It seems Schneier is saying less and less specific, fundamental issues and speaking more of abstract, high-level political and social concepts. He seems to hav

It seems Schneier is saying less and less specific, fundamental issues and speaking more of abstract, high-level political and social concepts. He seems to have lost all power over his understanding of important breaking security issues and is left playing catch-up trying to understand what has already happened. My guess this is a result of the privatization/monitization/markets of zero-days, re-establishing control of technology by the classic economic systems, and taking it from engineers and experts. That said, I don't think I'll bother reading anything else from Schneier's desk from this point forward. If he thinks that the "battle" is being fought on the edge of corporate networks, he's lost the trees for the forest. The real battle is happening for eyes and ears, on the streets, like it always has been. Less and less, some random person who happens to be the descendant of some king thinks the way the entire IT market needs to move so that "society" doesn't collapse, less and less is anyone listening to that person or believing he has any power. Real Time web of things or whatever you want to call it, nobody is buying it. If he thinks that people buying an iPod is signing allegiance to Apple's security forces, well he's wrong. If he thinks EULAs are going to be enforced in court, he's wrong. So considering those two flaws in the foundation of his world view, the rest of his rambling screed has been lost to the world of fiction.