Why Tehran’s Two-Tiered Internet Is So Dangerous

2026-03-04T21:39:00Z2fdefee80a248740776371d8e31aeb2d2955418d23a85ff00e8e1f075a0493fe
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What happened

Collection of Bruce Schneier blog items (Feb 2026) covering multiple high-risk security topics: Iran’s extensive two-tiered internet blackout and risks from the National Information Network; a North Korean campaign posing as recruiters that uses coding challenges to deliver malware to developer job-seekers; predictable and low-entropy passwords generated by LLMs; ease of poisoning AI training data via fabricated web content and resulting misinformation; concerns about AI’s impact on democracy and autonomous malicious agents publishing personalized hit pieces; research showing account-recovery/

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2026-03-04T21:39:00Z
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