Watch the election results with Bruce Schneier on Tuesday, November 4, over at Making Light, the blog co-edited by Boing Boing's community manager Teresa Nielsen Hayden. Bruce Schneier explains, "Watching the results come in is fun, but it's more fun in the right group." — Read the rest

I'm about to go off-blog until November 17* (I'm off on my honeymoon!) but I'd be remiss if I failed to mention that Bruce Schneier will be doing mathematically oriented election coverage on the Making Light blog on election night. If it wasn't for the fact that I'll (literally) be on a tropical island with nothing higher-tech than a scuba-regulator to hand on that night, I'd be all over it. — Read the rest

Security expert Bruce Schneier wrote a great essay for Wired called "Inside the Twisted Mind of the Security Professional." He says "Good engineering involves thinking about how things can be made to work; the security mindset involves thinking about how things can be made to fail." — Read the rest

Security ninja Bruce Schneier just concluded a group interview with the readers of the Freaknomics blog, who suggested a long list of smart, wide-ranging questions for him. Schneier's theory of security involves a lot of economics — the economics of theft that make it worth a crook's thief to target you, the economics of prevention that make it worth your bank's while to adequately protect you. — Read the rest

Security expert Bruce Schneier conducted a five-part interview with Kip Hawley, administrator of the Transport Security Agency — the man responsible for the freedom baggie. He's just posted part one. It's really frustrating — Hawley's ultimate answer to every question is, "Well, if you only knew all this secret stuff I'm not allowed to tell you, you'd understand that every criticism you raise of the TSA is invalid." — Read the rest

I just got around to listening to the April 2 edition of the RU Sirius Show. The guest was security expert Bruce Schneier, author of Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly About Security in an Uncertain World.

Schneier is persuasive in his argument that the government's recent efforts to prevent terrorism have been a colossal waste of money and effort. — Read the rest

Borrowing a page from the Bruce Schneier Facts Database, a UK t-shirt maker has produced this stencil-style tee showing Schneier in a cowboy hat, with the legend, "Bruce Schneier Knows Alice and Bob's Shared Secret." This is pretty obscurely wonderful crypto nerd humor, ar ar ar. — Read the rest

Last night, security legend Bruce Schneier gave a tremendous lecture as part of the Technology and Public Diplomacy series I'm organizing at USC. He talked about privacy in the era of Moore's Law, and the fact that advanced technology makes it easier to spy than to resist spying. — Read the rest

A reminder for Angelenos: Bruce Schneier is giving a free public talk tonight at 7PM at the USC campus, at the Annenberg School room 207. Bruce is a legendary security expert and a powerful advocate for the idea that security shouldn't come at the expense of freedom. — Read the rest

Bruce Schneier and Bruce Sterling are coming to the University of Southern California's Annenberg School at the end of September as part of my Fulbright Chair.

Bruce Sterling will be here on September 25 at 2PM, at the Annenberg School's room 204. — Read the rest

* Bruce Schneier doesn't need steganography to hide data in innocent-looking files. He just pounds it in with his fist.

* Bruce Schneier's secure handshake is so strong, you won't be able to exchange keys with anyone else for days.

* Most people use passwords. — Read the rest

ITConversations is a terrific source of audio interviews with tech folks. In the latest ITC email newsletter, producer Doug Kaye said that his interview last year with security consultant and author Bruce Schneier is one of his all-time favorites.

This is the one interview I hope everyone will hear.

For my money, Bruce Schneier is the best computer security person in the field right now. He's just published a list of security recommendations for individuals who want to make their PCs safer:

Operating systems: If possible, don't use Microsoft Windows.

I try to read everything Internet security consultant Bruce Schneier writes. The good news is, he now has a blog where he'll probably make links to his essays.

He has two recent essays available from his blog, which he describes thusly:

The first talks about terror threat warnings — both the color-coded kind and the more specific ones — and how they're both an ineffective security countermeasure and a political tool.

A pair of thought-provoking op-ed pieces from Bruce Schneier, who says,

This New Haven Register piece looks at the security and privacy issues surrounding a police "gun" that automatically scans licence plates. It's an example of "wholesale surveillance" — something only possible with modern computer technology — and as such requires new thinking about privacy protection.

Bruce Schneier of Counterpane Security explains why the Witty Worm is so awful.

Witty was very well written. It was less than 700 bytes long. It used a random-number generator to spread itself, avoiding many of the problems that plagued previous worms.

Amazing interview (available as a text transcript or audio file) with security guru Bruce Schneier, who really should be hired to run Homeland Security.

Doug Kaye: Now a recurring concept in your book is probably typified by this example: "A terrorist who wants to create havoc will not be deterred by airline security; he will simply switch to another attack and bomb a shopping mall."

Bruce Schneier and Adam Schostack of Zero Knowledge have penned a wonderful, balanced whitepaper laying out a security map for Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing initiative, spelling out, piece by piece, the root causes of the security problems in MSFT products, and a roadmap for mitigating them in the future. — Read the rest

Bruce Schneier isn't just a cypherpunk god, he's also an inveterate foodie. The restaurant guides he and Karen Cooper write are good enough to garner Hugo nominations, and chock full of fantastic foodie obsessiveness. I've never read any document quite like this one, in fact. — Read the rest

Bruce Schneier's new Crypto-Gram has a terrific, commonsense analysis of the new airport security measures, and why they're uniformly pointless.

…[W]hat is the threat, and how does turning an airplane into a kindergarten classroom reduce the threat? If the threat is hijacking, then the countermeasure doesn't protect against all the myriad of ways people can subdue the pilot and crew.