Bruce Schneier is one of the foremost experts on cryptography and is a well-known security author and commentator. Schneier: Antivirus products actually work, but antivirus does work. People believe what they see on the Net not because of television but because of the trappings of reality. Younger people have better bullshit detectors and they’ll pick it up, Schneier says. He says the solution is to make things that criminals are going after harder to get harder to obtain. In the U.S., the government doesn’t have the balls to require stuff like [stronger authentication].”]