Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Fishing Tips
February 7 2026This is a video of advice for squid fishing in Puget Sound. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news...
Read moreI Am in the Epstein Files
February 7 2026Once. Someone named “Vincenzo lozzo” wrote to Epstein in email, in 2016: “I wouldn’t pay too much attention to this, Schneier has a long tradition of dramatizing and misunderstanding...
Read moreiPhone Lockdown Mode Protects Washington Post Reporter
February 6 2026404Media is reporting that the FBI could not access a reporter’s iPhone because it had Lockdown Mode enabled:
The court record shows what devices and data the FBI was...
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Backdoor in Notepad++
February 5 2026Hackers associated with the Chinese government used a Trojaned version of Notepad++ to deliver malware to selected users.
Notepad++ said that officials with the unnamed provider hosting the update...
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US Declassifies Information on JUMPSEAT Spy Satellites
February 4 2026The US National Reconnaissance Office has declassified information about a fleet of spy satellites operating between 1971 and 2006. I’m actually impressed to see a declassification only two decades after...
Read moreMicrosoft is Giving the FBI BitLocker Keys
February 3 2026Microsoft gives the FBI the ability to decrypt BitLocker in response to court orders: about twenty times per year. It’s possible for users to store those keys on a device...
Read moreAI Coding Assistants Secretly Copying All Code to China
February 2 2026There’s a new report about two AI coding assistants, used by 1.5 million developers, that are surreptitiously sending a copy of everything they ingest to China. Maybe avoid using them.
Read moreFriday Squid Blogging: New Squid Species Discovered
January 31 2026A new species of squid. pretends to be a plant:
Scientists have filmed a never-before-seen species of deep-sea squid burying itself upside down in the seafloor—a behavior never documented...
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