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Spying on People Through Airportr Luggage Delivery Service

Airportr is a service that allows passengers to have their luggage picked up, checked, and delivered to their destinations. As you might expect, it’s used by wealthy or important people. So if the company’s website is <a href="https:/... schneier.com/blog/archives/202

Schneier on Security · Spying on People Through Airportr Luggage Delivery Service - Schneier on SecurityAirportr is a service that allows passengers to have their luggage picked up, checked, and delivered to their destinations. As you might expect, it’s used by wealthy or important people. So if the company’s website is insecure, you’d be able to spy on lots of wealthy or important people. And maybe even steal their luggage. Researchers at the firm CyberX9 found that simple bugs in Airportr’s website allowed them to access virtually all of those users’ personal information, including travel plans, or even gain administrator privileges that would have allowed a hacker to redirect or steal luggage in transit. Among even the small sample of user data that the researchers reviewed and shared with WIRED they found what appear to be the personal information and travel records of multiple government officials and diplomats from the UK, Switzerland, and the US...

Cheating on Quantum Computing Benchmarks

Peter Gutmann and Stephan Neuhaus have a new paper—I think it’s new, even though it has a March 2025 date—that makes the argument that we shouldn’t trust any of the quantu... schneier.com/blog/archives/202

Schneier on Security · Cheating on Quantum Computing Benchmarks - Schneier on SecurityPeter Gutmann and Stephan Neuhaus have a new paper—I think it’s new, even though it has a March 2025 date—that makes the argument that we shouldn’t trust any of the quantum factorization benchmarks, because everyone has been cooking the books: Similarly, quantum factorisation is performed using sleight-of-hand numbers that have been selected to make them very easy to factorise using a physics experiment and, by extension, a VIC-20, an abacus, and a dog. A standard technique is to ensure that the factors differ by only a few bits that can then be found using a simple search-based approach that has nothing to do with factorisation…. Note that such a value would never be encountered in the real world since the RSA key generation process typically requires that |p-q| > 100 or more bits [9]. As one analysis puts it, “Instead of waiting for the hardware to improve by yet further orders of magnitude, researchers began inventing better and better tricks for factoring numbers by exploiting their hidden structure” [10]...

Autonomies: **For Octavio Alberola (1928-2025)**

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The abandonment of utopia and the ethical concept of revolution has led revolutionary ideologies to sclerosis and ruin. Octavio Alberola Turning anarchism into a routine, a habit, which is only expressed on certain days and in a sectarian intimacy in … Continue reading →

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Autonomies · For Octavio Alberola (1928-2025)The abandonment of utopia and the ethical concept of revolution has led revolutionary ideologies to sclerosis and ruin. Octavio Alberola Turning anarchism into a routine, a habit, which is only exp…