“AI-Generated Text Is Overwhelming Institutions—Setting off a No-Win “Arms Race” with AI Detectors,” The Conversation, February 5, 2026.
“Why AI Keeps Falling for Prompt Injection Attacks,” IEEE Spectrum, January 21, 2026.
“As the AI Arms Race Ramps up, We Can’t Let Big Tech Control Access to Information,” San Francisco Chronicle, January 14, 2026.
“Could ChatGPT Convince You to Buy Something? Threat of Manipulation Looms as AI Companies Gear up to Sell Ads,” The Conversation, January 14, 2026.
“Rewiring Democracy Now,” The Renovator, January 11, 2026.
“AI & Humans: Making the Relationship Work,” Rotman Management Magazine, January 6, 2026.
“Are We Ready to Be Governed by Artificial Intelligence?,” Merion West, December 23, 2025.
“How Governments Turn the Internet into a Weapon,” Gizmodo, December 13, 2025.
“Building Trustworthy AI Agents,” IEEE Security & Privacy, December 12, 2025.
“Against the Federal Moratorium on State-Level Regulation of AI,” Gizmodo, December 11, 2025.
“Like Social Media, AI Requires Difficult Choices,” Lawfare, December 1, 2025.
“Four Ways AI Is Being Used to Strengthen Democracies Worldwide,” The Guardian, November 23, 2025.
“Who Will Be the First American Candidate to Harness AI?,” The Fulcrum, November 11, 2025.
“Scientists Need a Positive Vision for AI,” IEEE Spectrum, October 29, 2025.
“Manipulating the Meeting Notetaker: The Rise of AI Summarization Optimization,” CSO, October 26, 2025.
“How to Define the Enduring Role of Humans in an AI-Powered World,” IVY, October 21, 2025.
“Will AI Strengthen or Undermine Democracy?,” Next Big Idea Club, October 20, 2025.
“Agentic AI’s OODA Loop Problem,” IEEE Security & Privacy, October 16, 2025.
“AI Is Changing How Politics Is Practiced in America,” The American Prospect, October 10, 2025.
“Autonomous AI Hacking and the Future of Cybersecurity,” CSO, October 8, 2025.
“How AI Could Drive the 2026 Midterm Elections,” Time, October 4, 2025.
“Digital Threat Modeling Under Authoritarianism,” Lawfare, September 22, 2025.
“DOGE’s Flops Shouldn’t Spell Doom for AI in Government,” Tech Policy Press, September 6, 2025.
“The AI Agents of Tomorrow Need Data Integrity,” IEEE Spectrum, August 18, 2025.
“It’s Time for the Semiconductor Industry to Step Up,” The National Interest, August 1, 2025.
“The Return to Identity-First Architecture: How the Solid Protocol Restores Digital Agency,” The Inrupt Blog, July 22, 2025.
“When AI Systems Meet Democratic Governance,” Social Media & Politics, January 31, 2026.
“Beyond AI in Medicine’s Chatbot Hype,” University of Toronto Temerty Centre for AI Research, January 28, 2026.
“Rethinking AI for the Public Good,” Overdueing It: The Rhode Island Library Podcast, January 27, 2026.
“How is AI Shaping Democracy?,” Practical AI, January 27, 2026.
“The Promise, and Limits, of AI in Medicine,” TEDMED Conversations, January 14, 2026.
“Rewiring Democracy: "Citizen Acceptance and Trust in AI Matters as Much as AI Capabilities",” The Irish Times, January 10, 2026.
“AI and the Rise of Bulk Spying,” Not Dead Yet, January 9, 2026.
“How Artificial Intelligence Is Rewiring Democracy,” Christianity Today, January 9, 2026.
“Algorithmic Optimism, Democratic Reality,” Lawfare, December 19, 2025.
“The Best Information Security Books of 2025,” Medium, December 15, 2025.
“Rewiring Democracy & Hacking Trust: Bruce Schneier on the AI Offense-Defense Balance,” Cloud Security Podcast, December 15, 2025.
“Author of Rewiring Democracy Discusses How AI Combined with Algorithms Might Destabilize Democracy,” Bannon's War Room, December 12, 2025.
“AI Is a Power Amplifier. The Future Depends on Who Turns the Dials.,” Big Think, December 9, 2025.
“Closing the Year With the Books That Framed the Future,” The National CIO Review, December 8, 2025.
“Book Review: Rewiring Democracy Offers a Nuanced Examination of AI’s Impact on Our Civic and Social Fabric,” The Cascadia Advocate, December 7, 2025.
“How AI Could Save Democracy Instead of Destroying It,” Boing Boing, December 4, 2025.
“How AI Is Already Changing Our Political Campaigns,” Fox News Radio, December 3, 2025.
“Bruce Schneier: Rewiring Democracy,” Plutopia News Network, December 1, 2025.
“Bruce Schneier on Democracy in the Context of Cryptography, Security, E-Voting, AI, Power and Trust,” Democracy Innovators Podcast, November 26, 2025.
