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Given the academic setting, perhaps it is a great chance and timing for Schneier to work on the computing equivalent of Popper's Open Society [1] and Literature
by opminion 13y ago
Given the academic setting, perhaps it is a great chance and timing for Schneier to work on the computing equivalent of Popper's Open Society [1] and Literature's narrative with an Unreliable Narrator? [2].
This would amount to something like "computing on top of an untrustable technical, social and political stack", in relation to Kernighan's "You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself" [3].
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_society http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_society
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unreliable_narrator http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unreliable_narrator
[3] http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html
- dfc 13y agoIs this something he has indicated that he wants to work on? Or are you just hoping he will decide to work on these three concepts that you find interesting?
- opminion 13y agoIt's a refinement of the fellowship's description: explore the intersection of security, technology, and people -- with a particular emphasis on power https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/newsroom/2013_2014_community https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/newsroom/2013_2014_community
- dfc 13y agoYou meant your interpretation not refinement?
- opminion 13y agoIt's not an interpretation, it's a suggestion of a more specific (which is what I meant with "refined") idea. Both the article and the linked fellowship description only mention a very broad topic. A bit like when I tell you that I'm making a salad, and you suggest that I try quinoa.
- dfc 13y agoIf you were already making a salad why would I suggest you try a different salad?
- opminion 13y agoSchneier's post only mentions that he is going to work on security, power and technology as research topics. That's quite broad, so I suggested something that may be interesting within that.
- dfc 13y agoSo you could have just responded "Yes, I am hoping he will decide to work on these three concepts that I find interesting" to my original question.
- opminion 13y agoYes, I could, and I meant that when I said that it was a suggestion. I take from this that there is something (unintentionally) ambiguous or misleading in my original post, I'll check that.
- epo 13y agoOr perhaps, in place of this entirely irrelevant and fictitious shopping list you could just read the article where he says what he is going to try to do.
- opminion 13y agoNo, the only topic the article mentions is "security and power and technology". How can a suggestion for a research topic be "fictitious"?