Dan Geer
The Field’s Dissenting Economist
CyberInsecurity: The Cost of Monopoly, and getting fired for it
Rating
88Impact score
Domains
Security economicsRisk managementPolicy
Scouting report
Co-authored the 2003 CCIA report arguing that monoculture in operating systems was itself a national security risk, and was fired by @stake, then a Microsoft consultancy, the day it was published. Went on to serve as chief information security officer of In-Q-Tel and to give a run of Black Hat and USENIX keynotes that are still the most quoted long-form arguments about security policy the field has produced.
Curator’s note
Paid for the paper with his job, and the paper was right.
Portrait
Painted from a photograph of Dan Geer by Doc Searls from Santa Barbara, USA, licensed CC BY 2.0.
Sources
- 01Dan Geer en.wikipedia.org
- 02CyberInsecurity: The Cost of Monopoly (2003) schneier.com