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Bruce Schneier
For Bruce Schneier's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 25, 2013
On guard against worker betrayal
The debacle of Edward Snowden walking away with electronic copies of thousands of classified documents illustrates the challenge of trusting people in any organization.
LIFE / Digital
Dec 30, 2009
Cold War encryption is unrealistic in today's trenches
Sometimes mediocre encryption is better than strong encryption, and sometimes no encryption is better still.
LIFE / Digital
Nov 18, 2009
Nature's fears extend to online behavior
It's hard work being prey. Watch the birds at a feeder. They're constantly on alert, and will fly away from food — from easy nutrition — at the slightest movement or sound. Given that I've never, ever seen a bird plucked from a feeder by a predator, it seems like a whole lot of wasted effort against a small threat.
LIFE / Digital
Sep 23, 2009
Can firms trust cloud computing?
This year's overhyped IT concept is cloud computing. Also called software as a service (SaaS), cloud computing is when you run software over the Internet and access it via a browser. Both Google Docs and salesforce.com's customer management software are examples of this.
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LIFE / Digital
Aug 19, 2009
Offhand but on record
Facebook recently made changes to its service agreement in order to make members' data more accessible to other computer users. Amuse, Inc. announced last week that hackers stole credit-card information from about 150,000 clients. Hackers broke into the social network Twitter's system and stole documents.

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High-end tourism is becoming more about the kinds of experiences that Japan's lesser-known places can provide.
Can Japan lure the jet-set class off the beaten path?