Schneier on Security

Robert Sawyer's AlibisBack in 2002, science fiction author Robert J. Sawyer wrote an essay about the trade-off between privacy and security, and came out in favor of less privacy. I disagree with most of what he said, and have written pretty much the opposite essay -- and others on the value of privacy and the future of privacy -- several times since...

Friday Squid Blogging: Stinky SquidIt's a mushroom: Pseudocolus fusiformis....

Schneier on "The Future of the Security Industry"Here's a video of a talk I gave at an OWASP meeting in August....

Refuse to be TerrorizedMe from 2006....

Eighth Anniversary of 9/11On September 30, 2001, I published a special issue of Crypto-Gram discussing the terrorist attacks. I wrote about the novelty of the attacks, airplane security, diagnosing intelligence failures, the potential of regulating cryptography -- because it could be used by the terrorists -- and protecting privacy and liberty. Much of what I wrote is still relevant today: Appalled by the...

File DeletionFile deletion is all about control. This used to not be an issue. Your data was on your computer, and you decided when and how to delete a file. You could use the delete function if you didn't care about whether the file could be recovered or not, and a file erase program -- I use BCWipe for Windows --...

Demonstration of a Liquid ExplosiveThe BBC has a video demonstration of a 16-ounce bottle of liquid blowing a hole in the side of a plane. I know no more details other than what's in the video....

NSA Intercepts Used to Convict Liquid BombersThree of the UK liquid bombers were convicted Monday. NSA-intercepted e-mail was introduced as evidence in the trial: The e-mails, several of which have been reprinted by the BBC and other publications, contained coded messages, according to prosecutors. They were intercepted by the NSA in 2006 but were not included in evidence introduced in a first trial against the three...

The Global Illicit EconomyInteresting video: A new class of global actors is playing an increasingly important role in globalization: smugglers, warlords, guerrillas, terrorists, gangs, and bandits of all stripes. Since the end of the Cold War, the global illicit economy has consistently grown at twice the rate of the licit global economy. Increasingly, illicit actors will represent not just an economic but a...

David Kilcullen on Security and InsurgencyVery interesting hour-long interview. Australian-born David Kilcullen was the senior advisor to US General David Petraeus during his time in Iraq, advising on counterinsurgency. The implementation of his strategies are now regarded as a major turning point in the war. Here, in a fascinating discussion with human rights lawyer Julian Burnside at the Melbourne Writers' Festival, he talks about the...

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid ColorationFascinating video....

Subpoenas as a Security ThreatBlog post from Ed Felten: Usually when the threat model mentions subpoenas, the bigger threats in reality come from malicious intruders or insiders. The biggest risk in storing my documents on CloudCorp's servers is probably that somebody working at CloudCorp, or a contractor hired by them, will mess up or misbehave. So why talk about subpoenas rather than intruders or...

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