{"id":19523,"date":"2013-03-21T09:17:31","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T14:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=19523"},"modified":"2013-03-21T09:17:31","modified_gmt":"2013-03-21T14:17:31","slug":"the-technological-imbalance-between-security-and-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/03\/21\/the-technological-imbalance-between-security-and-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"The technological imbalance between security and threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2013\/03\/when_technology.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bruce Schneier<\/a> on the power of technology in a security context:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A core, not side, effect of technology is its ability to magnify power and multiply force &mdash; for both attackers and defenders. One side creates ceramic handguns, laser-guided missiles, and new-identity theft techniques, while the other side creates anti-missile defense systems, fingerprint databases, and automatic facial recognition systems.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is that it&#8217;s not balanced: Attackers generally benefit from new security technologies before defenders do. They have a first-mover advantage. They&#8217;re more nimble and adaptable than defensive institutions like police forces. They&#8217;re not limited by bureaucracy, laws, or ethics. They can evolve faster. And entropy is on their side &mdash; it&#8217;s easier to destroy something than it is to prevent, defend against, or recover from that destruction.<\/p>\n<p>For the most part, though, society still wins. The bad guys simply can&#8217;t do enough damage to destroy the underlying social system. The question for us is: can society still maintain security as technology becomes more advanced?<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think it can.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce Schneier on the power of technology in a security context: A core, not side, effect of technology is its ability to magnify power and multiply force &mdash; for both attackers and defenders. One side creates ceramic handguns, laser-guided missiles, and new-identity theft techniques, while the other side creates anti-missile defense systems, fingerprint databases, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,10,15],"tags":[343,98,334,257],"class_list":["post-19523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-liberty","category-technology","tag-crimeandpunishment","tag-police","tag-security","tag-terrorism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-54T","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19524,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19523\/revisions\/19524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}