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  • Meta Is Testing Facial Recognition for Police and Military

    Meta Is Testing Facial Recognition for Police and Military We know that ICE wants to deploy eyeglasses with facial recognition that can identify people in real time. Turns out Meta is prototyping the feature with a Pentagon supplier. (Alternate news story.) Bruce Schneier Go to bruce schneier

  • GPS As a Key Distribution Platform

    GPS As a Key Distribution Platform This is interesting: The U.S. military has likely been quietly broadcasting codes for its global encryption network using public GPS for nearly 20 years, turning each satellite into a hidden “numbers station,” according to Steven Murdoch… That means every device that uses GPS has been receiving hidden government information…

  • Encryption Backdoor in Military/Police Radios

    Encryption Backdoor in Military/Police Radios I wrote about this in 2023. Here’s the story: Three Dutch security analysts discovered the vulnerabilities­—five in total—­in a European radio standard called TETRA (Terrestrial Trunked Radio), which is used in radios made by Motorola, Damm, Hytera, and others. The standard has been used in radios since the ’90s, but…

  • The Ramifications of Ukraine’s Drone Attack

    The Ramifications of Ukraine’s Drone Attack You can read the details of Operation Spiderweb elsewhere. What interests me are the implications for future warfare: If the Ukrainians could sneak drones so close to major air bases in a police state such as Russia, what is to prevent the Chinese from doing the same with U.S.…

  • Friday Squid Blogging: US Naval Ship Attacked by Squid in 1978

    Friday Squid Blogging: US Naval Ship Attacked by Squid in 1978 Interesting story: USS Stein was underway when her anti-submarine sonar gear suddenly stopped working. On returning to port and putting the ship in a drydock, engineers observed many deep scratches in the sonar dome’s rubber “NOFOUL” coating. In some areas, the coating was described…

  • Smashing Security podcast #412: Signalgate sucks, and the quandary of quishing

    Smashing Security podcast #412: Signalgate sucks, and the quandary of quishing QR codes are being weaponised by scammers — so maybe think twice before scanning that parking meter. And in a blunder so dumb it makes autocorrect look smart, the White House explains how it leaked war plans on Signal because an iPhone mistook a…

  • The Combined Cipher Machine

    The Combined Cipher Machine Interesting article—with photos!—of the US/UK “Combined Cipher Machine” from WWII. Bruce Schneier Go to bruce schneier