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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. Where possible, favor openness and transparency over aggressive data collection or restrictions which erode civil liberties.

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COVID-19 Vaccination Management Problems Have Created a Privacy Nightmare For Americans – Even Without Vaccine Passports

Joseph Steinberg

It is also not uncommon for firms in the healthcare vertical to symbiotically share various types of information with one another; private healthcare-related data is also almost always shared during the M&A process – even before deals have closed.

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How AI Could Write Our Laws

Schneier on Security

Consider, for example, a 2013 Massachusetts bill that tried to restrict the commercial use of data collected from K-12 students using services accessed via the internet. But lobbying strategies are not always so blunt, and the interests involved are not always so obvious. This process is called fine-tuning.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Behavioral Biometrics

ForAllSecure

In both of my books, I’ve taken a stand against biometrics as they are today. So of course when I saw that some researchers were presenting a talk at SecTor 2021 in Toronto on defeating biometrics with artificial intelligence, well I knew I had to talk to them as well. That's biometrics. Yeah, I’m a bona fide cynic.

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In conversation: Bruce Schneier on AI-powered mass spying

Malwarebytes

That’s a lot of data that, until now, has been difficult to parse at scale. But cryptographer and computer security professional Bruce Schneier believes that’s going to change, all because of the advent of artificial intelligence. I have access to AI tools in a way that I don’t have access to data collection regimes.