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Submission + - New Book by Bruce Schneier: Rewiring Democracy (schneier.com)

Submitted by kipple on Thursday October 16, 2025 @02:45AM

kipple writes: Bruce Schneier, one of the most well-known figures in all things cyber, is publishing his latest book: https://www.schneier.com/books...">Rewiring Democracy:

Rewiring Democracy looks beyond common tropes like deepfakes to examine how AI technologies will affect democracy in five broad areas: politics, legislating, administration, the judiciary, and citizenship. There is a lot to unpack here, both positive and negative. We do talk about AI’s possible role in both democratic backsliding or restoring democracies, but the fundamental focus of the book is on present and future uses of AIs within functioning democracies. (And there is a lot going on, in both national and local governments around the world.) And, yes, we talk about AI-driven propaganda and artificial conversation.
He even asked
Is anyone a Slashdot contributor? I’d like the book to be announced there.

...so I thought I'd oblige.

Comment Re:requires root access and will only run on Qualc (Score 4, Informative) 71

by kipple on Thursday January 01, 2015 @02:12PM (#48712223) Attached to: New App Detects Government Stingray Cell Phone Trackers

In fact, there's already something similar: http://wiki.opencellid.org/wik... and probably https://github.com/SecUpwN/And...

Comment requires root access and will only run on Qualcomm (Score 5, Interesting) 71

by kipple on Thursday January 01, 2015 @02:03PM (#48712167) Attached to: New App Detects Government Stingray Cell Phone Trackers

"This app requires root access and will only run on devices with Qualcomm chipset."

That's not "for android". That's playing a Qualcomm trick with the baseband.

I also wonder if a better way might be (but I'm speculating here) to use the measured distance from the nearest cell tower (called Timing Advance), as in http://stackoverflow.com/a/137... - and couple it with a public database of known celltowers locations to spot recent "additions".

Comment the Missing Sock Theorem (Score 1) 1144

by kipple on Friday January 04, 2008 @10:30PM (#21918492) Attached to: Scientist Suggests We Explore 'Universe is a VR Simulation' Theory

hey, if someone somehow can proof me that my socks still exist in this universe, well, I'll buy anything.

Journal Journal: story accepted, not posted, and I submitted it 2 days ago 2

Journal by kipple on Tuesday November 26, 2002 @03:42AM

* 2002-11-24 20:35:08 Moshe Bar, Andrea Arcangeli about linux clustering (articles,news) (accepted) ....I wonder what's going on.. unfortunately the event will happen in 2 days. I hope the posters will get it on quickly.

I'm writing the journal entry "just in case" the story gets posted AFTER the event (which would be bad).

Comment commercially speaking, it makes sense (Score 1) 772

by dikappa on Wednesday July 03, 2002 @02:48PM (#3816300) Attached to: Microsoft To Exhibit at LinuxWorld Expo

I think we all know that in marketing "speaking about" is important.

They probably will show nothing really interesting for the linux community, BUT ms will throw a clear message to the masses: "here we stand".

Among other things, we all are now interested in what are they going to do at the expo... so we are "speaking about": MS marketing departement is really good. They just made a good point.

Or are they going to show some new linux-compatible technology? Or a distribution? This is going to be the most exciting happening at LinuxExpo, i fear.

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