Bruce Schneier Becomes CTO of Co3 Systems 37
An anonymous reader writes "Co3 Systems announced that Bruce Schneier has officially joined the company in the role of its first CTO. Schneier joins Co3 after spending seven years as BT's Chief Security Technology Officer and the previous seven years as CTO of Counterpane Security. Schneier's formal engagement with Co3 Systems began early last year when he joined the company's Advisory Board. His intersections with the Co3 team date much farther back to when he and Co3's CEO John Bruce worked together at Counterpane."
Re: He wrote the book on cryptography (Score:1)
No and no.
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Finally, a man that knows himself. Maybe he should be President of the US...
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I thought -CO3 was carbonate
Re:Conway group? (Score:4, Funny)
I thought -CO3 was carbonate
Better warn Han Solo, it looks like Bruce is turning to the dark side.
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Co3S announced that BS has officially joined the company in the role of its first CTO. S joins Co3 after spending seven years as BT's CSTO and the previous seven years as CTOOCS. S's formal engagement with Co3S began early last year when he joined the company's AB. His intersections with the Co3 team date much farther back to when he and Co3CEO JB worked together at CP
Get it now?
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I don't trust URL shorteners and figured I would save everyone the time that I wasted in expanding it.
Re:Why should Schneier's jobs make the front page (Score:5, Insightful)
Because Bruce Schneier can easily arrange to get a lot of upvotes for story submissions about him.
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Is that a fact? I checked the database and I didn't see that one.
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"easily" ?
You mean: the upvotes arrange themselves for Bruce! And stories submit to him
But to answer your question, the pages simply gather behind Bruce -- unless Chuck Norris says otherwise, but I think he voted on this one too.
Re:Why should Schneier's jobs make the front page (Score:5, Informative)
Why should Schneier's jobs make the front page
We just had a story about Bezo's fucking kidney stone.
ANYTHING is more relevant than that.
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Co3 isn't even a notable company.
Nope, but they do press releases about their executive appointments, and the releases get posted to every site where their marketing contractor has an agreement. Now you just need to determine what company that is, and their arrangement with Dice Holdings, Inc.
But CO3 (Score:2)
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You're an idiot, their clearly talking about Cobalt and not a carbon-oxide, learn to read.
Re:Bold Move (Score:5, Interesting)
I expect between whatever lump-sum he got when BT bought Counterpane, his actual salary at BT, and his writing and speaking engagements, he's not particularly worried about the next mortgage payment.
Schneier denying it for the record? (Score:1)
Where in that URL does Schneier deny he is working on the Snowden documents with the Guardian/NYT?
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'Yes, it's true. And contrary to rumors, this has nothing to do with the NSA or GCHQ. No, BT wasn't always happy with my writings on the topic, but it knew that I am an independent thinker and didn't try to muzzle me in any way. I'm just ready to leave. I spent seven years at BT,
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Aside from the rumors that he got quietly shitcanned from BT rather than leaving of his own accord, apparently the CEO/founder of Co3 Systems, John Bruce, is an old buddy of his from the Counterpane days.
And In An Unrelated News Story (Score:2)
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The sun never sets on the British Empire! It also never sets on the French Empire. I'm sure you could argue that it doesn't set on the Americunt Empire for that matter.
Personally, I make sure the sun never sets on me, and therefore there never is a sun rise, by fleeing west ahead of it. My birthday shall never end!
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The sun never sets on the British Empire!
...because you can't trust an Englishman in the dark :)
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If you read further you will see the words: " Although I have started using Tails."
Tails is most certainly is not Windoze. Now, as for Windoze not being secure, at least it is "the devil you know." It has had a decade of hardening. Unlike some of the Linuxes, which use the insecure UEFI for booting, Windoze uses legacy BIOS, which is better characterized for boot kits. There is a lot more to security than is obvious on the surface. If you were a security professional, you would understand that. Meanwhile, p
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I'm glad Schneier has started using TAILS: He may get some exposure to I2P (included with the distro) and stop prattling on about fighting mass surveillance with more heaps of application-level encryption and 'do some more Tor, too'. That turn-of-the-century mindset is what lead to such spotty privacy and security in the first place... it turns people off by asking them to be mindful of too many standards and implementations.
With I2P, all I usually need to know is whether a certain app is written for it and
Congrats Bruce (Score:1)
Have fun