Bruce Schneier
American computer scientist · United States · On the map · Scientists · Born 1963 · age 63
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.
Bruce Schneier is read about 139 times a day, in 27 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 13 November 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 115 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?A life in dates
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, Anyone, from the most clueless amateur to the best cryptographer, can create an algorithm that he himself can't break.
Attacks always get better, they never get worse.
The lesson here is that it is insufficient to protect ourselves with laws; we need to protect ourselves with mathematics.
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About this person
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.
