The Fall of Trust and the Rise of Silicon Valley …

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Yesterday was a special day for us. In the morning, we hosted Bruce Schneier, and then in the evening it was Andreas Antonopoulos. Both speakers outlined their vision for the future. And, as the sun shone, we were off to our Craiglockhart Campus:

For Bruce, he painted a world that is now filled with computers, and that our traditional viewpoint of them is changing. He also outlined the risks around our existing ways are also changing, and that we often just scale our old world into our new one:

From Bruce, trust is often failing to scale into this inter-connected world, and where we must build up new trust methods. For him, we are trying to build a secure world on top of an insecure infrastructure:

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Prof Bill Buchanan OBE FRSE
ASecuritySite: When Bob Met Alice

Professor of Cryptography. Serial innovator. Believer in fairness, justice & freedom. Based in Edinburgh. Old World Breaker. New World Creator. Building trust.