Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

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. Key Arguments: Analyze risks empirically using evidence, statistics, and probability rather than intuition.

Data collection 181

Data collection Risk Surveillance Manufacturing 181

Joseph Steinberg

APRIL 20, 2021

In some cases, Voice-over-IP numbers are not acceptable as cellphone numbers either – meaning that registrants must increase their cyber-risk by providing their actual cellphone numbers to a party that has offered no information about how that data will be protected. Provide as little information as possible to vaccinators.

Healthcare 170

Healthcare Insurance Computers and Electronics Data collection 170

Schneier on Security

MARCH 14, 2023

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. Economists are skilled at building risk models like this, and companies are already required to formulate and disclose regulatory compliance risk factors to investors.

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Energy and Utilities Artificial Intelligence Technology Government 290

Malwarebytes

JANUARY 29, 2024

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. There’s a, there’s a “national security risk du jour.” What about people?

Surveillance 74

Surveillance Government Advertising Spyware 74

ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

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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Hacking Authentication Artificial Intelligence Technology 52