Recent Advisories

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Deliberate Internet Shutdowns_SCHNEIER:6D0069C48EEE7F4BF665DB76257328CA

For two days in September, Afghanistan had no internet. No satellite failed; no cable was cut. This was a deliberate outage, mandated by the Taliba...

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Chinese Surveillance and AI_SCHNEIER:69EB4F9A5CA4E7037DD2C32391811EE7

New report: "The Party's AI: How China's New AI Systems are Reshaping Human Rights." From a summary article: > China is already the world's larges...

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Against the Federal Moratorium on State-Level Regulation of AI_SCHNEIER:DBB91A41DCF845A84F123332433D6D3D

Cast your mind back to May of this year: Congress was in the throes of debate over the massive budget bill. Amidst the many seismic provisions, Sen...

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Upcoming Speaking Engagements_SCHNEIER:172BC33765A5123D0B487720858EFD00

This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: * I’m speaking and signing books at the Chicago Public Library in Chicago, Ill...

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Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid Eating a Diamondback Squid_SCHNEIER:88BE12FFC298F2421E97B89A0615CB10

I have no context for this video--it's from Reddit--but one of the commenters adds some context: > Hey everyone, squid biologist here! Wanted to a...

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Building Trustworthy AI Agents_SCHNEIER:2D3EF156CCB921AECEB9FAAF3C9C5374

The promise of personal AI assistants rests on a dangerous assumption: that we can trust systems we haven’t made trustworthy. We can’t. And today’s...

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AIs Exploiting Smart Contracts_SCHNEIER:277BECC0DFC1FA7A6A09FF616FEF4AA6

I have long maintained that smart contracts are a dumb idea: that a human process is actually a security feature. Here's some interesting research...

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FBI Warns of Fake Video Scams_SCHNEIER:600213B15BE7FA488F5DAA759A7C84A6

The FBI is warning of AI-assisted fake kidnapping scams: > Criminal actors typically will contact their victims through text message claiming they...

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AI vs. Human Drivers_SCHNEIER:6DA84B5C86382703CC5E010F534C4698

Two competing arguments are making the rounds. The first is by a neurosurgeon in the _New York Times_. In an op-ed that honestly sounds like it was...

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Substitution Cipher Based on The Voynich Manuscript_SCHNEIER:844A462907A8C06A7ADDC3B3F9AB683F

Here's a fun paper: "The Naibbe cipher: a substitution cipher that encrypts Latin and Italian as Voynich Manuscript-like ciphertext": > **Abstract...

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