Bruce Schneier
Biographic Data
| ID | 383873 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bruce Schneier |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bruce |
| FAMILY NAME | Schneier |
| SIGNATURE | SCHNEIER B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University Press |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1453-1083 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The impact of advanced AI systems on democracy
Reimagining Democracy
Modern representative democracy reflects eighteenth-century technological limitations, and innovations based on new technological capacities are needed. In a series of workshops at the Harvard Kennedy School, fifty invitees in 2022 and 2023 discussed representation frameworks, mechanisms of direct democracy, the delegation of decisions to artificial intelligence systems, and alternative models (such as sortition and liquid democracy) for the sele…
A Hacker's Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society's Rules, and How to Bend Them Back
Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World
Bruce Schneiers amazing book is the best overview of privacy and security ever written. Clay ShirkyYour cell phone provider tracks your location and knows whos with you. Your online and in-store purchasing patterns are recorded, and reveal if you're unemployed, sick, or pregnant. Your e-mails and texts expose your intimate and casual friends. Google knows what youre thinking because it saves your private searches. Facebook can determine your sexu…
Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive
In today's hyper-connected society, understanding the mechanisms of trust is crucial. Issues of trust are critical to solving problems as diverse as corporate responsibility, global warming, and the political system. In this insightful and entertaining book, Schneier weaves together ideas from across the social and biological sciences to explain how society induces trust. He shows the unique role of trust in facilitating and stabilizing human soc…
Security 2020: Reduce Security Risks This Decade
Beyond fear: Thinking Sensibly About Security in an Uncertain World
Do we really need national ID cards? Is it a good idea for pilots to carry pistols? Schneier makes the complex topic of security easy to comprehend. Using Schneier's 5-point method for analyzing any kind of security solution, he shows the reader how to become a well-informed security consumer
The street performer protocol and digital copyrights
We introduce the Street Performer Protocol, an electronic-commerce mechanism to facilitate the private financing of public works. Using this protocol, people would place donations in escrow, to be released to an author in the event that the promised work be put in the public domain. This protocol has the potential to fund alternative or "marginal" works
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The street performer protocol and digital copyrights
We introduce the Street Performer Protocol, an electronic-commerce mechanism to facilitate the private financing of public works. Using this protocol, people would place donations in escrow, to be released to an author in the event that the promised work be put in the public domain. This protocol has the potential to fund alternative or "marginal" works
Beyond fear: Thinking Sensibly About Security in an Uncertain World
Do we really need national ID cards? Is it a good idea for pilots to carry pistols? Schneier makes the complex topic of security easy to comprehend. Using Schneier's 5-point method for analyzing any kind of security solution, he shows the reader how to become a well-informed security consumer
Security 2020: Reduce Security Risks This Decade
Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive
In today's hyper-connected society, understanding the mechanisms of trust is crucial. Issues of trust are critical to solving problems as diverse as corporate responsibility, global warming, and the political system. In this insightful and entertaining book, Schneier weaves together ideas from across the social and biological sciences to explain how society induces trust. He shows the unique role of trust in facilitating and stabilizing human soc…
Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World
Bruce Schneiers amazing book is the best overview of privacy and security ever written. Clay ShirkyYour cell phone provider tracks your location and knows whos with you. Your online and in-store purchasing patterns are recorded, and reveal if you're unemployed, sick, or pregnant. Your e-mails and texts expose your intimate and casual friends. Google knows what youre thinking because it saves your private searches. Facebook can determine your sexu…
A Hacker's Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society's Rules, and How to Bend Them Back
Reimagining Democracy
Modern representative democracy reflects eighteenth-century technological limitations, and innovations based on new technological capacities are needed. In a series of workshops at the Harvard Kennedy School, fifty invitees in 2022 and 2023 discussed representation frameworks, mechanisms of direct democracy, the delegation of decisions to artificial intelligence systems, and alternative models (such as sortition and liquid democracy) for the sele…
The impact of advanced AI systems on democracy
Computer Science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Computer security (2 works) · Computer security (2 works) · Democracy (2 works) · Engineering (2 works) · Ethics and Social Impacts of AI (2 works) · Internet privacy (2 works) · Law (2 works)