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Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration
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B. Schneier| February 29, 2024
A new squid species—of the Gonatidae family—was discovered. The video shows her holding a brood of very large eggs.
Research paper.Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | June 28, 2024 at 05:01 PM
Longtime NSA-watcher James Bamford has a long article on the reauthorization of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | June 28, 2024 at 07:04 AM
This move has been coming for a long time.
The Biden administration on Thursday said it’s banning the company from selling its products to new US-based customers...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | June 26, 2024 at 07:06 AM
Interesting paper about a German cryptanalysis machine that helped break the US M-209 mechanical ciphering machine.
The paper contains a good description of how...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | June 25, 2024 at 07:02 AM
Interesting summary of various ways to derive the public key from digitally signed files.
Normally, with a signature scheme, you have the public key and want to...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | June 20, 2024 at 07:10 AM
There has been a lot of toxicity in the comments section of this blog. Recently, we’re having to delete more and more comments. Not just spam and off-topic comments...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | June 19, 2024 at 04:26 PM
Culture is increasingly mediated through algorithms. These algorithms have splintered the organization of culture, a result of states and tech companies vying for...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | June 19, 2024 at 07:09 AM
There is a lot written about technology’s threats to democracy. Polarization. Artificial intelligence. The concentration of wealth and power. I have a more general...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | June 18, 2024 at 07:04 AM
Interesting research: “Teams of LLM Agents can Exploit Zero-Day Vulnerabilities.”
Abstract: LLM agents have become increasingly sophisticated, especially in the...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | June 17, 2024 at 07:08 AM
Squid humor.
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.
Read my blog posting guidelines here...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | June 14, 2024 at 05:06 PM
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak:
I’m appearing on a panel on Society and Democracy at ACM Collective Intelligence in Boston, Massachusetts...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | June 14, 2024 at 11:59 AM
This is really neat demo of the security problems arising from reusing nonces with a symmetric cipher in GCM mode.Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | June 14, 2024 at 07:05 AM
As India concluded the world’s largest election on June 5, 2024, with over 640 million votes counted, observers could assess how the various parties and factions...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | June 13, 2024 at 07:02 AM
Public polling is a critical function of modern political campaigns and movements, but it isn’t what it once was. Recent US election cycles have produced copious...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | June 12, 2024 at 07:02 AM
New research: “Deception abilities emerged in large language models“:
Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are currently at the forefront of intertwining AI systems...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | June 11, 2024 at 07:02 AM
Interesting research: “Hyperlink Hijacking: Exploiting Erroneous URL Links to Phantom Domains“:
Abstract: Web users often follow hyperlinks hastily, expecting them...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | June 10, 2024 at 07:08 AM
Peru has set a lower squid quota for 2024. The article says “giant squid,” but that seems wrong. We don’t eat those.
As usual, you can also use this squid posthere...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | June 7, 2024 at 05:05 PM
This week, I hosted the seventeenth Workshop on Security and Human Behavior at the Harvard Kennedy School. This is the first workshop since our co-founder, Ross...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | June 7, 2024 at 04:55 PM
The US Justice Department has dismantled an enormous botnet:
According to an indictment unsealed on May 24, from 2014 through July 2022, Wang and others are alleged...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | June 7, 2024 at 07:04 AM