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Me on COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps

Bruce Schneier | May 1, 2020 | baserate, bluetooth, covid19, falsenegatives, falsepositives, GPS, identification, Medicine, Privacy, surveillance, tracing

I was quoted in BuzzFeed: "My problem with contact tracing apps is that they have absolutely no value," Bruce Schneier, a privacy expert and fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet ...

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USB Cable Kill Switch for Laptops

Bruce Schneier | January 7, 2020 | dataprotection, falsepositives, hardware, Linux, securityengineering, theft

BusKill is designed to wipe your laptop (Linux only) if it is snatched from you in a public place: The idea is to connect the BusKill cable to your Linux laptop on ...

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Cardiac Biometric

Bruce Schneier | July 8, 2019 | biometrics, facerecognition, falsenegatives, falsepositives, identification, Medicine

MIT Technology Review is reporting about an infrared laser device that can identify people by their unique cardiac signature at a distance: A new device, developed for the Pentagon after US Special ...

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