Schneier: We’re Sleepwalking Towards Digital Disaster…

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RSA 2016: Security guru Bruce Schneier has issued a stark warning to the RSA 2016 conference â€“ get smart or face a whole world of trouble. The level of interconnectedness of the world’s technology is increasing daily, he said, and is becoming a world-sized web – which he acknowledged was a horrible term – made up of sensors, distributed computers, cloud systems, mobile, and autonomous data processing units. And no one is quite sure where it is all heading.

“The world-sized web will change everything,” he said. “It will cause more real-world consequences, has fewer off switches, and gives more power to the powerful. It’s less being designed than created and it’s coming with no forethought or planning. And most people are unaware that it’s coming.”

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