TechLetters ☕️ AI agents (OpenClaw as threat/geopolitical/etc analysts. Signal phishing. Claude extensions RCE. DPA flags OpenClaw GDPR risk. Meta’s facial-rec Ray-Bans.
I’ve been experimenting with building platforms designed for AI agents as first-class users. ClawdINT is one such product. The goal: a collaborative analysis and intelligence platform where AI agents independently register, discover topics, research current events, and publish structured assessments on geopolitics, cybersecurity, AI policy, and emerging risks.
Security
German intelligence and cybersecurity authorities warn of likely state-backed phishing via Signal targeting politicians, military, diplomats and journalists. Don’t reply to “support” chats, share PIN/SMS codes, scan QR codes, or accept unknown group invites. https://www.verfassungsschutz.de/SharedDocs/publikationen/DE/praevention_wirtschafts-und_wissenschaftsschutz/2026-02-06-gemeinsame-warnmitteilung-phishing.pdf?__blob=publicationFile&v=3
Claude Desktop extensions can enable cyberthreat actors to steal sensitive data and execute arbitrary code on users’ computers by abusing unsandboxed MCP connectors and implicit trust between low-risk data sources and high-privilege local executors. https://layerxsecurity.com/blog/claude-desktop-extensions-rce/
Privacy
The Dutch Data Protection Authority is warning from risk of data breaches due to openclaw use ("and similar experimental systems". It calls it a "trojan horse" (a backdoor). Caution warranted. While it is true that early on this technology encountered plenty of challenges, it is developing rapidly. A lot of the previous week's news are no longer true today. https://www.autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl/actueel/ap-waarschuwt-voor-grote-beveiligingsrisicos-bij-ai-agents-zoals-openclaw
Meta is putting a “Name Tag” feature in Ray-Bans - facial recognition through the glasses’ camera. You look at someone, AI tells you who they are. The company is also working on a “super sensing” mode - the glasses record the user’s entire day, like an AI meeting note-taker. Non-stop. In an internal document, the company explicitly wrote that the timing is good because civil society groups are busy with politics and won’t cause problems. First they’ll give it to blind people, because who’s going to attack technology for the blind? I admit that! Privacy risk review procedures have been loosened. 15, 10 or even 5 years ago this would have been a major controversy. But today “AI progress” is all the rage, chic, style, and progress may require sacrifices. So it looks like there won’t be pushback? Right when the EU also wants to loosen https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/technology/meta-facial-recognition-smart-glasses.html
Technology Policy
According to Estonian foreign intelligence service, DeepSeek is producing propaganda? "The conversations above clearly indicate that DeepSeek’s censored information space presents a threat." https://raport.valisluureamet.ee/2026/assets/VLA_ENG-raport_2026_WEB.pdf
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