"If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology." -- Bruce Schneier
Bruce Schneier (born January 15, 1963, ) is an American cryptographer, computer security specialist, and writer. He is the author of several books on computer security and cryptography, and is the founder and chief technology officer of BT Counterpane, formerly Counterpane Internet Security, Inc. He received his master's degree in computer science from the American University in Washington, DC in 1988.
"It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state.""No one can duplicate the confidence that RSA offers after 20 years of cryptanalytic review.""The user's going to pick dancing pigs over security every time.""There are two types of encryption: one that will prevent your sister from reading your diary and one that will prevent your government.""You can't defend. You can't prevent. The only thing you can do is detect and respond."
Writings on Computer Security and General Securitymoreless
In 2000, Schneier published Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World. In 2003, Schneier published Thinking Sensibly About Security in an Uncertain World.
Schneier writes a freely available monthly Internet newsletter on computer and other security issues, Crypto-Gram, as well as a security weblog, Schneier on Security. The weblog started out as a way to publish essays before they appeared in Crypto-Gram, making it possible for others to comment on them while the stories were still current, but over time the newsletter became a monthly email version of the blog, re-edited and re-organized.