Liars and Outliers Bruce Schneier: Enabling the Trust That Society Needs to Thrive

Acknowledgments

I consider writing a book to be a social as well as a solitary activity. As such, I have a great number of people to thank.

First, thank you to all the participants of the four Security and Human Behavior Workshops, for sparking many of the ideas that went into this book. Thank you to my primary researcher, Kathleen Seidel, for her ability to find just what I need whether I know it exists or not, and also to Deborah Pursch for additional research. Thank you to the Hennepin County Library, which already had many of the books I needed, and got me absolutely everything else I asked for via interlibrary loan…even if I could only keep any one thing for three weeks.

Thank you to all the people who read this book in varying stages of completion. Steve Bass, Charles Faulkner, Greg Guerin, Victoria Gaile Laidler, Stephen Leigh, and David Prentiss read an early draft of the book, and were especially helpful in organizing my initial ideas. Dorothy Denning and Jay Walker read a later draft, and both suggested a reframing—on the same day, coincidentally—that turned out to be particularly useful. Rebecca Kessler gave the book a badly needed final edit. Andrew Acquisti, Andrew Adams, Michael Albaugh, Ross Anderson, Marcia Ballinger, Jason Becker, David Brown, Steve Brust, Tyler Burns, Jon Callas, David Campbell, Raphael Carter, Cody Charette, Dave Clark, Ron Clarke, Chris Cocking, Karen Cooper, David Cowan, Tammy Coxen, Cory Doctorow, John Douceur, Kevin Drum, Nicole Emery, Oisin ...