Originally Posted by
christep
Eh? Bruce Schneier's day job is Chief Security Technology Officer for BT. I don't think he merits your sarcastic quotation marks when describing him as a security professional.
No, clearly not: I had forgotten about all those Al Qaida-backed terrorists who've abandoned the hills of Afghanistan to run around inside BT's computer systems.
I mean, just WTF does someone like him know about counter-terrorism? He's in a different field altogether. You might as well ask a taxi driver to investigate air accidents, on the basis that he happens to drive a mechanically-propelled machine. There are many valid discussions and debates that can be had about whether what is being done is pitched at the right level, but I would have thought that a pre-requisite for engaging in that is some appropriate knowledge and expertise.
As for the people who actually do the counter-terrorism stuff day in and day out, their record of success speaks for itself.