Inlay

Enhanced License Plate Tracking The surveillance company Leonardo wants more data: A surveillance company plans to add sensors to automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) that would mean the devices, as well as… https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/06/enhanced-license-plate-tracking.html

Anthropic’s Project Glasswing Update In April, Anthropic initated Project Glasswing. The idea was to let companies use their new model to find and fix vulnerabilities in their own software.... https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/06/anthropics-project-glasswing-update.html

The surveillance company Leonardo wants more data: A surveillance company plans to add sensors to automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) that would mean the devices, as well as capture the license plate of passing vehicles, would also sweep up unique identifiers of mobile phones, wearables, and other Bluetooth-enabled devices in those cars, potentially letting law enforcement identify specific drivers or passengers.

In April, Anthropic initated Project Glasswing. The idea was to let companies use their new model to find and fix vulnerabilities in their own software. It was a fantastic PR move, and so many press outlets have uncritically parroted Anthropic's claims that it's now common wisdom that Mythos is better at finding software vulnerabilities than other models. Which is just…

The FCC Wants to Eliminate Burner Phones A proposed FCC rule would kill burner phones: phones whose accounts are not attached to a particular person.... https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/06/the-fcc-wants-to-eliminate-burner-phones.html

A proposed FCC rule would kill burner phones: phones whose accounts are not attached to a particular person. The FCC plans to do this by legally forcing the country's telecoms to store a wealth of personal information about essentially all phone customers, including a government issued identification number and their physical address, alarming privacy advocates and civil rights activists who compare the measures to those from authoritarian countries where it can be difficult to buy a mobile phone plan without giving up your identity.

Bernie Sanders’ AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Plan Let no one accuse Bernie Sanders of ducking the big questions. Writing in the New York Times last week, the senator…... https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/06/bernie-sanders-ai-sovereign-wealth-fund-plan.html

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid-Inspired Fluid Pump This fluid pump was inspired by the way squids propel themselves through the water. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the… https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/06/friday-squid-blogging-squid-inspired-fluid-pump.html

GPS As a Key Distribution Platform This is interesting: The U.S. military has likely been quietly broadcasting codes for its global encryption network using public GPS for nearly 20 years, turning each… https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/06/gps-as-a-key-distribution-platform.html

NSO Group Hacking WhatsApp Despite Court Order WhatsApp has caught the NSO Group phishing its users, in violation of a court order. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/06/nso-group-hacking-whatsapp-despite-court-order.html

Critical Zcash Vulnerability Found and Fixed If you're a user -- owner? -- of this cryptocurrency, this is important: On May 29, the security researcher Taylor Hornby found a critical vulnerability in… https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/06/critical-zcash-vulnerability-found-and-fixed.html

AI Worm Researchers have prototyped an AI-powered internet worm. The coolest thing about the prototype is that it carries its own LLM with it, and runs it on computers that have been broken into. This is the closest to John Brunner's… https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/06/ai-worm.html

Upcoming Speaking Engagements This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m giving a keynote at…... https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/06/upcoming-speaking-engagements-57.html

Let no one accuse Bernie Sanders of ducking the big questions. Writing in the New York Times last week, the senator asked: "Will the future of humanity be determined by a handful of billionaires who have promoted and developed AI, with virtually no democratic input, who stand to become even richer and more powerful than they are today?" We agree entirely that this is one of the most potent questions facing global democracy today.

This fluid pump was inspired by the way squids propel themselves through the water. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Blog moderation policy.

This is interesting: The U.S. military has likely been quietly broadcasting codes for its global encryption network using public GPS for nearly 20 years, turning each satellite into a hidden "numbers station," according to Steven Murdoch... That means every device that uses GPS has been receiving hidden government information for years, and nobody outside the military knew it until now.

If you're a user -- owner? -- of this cryptocurrency, this is important: On May 29, the security researcher Taylor Hornby found a critical vulnerability in Zcash Orchard privacy pool using Claude Opus 4.8. The Zcash team hired Hornby specifically to look for this kind of issue. He found one fast enough to be embarrassing. The Orchard pool is the newest and most advanced shielded transaction system in the cryptocurrency Zcash.

Researchers have prototyped an AI-powered internet worm. The coolest thing about the prototype is that it carries its own LLM with it, and runs it on computers that have been broken into. This is the closest to John Brunner's original 1975 conception of a computer worm that I've seen.

This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m giving a keynote at Cybernation 2026 in Berlin, Germany, on June 24, 2026. I’m speaking at the Potsdam Conference on National Cybersecurity at the Hasso Plattner Institut in Potsdam, Germany. The event runs June 24–25, 2026, and my talk will be the evening of June 24.