Once upon a time we had this thing called privacy…

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/03/llm-assisted-deanonymization.html

LLM-Assisted Deanonymization

Turns out that LLMs are good at de-anonymization:

We show that LLM agents can figure out who you are from your anonymous online posts. Across Hacker News, Reddit, LinkedIn, and anonymized interview transcripts, our method identifies users with high precision ­ and scales to tens of thousands of candidates.

While it has been known that individuals can be uniquely identified by surprisingly few attributes, this was often practically limited. Data is often only available in unstructured form and deanonymization used to require human investigators to search and reason based on clues. We show that from a handful of comments, LLMs can infer where you live, what you do, and your interests—then search for you on the web. In our new research, we show that this is not only possible but increasingly practical.

Perspective.

https://stratechery.com/2026/anthropic-and-alignment/

Anthropic and Alignment

This is not an Article about the campaign being waged by the U.S. against Iran, but it’s a useful — and timely — analogy. There is a never-ending debate that can be had about the concept of International Law and who might be violating it. Some will argue that the U.S. is in violation for the attacks; others will note that Iran has been serially violating International Law with both its overt actions and its support of terror networks for my entire life.

What is important to note is that the entire debate is ultimately pointless: the very concept of “international law” is fake, not because pertinent statutes and agreements don’t exist, but because their effectiveness is ultimately rooted in their enforceability. That, by extension, means there must be an entity to enact such enforcement, with the capability to match, and such an entity does not exist.

Perspective.

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/trumps-way-war

Trump’s Way of War

Iran, Venezuela, and the End of the Powell Doctrine