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Lukasz Olejnik

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Security & Privacy. Data Protection. Research. Engineering. Analyst. Policy. W3C. Consultant. Author. King’s College London/War Studies. lukaszolejnik.com/books blog.lukaszolejnik.com techletters.substack.com

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Lukasz Olejnik @lukaszolejnik.bsky.social · Apr 9

I'm exploring new engagements! If your team needs expertise in cybersecurity, risk assessment, tech policy, regulations (GDPR, etc.), tech standards, strategic insight, or Comms/PR, let's talk! Open to contract, or flexible roles. DM/email at [email protected].

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Lukasz Olejnik @lukaszolejnik.bsky.social · 6h

"critical decisions about the use of nuclear weapons must unequivocally remain under human authority as they require moral, legal, and strategic considerations"

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Lukasz Olejnik @lukaszolejnik.bsky.social · 7h

Should this paper be published somewhere? ;-)

Lukasz Olejnik @lukaszolejnik.bsky.social · Aug 29

📣AI propaganda factories🏭 are now operational. My study shows how small, open-weight models can run as fully automatic generators in influence campaigns. mechanising personas, engagement, cadence. Possible for State, non-state, and micro-actors, including and bedroom ones.

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Lukasz Olejnik @lukaszolejnik.bsky.social · 8h

Regrettably, in recent years this has at times been pushed as a propaganda, influence, or disinformation narratives.

Lukasz Olejnik @lukaszolejnik.bsky.social · 8h

Hostages are transferred via the International Committee of the Red Cross. That is precisely why this inherently neutral and impartial organization exists. Expecting the ICRC to “officially” take a side defeats the purpose.

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Lukasz Olejnik @lukaszolejnik.bsky.social · 21h

Goal: weaken Russia’s economy and force it to negotiate. Interestingly, this appears to be part of the Trump administration’s “make them feel the pain” strategy. The war is shifting into an economic phase, with rockets and drones directing the fire? Reports mention possible delivery of Tomahawks

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Lukasz Olejnik @lukaszolejnik.bsky.social · 21h

Seems that the US has been helping Ukraine for months to carry out long-range strikes on Russian targets like oil refineries, sharing intel that helps bypass air defenses (data on coordinates, optimal altitude, timing, and even alleged target priority lists). Very from the @financialtimes.com

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Lukasz Olejnik @lukaszolejnik.bsky.social · 1d

Auto-deleting “because storage is running out” in the public sphere is a problematic practice. It undermines transparency, accountability, and security. What’s needed instead are clear policies, proper archiving, and auditability.

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Lukasz Olejnik @lukaszolejnik.bsky.social · 1d

Along the way he mentions automatic message deletion on the EC President’s instant messenger, and cites me saying “it’s not the 1990s.”. Well, yes.

My comment concerned public officials and institutions, not private users. Ursula von der Leyen is not a “private user.”

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Lukasz Olejnik @lukaszolejnik.bsky.social · 1d

Pleased to be quoted by @mattrudd.bsky.social in @thetimes.com . The context of his take has a purely private angle. Domestic digital chaos, “cloud almost full” alerts, no space for photos, family sharing resurrecting deleted shots.

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Lukasz Olejnik @lukaszolejnik.bsky.social · 2d

The U.S. is framing China’s decision as a LONG-prepared, covert plan. Ha! Implicitly, that’s a confirmation of what some analysts have been warning about for years. Signal is clear: “the tiger raises its head, the dragon awakens”. The “long crouch is over after decades”, maybe even two centuries.

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Lukasz Olejnik @lukaszolejnik.bsky.social · 3d

Technology, strategy, geopolitics… Instead of despairing and overanalyzing, it’s better to stay optimistic. The upside of China’s move is that NOW WE HAVE CLARITY. COMPLETE CLARITY. 🌎🖥️

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Lukasz Olejnik @lukaszolejnik.bsky.social · 3d

effectively forcing foreign firms to get Chinese licenses just to trade with each other.

