AI Surveillance and Social Progress
In the near future, AI-powered surveillance systems will be able to track everything we do in public, and much of what we do in private. And if we do somethi...
Schneier on Security
20 articles
The Language of AI Could Change How Humans Speak
Last week, national security agencies from the Five Eyes—that’s the rich, English-language-speaking countries club—jointly released a statement warning of th...
Cybersecurity and the Gap Between Skill and Ability
Last week, national security agencies from the Five Eyes—that’s the rich, English-language-speaking countries club—jointly released a statement warning of th...
Google Is Suing Chinese Scammers Who Are Using Gemini
Not sure this will have any effect, but I support the effort: According to Google’s legal filing, Outsider Enterprise operates through Telegram. The group of...
France to Stop Certifying Non-Quantum-Safe Encryption
France is accelerating its transition to post-quantum encryption: France’s cybersecurity agency ANSSI said on Tuesday it would stop certifying security produ...
Flock Cameras Can Surveil Cars Without License Plates
This is from a 2024 company presentation: Officers can also tap into data showing a car’s decals, bumper stickers, back and top racks—along with temporary an...
Cybersecurity Mission Creep in the US
Interesting paper: “Cybersecurity Mission Creep.” Abstract: Cybersecurity is experiencing mission creep.
Papa Johns Surveillance-Based Advertising
Papa Johns is spying on people’s buying activities to predict when they are low on food: The pizza chain recently tapped NBCUniversal, Instacart and the dent...
The Realities of AI Video Surveillance
The Financial Times has a good article on how AI is changing the capabilities of video surveillance, with information from both Israel/Iran and Russia. I wro...
Factoring RSA Keys with Many Zeros
Interesting research on a new class of weak RSA keys: keys with lots of zeros. It turns out that these keys are out in the wild.
Robot Police Officers
We’ve taken one small step towards robot police officers: a drone capable of disarming a suspect: In a June 22 video posted on the Sacramento County Sheriff’...
The Chinese Control the Majority of Argentina’s Squid Fleet
Chinese companies control nearly two-thirds of Argentina’s own squid fleet.
Meta Is Testing Facial Recognition for Police and Military
We know that ICE wants to deploy eyeglasses with facial recognition that can identify people in real time. Turns out Meta is prototyping the feature with a P...
One Million Passports Leaked Online
A database of almost a million passports from around the world was leaked online. Note what happened.
AI and Liability
Earlier this month, a German court ruled that Google is liable for its AI search summaries. Rejecting defenses like “users can check for themselves,” and tha...
Interesting Paper Exploring Prompt Injection
This is a fascinating explotation of how LLMs fall for prompt injection attacks. It turns out that they learn to recognize the style of text in different rol...
Embedding Forbidden Text in Spyware to Discourage AI Analysis
At least one malware developer is adding text about nuclear and biological weapons to their spyware, in an effort to stop automatic AI analysis. Details: The...
Anthropic’s Fable 5 Model Jailbroken Within Days
Fable 5 is the supposed safe version of Anthropic’s Mythos Preview, with guardrails to ensure that it can’t be used to create cyberattacks. Well, that restri...
Professional Athletes and Wearables
I haven’t thought about the privacy issues surrounding professional athletes and wearables. Wearables present serious privacy issues for “Average Joe” consum...
Friday Squid Blogging: Victims of Unregulated Squid Fishing
Dolphins, sharks, turtles, and human workers are all victims of unregulated squid fishing fleets. Another news article.