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Inside The Twisted Mind of Bruce Schneier
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Bruce Schneier has an essay on the mind of security professionals like himself, and why it's something that can't easily be taught. Many people simply don't see security threats or the potential ways in which things can be abused because they don't intend to abuse them. But security pros, even those who don't abuse what they find, have a different way of looking at things. They always try to figure out all the angles or how someone could beat the system. In one of his examples, Bruce talks about how, after buying one of Uncle Milton's Ant Farms, he was enamored with the idea that they would mail a tube of live ants to anyone you asked them to. Schneier's article was inspired by a University of Washington course in which the professor is attempting to teach the 'security mindset.' Students taking the course have been encouraged to post security reviews on a class blog."
This article confirms to me that Bruce Schneier is an ego maniac, without much good reason. What has he ever done ? He wrote a crappy as hell book that people like because they don't understand it. He did blowfish, which is one of a MILLION symmetric crypto systems, which btw, is totally easier than public key crypto, and he did a recent entry to the AES contest, but it wasn't his work it was with other people, and it turned out to suck anyway if you read the reviews of it.