Friday Squid Blogging: Illex Squid Catch in the Falklands

2026-07-26T07:23:38Za4bb785a71b82bda3043d43991656f7f6dea914391d0ddc33c3bc9512607bc80
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What happened

Collection of recent Schneier posts highlighting converging risks from AI-enabled sensing and failures in authentication and governance. Major items: MIT plans to deploy 500+ AI-capable surveillance cameras (face/object classification, demographic inference, 30-day retention); a viral Flock license-plate tracking error that produced a wrongful identification/arrest; a first‑person identity‑theft case where a user-provided 2FA code let an attacker take over email and downstream accounts; renewed policy debate over end-to-end encryption (“Going Dark”) as governments propose limits on E2EE; calls

Why it matters

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2026-07-26T07:23:38Z
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