“Deepfakes, Misinformation & More: How AI Is Rewiring Politics,” Lincoln Square Media, November 25, 2025.
“Artificial Intelligence and You,” AI and You, November 24, 2025.
“Agentic AI Could Improve Everything or Cascade into Doom,” Bloomberg, November 24, 2025.
“After Capitalism, After Democracy,” Wes and Dylan and Dylan Curious, November 20, 2025.
“AI Has a Democracy Problem—Here’s Why,” Nature, November 18, 2025.
“Ben’s Book of the Month: Rewiring Democracy,” RSA Conference, November 4, 2025.
“Bruce Schneier Talks AI, Trust, and the Power of Community with RSAC,” RSA Conference, November 3, 2025.
“AI for the Public Interest: Bruce Schneier,” Future Hindsight, October 30, 2025.
“SRI Appoints Bruce Schneier as Visiting Senior Policy Fellow,” Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Policy, October 28, 2025.
“Rewiring Democracy with Godfather of Cybersecurity and Public Interest Technologist, Bruce Schneier,” Humans in the Loop, October 28, 2025.
“The Brian Kilmeade Show,” Fox News Radio, October 24, 2025.
“Tech Experts See Artificial Intelligence as a Key Resource Ahead of Local Elections,” The Harvard Crimson, October 23, 2025.
“Book Talk—Rewiring Democracy: How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government, and Citizenship,” Harvard Ash Center, October 23, 2025.
“Rewiring Democracy (But Not Too Much)—a Book Review,” 3 Quarks Daily, October 17, 2025.
“What AI Is Doing to Politics Is Way Wilder Than You Imagined,” Worth Knowing with Matt Robison, October 17, 2025.
“Review of Rewiring Democracy,” Human-Centered AI Google Group, October 9, 2025.
“Bruce Schneier: Rewiring Democracy,” From Nowhere to Nothing, October 5, 2025.
“Office Hours with David Meltzer,” Office Hours with David Meltzer, October 2, 2025.
“Rewiring Democracy: Bruce Schneier and Nathan E. Sanders on AI, Power, and the Future of Governance,” Good Men Project, September 25, 2025.
“Bruce Schneier on AI as Democracy’s Power Magnifier,” Campaign Trend Podcast, September 25, 2025.
“The Godfather of Security, Bruce Schneier, Rewires Democracy,” Keen on America, September 11, 2025.
“Bruce Schneier Rewiring Democracy,” Stand Up! with Pete Dominick, September 1, 2025.
“Sign in Code Red - The Politics and Perils of Cybersecurity in the 21st Century,” The Geostrata, July 8, 2025.
January 15, 2026: Against the Federal Moratorium on State-Level Regulation of AI, Chinese Surveillance and AI, Deliberate Internet Shutdowns, Someone Boarded a Plane at Heathrow Without a Ticket or Passport, AI Advertising Company Hacked, Microsoft Is Finally Killing RC4, Denmark Accuses Russia of Conducting Two Cyberattacks, Urban VPN Proxy Surreptitiously Intercepts AI Chats, IoT Hack, Are We Ready to Be Governed by Artificial Intelligence?, Using AI-Generated Images to Get Refunds, LinkedIn Job Scams, Flock Exposes Its AI-Enabled Surveillance Cameras, Telegram Hosting World’s Largest Darknet Market, A Cyberattack Was Part of the US Assault on Venezuela, The Wegman’s Supermarket Chain Is Probably Using Facial Recognition, AI & Humans: Making the Relationship Work, Palo Alto Crosswalk Signals Had Default Passwords, Corrupting LLMs Through Weird Generalizations, 1980s Hacker Manifesto, Upcoming Speaking Engagements, Hacking Wheelchairs over Bluetooth
December 15, 2025: More Prompt||GTFO, AI and Voter Engagement, Legal Restrictions on Vulnerability Disclosure, Scam USPS and E-Z Pass Texts and Websites, AI as Cyberattacker, More on Rewiring Democracy, IACR Nullifies Election Because of Lost Decryption Key, Four Ways AI Is Being Used to Strengthen Democracies Worldwide, Huawei and Chinese Surveillance, Prompt Injection Through Poetry, Banning VPNs, Like Social Media, AI Requires Difficult Choices, New Anonymous Phone Service, Substitution Cipher Based on The Voynich Manuscript, AI vs. Human Drivers, FBI Warns of Fake Video Scams, AIs Exploiting Smart Contracts, Building Trustworthy AI Agents, Upcoming Speaking Engagements
