network, stole data, and then embarrassed the company by slowly releasing private emails from executives, salary details, copies of unreleased films, and other sensitive information. The hack, which occurred over several weeks in November and December 2014, is believed to have been done in response to the studio’s release of the Seth Rogen comedy …
Identifying Perpetrators of Cyberattacks "Getting Tougher"
Cybersecurity is becoming increasingly challenging as identifying attackers by their weaponry is difficult to their invisible nature wherein attacks can be launched by a group of hacktivist or sponsored by a nation, according to an expert.
Bruce Schneier, a leading voice on cybersecurity, said a majority of organisations and individuals use the same run-of-the-mill ‘warlike weaponry’ at a time when the attackers are largely unknown, cybercrime is becoming more difficult to combat.
While the IT security industry knows how to deal with high volume, low-focus attacks, security professionals must be resilient and ensure better management of incident responses in order for organisations to thrive even in the face of a cyberattack, he said…
Audio: Schneier on Security Resilience
Insights from Security Leader at GISEC Event in Dubai
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In developing markets such as Asia and the Middle East, how can security practitioners best prepare themselves to tackle the rapidly-changing threat landscape? Resilience is the key, says security leader Bruce Schneier.
The way to think about security is a combination of protection, detection and response, says Schneier, a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at the Harvard Law School, USA. While there is a lot of prevention and detection technology, response is the missing piece, he says. The more you can look at response, the more effective you will be…
Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis.