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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
DeFlock is a crowd-sourced project to map license plate scanners.
It only records the fixed scanners, of course. The mobile scanners on cars are not mapped.
The...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | November 13, 2024 at 07:06 AM
I’ve been writing about the problem with lawful-access backdoors in encryption for decades now: that as soon as you create a mechanism for law enforcement to bypass...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | November 12, 2024 at 07:05 AM
Squid-A-Rama will be in Des Moines at the end of the month.
Visitors will be able to dissect squid, explore fascinating facts about the species, and witness a live...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | November 8, 2024 at 05:04 PM
The Open Source Initiative has published (news article here) its definition of “open source AI,” and it’s terrible. It allows for secret training data and mechanisms...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | November 8, 2024 at 07:03 AM
Interesting research: “Hacking Back the AI-Hacker: Prompt Injection as a Defense Against LLM-driven Cyberattacks“:
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | November 7, 2024 at 11:13 AM
Really interesting research: “An LLM-Assisted Easy-to-Trigger Backdoor Attack on Code Completion Models: Injecting Disguised Vulnerabilities against Strong Detection...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | November 7, 2024 at 07:07 AM
Microsoft is warning Azure cloud users that a Chinese controlled botnet is engaging in “highly evasive” password spraying. Not sure about the “highly evasive” part...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | November 6, 2024 at 07:02 AM
I’ve been writing about the possibility of AIs automatically discovering code vulnerabilities since at least 2018. This is an ongoing area of research: AIs doing...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | November 5, 2024 at 07:08 AM
This is a good point:
Part of the problem is that we are constantly handed lists…list of required controls…list of things we are being asked to fix or improve…lists...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | October 31, 2024 at 11:43 AM
Way back in 2018, people noticed that you could find secret military bases using data published by the Strava fitness app. Soldiers and other military personalLe...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | October 31, 2024 at 11:16 AM
Excellent read. One example:
Consider the case of basic public key cryptography, in which a person’s public and private key are created together in a single operation...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | October 30, 2024 at 10:48 AM
The German police have successfully deanonymized at least four Tor users. It appears they watch known Tor relays and known suspects, and use timing analysis towritten...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | October 29, 2024 at 07:02 AM
It’s low tech, but effective.
Why Germany? It has more ATMs than other European countries, and—if I read the article right—they have more money in them.Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | October 28, 2024 at 12:12 PM
A giant squid has washed up on a beach in Northern Spain.
Blog moderation policy.Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | October 25, 2024 at 05:01 PM
Researchers at Google have developed a watermark for LLM-generated text. The basics are pretty obvious: the LLM chooses between tokens partly based on a cryptographic...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | October 25, 2024 at 09:56 AM
An advocacy groups is filing a Fourth Amendment challenge against automatic license plate readers.
“The City of Norfolk, Virginia, has installed a network of cameras...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | October 23, 2024 at 02:16 PM
The headline is pretty scary: “China’s Quantum Computer Scientists Crack Military-Grade Encryption.”
No, it’s not true.
This debunking saved me the trouble of writing...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | October 22, 2024 at 07:03 AM
Tax farming is the practice of licensing tax collection to private contractors. Used heavily in ancient Rome, it’s largely fallen out of practice because of the...B. Schneier From Schneier on Security | October 21, 2024 at 07:09 AM