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Bruce Schneier Facts: If you don't find this site hysterical, then you must actually have a life. There is no chin behind Bruce Schneier's beard. There is only another pseudorandom number generator and he's gonna use it to encrypt your face. I'm reading Schneier's book right now, coincidentally.

Airlines' computer systems questioned: In the wake of the big Comair systems meltdown over the holdays, CNN has an article about why airline's systems are so rickety. It's notable for a quote from uber-security expert Bruce Schneier that tells the naked truth of it. Bruce Schneier, a computer security expert ...

Schneier on Security: Internet Explorer Sucks: Security God Bruce Schneier tells it like it is. MSIE was 98% unsafe. There were only 7 days in 2004 without an unpatched publicly disclosed security hole. Firefox was 15% unsafe. There were 56 days with an unpatched publicly disclosed security hole. 30 of ...

Does Big Brother Want to Watch?: Security Guru Bruce Schneier writes about a supposed plan to embed password details in RFID chips under the skin. They could be read by a holding some device within a few centimeters of the skin. Unfortunately, RFID chips can be read by any reader, ...

Gathering Storm Superworm Poses Grave Threat to PC Nets: Lemme tell you: if Bruce Schneier is even a little afraid, then I m curled up in a fetal position somewhere rocking back and forth. Worms like Storm are written by hackers looking for profit, and they re different. These worms spread more ...

A while back I posed a question about cryptography that no one could answer. "How does a cryptologist know that he has decoded something? If he's trying to brute force an encrypted message, he has to try umpteen different keys. So how does he know when he's got the right ...