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Schneier on Security

How Technology Empowers—and Imperils—Dictators This essay was written with Seva Gunitsky, and originally appeared in Foreign Affairs. Two weeks after Moscow's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in March… https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/10/how-technology-empowers-and-imperils-dictators.html

schneier.comHow Technology Empowers—and Imperils—DictatorsThis essay was written with Seva Gunitsky, and originally appeared in Foreign Affairs. Two weeks after Moscow's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in March 2022, the Russian TV Channel One editor Marina Ovsyannikova burst onto the set of the evening newscast. She held up a hand-drawn sign behind the anchor's head that read: "Stop the war. Don't believe propaganda. They're lying to you!" She shouted, "No to war!" until she was dragged away.

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