Friday Squid Blogging: How Squid Survived Extinction Events
2026-04-25T07:23:41Z•9058601b30260a49aa60f94e38d68c8f22ac5cad545a941a3a9abea540f9fb3b
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What happened
A collection of Bruce Schneier blog posts (April 2026) covering multiple security and privacy topics: a journalist mailed a postcard with a hidden Bluetooth tracker and was able to track a Dutch naval ship for ~24 hours; the FBI reportedly forensically extracted incoming Signal message content from an iPhone’s push-notification database even after the Signal app was deleted (underscoring the importance of disabling notification previews and mobile-forensic risk); US Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) has admitted using Graphite commercial spyware; Mexican surveillance firm Grupo Seguritek
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- 2026-04-25T07:23:41Z
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