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Schneier is good at times, but he doesn't always do as much due diligence as he should, and he never bothers to interact with his comment threads, answer questi
by Cpoll 6y ago
Schneier is good at times, but he doesn't always do as much due diligence as he should, and he never bothers to interact with his comment threads, answer questions, or publish retractions.
As a result, I've had more than one experience of arguing with people who take his old blog posts as gospel without ever thinking critically about them.
His article denouncing the XKCD password scheme is a gem, he doesn't bother (if it were anyone else I'd be less charitable and say doesn't know how) to calculate the entropy, and then he proposes an alternate scheme he invented that almost certainly provides less entropy and is more vulnerable to dictionary attacks.