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Bruce Schneier, founder and chief technical officer of BT Counterpane, told RSA delegates that they should not necessarily trust security vendors to give a fair representation of the security of those products.

"There might be a political bent to security decisions, or there might be a marketing bent," said Schneier. "People selling smartcards [for example] will do a lot to convince us that smartcards are the answer to security problems. For every company that's secure, there's at least one 'me too'."