Friday Squid Blogging: Jumbo Flying Squid in the South Pacific
2026-03-22T07:23:41Z•85a6104802d860439317b386b9d38c04d30d319082cbc4f88a8b953298e31822
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What happened
This Schneier blog collection highlights multiple active security and privacy issues: South Korea’s tax agency publicly released the mnemonic (seed) for a seized Ledger cold wallet, enabling theft of roughly $4.4M in crypto; Proton Mail disclosed subscriber/payment metadata to Swiss authorities (passed to the FBI), illustrating limits of privacy services under legal process; an insecure DJI Romo vacuum implementation allowed an attacker to commandeer ~7,000 devices (IoT/MQTT insecurity); and Meta’s new AI glasses raise significant surveillance and privacy concerns (with an Android app emerging
Why it matters
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Evidence and limitations
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- schneier_blog
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- 85a6104802d860439317b386b9d38c04d30d319082cbc4f88a8b953298e31822
- Enrichment time
- 2026-03-22T07:23:41Z
- AI-assisted enrichment
- Yes
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