Bruce Schneier
Security technologist and author, lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School and a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He has written about the economics and politics of security at schneier.com since 2004, and coined much of the vocabulary the encryption debate is argued in.
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Their wordsThis kind of thing will be exploited. Think Solar Winds–style supply chain attacks.
↗AI Coding Agents Are Installing Unknown/Untrusted Code on Corporate Networksschneier.com
- 11 years earlier
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Their wordsAnd because the cost of saving all this data is so cheap, there’s no reason not to save as much as possible, and save it all forever.
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Their wordsWhat all these data breaches are teaching us is that data is a toxic asset and saving it is dangerous.
- 5 weeks earlier
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Their wordsAs technologists, we can’t build an access system that only works for people of a certain citizenship, or with a particular morality, or only in the presence of a specified legal document.
↗Security vs. Surveillanceschneier.com 1st of 4 in this piece
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Our reading
The encryption argument is not security against privacy, it is more security against less security.
Their wordsWe’re not being asked to choose between security and privacy. We’re being asked to choose between less security and more security.
↗Security vs. Surveillanceschneier.com 2nd of 4 in this piece
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Our reading
Widespread encryption protects far more against bulk surveillance than against a targeted attacker.
Their wordsUbiquitous encryption protects us much more from bulk surveillance than from targeted surveillance.
↗Security vs. Surveillanceschneier.com 3rd of 4 in this piece
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Their wordsIf a sufficiently skilled, funded, and motivated attacker wants in to your computer, they’re in.
↗Security vs. Surveillanceschneier.com 4th of 4 in this piece
- 10 years earlier
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Our reading
The right to privacy is fundamental; without it people cannot feel fully free and protected.
Their wordsPrivacy is an inherent human right, and a requirement for maintaining the human condition with dignity and respect.
↗The Eternal Value of Privacyschneier.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsPrivacy protects us from abuses by those in power, even if we’re doing nothing wrong at the time of surveillance.
↗The Eternal Value of Privacyschneier.com 2nd of 2 in this piece