Strange place to put this but I think it's training.
Bruce Schneier is a computer cryptologist who broke out of that envelope and started to address the psychology of fear.
If you are protecting something, yourself, your home, others or even a physical location this gets into the why something makes us afraid and helps focus on better risk analysis that goes "beyond fear".
Better yet, it gives you the vocabulary that helps you explain to others, and yourself, WHY some fears are irrational as the reasons are explained. He helps distinguish security between a feeling and a reality.
From his work:
Most of the time, when the perception of security doesn't match the reality of security, it's because the perception of the risk doesn't match the reality of the risk. We worry about the wrong things: paying too much attention to minor risks and not enough attention to major ones. We don't correctly assess the magnitude of different risks. A lot of this can be chalked up to bad information or bad mathematics, but there are some general pathologies that come up over and over again.
In Beyond Fear, I listed five:
Here he is talking about TSA security. Nice question from Ralph Nader in this video at the end.
Bruce Schneier on Airport Security - C-SPAN Video Library
An essay that goes over the 'mindset' of the book: http://www.schneier.com/essay-155.html
Bruce Schneier is a computer cryptologist who broke out of that envelope and started to address the psychology of fear.
If you are protecting something, yourself, your home, others or even a physical location this gets into the why something makes us afraid and helps focus on better risk analysis that goes "beyond fear".
Better yet, it gives you the vocabulary that helps you explain to others, and yourself, WHY some fears are irrational as the reasons are explained. He helps distinguish security between a feeling and a reality.
From his work:
Most of the time, when the perception of security doesn't match the reality of security, it's because the perception of the risk doesn't match the reality of the risk. We worry about the wrong things: paying too much attention to minor risks and not enough attention to major ones. We don't correctly assess the magnitude of different risks. A lot of this can be chalked up to bad information or bad mathematics, but there are some general pathologies that come up over and over again.
In Beyond Fear, I listed five:
- People exaggerate spectacular but rare risks and downplay common risks.
- People have trouble estimating risks for anything not exactly like their normal situation.
- Personified risks are perceived to be greater than anonymous risks.
- People underestimate risks they willingly take and overestimate risks in situations they can't control.
- Last, people overestimate risks that are being talked about and remain an object of public scrutiny,
Here he is talking about TSA security. Nice question from Ralph Nader in this video at the end.
Bruce Schneier on Airport Security - C-SPAN Video Library
An essay that goes over the 'mindset' of the book: http://www.schneier.com/essay-155.html
