More Schneier Talks
Here’s an audio of my talk at the Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis on March 27.
And a video from my talk at the Hack-in-the-Box conference in Dubai on April 16.
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Schneier Talks
Last month I gave a talk at InfoSecurity Europe in London. The title was “Reconceptualizing Security,” or maybe “The Theater of Security,” and it is a follow-on to my work on the psychology of security. I haven’t yet written this work up, but you can listen to or watch my talk.
Schneier Interviews
Two weeks ago I was interviewed on Dutch radio. The introduction and questions are in Dutch, but my answers are in English.
Three weeks ago I was interviewed on Anti War Radio. It was an odd interview, starting from my essay “Portrait of the Modern Terrorist as an Idiot” and then meandering into the role of government versus corporations in security.
This written Q&A was conducted on video even though it is presented as text, so it doesn’t read as well as the ones I’ve done via e-mail. This is a video interview from the RSA Conference.
And finally, three video interviews, one from the U.K. and two from Australia.
I’m not trying to brag. It’s just easier for me if these links are all in one place so I can search for them later.
Boring Jobs Dull the Mind
We already knew this, but it’s good to reinforce the lesson:
In the study, Dr Eichele and his colleagues asked participants to repeatedly perform a “flanker task”—an experiment in which individuals must quickly respond to visual clues.
As they did so, brain scans were performed using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).
They found the participants’ mistakes were “foreshadowed” by a particular pattern of brain activity.
“To our surprise, up to 30 seconds before the mistake we could detect a distinct shift in activity,” said Dr Stefan Debener, of Southampton University, UK.
“The brain begins to economise, by investing less effort to complete the same task.
“We see a reduction in activity in the prefrontal cortex. At the same time, we see an increase in activity in an area which is more active in states of rest, known as the Default Mode Network (DMN).”
This has security implications whenever you have people watching the same thing over and over again, looking for anomalies: airport screeners looking at X-ray scans, casino dealers looking for cheaters, building guards looking for bad guys. It’s hard to do it correctly, because the brain doesn’t work that way.
EDITED TO ADD (4/28): This video demonstrates the point nicely.
Martin Hellman on the Invention of Public-Key Cryptography
At the DISI conference last December, Martin Hellman gave a lecture on the invention of public-key cryptography. A video is online (it’s hard to find, search for his name), along with PowerPoint slides.
(Unfortunately, the video isn’t set up for streaming; in order to view the it, you’ll have to download the ten files, then use a fairly recent version of WinZip to concatenate the files.)
EDITED TO ADD (3/26): Now on Google Video.
My Talk on "Dual Use Technologies"
This is video from my talk at CPSR’s Technology in Wartime conference.
Liquid Bomb
I’d love to get details on this:
A television documentary team said it had made a bomb by mixing a series of odourless and colourless chemicals that could be brought into an aircraft by passengers.
The liquids that were mixed to make the explosive cocktail were all contained in bottles of less than 100ml, which is the limit enforced at most airports around the world at present and was introduced shortly after British authorities thwarted an alleged attempt to blow up transatlantic aircraft in August 2006.
[…]
It blew a gaping hole in a decommissioned aircraft, snapping the ribs of the fuselage.
EDITED TO ADD (3/8): More info.
EDITED TO ADD (3/13): Here’s the Channel 4 documentary. And this is well worth reading.
Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis.