Jerry
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Useful Starting Points for Understanding Jerry's Brain
Enumerated Wisdom
Chinese Five Elements (Wuxing)
Earth (the planet)
Geography
Atlases
Conceptual Atlases
Atlas of Democracies (project)
Bruce Schneier
Attachments
Bruce Schneier
Parents
Atlas of Democracies (project)
BT Alumni
Counterpane Labs
Cryptography
Inrupt Staff
International Workshop on Recreating Democracy (IWORD 2022)
Letter in Support of Responsible Fintech Policy (2022)
My Role Models
Prolific Writers
Security (and Cybersecurity) Experts
Street Performer Protocol (SPP)
Children
‘Twitter and Tear Gas’ Looks at How Protest Is Fueled and Crushed by the Internet
@schneierblog
2026-01 HF2 on AI
A Model Regime of Privacy Protection
A New Privacy Constitution for Facebook (xlnt)
Academic: The Coming AI Hackers (2021)
AI Agent Benchmarks Need to Measure User Intent (2026)
AI and Trust
American elections are too easy to hack. We must take action now
AOL Releases Massive Amount of Search Data
Banning Facial Recognition Isn’t Enough
Bernie Sanders’ AI sovereign wealth fund plan is good. But we think this is better
Beyond Security Theater
Book Review: The Science of Fear
Bruce Schneier Facts
Bruce Schneier Facts
Bruce Schneier leaves BT after eight years as “security futurologist”
Bruce Schneier on Trust
Bruce Schneier: 'The Internet Era of Fun and Games Is Over' (4 truisms)
Click Here to Kill Everyone: The Internet of Things' Dangerous Future
Could ChatGPT convince you to buy something? Threat of manipulation looms as AI companies gear up to sell ads
Crypto-Gram Newsletter
Data protection laws are shining a needed light on a secretive industry
DEF CON 34 - Hacking AI - Bruce Schneier (xlnt)
Don't waste your breath complaining to Equifax about data breach (Opinion)
Drawing the wrong lessons from horrific events
Electronic Commerce and the Street Performer Protocol (1998 pdf)
Essays: How ChatGPT Hijacks Democracy
Essays: Technologists vs. Policy Makers
Every Part of the Supply Chain Can Be Attacked
Failing Badly
February 20, 2024 Beyond the Web Bruce Schneier
Feudal Computing
Hacking Cars with MP3 Files
How AI Could Write Our Laws
How ChatGPT Hijacks Democracy
How Companies Can Protect Against Leakers
How Long Until Hackers Start Faking Leaked Documents?
If the markets reject OpenAI and Anthropic, the US should nationalize them
In Praise of Security Theater
Inrupt, Tim Berners-Lee's Solid, and Me
Intelligence.com Spams Many with Invites Purportedly from Bruce Schneier (mistake!)
Israel’s Pager Attacks Have Changed the World
It's not just Facebook. Thousands of companies are spying on you (opinion)
It’s the End of the Web as We Know It (2024)
Japan's Team Mirai Uses Tech to Bolster Democracy, Not Undermine It | TechPolicy.Press
LastPass Security Breach
LLMs’ Data-Control Path Insecurity
Mailbox Master Keys (bad idea)
Mission Creep: When Everything Is Terrorism
Opinion: 'Stalker economy' here to stay
Our Newfound Fear of Risk
PasswordSafe (2002)
Power And The Internet
Privacy is an inherent human right, and a requirement for maintaining the human condition with dignity and respect.
Public-Interest Technology Resources
RCS Spyware and Citizen Lab
Rechanneling Beliefs: How Information Flows Hinder or Help Democracy (2021 pdf)
Recreating Democracy
Rethinking democracy for the age of AI (2023 RSA keynote)
Schneier on ‘really bad’ IoT security: ‘It’s going to come crashing down’
Schneier on the 2013 NSA Leaks
Schneier's Books
Schneier's Law
Schneier's List of Global Crises
Security and Privacy Implications of Zoom
Security and the Internet of Things
Security Theater
Seeing Like a Data Structure (2024)
Separating AI’s Technological Problems From its Capitalism Problems
Sexual Harassment at DefCon (and Other Hacker Cons)
Should you use AI for a task? Here’s a simple way to decide
Someone Is Learning How to Take Down the Internet
Stealing an Election
Stop the panic on air security
Swatting as a Service
Taxonomy of Social Networking and Privacy
Ten Ways AI Will Change Democracy (xlnt)
The A.I. Wars Have Three Factions, and They All Crave Power
The Anthropic ‘Fable’ saga proves: we have opened the AI Pandora’s box. What now?
The Battle for Power on the Internet
The Battle for Power on the Internet: Bruce Schneier at TEDxCambridge 2013
The Boston Marathon Bomber Manhunt
The Boston Marathon Bombing: Keep Calm and Carry On
The CrowdStrike Outage and Market-Driven Brittleness
The Eternal Value of Privacy
The Evolution of Darknets
The Feeling and Reality of Security
The fight against AI datacenters is important – but it’s just a starting point
The Internet of Things Will Turn Large-Scale Hacks into Real World Disasters
The Peril of Persuasion in the Big Tech Age
The Rise of Large-Language-Model Optimization
The Twitter Hacks Have to Stop
The unrelenting horizonlessness of the Covid world
The US has suffered a massive cyberbreach. It's hard to overstate how bad it is
There's No Good Reason to Trust Blockchain Technology
To me, almost all of the harms of AI we fear are not inherent to thetechnology, but are inherent to the economic and political system thetechnology is operating in. That is, the problem is capitalism.
Towards an Information Operations Kill Chain
Want to Evade NSA Spying? Don't Connect to the Internet
We Must Prepare for the Next Pandemic
We Need to Save the Internet from the Internet of Things
What Happens When Your Car Gets Hacked?
When It Comes to Security, We're Back to Feudalism
When Security Locks You Out of Everything
Who Are the Shadow Brokers?
Who controls your medical data? (2017)
Why AI Keeps Falling for Prompt Injection Attacks
Why Was SolarWinds So Vulnerable to a Hack?
WikiLeaks
Will AI take your job? The answer could hinge on the 4 S’s of the technology’s advantages over humans