Schneier on Security

JANUARY 9, 2023

But way back in 2012, the Canadian CSEC—that’s their NSA—did some top-secret work on this kind of thing. He is based in a rural area, so he can’t risk making his ransom calls from that area. There’s a whole lot of surveillance you can do if you can follow everyone, everywhere, all the time.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

There is definitely a national security risk in buying computer infrastructure from a country you don't trust. The reason these threats are so real is that it's not difficult to hide surveillance or control infrastructure in computer components, and if they're not turned on, they're very difficult to find. This is a complicated topic.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 6, 2023

In 2013 and 2014, I wrote extensively about new revelations regarding NSA surveillance based on the documents provided by Edward Snowden. This was before David Miranda, Greenwald’s partner, was detained at Heathrow airport by the UK authorities; but even without that, I knew there was a risk. Very probably. Definitely.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

LOT stated that no ongoing flights or other airport computer systems were affected and the flights already in the air to scheduled to land at Warsaw were at no risk. These files were said to derive from directly targeted NSA surveillance of the communications of multiple French leaders.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 4, 2023

I wrote about this in 2012 in a book called Liars and Outliers. We are both under constant surveillance and are competing for star rankings. A lot has been written about AIs as existential risk. Surveillance is the business model of the Internet. Manipulation is the other business model of the Internet.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 10, 2023

But while it’s an easy experiment to run, it misses the real risk of large language models (LLMs) writing scam emails. In 2012, researcher Cormac Herley offered an answer : It weeded out all but the most gullible. Today’s human-run scams aren’t limited by the number of people who respond to the initial email contact.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The mission of the service is to provide our risk management program with a robust dataset for policy-making and incident handling. I also work with my team on leading risk assessments, authoring position papers, security architecture evaluations, and associated risk discovery activities. As a Unitarian Universalist or U.U.,

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