November 15, 2025: Apple’s Bug Bounty Program, Cryptocurrency ATMs, A Surprising Amount of Satellite Traffic Is Unencrypted, Agentic AI’s OODA Loop Problem, A Cybersecurity Merit Badge, Failures in Face Recognition, Serious F5 Breach, Part Four of The Kryptos Sculpture, First Wap: A Surveillance Computer You’ve Never Heard Of, Louvre Jewel Heist, Social Engineering People’s Credit Card Details, Signal’s Post-Quantum Cryptographic Implementation, The AI-Designed Bioweapon Arms Race, Will AI Strengthen or Undermine Democracy?, AI Summarization Optimization, Cybercriminals Targeting Payroll Sites, Scientists Need a Positive Vision for AI, Rigged Poker Games, Faking Receipts with AI, New Attacks Against Secure Enclaves, Prompt Injection in AI Browsers, On Hacking Back, Book Review: The Business of Secrets, The Role of Humans in an AI-Powered World, Upcoming Speaking Engagements
October 15, 2025: Lawsuit About WhatsApp Security, Microsoft Still Uses RC4, Hacking Electronic Safes, Time-of-Check Time-of-Use Attacks Against LLMs, Surveying the Global Spyware Market, Details About Chinese Surveillance and Propaganda Companies, Apple’s New Memory Integrity Enforcement, US Disrupts Massive Cell Phone Array in New York, Malicious-Looking URL Creation Service, Digital Threat Modeling Under Authoritarianism, Abusing Notion’s AI Agent for Data Theft, Details of a Scam, Use of Generative AI in Scams, Daniel Miessler on the AI Attack/Defense Balance, AI in the 2026 Midterm Elections, AI-Enabled Influence Operation Against Iran, Flok License Plate Surveillance, Autonomous AI Hacking and the Future of Cybersecurity, AI and the Future of American Politics, Rewiring Democracy is Coming Soon, The Trump Administration’s Increased Use of Social Media Surveillance, Upcoming Speaking Engagements
September 15, 2025: Trojans Embedded in .svg Files, Eavesdropping on Phone Conversations Through Vibrations, Zero-Day Exploit in WinRAR File, Subverting AIOps Systems Through Poisoned Input Data, Jim Sanborn Is Auctioning Off the Solution to Part Four of the Kryptos Sculpture, AI Agents Need Data Integrity, I’m Spending the Year at the Munk School, Poor Password Choices, Encryption Backdoor in Military/Police Radios, We Are Still Unable to Secure LLMs from Malicious Inputs, The UK May Be Dropping Its Backdoor Mandate, Baggage Tag Scam, 1965 Cryptanalysis Training Workbook Released by the NSA, Indirect Prompt Injection Attacks Against LLM Assistants, Generative AI as a Cybercrime Assistant, GPT-4o-mini Falls for Psychological Manipulation, My Latest Book: Rewiring Democracy, AI in Government, Signed Copies of Rewiring Democracy, New Cryptanalysis of the Fiat-Shamir Protocol, A Cyberattack Victim Notification Framework, Upcoming Speaking Engagements
August 15, 2025: Report from the Cambridge Cybercrime Conference, Hacking Trains, Security Vulnerabilities in ICEBlock, New Mobile Phone Forensics Tool, Another Supply Chain Vulnerability, "Encryption Backdoors and the Fourth Amendment", Google Sues the Badbox Botnet Operators, How the Solid Protocol Restores Digital Agency, Subliminal Learning in AIs, Microsoft SharePoint Zero-Day, That Time Tom Lehrer Pranked the NSA, Aeroflot Hacked, Measuring the Attack/Defense Balance, Cheating on Quantum Computing Benchmarks, Spying on People Through Airportr Luggage Delivery Service, First Sentencing in Scheme to Help North Koreans Infiltrate US Companies, Surveilling Your Children with AirTags, The Semiconductor Industry and Regulatory Compliance, China Accuses Nvidia of Putting Backdoors into Their Chips, Google Project Zero Changes Its Disclosure Policy, Automatic License Plate Readers Are Coming to Schools, The "Incriminating Video" Scam, SIGINT During World War II, AI Applications in Cybersecurity, LLM Coding Integrity Breach
July 15, 2025: Where AI Provides Value, Ghostwriting Scam, Self-Driving Car Video Footage, Surveillance in the US, Largest DDoS Attack to Date, Here’s a Subliminal Channel You Haven’t Considered Before, What LLMs Know About Their Users, House of Representatives Bans WhatsApp, The Age of Integrity, How Cybersecurity Fears Affect Confidence in Voting Systems, Iranian Blackout Affected Misinformation Campaigns, Ubuntu Disables Spectre/Meltdown Protections, Surveillance Used by a Drug Cartel, Hiding Prompt Injections in Academic Papers, Yet Another Strava Privacy Leak, Using Signal Groups for Activism, Tradecraft in the Information Age
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B. Raghavan and B. Schneier, “Agentic AI’s OODA Loop Problem,” IEEE Security & Privacy, September/October 2025.
A. Kidd, C. Lee, and B. Schneier, “Securing a Silicon Pathway: Addressing Supply Chain Risks in Strategic Field-Programmable Gate Array Chips,” Atlantic Council Cyber Statecraft Initiative, July 30, 2025.