One one my biggest worries about VPNs is the amount of trust users need to place in them, and how opaque most of them are about who owns them and what sorts of data they retain. A new study found…
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Signal Blocks Windows Recall
This article gives a good rundown of the security risks of Windows Recall, and the repurposed copyright protection took that Signal used to block the AI feature from scraping Signal data. This article has been indexed from Schneier on Security…
The Voter Experience
Technology and innovation have transformed every part of society, including our electoral experiences. Campaigns are spending and doing more than at any other time in history. Ever-growing war chests fuel billions of voter contacts every cycle. Campaigns now have better…
More AIs Are Taking Polls and Surveys
I already knew about the declining response rate for polls and surveys. The percentage of AI bots that respond to surveys is also increasing. Solutions are hard: 1. Make surveys less boring. We need to move past bland, grid-filled surveys…
DoorDash Hack
A DoorDash driver stole over $2.5 million over several months: The driver, Sayee Chaitainya Reddy Devagiri, placed expensive orders from a fraudulent customer account in the DoorDash app. Then, using DoorDash employee credentials, he manually assigned the orders to driver…
The NSA’s “Fifty Years of Mathematical Cryptanalysis (1937–1987)”
“Fifty Years of Mathematical Cryptanalysis (1937-1987),” by Glenn F. Stahly, was just declassified—with a lot of redactions—by the NSA. I have not read it yet. If you find anything interesting in the document, please tell us about it in the…
Communications Backdoor in Chinese Power Inverters
This is a weird story: U.S. energy officials are reassessing the risk posed by Chinese-made devices that play a critical role in renewable energy infrastructure after unexplained communication equipment was found inside some of them, two people familiar with the…
AI-Generated Law
On April 14, Dubai’s ruler, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, announced that the United Arab Emirates would begin using artificial intelligence to help write its laws. A new Regulatory Intelligence Office would use the technology to “regularly suggest updates” to the law and…
Google’s Advanced Protection Now on Android
Google has extended its Advanced Protection features to Android devices. It’s not for everybody, but something to be considered by high-risk users. Wired article, behind a paywall. This article has been indexed from Schneier on Security Read the original article:…
Court Rules Against NSO Group
The case is over: A jury has awarded WhatsApp $167 million in punitive damages in a case the company brought against Israel-based NSO Group for exploiting a software vulnerability that hijacked the phones of thousands of users. I’m sure it’ll…