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Bruce Schneier: Public-service technologists are needed to tame the IoT

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The internet of things needs to be regulated and soon before it becomes even more of a tool to facilitate cyberattacks, and that means coming up with civic-minded technologists to help formulate government policies, security expert Bruce Schneier told an RSA Conference 2017 audience.

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The problem is governments lack the technological expertise to understand the mindset of the makers of IoT devices and the markets in which they are sold.

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Schneier: terrorists will switch to more secure alternatives to avoid encryption backdoors

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A study shows that if the U.S. mandates backdoors to decrypt secret messages in order to help law enforcement, there would still be hundreds of alternative encryption products made outside the reach of U.S. law that terrorists and criminals could get their hands on.

“Smart criminals and terrorists will easily be able to switch to more secure alternatives,” is the conclusion drawn by the study “A Worldwide Survey of Encryption Products”. The authors were Internet security authority Bruce Schneier of Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, independent security researcher Kathleen Seidel, and Saranya Vijayakumar, a Harvard student.

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What in the world is Bruce Schneier talking about?

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I had a meeting last week with Bruce Schneier, the security expert, book author, blogger, fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society and the CTO of Resilient Systems.

We were talking about the company, which helps businesses respond quickly after they’ve suffered network attacks, and afterward he autographed a copy of his new book for me. It’s called Data and Goliath and is about the data-gathering that goes on routinely about all of us and what uses it has been put to already and what uses it might be put to in the future.

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Network World Tim Greene