Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast, Episode #83: An Interview with Bruce Schneier at "Privacy. Security. Risk. 2015"
Bruce Schneier joins Stewart Baker and Alan Cohn for an episode recorded live in front of an audience of security and privacy professionals. Appearing at the conference Privacy. Security. Risk.
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Bruce Schneier joins Stewart Baker and Alan Cohn for an episode recorded live in front of an audience of security and privacy professionals. Appearing at the conference Privacy. Security. Risk. 2015., sponsored by the IAPP and the Cloud Security Alliance, Bruce Schneier talks through recent developments in law and technology.
The three of us stare into the pit opened by an overwrought (and overdue and overweening) European Court of Justice advisor. If the European Court of Justice follows his lead (and what seems to be its inclinations), we could face a true crisis in transatlantic relations.
VW’s decision to hack its own emissions control software leads to a deep dive into the internet of things that lie to us, the value (or not) of open source, and whether plausible deniability is the next skill that programmers will have to learn.
We also talk China, the OPM hack, and the unique value and unique vulnerability of biometric authenticators. Bruce and Alan dig into the proposed export control rules for intrusion software; when they’re done, so is the case for the rules. The right to be forgotten leads to an exploration of when we should delegate law-making to private companies. I promise a detailed analysis in the future of Google’s law-making to date, and hint that it will not make us more fond of private and hidden law making.
Finally, I ask a hard question about Edward Snowden that no one has asked since he first burst on the scene: Is he so in the tank for the Digital Millennium Copyright Act that he can’t imagine intelligent life anywhere in the universe without it?
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