Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

There seems to be no end to warrantless surveillance : According to the letter, a surveillance program now known as Data Analytical Services (DAS) has for more than a decade allowed federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies to mine the details of Americans’ calls, analyzing the phone records of countless people who are not suspected of any (..)

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

It’s Iran’s turn to have its digital surveillance tools leaked : According to these internal documents, SIAM is a computer system that works behind the scenes of Iranian cellular networks, providing its operators a broad menu of remote commands to alter, disrupt, and monitor how customers use their phones.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 23, 2024

This site will let you take a selfie with a New York City traffic surveillance camera.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 27, 2024

Ars Technica has a good article on what’s happening in the world of television surveillance. More than even I realized.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 3, 2023

. “We’ve known for a long time that they are essentially surveillance cameras on wheels,” said Chris Gilliard, a fellow at the Social Science Research Council.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 12, 2022

San Francisco police are using autonomous vehicles as mobile surveillance cameras. Privacy advocates say the revelation that police are actively using AV footage is cause for alarm. This is very concerning,” Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) senior staff attorney Adam Schwartz told Motherboard.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 13, 2023

This is not about mass surveillance of mail , this is about sorts of targeted surveillance the US Postal Inspection Service uses to catch mail thieves : To track down an alleged mail thief, a US postal inspector used license plate reader technology, GPS data collected by a rental car company, and, most damning of all, hid a camera inside one of the (..)

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Schneier on Security

JULY 15, 2022

The draft law currently stands as the following, which indicates the cops can broadly ask for and/or get access to live real-time video streams: The proposed Surveillance Technology Policy would authorize the Police Department to use surveillance cameras and surveillance camera networks owned, leased, managed, or operated by non-City entities to: (1) (..)

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 13, 2022

on behalf of the FBI, Senator Ron Wyden told Motherboard in a statement “Multiple intelligence community officials have confirmed to me, in writing, that intelligence agencies cannot ask foreign partners to conduct surveillance that the U.S. When asked about the practice of Australian law enforcement monitoring devices inside the U.S.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 27, 2020

Cory Doctorow has writtten an extended rebuttal of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff. Shorter summary: it's not the surveillance part, it's the fact that these companies are monopolies. He summarized the argument on Twitter. I think it's both.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 11, 2021

It’s not actually banned in the EU yet — the legislative process is much more complicated than that — but it’s a step: a total ban on biometric mass surveillance.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Customer service or Chinese surveillance? It read: “Hey Phelim, to help us improve your Otter’s experience, what was the purpose of this particular recording with titled ‘Mustafa Aksu’ created at ‘2021-11-08 11:02:41’?”. Turns out it’s hard to tell.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 19, 2021

Good investigative reporting on how Apple is participating in and assisting with Chinese censorship and surveillance.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 25, 2021

Vice has an article about how data brokers sell access to the Internet backbone. This is netflow data. It’s useful for cybersecurity forensics, but can also be used for things like tracing VPN activity. At a high level, netflow data creates a picture of traffic flow and volume across a network.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 2, 2022

TheMarkup has an extensive analysis of connected vehicle data and the companies that are collecting it. The Markup has identified 37 companies that are part of the rapidly growing connected vehicle data industry that seeks to monetize such data in an environment with few regulations governing its sale or use.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Last week, someone posted something like 570 files, images and chat logs from a Chinese company called I-Soon. I-Soon sells hacking and espionage services to Chinese national and local government. Lots of details in the news articles. These aren’t details about the tools or techniques, more the inner workings of the company.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 22, 2023

Neither is using them for bulk surveillance. Zayas’ lawyer Ben Gold contested the AI-gathered evidence against his client, decrying it as “dragnet surveillance.” License plate scanners aren’t new. ” And he had the data to back it up.

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Adam Levin

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

The post NSA Mass Surveillance Program Is Ruled Illegal appeared first on Adam Levin. “I never imagined that I would live to see our courts condemn the NSA’s activities as unlawful and in the same ruling credit me for exposing them,” said Snowden. . The ruling from the 9th U.S. Bush and Barack Obama. .

