Cybersecurity in the Age of Instant Software
2026-04-08T07:23:40Z•d5ccfdbe89311e172f060fa67e9356e8e2f09ff665459ae00a84472181d1e537
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What happened
This collection of Schneier blog posts highlights multiple emerging cybersecurity risks and policy shifts: AI is enabling “instant” ephemeral software and improving automated vulnerability discovery/patching; Hong Kong’s revised National Security Law empowers police to compel disclosure of encryption keys; a New Mexico court ruling threatens end-to-end encryption by treating design choices as liability; Google plans a full migration to post-quantum cryptography by 2029 emphasizing crypto-agility; a company (WebinarTV) is scraping and secretly publishing Zoom meetings; the U.S. has moved to ban
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- 2026-04-08T07:23:40Z
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