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Is Bruce Schneier Leaving His Job At BT?

Posted by samzenpus on from the parting-ways dept.

hawkinspeter writes "The Register is hosting an exclusive that Bruce Schneier will be leaving his position at BT as security futurologist. From the article: 'News of the parting of the ways reached El Reg via a leaked internal email. Our source suggested that Schneier was shown the door because of his recent comments about the NSA and GCHQ's mass surveillance activities.'"

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  1. Is Bruce Schneier Leaving His Job At BT? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I DON'T KNOW

    1. Re:Is Bruce Schneier Leaving His Job At BT? by digitrev · · Score: 4, Funny

      Betteridge's law of headlines strongly suggests no.

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    2. Re:Is Bruce Schneier Leaving His Job At BT? by auric_dude · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Why not ask the NSA, I'd expect them to know.

    3. Re:Is Bruce Schneier Leaving His Job At BT? by dale.furno · · Score: 2

      But it actually makes sense here, so next time have some balls and dont post as AC.

    4. Re:Is Bruce Schneier Leaving His Job At BT? by thoth · · Score: 2

      Maybe he's leaving BT to work for NSA!

    5. Re:Is Bruce Schneier Leaving His Job At BT? by evilviper · · Score: 2

      And my magic 8-ball agrees whole heartedly...

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  2. Speak Your Mind by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's OK to speak your mind ... just make sure your resume is up-to-date before hand.

    1. Re:Speak Your Mind by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      Dude, this is Bruce Schneier we're talking about. If his resume ever gets out of date, he just generates a block of random bits, decrypts it using the infinite one time pad he memorized in grade school, and voila: an up to date resume.

  3. Even in leaving he makes a prediction by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2

    We're back to the wild west days of the early Internet. Nothing is secure and new strategies will have to be devised for a model that assumes that no part of a network connection is secure, both in hardware and software. Remember software bloat? Welcome to encryption bloat.

  4. working relationship had come to its "natural end" by mysidia · · Score: 2

    Translation: His contract to remain on, after the acquisition ran out.

    He may have been the CTO of counterpane, but not enough room for two CTOs of BT after the acquisition.

    Naturally, the CTO of the acquirer would normally keep the position.

  5. Makes Sense by fermion · · Score: 5, Insightful
    IIRC, when Schneier sold his company to BT one of the stipulations is that he run Crypto-Gram separate from the company. Up until then the newsletter was essentially published as part of company. BT did not any confusion that the opinions in Cryto-Gram were in any related to BT. So schneier.com was founded.

    The other day he posted a story about how the existence of a security threat, even if is not exploited, creates mistrust. So given we know that the NSA and GCHQ are spying, we are naturally suspicious of BT, even if they are not part of the spying. Now if they are ejecting a person critical of the spying, we are even more suspicious, even if they are not doing anything wrong.

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  6. Re:I want his job! by lxs · · Score: 2

    You hired! When can you start?

  7. Re:Betteridge's law of headlines says... by hawkinspeter · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Funnily enough, I submitted this with a different headline. I went with "Bruce Schneier is leaving his job at BT" and put the following (shorter) summary:

    "The Register is hosting an exclusive that Bruce Schneier (the famed cryptologist http://www.schneierfacts.com/ ) will be leaving his position at BT as security futurologist."

    Looks like the editors wanted to change it around a bit.

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  8. Re:Yes, he is. by hawkinspeter · · Score: 2

    I actually submitted this with a statement as the headline and the editors have decided to change it to a question. I was amazed as I didn't think the editors really existed.

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  9. Re:Security Futurologist by bill_mcgonigle · · Score: 3, Insightful


    Now if there isn't a more worthless job title, I'm not sure what it is.

    It's an awesome job title - it means: "This guy is so froody we let him do whatever he wants with no expectations and we pay him for that."

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  10. Re:Yes, he is. by lxs · · Score: 5, Funny

    Somebody has to insert the typos into the summaries.