News in the Category "Recorded Interviews"
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Audio: Cryptography, Security Theater, and the Psychology of Fear
Dennis Fisher talks with security expert Bruce Schneier about the usefulness of cryptography, the psychology of security and fear and the war on the unexpected after 9/11.
Audio: Insider Threats
The government spends billions to prevent criminals worldwide from breaking into its computer systems, but what about the inside threat – the danger from people you trust?
Audio: Schneier on Security
Bruce Schneier joined Paul Harris to talk about whether we are in fact safer with current airport procedures than those before 9/11 and whether government and private industry are doing enough to harden security at possible terrorist targets like nuclear and chemical plants. They also talked about technology’s role in global security (e.g. whether Google Earth deserved the criticism after investigators found that the terrorists who shot up Mumbai in November had used the imaging information to plan their attack), and about the restrictions on taking liquids onto commercial flights—the 3.5-ounce rule—and whether there is any proof that a terrorist could construct a bomb from two liquids they mixed in an airplane lavatory…
Video: Screening the TSA
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But the question is: is everything we go through at checkpoints actually making us safer? Security expert Bruce Schneier says no. He says much of it is just "security theater."
"It’s a phrase I coined for security measures that look good, but don’t actually do anything," he explained.
Schneier, who has been an adviser to TSA but also its most persistent thorn-in-the-side, says there are too many silly rules.
Take the baggies for liquids, which became a rule in 2006 when British authorities uncovered a plot to bring liquid bombs on board airliners headed for the U.S.: Schneier says the liquid limits may make us feel safe, but do little to stop terrorists…
Video: 3 Qüestions: Bruce Schneier
Bruce Schneier és considerat internacionalment com un gurú de la seguretat informàtica. Va fundar, i actualment dirigeix, la divisió tecnològica de la companyia BT Counterpane, especialitzada en serveis de seguretat informàtica. Citat habitualment als mitjans de comunicació, Schneier ha escrit nombrosos articles a la premsa i ha testificat diverses vegades sobre seguretat al Congrés dels Estats Units.
Note: in this video, the questions are in Spanish but Bruce Schneier’s responses are in English.
Video: Security Experts Bruce Schneier and Ray Stanton on the Human Side of Security
BT’s Bruce Schneier and Ray Stanton talk security with ComputerWeekly.com’s security blogger David Lacey at Infosecurity 2008.
Audio: Scott Horton Interviews Bruce Schneier
Bruce Schneier, cryptographer, computer security specialist, writer, and author, discusses the Justice Department’s bogus prosecutions of barely-terrorists in the JFK, Ft. Dix, Lackawanna, Miami and other cases, the increasing danger to Americans’ liberties due to the large numbers of new Joint Terrorism Task Forces across the country and their temptation to entrap the innocent, the rise of the domestic security industrial complex, the economics of airline security, information as the answer to the problem of consolidated power, the government’s data mining programs and the death of the Real ID…
Audio: Session Preview with Bruce Schneier: Reconceptualizing Security
Bruce Schneier, CTO, BT Counterpane, is an internationally renowned security technologist and author, and a frequent speaker at RSA Conference. His session at RSA Conference 2008 is called Reconceptualizing Security.
Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis.