Long-Lived Vulnerability in Microsoft Secure Boot
Long-Lived Vulnerability in Microsoft Secure Boot Microsoft’s Secure Boot has had a serious vulnerability for most of its existence. An...
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Measuring LLMs’ Ability to Perform Cryptanalysis
Measuring LLMs’ Ability to Perform Cryptanalysis There’s new benchmark measuring AI’s ability to perform mathematical cryptanalysis. Anthropic’s frontier model actually...
Axon Is Another License Plate Surveillance Company
Axon Is Another License Plate Surveillance Company Governments are switching, but I’m not sure it makes a difference: …some municipalities,...
Cognyte Sells a Mobile Cell Surveillance Van
Cognyte Sells a Mobile Cell Surveillance Van Yet another Israeli mass surveillance company: Made by Israeli surveillance company Cognyte, the...
Friday Squid Blogging: Illex Squid Catch in the Falklands
Friday Squid Blogging: Illex Squid Catch in the Falklands Lower catch this year. As usual, you can also use this...
Why AI Needs a “Genie Coefficient”
Why AI Needs a “Genie Coefficient” This essay was written with Barath Raghavan, and originally appeared in The Guardian. Major...
End-to-End Encryption and “Going Dark”
End-to-End Encryption and “Going Dark” New paper: “Encryption and Globalization 15 Years Later: End-to-End Encryption and the Third Round of...
First-Person Identity Theft Story
First-Person Identity Theft Story Harrowing story of an identity theft victim. Yes, the person made a mistake—they gave the scammer...
MIT to Become Hotbed of AI Video Surveillance
MIT to Become Hotbed of AI Video Surveillance It’s a lot: According to information obtained by The Tech, MIT is...
On Flock License Plate Tracking Cameras
On Flock License Plate Tracking Cameras A recent story of a writer who was mistakenly identified, tracked, and arrested using...
Details of Alan Turing’s Voice Encryption System
Details of Alan Turing’s Voice Encryption System Really interesting piece of cryptographic history: In November 2023, a large cache of...
Protecting Privacy in an AI Era
Protecting Privacy in an AI Era Daniel Solove argues in the Wall Street Journal (alternate link) that giving people control...
A Video Screen That Is Also a Camera
A Video Screen That Is Also a Camera Amazing: Researchers from ETH Zurich in Switzerland, however, managed to create a...
Upcoming Speaking Engagements
Upcoming Speaking Engagements This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m speaking (virtually)...
Vulnerability in FIFA’s Network
About Bruce SchneierI am a public-interest technologist, working at the intersection of security, technology, and people. I've been writing about...
