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RSA 2010: Q&A with Bruce Schneier
Schneier on security, SSL and squid
V3.co.uk managed to get five minutes with security legend Bruce Schneier at RSA 2010 in San Francisco to get his views on the current threat landscape.
Yesterday we saw a presentation saying that anti-virus systems are failing 10-30 per cent of the time. What’s your take on that?
I don’t believe that, otherwise I’d be infected with lots of malware. If it is, I’m not paying attention. It’s true that signature-based anti-virus is reaching the end of its useful life, but I’m not seeing data that supports that position.
We’ve also seen Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) come under attack, and some experts are saying it is useless. Do you agree?…
Bruce Schneier: Geek of the Week
If one were to close one’s eyes and imagine a BT Executive, one would never conjure up Bruce Schneier. He is one of the greatest experts in cryptography, and a well-known mathematician. He even got a brief mention in the book The Da Vinci Code. He also remains an outspoken and articulate critic of the way that security is actually implemented in applications, as Richard Morris found out when we dispatched him to interview him.
Once a sleepy IT backwater, Identity Management has been thrust into the spotlight over the past few years. More and more companies, alarmed by the escalating incidence of identity theft, have come to understand the importance of protecting the integrity of digital information held about individuals and the grave risks they run if they neglect to do it…
Privatsphäre ist eine Voraussetzung der Freiheit, der Demokratie, des Kapitalismus
Der Experte für IT-Sicherheit über Lauschangriffe ohne Nutzwert, notwendiges Vertrauen und Daten als Umweltverschmutzung des Informationszeitalters
Lufthansa Exclusive: Mr. Schneier, Sie sind Spezialist für IT-Sicherheit und Kryptografie. Trotzdem als Erstes eine Frage, die eher ins Fach Psychologie fällt. Ich versende manche E-Mails verschlüsselt, das eingebaute Mikrofon meines Computers ist im Normalfall deaktiviert, auf meiner Festplatte befindet sich eine verschlüsselte Partition. Und wenn ich ein wirklich vertrauliches Gespräch unter vier Augen führen wollte, würde ich den Akku aus meinem Smartphone entfernen. Bin ich ein Fall für den Psychiater?
Bruce Schneier: Nur wenn Sie das besagte vertrauliche Gespräch mit ihm führen wollen. Sicherheit ist ein Kompromiss, und ich kann Ihre Sicherheitsmaßnahmen nicht beurteilen, wenn ich nicht mehr über Ihre Risiken weiß. Einiges von dem, was Sie da aufführen, ist extrem, aber es gibt Menschen, die extremen Risiken ausgesetzt sind – Menschenrechtler in totalitären Staaten zum Beispiel. Ich persönlich verschlüssele meine Festplatte, aber ich führe einige meiner wirklich vertraulichen Gespräche über mein Smartphone…
Bruce Schneier on TSA Absurdity and the Need for Resilience
Bruce Schneier, my security guru, thinks that the President should confront the American people with the hard truth: Onerous new security regimes in our civilian aviation system won’t protect us. What will protect us is our own resilience. I had an e-mail exchange with Bruce yesterday, and here is an edited transcript:
Jeffrey Goldberg: Do you think that we are moving toward the Israelification of American airport security?
Bruce Schneier: I don’t think it’s possible. The Israelis rely on a system of individual attention—interviews, background checks, and so on—that simply can’t be replicated on the scale required for America. If anything, we’re moving in the opposite direction: layers of annoying, time consuming, ineffectual, static—but automatic and scalable—security systems. Although it seems that we’re finally hitting the limit as to what the American business travel will put up with, and no security measure will survive wholesale rejection by the airlines’ most profitable customers…
Skipping to the Head of the Security Line
BT Group PLC Chief Security Technology Officer Bruce Schneier logs long hours trudging through airports to attend conferences and speaking engagements on a wide range of security issues. By his own count, he will take 170 flights this year.
Mr. Schneier relishes pointing out flaws in institutions’ security plans—sometimes testing the boundaries himself—and has been a critic of post-9/11 security measures like those at airports. He recently spoke to The Wall Street Journal about “airport-land” rules, skipping to the head of the security line and getting your sandwich taken by the U.S. Transport Security Administration…
Schneier: Steps to Combat File-Sharing Are Misguided
Leading security expert Bruce Schneier was in London this week on a whirlwind lecture tour. ZDNet UK caught up with the ex-NSA man, who is now BT’s chief security technology officer, at lectures in parliament and at University College London.
Schneier talked to ZDNet UK about his views on behavioural advertising, the efforts of various governments to tackle unlawful file-sharing, cyber-warfare and vendor lock-in.
Q: The UK government is currently trying to pass the Digital Economy Bill, which includes provisions to penalise unlawful file-sharing. Is this technically feasible?…
Cybercrime Is Crime with Different Tactics—Interview with Bruce Schneier
Cybercrime is just like any other type of crime only with different tactics, Bruce Schneier tells Infosecurity.
“In information security there are very real threats, and the main threat is crime,” Schneier said, although he also pointed out that many information security threats are due to ‘accidents’ rather than malice.
Another trend going forward, is the interaction between IT and physical systems such as ID cards, ATM machines, Oyester cards, etc. “When the physical hits the IT world. I think the security there is a really big deal,” Schneier predicted…
Cloud Computing is Here to Stay
Managing security effectively is critical when sharing data over the internet
Dubai: Online security, server crashes, disaster recovery, data theft, cyber crime… these are just some of the challenges faced by businesses worldwide.
How does one handle them? The solution lies with the information technology departments and their heads—usually chief technology officers. Bruce Schneier is one such person.
Schneier was in Dubai for the recent World Economic Forum summit, where he participated in discussions on the future of the internet.
Quite unlike some of his peers, Schneier is refreshingly candid, forthright and humorous when discussing cyber security…
Q&A: Schneier Warns of Marketers and Dancing Pigs
In a security industry full of FUD and hype, cryptographer and consultant Bruce Schneier offers a no-nonsense reality check verging on social commentary.
He has worked on numerous ciphers, hash functions, and other cryptographic algorithms that are arcane to the average computer user but which have been instrumental in protecting the privacy of data. But his influence extends beyond the world of encryption.
Schneier wrote several bestselling books—including “Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World,” “Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly about Security in an Uncertain World,” and his latest, “Schneier on Security”—that provide perspective on risks and threats in everything from e-mail to airport security. And his …
Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis.