Bruce Schneier’s Blowfish encryption algorithm was mangled again on the Fox show 24. According to Schneier’s Crypto-Gram blog, the show claims that Schneier put a backdoor in the algorithm. Based on reader comments on the Crypto-Gram blog, people will believe anything said on TV (or posted on the ‘net).
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Data is the Pollution of the Information Age
Bruce Schneier summarizes his earlier work on privacy in Privacy in the Age of Persistence, where he says, “Welcome to the future, where everything about you is saved.”
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