Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier HomeBlog Friday Squid Blogging: Illex Squid in Argentina Waters Argentina is reporting that there is a good population of illex...
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David Kahn – Source: www.schneier.com
Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier HomeBlog Comments sam • February 2, 2024 5:18 PM I too was first intrigued by Kahn’s The Codebreakers. I feel...
A Self-Enforcing Protocol to Solve Gerrymandering – Source: www.schneier.com
Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier In 2009, I wrote: There are several ways two people can divide a piece of cake in half. One way...
Facebook’s Extensive Surveillance Network – Source: www.schneier.com
Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier Consumer Reports is reporting that Facebook has built a massive surveillance network: Using a panel of 709 volunteers who shared...
CFPB’s Proposed Data Rules – Source: www.schneier.com
Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier In October, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) proposed a set of rules that if implemented would transform how financial...
New Images of Colossus Released – Source: www.schneier.com
Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier HomeBlog Comments tfb • January 30, 2024 5:05 PM I do wonder whether the remaining colossi were really still useful...
NSA Buying Bulk Surveillance Data on Americans without a Warrant – Source: www.schneier.com
Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier HomeBlog Comments whoops • January 30, 2024 7:58 AM The problem is partly the legality of the NSA buying this....
Microsoft Executives Hacked – Source: www.schneier.com
Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier Microsoft is reporting that a Russian intelligence agency—the same one responsible for SolarWinds—accessed the email system of the company’s executives....
Friday Squid Blogging: Footage of Black-Eyed Squid Brooding Her Eggs – Source: www.schneier.com
Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier HomeBlog Friday Squid Blogging: Footage of Black-Eyed Squid Brooding Her Eggs Amazing footage of a black-eyed squid (Gonatus onyx) carrying...
Chatbots and Human Conversation – Source: www.schneier.com
Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier For most of history, communicating with a computer has not been like communicating with a person. In their earliest years,...
Quantum Computing Skeptics – Source: www.schneier.com
Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier HomeBlog Quantum Computing Skeptics Interesting article. I am also skeptical that we are going to see useful quantum computers anytime...
Poisoning AI Models – Source: www.schneier.com
Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier Poisoning AI Models New research into poisoning AI models: The researchers first trained the AI models using supervised learning and...
Side Channels Are Common – Source: www.schneier.com
Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier Really interesting research: “Lend Me Your Ear: Passive Remote Physical Side Channels on PCs.” Abstract: We show that built-in sensors...
AI Bots on X (Twitter) – Source: www.schneier.com
Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier HomeBlog Comments Tom • January 22, 2024 8:12 AM Something I’ve been expecting to see for a while now is...
Friday Squid Blogging: New Foods from Squid Fins – Source: www.schneier.com
Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier HomeBlog Friday Squid Blogging: New Foods from Squid Fins We only eat about half of a squid, ignoring the fins....
Zelle Is Using My Name and Voice without My Consent – Source: www.schneier.com
Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier Okay, so this is weird. Zelle has been using my name, and my voice, in audio podcast ads—without my permission....
Speaking to the CIA’s Creative Writing Group – Source: www.schneier.com
Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier This is a fascinating story. Last spring, a friend of a friend visited my office and invited me to Langley...
Canadian Citizen Gets Phone Back from Police – Source: www.schneier.com
Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier HomeBlog Canadian Citizen Gets Phone Back from Police After 175 million failed password guesses, a judge rules that the Canadian...
Code Written with AI Assistants Is Less Secure – Source: www.schneier.com
Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier Interesting research: “Do Users Write More Insecure Code with AI Assistants?“: Abstract: We conduct the first large-scale user study examining...
The Story of the Mirai Botnet – Source: www.schneier.com
Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier HomeBlog Comments Chris Becke • January 16, 2024 8:18 AM I do like how it gave me ~2m to read...
Voice Cloning with Very Short Samples – Source: www.schneier.com
Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier About Bruce Schneier I am a public-interest technologist, working at the intersection of security, technology, and people. I’ve been writing...
Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid from Newfoundland in the 1800s – Source: www.schneier.com
Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier HomeBlog Comments Clive Robinson • January 12, 2024 6:35 PM @ emily’s poat, ALL, “Newfoundland has 1800 or more giant...
On IoT Devices and Software Liability – Source: www.schneier.com
Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier New law journal article: Smart Device Manufacturer Liability and Redress for Third-Party Cyberattack Victims Abstract: Smart devices are used to...
Pharmacies Giving Patient Records to Police without Warrants – Source: www.schneier.com
Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier HomeBlog Comments Clive Robinson • January 11, 2024 8:58 AM @ ALL, Like the slow drip drip of the Chinese...
Facial Scanning by Burger King in Brazil – Source: www.schneier.com
Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier In 2000, I wrote: “If McDonald’s offered three free Big Macs for a DNA sample, there would be lines around...
PIN-Stealing Android Malware – Source: www.schneier.com
Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier This is an old piece of malware—the Chameleon Android banking Trojan—that now disables biometric authentication in order to steal the...
Second Interdisciplinary Workshop on Reimagining Democracy – Source: www.schneier.com
Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier Last month, I convened the Second Interdisciplinary Workshop on Reimagining Democracy (IWORD 2023) at the Harvard Kennedy School Ash Center....
Friday Squid Blogging—18th Anniversary Post: New Species of Pygmy Squid Discovered – Source: www.schneier.com
Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier Friday Squid Blogging—18th Anniversary Post: New Species of Pygmy Squid Discovered They’re Ryukyuan pygmy squid (Idiosepius kijimuna) and Hannan’s pygmy...
Improving Shor’s Algorithm – Source: www.schneier.com
Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier We don’t have a useful quantum computer yet, but we do have quantum algorithms. Shor’s algorithm has the potential to...
New iPhone Exploit Uses Four Zero-Days – Source: www.schneier.com
Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier Kaspersky researchers are detailing “an attack that over four years backdoored dozens if not thousands of iPhones, many of which...