Crypto-Gram
April 15, 2025

by Bruce Schneier
Fellow and Lecturer, Harvard Kennedy School schneier@schneier.com https://www.schneier.com

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Improvements in Brute Force Attacks Is Security Human Factors Research Skewed Towards Western Ideas and Habits? Critical GitHub Attack
NCSC Releases Post-Quantum Cryptography Timeline
My Writings Are in the LibGen AI Training Corpus More Countries are Demanding Backdoors to Encrypted Apps Report on Paragon Spyware
AI Data Poisoning
A Taxonomy of Adversarial Machine Learning Attacks and Mitigations AIs as Trusted Third Parties
The Signal Chat Leak and the NSA
Cell Phone OPSEC for Border Crossings Rational Astrologies and Security
Web 3.0 Requires Data Integrity
Troy Hunt Gets Phished
DIRNSA Fired
Arguing Against CALEA
How to Leak to a Journalist
Reimagining Democracy
AI Vulnerability Finding
China Sort of Admits to Being Behind Volt Typhoon Upcoming Speaking Engagements ** *** ***** ******* *********** *************

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