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The camera hacking issue is problematic because it weaponizes civilian devices without owners’ consent, creating an accountability gap where victims can’t control the security of cameras used against them. It democratizes military intelligence by replacing expensive satellites with cheap consumer cameras,and is nearly impossible to solve since millions of unpatched devices exist worldwide. Most fundamentally, (…)

This article fascinates me because it exposes Proton Mail’s privacy limits under Swiss law. While Swiss law shields direct foreign access, Mutual Legal Assistance Treaties (MLAT) enables indirect cooperation—Swiss firms must disclose available metadata like payment data. This reveals limitations in what Switzerland’s privacy protections can shield users from in cross-border investigations.

I like the idea behind this tool because it tackles a serious online societal problem. I’m curious if and how it will pass the test of time. The key challenge will be to link subjective criteria to objective metrics – a problem we’ve seen with privacy, which still lacks objective benchmarks despite substantial research. But (…)

This analysis of India’s technological dependence reveals patterns that are also applicable to Europe. Attracting foreign tech companies to invest locally ultimately results in profits being exported abroad, exemplifying a kind of digital colonialism. In my opinion, the solution lies in a demand-side strategy that favors local and open-source products over monopolies such as Microsoft (…)

This article points out that the ‘real digital sovereigns’ are the tech companies, who control all ‘vectors’ of sovereignty, from infrastructure, to data, AI models, and services. Beyond the US and China (and North Korea), the only realistic strategy for countries to gain control over their digital sovereignty will be to work together, whether through joining (…)

This article illustrates the brutal economics of modern conflict and the fragility of digital infrastructures. Relatively inexpensive drones can render billion-dollar data centers ineffective, calling into question their placement in supposedly “stable” regions. For me, a question remains: What explains the apparent lack of cyberattacks by Iran? Have the U.S. and Israel blocked such attempts (…)

Even 3 years into the current AI hype, it is still difficult to differentiate between its true capabilities and salestalk. Hopefully military leaders have a more clear-eyed view of the technology, as it is clearly not ready to be deployed in high-stakes decision-making processes.

I always liked Anthropic’s stance of doing the right thing and setting standards with regards to security and ethics in LLMs. Unfortunately, they budged and will now only define ‘goals that we will openly grade our progress towards’. These goals will be non-binding, and future LLMs from Anthropic will blaze ahead even if they get (…)

I found this article interesting because it highlights the tension between protecting children online — not just on social media, but also on shopping, gambling and adult sites — and preserving privacy. The challenge of enforcing age laws without collecting sensitive data remains, regardless of whether the burden is placed on users or platforms. eID (…)

Europe’s economy now largely runs on digital payments, making reliance on U.S. card rails a systemic exposure. Sanctions, policy shifts, outages, and data-access demands can all cause economic shocks. This is precisely why Wero is both interesting and timely: it is a bank-led, pan-European layer that can reduce strategic dependency. I’m eager to see transparent (…)

OpenClaw is just the latest in a series of AI-powered tools that turn out to be an absolute security nightmare. It is easy (and up to a certain point justified) to blame individual developers for lowering their guard and abandoning good security practices. On the other hand, there is an enormous pressure on developers nowadays (…)