👁‍🗨Not Dead Yet | S1E1 — Bruce Schneier The @Snowden leaks were more than 12 years ago. It opened the world's eyes to government mass surveillance and the power of data, but what really changed? In the first episode of Not Dead Yet, @rkbaggs speaks with Bruce Schneier, a New York Times bestseller, fellow at @BKCHarvard, and security technologist. Timestamps: 00:00 – Intro 02:43 – The world since the Snowden leak 05:04 – What’s worse for privacy, Big Tech or government agencies? 07:19 – Surveillance capitalism and the horrors of AI 09:34 – How powerful is data? 13:07 – The tracking device in your pocket 15:34 – The Le Monde investigation 17:10 – The rise of bulk spying 19:03 – The danger of AI in surveillance 21:52 – Should personalized ads be illegal? 23:05 – Is AI the biggest current threat to privacy? 23:43 – What can we do to preserve our privacy? 25:35 – Should privacy be a political issue? 27:38 – Not all data is equal 28:47 – If you’ve got nothing to hide, why do you care? 30:41 – Are we doomed to slip into a dystopian world? 34:14 – AI and the rewiring of democracy

Palantir’s role in Britain’s digital state is expanding. - £182m NHS data platform (£330m potential) - £240m MoD operational deal - Up to £1.5bn UK defence investment - Former senior officials at Palantir - £50m Met deal blocked over procurement Parliament has already called Palantir’s growing presence an “unacceptable point of weakness”. The real danger is lock-in. Once critical systems become too difficult to move, the supplier gains leverage. My latest for Forbes: forbes.com/sites/digital-ass… Research supported by @DWBB1984.

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Bitcoin Red Team Update: We have been working around the clock, with ~$20,000 of spend up to this point across different services. Funding is secured, I appreciate all the gestures for donations but it is not necessary. The bill is taken care of. We have done over a dozen disclosures up to this point, with 150 repos scanned. The hardest part is coordinating to get things to the right people (thank you @danielabrozzoni for the help) I have a first pass on a bitcoin red team agent harness which only requires an @opencode zen api key, makes it easy for us to use K3 for the actual heavy lifting and then GPT Sol + Fable/Opus + GLM5.2 for supporting documentation. While it is powerful, having found critical issues, I would view this as only version one. There is a lot of iteration I'm looking forward to improving on. Our goal is to open source the harness so it can be pointed at internal repositories for insights so the hardening of defenses can go deeper than the code which is made public. We also have been connected with OpenAi for some help so I could manage getting the @OpenAI Cyber Harness running as well (thank you @lylepratt ). Its a much more expensive scan, but well worth it for load bearing portions of the bitcoin ecosystem and has already yielded good results. Goals for tomorrow are scale in processes and systems so we can do a better job and automating full end to end functionality to get humans out of the loop for the heavy lifting. The first mile (requests/staging) and last mile (handoff of reports) are the choke points right now. Thank you @stutxo @callebtc @benthecarman @thesimplekid and so may more.

$11M Bitcoin by 2036? 🚀 @rkbaggs sits down with Joe Burnett (@IIICapital), VP of Bitcoin Strategy at @Strive, to break down the bull case, treasury companies, and why Bitcoin’s biggest move could still be ahead. #CHAINREACTION

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