✏️ The latest in a series of ongoing experiments with using AI-assisted short fiction for scenario planning and forecasting purposes is up on the blog. This is the first to use GPT-4. You can see all of them here.

Screenshot of an AI post at blogsofwar.com

“Working in the twilight of 400 feet below the surface, the divers lassoed the cable with a custom-made undersea listening device that acted like a giant stethoscope for electronic pulses. It recorded communications on physical tapes, which had to be retrieved and replaced by divers every month. Every mission carried the greatest possible risk of discovery and death.”

Inside TheTruthSpy, the stalkerware network spying on thousands techcrunch.com/2022/10/2…

Catching Spies on Wikipedia (There are many more than you might think).

Russia’s Surveillance State: The Kremlin is building its network of domestic surveillance technology and quietly mobilizing the public administration to deal with “troublemakers” at home.

Recently mostly declassified: Cyber Operations Enabling Expansive Digital Authoritarianism - Nothing surprising here for anyone paying attention (which is why it was appropriately declassified) but always interesting to see the official view of things.