thomasbrewster.bsky.social
Forbes senior writer, covering privacy, surveillance and cybercrime. Editor of The Wiretap newsletter, featuring all of the above. Signal: tombrewster.48 - tips welcome.
👤 Joined on 27 November 2024
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@thomasbrewster.bsky.socialMyth: "AI will fix security" Reality: This mistakes a tooling problem for an incentive problem. The solutions to recurring defect classes have existed for decades (see UV-01). What has been missing is liability, procurement pressure, and regulatory consequence, and AI changes none of them.
Show PostUpdate on a thread from my book. Vinnie Omari - the young man from Lizard Squad who I interviewed in 2014 - has now been sentenced to 2 years in a notorious Dubai prison for being a part of a gang of hackers and crypto launderers. More here: lnkd.in/p/evpY4gqT
Show Post“…a Texas man has asked a federal appeals court to toss out his armed robbery conviction and 60-year prison sentence, arguing that the AI-powered camera system gives law enforcement more surveillance power than the Constitution allows.”
Show PostGood news everyone. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
Show PostNew: Brian Krebs says that a ransom negotiator — unnamed in his story — helped *run* ShinyHunters’ extortion site. That’s separate from and in addition to Ed Dubrovsky, another negotiator facing charges allegedly connected to ShinyHunters. krebsonsecurity.com/2026/10/feds...
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