First Amendment
Tornado Cash Is Not Free Speech. It’s a Golem
Henry Farrell, Bruce Schneier Thu, Oct 13, 2022, 8:16 AM
Tornado Cash is a deathless artificial being, animated by magical words to circumvent the law.
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Cybersecurity
Cascading Security Through the Internet of Things Supply Chain
Trey Herr, Nathaniel Kim, Bruce Schneier Mon, Jun 29, 2020, 8:01 AM
The “internet of things” supply chain has been a channel for risk into our homes. We can use that same channel to push security back up through the supply chain.
Going Dark
The Myth of Consumer Security
Bruce Schneier Mon, Aug 26, 2019, 8:00 AM
The Department of Justice wants access to encrypted consumer devices but promises not to infiltrate business products or affect critical infrastructure. Yet that's not possible, because there is no longer any difference between those categories of devices. Consumer devices are critical infrastructure. They affect national security. And it would be foolish to weaken them, even at the request of law enforcement.
Encryption
Attorney General William Barr on Encryption Policy
Bruce Schneier Tue, Jul 23, 2019, 6:31 PM
This morning, Attorney General William Barr gave a major speech on encryption policy—what is commonly known as "going dark." Speaking at Fordham University in New York, he admitted that adding backdoors decreases security but that it is worth it.
Cyber & Technology
When Fake News Comes to Academia
Bruce Schneier Fri, May 24, 2019, 2:32 PM
The term “fake news” has lost much of its meaning, but it describes a real and dangerous internet trend. Because it’s hard for many people to differentiate a real news site from a fraudulent one, they can be hoodwinked by fictitious news stories pretending to be real. The result is that otherwise reasonable people believe lies.
The trends fostering fake news are more general, though, and we need to start thinking about how it could affect different areas of our lives. In particular, I worry about how it will affect academia. In addition to fake news, I worry about fake research.
Cybersecurity
Toward an Information Operations Kill Chain
Bruce Schneier Wed, Apr 24, 2019, 3:33 PM
Cyberattacks don’t magically happen; they involve a series of steps. And far from being helpless, defenders can disrupt the attack at any of those steps. This framing has led to something called the “cybersecurity kill chain”: a way of thinking about cyber defense in terms of disrupting the attacker’s process.
Encryption
Evaluating the GCHQ Exceptional Access Proposal
Bruce Schneier Thu, Jan 17, 2019, 10:00 AM
The so-called Crypto Wars have been going on for 25 years now.