Spies, Lies and Realpolitik

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What are the odds of a former DC Metro worker ending up in Russia?

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The malware hasn’t been used for attacks, but the web shell-based approach could be used to damage infrastructure. Microsoft and the NSA are publishing info that could help potential victims detect and remove Volt Typhoon’s work, but they warn that fending off intrusions could be “challenging” as it requires either closing or changing affected accounts.

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Nice to finally have a head of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution who isn’t one of those extremists himself…

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Why were Italian and Israeli secret service agents on a boat in northern Italy when they died in capsize?

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We all know what was the what… just ask our man Bashir…

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Even more “enhanced” than 007!

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Good riddance mthrfkr.

Open cell available for trump.

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A read here reveals something of a connection.

(excerpt) “… the couple pivoted to a secret operation to try to expand the war across Eastern Europe, the report alleged.”

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Is it a drone? Is it a balloon? Whatever it is the US warns locals not to let them fly in Iran

Uncle Sam issued a stern warning about the threat posed by Iran’s development of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) — and reminded American companies to “be vigilant” in not supplying components needed to build these bomb-dropping drones and spy balloons.

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FBI: FISA Section 702 ‘absolutely critical’ to spy on, err, protect Americans

The FBI doesn’t want to lose its favorite codified way to spy, Section 702 of the US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. In its latest salvo, the agency’s deputy director Paul Abbate called it “absolutely critical for the FBI to continue protecting the American people.”

Apparently spying on protestors or Congressional donors is just another way to show that you really care.

The FISA is the federal law enacted in 1978 that allows the Feds to collect foreign intelligence domestically, and Section 702 permits the targeted surveillance of communications belonging to people outside the US, ideally to prevent criminal and terrorist acts.

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Historically, and as recently as last year, the government has used this data to monitor American activists, journalists, and others.

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