Thomas Brewster

Thomas Brewster

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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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Bob Lord
19 October 2026 18:06

Myth: "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.

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Update 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

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“…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.”

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Good news everyone. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

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Raphael Satter
19 October 2026 14:18

New: 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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