With a well-deserved reputation for original and sometimes iconoclastic thought, Schneier has a lot to say that is provocative, counter-intuitive, and just plain good sense. He explains in detail, for example, why we need to design security systems that don't just work well, but fail well, and why secrecy on the part of government often undermines security.

Schneier, the highly regarded author of APPLIED CRYPTOGRAPHY and SECRETS AND LIES, turns his iconoclastic mind on the broader issues of security, including the vast infrastructure we already have in place, and the vaster systems--some useful, others useless or worse--that we're being asked to submit to and pay for.

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Bruce Schneier is the author of seven books, including Applied Cryptography which Wired called "the one book the National Security Agency wanted never to be published" and Secrets and Lies, described in Fortune as a "startlingly lively jewel box of little surprises you can actually use." He is also founder and Chief Technology Officer of Counterpane Internet Security, Inc., and publishes Crypto-Gram, one of the most widely read newsletters in the field of online security.

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Sensible Security.- All Security Involves Trade-offs.- Security Trade-offs Are Subjective.- Security Trade-offs Depend on Power and Agenda.- How Security Works.- Systems and How They Fail.- Knowing the Attackers.- Attackers Never Change Their Tunes, Just Their Instruments.- Technology Creates Security Imbalances.- Security Is a Weakest-Link Problem.- Brittleness Makes for Bad Security.- Security Revolves Around People.- Detection Works Where Prevention Fails.- Detection Is Useless Without Response.- Identification, Authentication, and Authorization.- All Countermeasures Have Some Value, But No Countermeasure Is Perfect.- Fighting Terrorism.- The Game of Security.- Negotiating for Security.- Security Demystified.