Occupation: Cryptographer Birth: January 15, 1963
This is not the internet the world needs, or the internet its creators envisioned. We need to take it back. And by we, I mean the engineering communi….
There's an entire flight simulator hidden in every copy of Microsoft Excel 97..
I tell people: if it's in the news, don't worry about it, because by definition, news is something that almost never happens..
Terrorism is a crime against the mind. We win by refusing fear..
Trying to make bits uncopyable is like trying to make water not wet. The sooner people accept this, and build business models that take this into acc….
The fundamental driver in computer security, in all of the computer industry, is economics. That requires a lot of re-education for us security geeks..
Surveillance of power is one of the most important ways to ensure that power does not abuse its status. But, of course, power does not like to be wat….
Despite fearful rhetoric to the contrary, terrorism is not a transcendent threat. A terrorist attack cannot possibly destroy our country's way of lif….
Don't make the mistake of thinking you're Facebook's customer, you're not - you're the product..
Only amateurs attack machines; professionals target people..
If someone steals your password, you can change it. But if someone steals your thumbprint, you can't get a new thumb. The failure modes are very diff….
Anyone, from the most clueless amateur to the best cryptographer, can create an algorithm that he himself can't break..