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LLM Summary of My Book Beyond Fear

Schneier on Security

Claude (Anthropic’s LLM) was given this prompt: Please summarize the themes and arguments of Bruce Schneier’s book Beyond Fear. Then lay out the most salient criticisms of the book. Surveillance creep risks violating autonomy. Citizens are entitled to some degree of opacity. Secrecy enables abuses.

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Facebook and Cambridge Analytica

Schneier on Security

Harvard Business School professor Shoshana Zuboff calls it " surveillance capitalism." Surveillance capitalism takes this one step further. Google's surveillance isn't in the news, but it's startlingly intimate. That phone is probably the most intimate surveillance device ever invented. In 2015, I wrote a book about it.

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Cybersecurity Governance: The Road Ahead in an Era of Constant Evolution

SecureWorld News

Laws such as the EU's Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), the SEC's cyber disclosure requirements, and China's Data Security Law illustrate a trend toward stricter accountability for security and risk oversight at the executive and board levels. Where is cybersecurity governance going? Below are key trends shaping the future.

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AI and the Evolution of Social Media

Schneier on Security

2: Surveillance Social media’s reliance on advertising as the primary way to monetize websites led to personalization, which led to ever-increasing surveillance. And those lies could be propelled by social accounts controlled by AI bots, which can share and launder the original misinformation at any scale.

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AI and Trust

Schneier on Security

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. They have social media accounts with personalities. Surveillance is the business model of the Internet. And the incentives of surveillance capitalism are just too much to resist.

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Sextortion campaign uses Goontact spyware to target Android and iOS users

Security Affairs

These sites advertise account IDs for secure messaging apps such as KakaoTalk or Telegram that could allow to communicate with the escorts. In reality, the victims communicated with Goontact operators that attempt to trick them into installing (or sideload) a mobile application that steals the victim’s address book.

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Iran-linked APT42 is behind over 30 espionage attacks

Security Affairs

The campaigns have been conducted since 2015 and are aimed at conducting information collection and surveillance operations against individuals and organizations of strategic interest to Teheran. ” The surveillance operations conducted by the APT group involved the distribution of Android malware such as VINETHORN and PINEFLOWER.