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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 · 22h

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 4d

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 · 4d

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 · 4d

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 · 5d

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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Lukasz Olejnik @lukaszolejnik.bsky.social · 5d

Using these chats, which often reveal personal interests and needs, opens up a new and highly detailed stream of private data processing for marketing purposes. This

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Lukasz Olejnik @lukaszolejnik.bsky.social · 5d

Meta will use data from user interactions with its AI products, including the content of conversations with the Meta AI chatbot, to further refine user profiling and ad targeting across its platforms.

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Lukasz Olejnik @lukaszolejnik.bsky.social · 5d

Motive and suspects remain unknown. A Polish counterintelligence officer noted it is hard to find any logical explanation, the only real consequence could have been a rail disaster with many casualties.

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Lukasz Olejnik @lukaszolejnik.bsky.social · 5d

Suspected diversion in rail transport in Poland? On 2–3 September in Katowice a coal wagon was uncoupled and left on busy train line, with end-of-train technical markers evidently intentionally moved to the preceding car to conceal the loss.

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Lukasz Olejnik @lukaszolejnik.bsky.social · 5d

The caches, UAV mounts, disguised parcels, and missing explosives indicate a layered diversionary sabotage pattern.

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Lukasz Olejnik @lukaszolejnik.bsky.social · 5d

Local disposable hires (i.e. migrants) execute compartmented tasks like: collect from cemetery dead drops, short cross-border moves, cache near hubs, hand off, communicating using instant messaging, proof photos, and cryptocurrency as payment.

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Lukasz Olejnik @lukaszolejnik.bsky.social · 5d

In a parallel, he assembled parcels disguised as massage pillows/cosmetics; three ignited in transit (Poland, Leipzig airport, Birmingham warehouse), a fourth was seized. Forensics found hidden igniters and flammable additives.

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Lukasz Olejnik @lukaszolejnik.bsky.social · 5d

The courier ferried drone parts from Lithuania to Germany plus multiple SIM cards, pointing to remote triggering and backup control, under time pressure aligned with major events in western Germany.

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Lukasz Olejnik @lukaszolejnik.bsky.social · 5d

Investigators also seized drone clamps matching the cans’ diameter, indicating quick under-UAV mounting for transport or aerial use. The “can + clamp” module was low-skill, with step-by-step photo verification.

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Lukasz Olejnik @lukaszolejnik.bsky.social · 5d

💣 Suspected Russian GRU plot to stage diversionary operations was uncovered by a Lithuanian–Polish counterintelligence: a Telegram-recruited courier dug up food-tin canisters from a cemetery and moved them to Poland. Services found ≈2.8 kg of high explosive in identical cans; two are still missing.

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Lukasz Olejnik @lukaszolejnik.bsky.social · 6d

I’m giving a talk at King’s College London @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @warstudieskcl.bsky.social on 27 Nov, 14:30. Join me for a discussion on current developments in information/cognitive warfare. Fully automated influence operations aren’t hypothetical anymore. www.kcl.ac.uk/events/ai-pr...

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Lukasz Olejnik @lukaszolejnik.bsky.social · 6d

simple perpetrator–victim framing and “false flag” hints; repetition of the same claims across many channels; conditioning audiences to accept costs and risk.

Yes, things are changing. The shift is very clear. Greetings from Basel! 🇨🇭

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Lukasz Olejnik @lukaszolejnik.bsky.social · 6d

How to spot this kind of strategic communication: short, catchy slogans instead of bureaucratic jargon; strong emotional and historical cues (e.g., 1939);

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Lukasz Olejnik @lukaszolejnik.bsky.social · 6d

Meanwhile, Russia is running a dual-track narrative (“Gleiwitz 2.0”) to divide NATO and shift blame for escalation onto Ukraine/the West. And these are only fragmentary snapshots.

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Lukasz Olejnik @lukaszolejnik.bsky.social · 6d

Also, in recent months a similar tone has appeared in statements by several national leaders, including Emmanuel Macron, Friedrich Merz, Mette Frederiksen, and Donald Tusk.

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