Category: Schneier news
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Laurie Anderson Is Quoting Me
Laurie Anderson Is Quoting Me Not by name, but Laurie Anderson quotes me in one of the tracks of her new album: My favorite quote is from a cryptologist who said “If you think technology will solve your problems, you don’t understand technology and you don’t understand your problems.” Also in interviews: “Of course, it’s…
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Upcoming Speaking Engagements
Upcoming Speaking Engagements This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m giving a virtual talk on “The Security of Trust in the Age of AI,” hosted by the Financial Women’s Association of New York, at 6:00 PM ET on May 21, 2026. I’m speaking at the Potsdam Conference…
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Upcoming Speaking Engagements
Upcoming Speaking Engagements This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m speaking at DemocracyXChange 2026 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on April 18, 2026. I’m speaking at the SANS AI Cybersecurity Summit 2026 in Arlington, Virginia, USA, at 9:40 AM ET on April 20, 2026. I’m speaking at the…
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Upcoming Speaking Engagements
Upcoming Speaking Engagements This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m giving the Ross Anderson Lecture at the University of Cambridge’s Churchill College at 5:30 PM GMT on Thursday, March 19, 2026. I’m speaking at RSAC 2026 in San Francisco, California, USA, on Wednesday, March 25, 2026. I’m…
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Upcoming Speaking Engagements
Upcoming Speaking Engagements This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m speaking at Ontario Tech University in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada, at 2 PM ET on Thursday, February 26, 2026. I’m speaking at the Personal AI Summit in Los Angeles, California, USA, on Thursday, March 5, 2026. I’m speaking…
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Rewiring Democracy Ebook is on Sale
Rewiring Democracy Ebook is on Sale I just noticed that the ebook version of Rewriring Democracy is on sale for $5 on Amazon, Apple Books, Barnes & Noble, Books A Million, Google Play, Kobo, and presumably everywhere else in the US. I have no idea how long this will last. Also, Amazon has a coupon…
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I Am in the Epstein Files
I Am in the Epstein Files Once. Someone named “Vincenzo lozzo” wrote to Epstein in email, in 2016: “I wouldn’t pay too much attention to this, Schneier has a long tradition of dramatizing and misunderstanding things.” The topic of the email is DDoS attacks, and it is unclear what I am dramatizing and misunderstanding. Rabbi…
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Upcoming Speaking Engagements
Upcoming Speaking Engagements This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m speaking at the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, on January 27, 2026, at 1:30 PM ET. I’m speaking at the Université de Montréal in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, on January 29, 2026,…
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Upcoming Speaking Engagements
Upcoming Speaking Engagements This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m speaking and signing books at the Chicago Public Library in Chicago, Illinois, USA, at 6:00 PM CT on February 5, 2026. Details to come. I’m speaking at Capricon 44 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. The convention runs February…
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More on Rewiring Democracy
More on Rewiring Democracy It’s been a month since Rewiring Democracy: How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government, and Citizenship was published. From what we know, sales are good. Some of the book’s forty-three chapters are available online: chapters 2, 12, 28, 34, 38, and 41. We need more reviews—six on Amazon is not enough,…
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Upcoming Speaking Engagements
Upcoming Speaking Engagements This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: My coauthor Nathan E. Sanders and I are speaking at the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, DC at noon ET on November 17, 2025. The event is hosted by the POPVOX Foundation and the topic is “AI…
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Upcoming Speaking Engagements
Upcoming Speaking Engagements This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: Nathan E. Sanders and I will be giving a book talk on Rewiring Democracy at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Ash Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, on October 22, 2025, at noon ET. Nathan E. Sanders and I will be…
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Upcoming Speaking Engagements
Upcoming Speaking Engagements This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m speaking and signing books at the Cambridge Public Library on October 22, 2025 at 6 PM ET. The event is sponsored by Harvard Bookstore. I’m giving a virtual talk about my book Rewiring Democracy at 1 PM…
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My Latest Book: Rewiring Democracy
My Latest Book: Rewiring Democracy I am pleased to announce the imminent publication of my latest book, Rewiring Democracy: How AI will Transform our Politics, Government, and Citizenship: coauthored with Nathan Sanders, and published by MIT Press on October 21. Rewiring Democracy looks beyond common tropes like deepfakes to examine how AI technologies will affect…
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I’m Spending the Year at the Munk School
I’m Spending the Year at the Munk School This academic year, I am taking a sabbatical from the Kennedy School and Harvard University. (It’s not a real sabbatical—I’m just an adjunct—but it’s the same idea.) I will be spending the Fall 2025 and Spring 2026 semesters at the Munk School at the University of Toronto.…
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Upcoming Speaking Engagements
Upcoming Speaking Engagements This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m speaking at the International Conference on Digital Trust, AI and the Future in Edinburgh, Scotland on Tuesday, June 24 at 4:00 PM. The list is maintained on this page. Bruce Schneier Go to bruce schneier
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Upcoming Speaking Engagements
Upcoming Speaking Engagements This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m speaking (remotely) at the Sektor 3.0 Festival in Warsaw, Poland, May 21-22, 2025. The list is maintained on this page. Bruce Schneier Go to bruce schneier
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Privacy for Agentic AI
Privacy for Agentic AI Sooner or later, it’s going to happen. AI systems will start acting as agents, doing things on our behalf with some degree of autonomy. I think it’s worth thinking about the security of that now, while its still a nascent idea. In 2019, I joined Inrupt, a company that is commercializing…
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Upcoming Speaking Engagements
Upcoming Speaking Engagements This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m giving an online talk on AI and trust for the Weizenbaum Institute on April 24, 2025 at 2:00 PM CEST (8:00 AM ET). The list is maintained on this page. B. Schneier Go to bruce schneier
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Upcoming Speaking Engagements
Upcoming Speaking Engagements This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m speaking at the Rossfest Symposium in Cambridge, UK, on March 25, 2025. I’m speaking at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management in Toronto, Canada, on April 3, 2025. The list is maintained on this page.…
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Upcoming Speaking Engagements
Upcoming Speaking Engagements This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m speaking at Boskone 62 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, which runs from February 14-16, 2025. My talk is at 4:00 PM ET on the 15th. I’m speaking at the Rossfest Symposium in Cambridge, UK, on March 25, 2025.…
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Upcoming Speaking Engagements
Upcoming Speaking Engagements This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m speaking on “AI: Trust & Power” at Capricon 45 in Chicago, Illinois, USA, at 11:30 AM on February 7, 2025. I’m also signing books there on Saturday, February 8, starting at 1:45 PM. I’m speaking at Boskone…