The Financial Times reports that Russia has temporarily disabled parts of Vladimir Putin's security apparatus following the assassination of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, citing fears that surveillance systems could be exploited by hostile actors. The report quotes the head of Russia's Federal Security Service, Alexander Bortnikov, who warned that the assassination demonstrated how artificial intelligence analysis of massive surveillance data could compromise security chains.
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