26 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.

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

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

Bruce Schneier was a founder and chief technology officer of Counterpane Internet Security.

Bruce Schneier worked for IBM once they acquired Resilient Systems where Schneier was CTO until he left at the end of June 2019.

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.

Bruce Schneier has written books on security for a broader audience.

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; in 2012, Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive; and in 2015, Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World.

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.

Schneier revealed on his blog that in the December 2004 issue of the SIGCSE Bulletin, three Pakistani academics, Khawaja Amer Hayat, Umar Waqar Anis, and S Tauseef-ur-Rehman, from the International Islamic University in Islamabad, Pakistan, plagiarized an article written by Schneier and got it published.

Bruce Schneier complained to the editors of the periodical, which generated a minor controversy.

Bruce Schneier noted on his blog that International Islamic University personnel had requested him "to close comments in this blog entry"; Bruce Schneier refused to close comments on the blog, but he did delete posts which he deemed "incoherent or hostile".

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

Bruce Schneier is a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.