Information is our only security weapon: Bruce Schneier

In his keynote address to the Linux conference currently being held in Melbourne, Australia, Slashdot notes that computer security expert Bruce Schneier took aim at several sacred cows in the area of security technology, including RFID tags, national ID cards, and public CCTV security cameras.

Schneier said that these technologies were all examples of security products tailored to provide the perception of security rather than actually tackling security risks and he notes that despite the well known impact of emotional and psychological thinking on security decisions, information remains the greatest weapon that we have in creating good security solutions.

For more commentary by Schneier, see iTnews.