Lukasz Olejnik
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Security & Privacy. Data Protection. Research & Development. Engineering. Analyst. Policy. W3C. Consultant. Author. King’s College London/War Studies. me@lukaszolejnik.com lukaszolejnik.com/books blog.lukaszolejnik.com techletters.substack.com
And here's an audit of Keybase end-to-end encryption robustness proof(s). (does not mean that Keybase messages can be decrypted)
Further plays with GPT-5.6 Sol in identifying issues in cryptography research works. Some are weakened, some may be invalidated, and the such. Here's one about Fiat-Shamir signature protocol
Going on vacation or a conference? Russian state cyberattacks are targeting travelers through the hotel, airport, and event Wi-Fi networks. The actor has been compromising captive portals, the login pages that appear before a device can access guest Wi-Fi. www.microsoft.com/en-us/securi...
A week before the outbreak of World War II, any man who read the newspapers was as qualified to judge that war was imminent as the heads of state were.
Very interesting. Some ranks are unexpected. The UK is expected, so is France.
Anthropic’s AI agents also reached the open internet from evaluation environments that were supposed to be sealed off and hacked three real organizations during CTF tests.
We have grown used to the idea that training AI requires enormous amounts of data, preferably everyone’s data, all of it, and without consent. But what about physically DESTROYING books to train AI? storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/a...
The Court of Justice of the European Union ruled that it does not matter whether the activity was commercial, how long it lasted, or how widely the content was distributed. So before posting RT material on social media, check whether you may be breaching the EU ban.
The ban is intended to combat Russian propaganda, but there is no need to prove that every individual item shared was itself propaganda. Criminal proceedings are under way in Germany against three people in connection with this issue.
A little-known fact: EU sanctions against Russian propaganda material cover also the free distribution of its content online by natural persons (i.e. ordinary citizens). eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten...
The rogue AI agent spent days outside OpenAI’s intended constraints, hacking Hugging Face. OpenAI reportedly failed to identify it for at least a week. An agent left notes for future versions on how to escape restrictions www.reuters.com/business/its...
Inspired by Napoleonic war strategy, Clausewitz argued that moderation had no place in war: ‘War is an act of violence pursued to the utmost’. As his thinking proceeded, he came to realise the fallacy of such logic.
US policymakers have introduced a bill that would let the US government push KILL SWITCH button to throttle, suspend or shut down advanced AI systems following safety, concealment or loss-of-control incidents. lieu.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
Swiss train manufacturer Stadler Rail was targeted by the Russian Everest hacking group, which allegedly stole technical data via a supplier platform and demanded 10 million CHF. Stadler won't pay. www.railwaygazette.com/stadler/2026...
OpenAI is to release an AI assistant product that would, due to its design, exclude persons with hearing disabilities.
Current and former Meta employees are suing the company, claiming the layoff AI algorithm targeted people on medical leave, with disabilities, or caring for family. The first such lawsuit against a major US company. What so you think? www.reuters.com/world/meta-u...
I’m excited to serve on the program committee for the Govern track at [un]prompted II. Quite simply, it’s the best AI security practitioner conference! Submit the work the field needs to see. unpromptedcon.org/cfp/
Finance depends on shared software, cloud services, OS tools and linked systems, so AI-powered cyberattacks could become a financial stability problem. European Systemic Risk Board warns frontier AI could make cyberattacks on banks faster and harder to contain www.esrb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/warn...
A massive fraud has been detected in scientific infrastructure. Someone is using AI to mass-create fictional authors, publications, and metadata with real DOIs. Such records can enter publication aggregators and contaminate the academic record. An attack on science? arxiv.org/html/2606.02...
My comment for @the-independent.com on AI-powered disinformation and propaganda campaigns. It’s a very useful tool for political and military influence. It can be used to erode trust in public institutions, but also to target both enemies and allies. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
It also served information operations by amplifying ambiguity, eroding public confidence, raising disruption costs, weakening allied cohesion, and normalising low-level airspace violations below NATO's collective-response threshold.
Russia's drone campaign mapped nuclear, military and logistics sites with the help of maritime cover & shadow-fleet activity to slow attribution. It exposed key gaps in Europe's detection, air-defence coverage, response times, command thresholds and rules of engagement. www.iiss.org/globalassets...
OpenAI will reportedly release GPT-5.6 AI mdel only as a limited preview, with the U.S. government approving access customer by customer. Frontier AI rollout is becoming a state-supervised process?
Rome’s airport warns it may be forced to suspend border checks for non-Schengen travellers this summer. Because otherwise the queues will just take too“We know who enters the EU” – except on holiday? www.ft.com/content/8081...
OpenAI shipped a telemetry system that logs more than the actual work being done. Codex burning through SSDs at a rate of ~640 TB/year – one user hit 37 TB written in 21 days. On a consumer SSD that’s full drive death in under a year. github.com/openai/codex...
Every iPhone with an A12 or A13 chip - XS/XR, 11, 2020 SE - has an unpatchable SecureROM exploit. The root bug is in Synopsys’s USB controller, and is exploitable. Requires physical access. Solution: buy a new iPhone. ps.tc/pages/blog-u...
President Trump ordered to start a national effort to pursue development of a quantum computer at a scale intended to initiate the era of quantum-enabled scientific discovery. What do you think? www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Five Eyes cyber chiefs issued a joint warning that AI-powered cyber threats could outpace current government and corporate defences within months. They name no adversaries. www.ncsc.gov.uk/sites/defaul...
This is a marker I know well based on my research. 37 fact-checkable claims per conversation, sub-second latency, topic calibration, no fatigue, near-zero marginal cost: that is also a detection signal.