Bruce Schneier
✓ Source-basedfallingAmerican computer scientist (born 1963)
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. org.
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In their own words 10
It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state.
Secrets and Lies (2000), p. 53
Anyone, from the most clueless amateur to the best cryptographer, can create an algorithm that he himself can't break.
(aka Schneier's Law)
Attacks always get better, they never get worse.
Awards 2
Connected to Bruce 6
Zygmunt BaumanAlso in Everything Is Under Control (2015)
Jacob AppelbaumAlso in Everything Is Under Control (2015)
Nikolaus GeyrhalterAlso in Everything Is Under Control (2015)
Joseph WeizenbaumAlso won Norbert Wiener Award for Social and Professional Responsibility
Eben MoglenAlso won EFF Award
Paul BaranAlso won EFF AwardAbout this person
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.
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