Facial recognition

January 2023

January 2023


Vol. 6, Iss. 2
Robin’s Newsletter #238
Vol. 6, Iss. 2

Details of 200 million Twitter users posted online. Cracking 2048-bit RSA encryption. Turla co-opting old malware.

December 2022

December 2022


Vol. 5, Iss. 52
Robin’s Newsletter #236
Vol. 5, Iss. 52

LastPass customer vault data stolen in breach. EternalBlue-style vulnerability in Windows. Okta source code stolen.

July 2022

July 2022


Vol. 5, Iss. 31
Robin’s Newsletter #215
Vol. 5, Iss. 31

Facial recognition use at Co-Op convenience stores and 'secret blacklists' challenged in the UK. The opportunity cost in action bias. And protestware, the 'insider threat' of hacktivism.

November 2021

November 2021


Vol. 4, Iss. 45
Robin’s Newsletter #177
Vol. 4, Iss. 45

Trojan source vulnerbaility in the way compilers handle Unicode characters. Meta/Facebook to disable facial recnogition feature and delete faceprints.

August 2021

August 2021


Vol. 4, Iss. 32
Robin’s Newsletter #164
Vol. 4, Iss. 32

Apple's plans to have iPhone continuously scan for child sexual abuse material are ripe for abuse.

March 2021

March 2021


Vol. 4, Iss. 11
Robin’s Newsletter #143
Vol. 4, Iss. 11

Criminals jump on Hafnium/ProxyLogon. Hacktivists breach Verkada's 150K facial recognition cams. Apple's IP theft lawsuit. Google's Spectre exploit.

April 2020

April 2020


Vol. 3, Iss. 4
Robin’s Newsletter #84
Vol. 3, Iss. 4

Jeff Bezos' phone hacking; Microsoft's elastic search snafu; ClearView.AI and facial recognition tech.