24 Facts About Bruce Schneier

Bruce Schneier is an American cryptographer, computer security professional, privacy specialist, and writer.

Bruce Schneier 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.

Bruce Schneier is the author of several books on general security topics, computer security and cryptography and is a squid enthusiast.

Bruce Schneier is the son of Martin Schneier, a Brooklyn Supreme Court judge.

In 1991, Bruce Schneier was laid off from his job and started writing for computer magazines.

Bruce Schneier took his articles, wrote a proposal to John Wiley and they bought the proposal.

In 1994, Bruce Schneier published Applied Cryptography, which details the design, use, and implementation of cryptographic algorithms.

In 1999, Bruce Schneier was a founder and Chief technology officer of Counterpane Internet Security.

In 2000, Bruce Schneier published Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World; in 2003, Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly About Security in an Uncertain World and in 2012, Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive.

Bruce Schneier worked for IBM when they acquired Resilient Systems in 2016, where he was CTO.

Bruce Schneier has been an Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.

Bruce Schneier was married to Karen Cooper in 1997 and lived in Minneapolis; they published restaurant reviews in the Pulse of the Twin Cities.

Bruce Schneier has warned about misplaced trust in blockchain and the lack of use cases, calling blockchain a solution in search of a problem.

Bruce Schneier goes on to say that cryptocurrencies are useless and are only used by speculators looking for quick riches.

The term Bruce Schneier's law was coined by Cory Doctorow in a 2004 speech.

Bruce Schneier coined the term "kid sister cryptography", writing in the Preface to Applied Cryptography that:.

Bruce Schneier is critical of digital rights management and has said that it allows a vendor to increase lock-in.

Bruce Schneier has said that homeland security money should be spent on intelligence, investigation, and emergency response.

Bruce Schneier is widely credited with coining the term "security theater" to describe some such changes.

Bruce Schneier has criticized security approaches that try to prevent any malicious incursion, instead arguing that designing systems to fail well is more important.

Bruce Schneier 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.

In 2015, Bruce Schneier received the EPIC Lifetime Achievement Award from Electronic Privacy Information Center.

Bruce Schneier has been involved in the creation of many cryptographic algorithms.

Bruce Schneier writes a freely available monthly Internet newsletter on computer and other security issues, Crypto-Gram, as well as a security weblog, Bruce Schneier on Security.