Maybe we’re getting what we’ve long seen coming. It was always plausible; now it’s here. Time to stock up on electronics? ;-)

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Lukasz Olejnik @lukaszolejnik.bsky.social · 3d

China has announced ‼️export controls on products made abroad if they contain even 0.1% Chinese rare earths. That’s a seismic ‼️shift in the tech contest: a bid to assert control over the entire global semiconductor supply chain and advanced tech—

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Lukasz Olejnik @lukaszolejnik.bsky.social · 3d

Maybe it’s a good thing that Trump didn’t get the Nobel in 2025? Europe still has a valuable bargaining chip on the table. It would be unwise to give it away at the start of the term. Like with Obama.

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Lukasz Olejnik @lukaszolejnik.bsky.social · 4d

NATO is considering lowering the threshold for a military response to potential Russian actions. It’s only the beginning of the talks, but the idea is to allow for a reaction at a lower level — for instance, in cases of shootdowns along the alliance’s eastern borders.

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Lukasz Olejnik @lukaszolejnik.bsky.social · 6d

Quantum technologies are really taking off. The 2025 Nobel Prize for quantum circuits only proves this. (By the way, most of this post has been written in 2020!😉). blog.lukaszolejnik.com/tangible-imp...

Tangible impact of quantum computing

Quantum information processing and quantum technologies are in the spotlight. Quantum computing specifically, thanks to the reports of the Quantum Supremacy result. The field got a 2025 Nobel Prize an...

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Lukasz Olejnik @lukaszolejnik.bsky.social · 7d

Or maybe someone expects a crisis, or a global war? I don’t know. Nobody knows! But we’ll find out in our lifetime!

And that’s the optimistic part of this post. Maybe still in our lifetime we’ll get to experience truly great things.

Lukasz Olejnik @lukaszolejnik.bsky.social · 7d

And if you’d bought Nvidia shares – today you’d have as much as $156k! Gold beat bitcoin (50% vs 31%), but Nvidia beat them all with 56%! The real hero here is gold. Everyone piled in. Central banks, funds, private investors. First come, first served. Only up! Compulsive gold shopping? Maybe!

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Lukasz Olejnik @lukaszolejnik.bsky.social · 7d

Which brings us to the scoreboard. If at the start of the year you had invested $100,000 in bitcoin, today you’d have $131,000. If you put the same money into gold, today you’d already have $150,000!

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Lukasz Olejnik @lukaszolejnik.bsky.social · 7d

OpenAI → Broadcom ($10 bn), OpenAI → Oracle ($300 bn), Nvidia → Intel ($5 bn), Nvidia → CoreWeave ($6.3 bn), Meta → AI infrastructure ($65 bn in 2025). Some said that investments in AI are really investments in Nvidia because everything runs on it. And look: nope. A Loop is forming!

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Lukasz Olejnik @lukaszolejnik.bsky.social · 7d

And now OpenAI has invested in AMD. Lots of circular investment in AI! Earlier: Nvidia → OpenAI ($100 bn), Microsoft → OpenAI ($13+ bn), Amazon → Anthropic ($8 bn), Google → Anthropic ($3+ bn), OpenAI → AMD (option for 10% of shares + tens of bn $ annually),…

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Lukasz Olejnik @lukaszolejnik.bsky.social · 9d

My talk today in Basel 🇨🇭 on my work, propaganda, and information operations, featuring an excerpt on Xi Jinping’s teachings to information warfare. A strikingly classical take, echoing Clausewitz, Sun Tzu… and, naturally, yours truly. 😉

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Lukasz Olejnik @lukaszolejnik.bsky.social · 9d

Rumours should have personal relevance; misinformation without personal implications for the listener will likely be forgotten rather than widely distributed.

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Lukasz Olejnik @lukaszolejnik.bsky.social · 10d

Cyberattack on Asahi Group paralyzed 30 factories in Japan and may lead to a shortage of the country’s most popular beer. Ransomware attack blocked the ordering/delivery systems of the brewer. Company switched to manual processing. Solution is clear: drink wine.

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Lukasz Olejnik @lukaszolejnik.bsky.social · 11d

extends to other products like the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, which record and analyze voice data, photos, and videos, as well as new features like the AI-video feed Vibes and the image generator Imagine. Users won’t just be training AI models and be the product. They’ll also pay for the privilege

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