Schneier on Security

Clive Robinson • October 2, 2026 12:41 PM

@ Bruce, ALL,

With regards,

“Regardless, once we normalize a surveillance infrastructure, both friends and foes will take advantage of it.”

Hmm only “both friends and foes”?

To most that would be an “very incomplete subset of humans” probably less than 150 or so.

Because the majority of humans in the Northern Hemisphere actually care not a jot about most other humans, except where there is something to be gained… (Yup sad fact of life but that is the way it’s “educated in by the State”).

And then for the average citizen it’s looking for other humans to scapegoat for their own misfortunes (which is why MAGA droids and similar exist).

But as we should all know by now there is a “new kid on the block” (or more correctly some Data Center not far enough from view).

What the US President apparently thinks is “super-intelligence” in a box… And is thus keen on handing over as much running of US Government functions over to AI.

I suspect as that happens like those more than 150 children in Iran increasing numbers will come to harm or death, and their friends and relatives will increase the suffering many many fold.

UN mission finds evidence signaling U.S. war crimes in Iran; Washington rejects report

“A United Nations fact-finding mission said there was evidence to believe that the U.S. committed war crimes during the Iran war, lending credibility to Tehran’s similar claims.

There are “reasonable grounds” to believe that Washington’s forces “committed the war crime of launching indiscriminate attacks resulting in the loss of life or injury to civilians or damage to civilian objects,” the UN’s Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Iran said on Thursday.

The mission pointed out the Tomahawk missile strike on a primary school that killed more than 150 people in the city of Minab, and another airstrike where missiles were used against a “clearly identifiable sports complex and residential area,” killing 22 civilians.“

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/18/us-iran-war-trump-hormuz.html

With the latest reports indicating further criminal activity delivered by US missile into the home of a fisherman celebrating his daughters wedding. With more than 60 hurt and injured and 4 dead including children.

https://truthout.org/articles/us-fatally-bombs-wedding-in-iran-killing-4-including-children/