On Monday 06 October, computer security expert Bruce Schneier will speak at The Second Annual Front Line Defenders Lecture to be held in partnership with University College Dublin and Trinity College Dublin.
This public lecture, entitled "Is it Possible to be Safe Online? Human Rights Defenders and the Internet", will explore the issues faced by human rights defenders and activists on the ground as the use of computers and the Internet in their work is becoming increasingly commonplace and the threats posed by governments manipulating, monitoring and subverting electronic information, increased surveillance and censorship and the lack of security for digitally communicated and stored information is on the rise.
Bruce Schneier is an internationally renowned security technologist, called a 'security guru' by The Economist. He is the author of 12 books - including Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust Society Needs to Survive - as well as hundreds of articles, essays and academic papers. His influential monthly newsletter 'Crypto-Gram' and blog 'Schneier on Security' are read by over 250,000 people.
Schneier is a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School where he explores the intersection of security, technology and people, with an emphasis on power. He is also a program fellow at the New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute, a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and an Advisory Board member of the Electronic Privacy Information Center. He is also the Chief Technology Officer of Co3 Systems, Inc.
His first bestseller, Applied Cryptography, explained how the arcane science of secret codes actually works, and was described by Wired as 'the book the National Security Agency wanted never to be published'. His book on computer and network security, Secrets and Lies, was called '[a] jewel box of little surprises you can actually use' by Fortune. Beyond Fear tackles the problems of security from the small to the large: personal safety, crime, corporate security, national security.
His current book, Schneier on Security, offers insight into everything from the risk of identity theft (vastly overrated) to the long-range security threat of unchecked presidential power and the surprisingly simple way to tamper-proof elections.
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