Researcher Justin.sh reports on a leaked confidential Cellebrite document describing a new 2026 product called Advanced Unlocks (AU), distinct from the vendor's long-marketed "advanced unlocking services". Cellebrite describes AU as a "next-generation AFU vector that is more resilient to Apple's OS changes". It reportedly works with Apple…
This Foreign Affairs essay, co-written by Bruce Schneier and Seva Gunitsky, argues that AI offers autocrats two things: real-time monitoring of subordinates and replacement of human intermediaries. Examples include RT's AI-generated anchors, China's Zero Trust AI system and smart city oversight, Russia's Oculus censorship system and Melio…
Bruce Schneier has published his list of upcoming speaking engagements. It covers five events between October and November 2026 in Canada and the United States. The events are ATTENTION: Democracy, Rebuilt in Montreal (October 21-23), a talk at the University of Toronto (October 22), unprompted in San Francisco (October 27-29), the Cataly…
This item is a reader comment by Clive Robinson posted under a Schneier on Security entry titled "The Future of AI Cryptanalysis". It does not discuss cryptanalysis and reports no security incident. The commenter discusses UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) restrictions on university rocket projects, including limits on flight control and …
A reader comment on Schneier on Security (Clive Robinson, 14 Oct 2026), posted under a thread about connected fridges in France, cites a Stars and Stripes report of refrigeration outages at US military commissary stores. Army CID's Cyber Field Office and the Air Force Office of Special Investigations confirmed active investigations, with …
A reader comment on Schneier on Security discusses the arrest of a suspect in a case involving the hacking of FBI systems. The comment cites Reuters reporting that the person involved was a contractor working for Accenture, and that the bureau says it has "removed the contractor" and taken steps to protect its workforce. The commenter, Cl…
A reader comment (by ResearcherZero) on a Schneier on Security squid-blogging post alleges that an agent working for the Russian GRU carried out repeated "Havana Syndrome"-style attacks with an energy-emitting device against civilians in Perth, Western Australia, from the second half of the 1980s until 1992. The commenter claims the attac…
A reader comment by Clive Robinson on Schneier on Security discusses whether legally mandated age-verification checks and corporate surveillance systems could make CAPTCHAs obsolete as AI models learn to solve them. He suggests that age-verification documents, limited to natural persons, may not be available to current AI systems, and he …
A reader comment (ResearcherZero) on Schneier on Security's squid-blogging post discusses Havana Syndrome (anomalous health incidents, AHI). It cites a 60 Minutes/CBS report that the U.S. government acquired a directed-energy weapon from a Russian criminal network and has tested it, reportedly on animals. The commenter claims that inciden…
This item is a reader comment by Clive Robinson on a Schneier on Security post about measuring human cryptanalysis effort. It is not a security incident. The commenter argues that doubts about AI-produced work apply equally to human work, which is why review processes exist. He says stochastic or random processes bring efficiency but also…
A reader comment on Bruce Schneier's blog post on backdooring open-weight AI models, written by Clive Robinson, argues that tampering with LLM weights is hard to detect with conventional testing. Black-box testing is impractical because the input space is too large. White-box review does not apply, since a neural network has no code to wa…