Deep Currents

Bruce Schneier just wrote up a thoughtful review of Here Comes Everybody, and he does a good job highlighting what it means for security that it is now cheap and easy to for groups to assemble:

We never realized how much our security could be attributed to distance and inconvenience — how difficult it is to recruit, organize, coordinate, and communicate without formal organizations. That inadvertent measure of security is now gone. Bad guys, from hacker groups to terrorist groups, will use the same ad hoc organizational technologies that the rest of us do. And while there has been some success in closing down individual Web pages, discussion groups, and blogs, these are just stopgap measures.

Written: November 26th, 2008