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Third SHB Workshop

I’m at SHB 2010, the Third Interdisciplinary Workshop on Security and Human Behavior, at Cambridge University. This is a two-day gathering of computer security researchers, psychologists, behavioral economists, sociologists, philosophers, and others—all of whom are studying the human side of security—organized by Ross Anderson, Alessandro Acquisti, and myself.

Here is the program. The list of attendees contains links to readings from each of them—definitely a good place to browse for more information on this topic.

Here are links to my posts on the first and second SHB workshops. Follow those links to find summaries, papers, and audio recordings of the workshops. I may liveblog this workshop—I did it last year—but I may just pay attention. Ross Anderson has liveblogged the previous two years, and is very likely to do so again. There will also be audio.

EDITED TO ADD (6/28): Ross is liveblogging the workshop here. I’m not; I find I pay better attention when I’m not trying to take coherent and accessible notes.

Posted on June 28, 2010 at 4:02 AM • View Comments

Reading Me

The number of different ways to read my essays, commentaries, and links has grown recently. Here’s the rundown:

I think that about covers it for useful distribution formats right now.

EDITED TO ADD (6/20): One more; there’s a Crypto-Gram podcast.

Posted on June 15, 2010 at 1:05 PM • View Comments

Another Scene from an Airport

I’ve gotten to the front of the security line at a different airport, and handed a different TSA officer my ID and ticket.

TSA Officer: (Looks everything over. Reads the name on my passport.) The Bruce Schneier?

Me: (Nods, managing not to say: “No no, just a Bruce Schneier; didn’t you hear I come in six-packs?”)

TSA Officer: The security expert?

Me: Yes.

TSA Officer: (Takes off his glove. Offers me his hand to shake.)

Me: (Shakes his hand.)

TSA Officer: I read your stuff all the time.

That’s twice in a row, after years of not being recognized by any TSA officer ever. This is starting to worry me.

Posted on May 28, 2010 at 12:00 PM • View Comments

Scene from an Airport

I’ve gotten to the front of the security line and handed the TSA officer my ID and ticket.

TSA Officer: (Looks at my ticket. Looks at my ID. Looks at me. Smiles.)

Me: (Smiles back.)

TSA Officer: (Looks at my ID. Looks at me. Smiles.)

Me: (Tips hat. Smiles back.)

TSA Officer: A beloved name from the blogosphere.

Me: And I always thought that I slipped through these lines anonymously.

TSA Officer: Don’t worry. No one will notice. This isn’t the sort of job that rewards competence, you know.

Me: Have a good day.

Posted on May 24, 2010 at 2:29 PM • View Comments

Schneier on "Security, Privacy, and the Generation Gap"

Last month at the RSA Conference, I gave a talk titled “Security, Privacy, and the Generation Gap.” It was pretty good, but it was the first time I gave that talk in front of a large audience—and its newness showed.

Last week, I gave the same talk again, at the CACR Higher Education Security Summit at Indiana University. It was much, much better the second time around, and there’s a video available.

Posted on April 9, 2010 at 12:55 PM • View Comments

Schneier Blogging Template

Eerily accurate:

Catchy one-liner (“interesting,” with link):

In this part of the blog post, Bruce quotes something from the article he links to in the catchy phrase. It might be the abstract to an academic article, or the key points in a subject he’s trying to get across. To get the post looking right, you have to include at least a decent sized paragraph from the quoted source or otherwise it just looks like crap. So I will continue typing another sentence or two, until I have enough text to make this look like a legitimately quoted paragraph. See, now that wasn’t so hard after all.

He might offer a short comment about the article here.

Finally, he will let you know that he wrote about the exact same subject link to previous Schneier article on the exact same topic and link to another previous Schneier article on the exact same topic.

I don’t always do this, but it’s pretty common.

You can see the template in these two posts.

Posted on March 26, 2010 at 1:16 PM • View Comments

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