Bruce Schneier awarded fellowship at Harvard's Berkman Center

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/07/my_fellowship_a.html

by frostmatthew • 13 years ago

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opminion6• 13 years ago

Given the academic setting, perhaps it is a great chance and timing for Schneier to work on the computing equivalent of Popper's Open Society [1] and Literature's narrative with an Unreliable Narrator? [2].

This would amount to something like "computing on top of an untrustable technical, social and political stack", in relation to Kernighan's "You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself" [3].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_society

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unreliable_narrator

[3] http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html

dfc4• 13 years ago

Is this something he has indicated that he wants to work on? Or are you just hoping he will decide to work on these three concepts that you find interesting?

opminion6• 13 years ago

It's a refinement of the fellowship's description: explore the intersection of security, technology, and people -- with a particular emphasis on power https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/newsroom/2013_2014_community

epo• 13 years ago

Or perhaps, in place of this entirely irrelevant and fictitious shopping list you could just read the article where he says what he is going to try to do.

opminion6• 13 years ago

No, the only topic the article mentions is "security and power and technology".

How can a suggestion for a research topic be "fictitious"?

zissou• 13 years ago

Damn, just when I leave Harvard, Schneier comes to town. Would have loved to do some work with him on security theater.

acti0nman• 13 years ago

It would be awesome if he could do an informal talk at the Boston Security Meetup. We'd all love to hear him! http://www.meetup.com/boston-security-meetup/

Bruce Schneier awarded fellowship at Harvard's Berkman Center

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