Bruce Schneier, internationally renowned security expert and author, discusses his new book entitled, “Liars & Outliers: Enabling the Trust That Society Needs To Thrive.” Schneier starts the discussion by looking at society and trust and explains why he thinks the two are necessary for civilization. According to Schneier, two concepts contribute to a trustful society: first, humans are mostly moral; second, informal reputation systems incentivize trustworthy behavior. The discussion turns to technology and trust, and Schneier talks about how the information society yields greater consequences when trust is breached. He then describes how society deals with technology and trust and why he thinks the system is not perfect but working well overall…
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Video: Interview: Liars and Outliers
Davi Ottenheimer, President of flyingpenguin, interviews Bruce Schneier on his latest book.
We don’t demand a background check on the plumber who shows up to fix the leaky sink. We don’t do a chemical analysis on food we eat. In the absence of personal relationships, we have no choice but to substitute confidence for trust, compliance for trustworthiness. This progression has enabled society to scale to unprecedented complexity, but has also permitted massive global failures. At the same time, too much cooperation is bad. Without some level of rule-breaking, innovation and social progress become impossible. Society stagnates. Bruce Schneier, world-renowned for his level-headed thinking on security and technology, tackles this complex subject head-on. Society can’t function without trust, and yet must function even when people are untrustworthy…
Video: Interview: The Meaning of Trust in Today's Digital World
Bruce Schneier discussed his book Liars and Outliers at the RSA Conference 2012.
Video: Bruce Schneier Tackles Sociology of Trust and Security
Bruce Schneier’s latest book, Liars and Outliers, is a departure from his previous landmark books on cryptography and information security. In Liars and Outliers, Schneier pulls back from technology and looks at trust and security and how those very human concepts have evolved in concert with the development of cooperative societies to build the trust and security mechanisms we have today.
In this interview conducted at RSA Conference 2012, Schneier explains his interest in the sociology of security and trust and how today’s online interactions are changing the trust dynamic. He paints a not-so-bleak picture of why the Internet remains a trustworthy and viable platform for communication and ecommerce, and talks about whether social networking and technical feedback mechanisms comprise the new trust going forward…
Audio: Bruce Schneier on Liars and Outliers
Dennis Fisher talks with cryptographer and author Bruce Schneier about his new book, Liars and Outliers, the role of trust in society and security, the ways in which technology helps promote trust and how various groups and actors defect the norm and take advantage of that trust.
Audio: Bright Ideas with Bruce Schneier
Stephen Smith spoke with security expert Bruce Schneier about the importance of security in maintaining a flourishing society.
Audio: Interview: New Threats to the Internet Infrastructure
Jean Friedman interviewed Bruce Schneier about his talk at RSA 2012.
Audio: Guarding Without Guardians
Bruce Schneier is concerned that without trust, society itself may be impossible
Socrates famously asked if a person could lead a just life in an unjust society. A new book, Liars & Outliers, by Bruce Schneier doesn’t in so many words raise the question, Can a person lead a secure life in an insecure society? but it does answer it. There’s only so much we can do without there being a framework of trust: There have to be moral codes; peer pressures are needed; institutions have to have their own codes of conduct, and so on.
It’s hard to imagine such a book being written by anyone but Bruce Schneier, one of the world’s foremost authorities on security. He started out in cryptography and published some world-class algorithms, but he quickly came to realize that the mathematics was rarely the weak link in the security chain. His books, starting with the best-selling …
Audio: Ten Years Later, Are We Safer?
As the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks nears, many are asking if we’re safer now than we were before the attacks. Has heightened security and extra screening at the airport—including removing your shoes and belt—made you feel safer?
Host: Mark Trautwein
Guests:
- Barry Glassner, president of Lewis and Clark College and author of “The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things”
- Bruce Schneier, security technologist and author of “Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly About Security in an Uncertain World”
- Steve Weber, professor of political science at UC Berkeley and author of “The End of Arrogance: America in the Global Competition of Ideas”…
Video: False Sense of Security?
Are new enhanced TSA procedures a waste of resources?
Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis.