# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bruce-schneier
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:21:17.953Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/bruce-schneier"
name: "Bruce Schneier"
slug: "bruce-schneier"
description: "Bruce Schneier is an American cryptographer, computer security professional, privacy specialist, and writer. Schneier is an adjunct lecturer in public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and a Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society as of November, 2013. He is a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Access Now, and The Tor Project; and an advisory board member of Electronic Privacy Information Center and VerifiedVoting.org. He is the author of several books on general security topics, computer security and cryptography and is a squid enthusiast."
tagline: "American computer scientist (born 1963)"
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birthDate: "1963-01-15"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump