Schneier na hitro

Za blog Freakonomics je legenda računalniške varnosti in kriptografije Bruce Schneier odgovoril na zajeten spisek vprašanj. Zaradi poljudnih, pronicljivih in zelo lucidnih odgovorov na temo račnualniške varnosti toplo priporočam v branje. Članek bo z levo roko opravil z največjimi miti s tega področja in pokazal, kje smo zares ogroženi. Prav tako zelo dobro obračuna s trenutno obsedenostjo z varnostjo vsepovsod.

Q: So seriously, do you shop on Amazon, or anywhere else online for that matter?

A: Of course. I shop online all the time; it’s far easier than going to a store, or even calling a mail-order phone number, if I know exactly what I want.

What you’re really asking me is about the security. No one steals credit card numbers one-by-one, by eavesdropping on the Internet connection. They’re all stolen in blocks of a million by hacking the back-end database. It doesn’t matter if you bought something over the Internet, by phone, by mail, or in person — you’re equally vulnerable.

Za zaključek še ena vrhunska, sicer o phishingu, ampak uporabna vsepovsod:

A good bullshit detector helps, but it’s hard to teach that.