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Generative AI is going to be a powerful tool for data analysis and summarization. Here’s an example of it being used for sentiment analysis. My guess is that it isn’t very good yet, but that it will get better.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 2, 2024

This article about an app that lets people remotely view bars to see if they’re crowded or not is filled with commentary—on both sides—about privacy and openness.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2023

This seems like a bad idea. And there are ongoing lawsuits against Amazon for selling them.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

It finally admitted to buying bulk data on Americans from data brokers, in response to a query by Senator Weyden. This is almost certainly illegal, although the NSA maintains that it is legal until it’s told otherwise. Some news articles.

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Tech Republic Security

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Australian retailers are rolling out mass surveillance solutions to combat shoplifting, but a poor regulatory environment could mean high risks associated with data security and privacy.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 5, 2024

It seems that the FCC might be fixing the vulnerabilities in SS7 and the Diameter protocol: On March 27 the commission asked telecommunications providers to weigh in and detail what they are doing to prevent SS7 and Diameter vulnerabilities from being misused to track consumers’ locations.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 5, 2024

Ford has a new patent application for a system where cars monitor each other’s speeds, and then report then to some central authority. Slashdot thread.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 20, 2022

Last summer, the San Francisco police illegally used surveillance cameras at the George Floyd protests. The EFF is suing the police: This surveillance invaded the privacy of protesters, targeted people of color, and chills and deters participation and organizing for future protests. It’s feels like a pretty easy case.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Here in 2022, we have a newly declassified 2016 Inspector General report—”Misuse of Sigint Systems”—about a 2013 NSA program that resulted in the unauthorized (that is, illegal) targeting of Americans. Given all we learned from Edward Snowden, this feels like a minor coda.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Although electronic surveillance programs authorized by EO 12333 generally target foreign intelligence from foreign targets, its permissive targeting standards allow for the substantial collection of Americans’ communications containing little to no foreign intelligence value.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Spying and surveillance are different but related things. If I hired that same private detective to put you under surveillance, I would get a different report: where you went, whom you talked to, what you purchased, what you did. Before the internet, putting someone under surveillance was expensive and time-consuming.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Sophisticated spyware, sold by surveillance tech companies to Mexican government agencies, are ending up in the hands of drug cartels : As many as 25 private companies — including the Israeli company NSO Group and the Italian firm Hacking Team — have sold surveillance software to Mexican federal and state police forces, but there is little (..)

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 17, 2023

Without the FBI deploying some form of surveillance technique, or Al-Azhari using another method to visit the site which exposed their IP address, this should not have been possible. There are lots of ways to de-anonymize Tor users. (I

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Penetration Testing

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Researchers at the Lookout Threat Lab have identified a sophisticated surveillance tool, dubbed EagleMsgSpy, reportedly used by law enforcement agencies in mainland China. The tool, operational since at least 2017,... The post EagleMsgSpy: Unmasking a Sophisticated Chinese Surveillance Tool appeared first on Cybersecurity News.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Senators have reintroduced the EARN IT Act, requiring social media companies (among others) to administer a massive surveillance operation on their users: A group of lawmakers led by Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Sen. It’s a framework for private actors to scan every message sent online and report violations to law enforcement.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 20, 2022

“ Google Maps Adds Shortcuts through Houses of People Google Knows Aren’t Home Right Now.” ” Excellent satire.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Gizmodo is reporting that schools in the US are buying equipment to unlock cell phones from companies like Cellebrite: Gizmodo has reviewed similar accounting documents from eight school districts, seven of which are in Texas, showing that administrators paid as much $11,582 for the controversial surveillance technology.

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WIRED Threat Level

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Top congressional lawmakers are meeting in private to discuss the future of a widely unpopular surveillance program, worrying members devoted to reforming Section 702.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2024

Ukraine’s SBU revealed that Russia-linked threat actors hacked surveillance cameras to spy on air defense forces and critical infrastructure in Kyiv. Ukraine’s SBU announced they shut down two surveillance cameras that were allegedly hacked by the Russian intelligence services to spy on air defense forces and critical infrastructure in Kyiv.

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