Because making your own chips ensures security/s
https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/07/foreseeable-outcomes/
Predictable shit was predicted.
Russia on mission to cause mayhem on UK streets, warns MI5
Russia’s intelligence agency has been on a mission to generate “sustained mayhem on British and European streets”, the head of MI5 has said, as he warned the UK faces the most “complex and interconnected” threat it has ever seen.
Using a VPN?
How private? How secure?
My knowledge of Northern Ireland leads me to believe that when you are facing an opponent with many multiple times the power and influence you have, the elements in security weeding out (killing) traitors are very likely to be traitors.
Not that they don’t sometimes kill some of their own side just to be sure/because that’s how intelligence works/because the paymasters don’t care about lives of a certain kind of people.
As “part of an elaborate money laundering scheme”, not for the technology.
Edit: missing word.
Wanted. Top infosec pros willing to defend Britain on shabby salaries
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In a recent job advert, the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) sought a lead cyber security expert and advertised annual pay of £41,935 ($54,408). It’s also looking for a senior cyber security expert willing to sign up for £50,937 ($66,085). The role is in the National Cyber Security Centre, based in the UK capital, so there’s an additional £6,250 ($8,109) London Allowance, and the possibility of a small “skills payment.”
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It’s almost like they don’t want to acknowledge that underpaid employees with loads of access are high priority targets for foreign intelligence.
