Tradecraft in the Information Age
July 12 2025Long article on the difficulty (impossibility?) of human spying in the age of ubiquitous digital surveillance.
Read moreYet Another Strava Privacy Leak
July 9 2025This time it’s the Swedish prime minister’s bodyguards. (Last year, it was the US Secret Service and Emmanuel Macron’s bodyguards. in 2018, it was secret US military bases.) This is...
Read moreSurveillance Used by a Drug Cartel
July 3 2025Once you build a surveillance system, you can’t control who will use it:
A hacker working for the Sinaloa drug cartel was able to obtain an FBI official’s phone...
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Surveillance in the US
June 20 2025Good article from 404 Media on the cozy surveillance relationship between local Oregon police and ICE:
In the email thread, crime analysts from several local police departments and the...
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Self-Driving Car Video Footage
June 19 2025Two articles crossed my path recently. First, a discussion of all the video Waymo has from outside its cars: in this case related to the LA protests. Second, a...
Read moreParagon Spyware Used to Spy on European Journalists
June 13 2025Paragon is an Israeli spyware company, increasingly in the news (now that NSO Group seems to be waning). “Graphite” is the name of its product. Citizen Lab caught...
Read moreSurveillance Via Smart Toothbrush
May 29 2025The only links are from The Daily Mail and The Mirror, but a marital affair was discovered because the cheater was recorded using his smart toothbrush at home when...
Read morePrivacy for Agentic AI
May 3 2025Sooner or later, it’s going to happen. AI systems will start acting as agents, doing things on our behalf with some degree of autonomy. I think it’s worth thinking...
Read moreUS as a Surveillance State
May 2 2025Two essays were just published on DOGE’s data collection and aggregation, and how it ends with a modern surveillance state. It’s good to see this finally being talked about. EDITED TO...
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