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Bruce Schneier Talks Brain Heuristics and Security

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the just-because-you're-paranoid dept.

ancientribe writes "Bruce Schneier is at it again: the security icon shares his latest research and insight on the interplay between psychology and security in this article in Dark Reading. The focus of Schneier's latest research is on brain heuristics and perceptions of security, which may be the basis for the best-selling author's next book. His goal for the topic, which he'll be presenting at the RSA Conference next week, is to focus on how people think, and feel, about security, and how neuroscience can help explain how our perception of risk doesn't always match reality."

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  1. Its all in your.. by scoot80 · · Score: 3, Funny

    head.. as a matter of fact.. this reply is all in your head too.. it doesn't exist..

  2. That word. . . by Skadet · · Score: 4, Funny

    Bruce Schneier once again is turning security on its head -- literally.
    That word. . . I don't think it means what you think it means.
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    Sony ha
    1. Re:That word. . . by rkanodia · · Score: 3, Funny

      So your validity-seeking tweed jackets propose that the word 'literally' has no semantic content. I can't wait to hear other ways in which emergent online paradigms can synergistically leverage new value-adding phenomena!

    2. Re:That word. . . by vertinox · · Score: 2, Funny

      Actually, security is a man named Steve at the front desk. Bruce has been getting him in a head lock and pile driving him in a wrestling move during the company get together.

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      "I am the king of the Romans, and am superior to rules of grammar!"
      -Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (1368-1437)
  3. Bruce Schneier is my homeboy by bigredradio · · Score: 5, Funny

    More facts about Bruce. http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/

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    Flexible bare-metal recovery for Linux/UNIX
  4. "Old news" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    When one of the reporters asked for a copy of Mr. Schneier's notes during the presentation, he handed her two pages of ciphertext.

  5. Re:A slightly different analogy. by MillionthMonkey · · Score: 3, Funny

    He's got herpes. She doesn't. They take VALTREX to keep it that way. So her neocortex is all hot for him. But her amygdala isn't convinced. Because he has herpes.