Bruce Schneier Blasts Politicians, Media
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Schneier pretty much always gets it right. Most of the time he's limiting his complaints & attacks on poorly designed & marketed software, and computer security issues. This time, he's in open war with the "leaders" who claim to be doing what's best for us, and those who tell us about it every day.
I don't honestly know how much of the problem is the level of self-serving behavior in the media & politicians, and how much is simply ignorance and incompetence. But the problem is enormous, and if we don't somehow manage to do something about it, we'll never be able to bring a drink on a plane again, we'll have to go through metal detectors & x-rays every time we enter a building (or the subway), and government cameras will track our every move.
I dunno about you, but somehow that isn't the brilliant, glowing future I had naively expected as a kid. And that really depresses me.
- posted by Hoff @ 11:22 AM