". . . Although cybersecurity is a hot-button issue in policy circles, progress is hindered by bureaucratic lethargy, especially on fundamental questions. In July, the US Government Accountability Office reported that 1,000 of its recommendations for addressing cyber threats have yet to be implemented, placing government information systems increasingly at risk. Governance seems to be an even harder problem than cybersecurity, leaving Schneier to predict that the United States “will do nothing soon”. . .
Steven Aftergood assesses a warning about the future of the Internet in this timely review of a new book by Bruce Schneier published by Norton
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Governments want your smart devices to have stupid security flaws
Click Here to Kill Everybody: Security and Survival in a Hyper-connected World
Bruce Schneier W. W. Norton (2018)
Hardly a day now passes without reports of a massive breach of computer security and the theft or compromise of confidential data. That digital nightmare is about to get much worse, asserts security technologist Bruce Schneier in "Click Here to Kill Everybody", his critique of government inertia on Internet security.
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