Tag: Espionage
[2017] Exploring the Shadows of America’s Security State
Or How I Learned Not to Love Big Brother
Exploring the Shadows of America’s Security State
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Suspected Russian spy dies in detention after sudden health problems
A man detained in Latvia on suspicion of spying for Russia has died in detention after developing sudden health problems, prison authorities said.
Suspected Russian spy dies in detention after sudden health problems
Canada’s Two Michaels: Spavor blames fellow prisoner Kovrig for Chinese detention, alleges he was used for intelligence gathering
Israel’s War on American Student Activists
For years the Israel on Campus Coalition—a little-known organization with links to Israeli intelligence—has used student informants to spy on pro-Palestinian campus groups.
Israel’s War on American Student Activists (archived)
Looks like those microgrants are for more than just attending pro-Israel protests.
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Six books you didn’t know were propaganda
Governments influence a surprising amount of literature. Some of it pretty good.
Six books you didn’t know were propaganda
Then they link to their own propaganda about Russia, China, and the DPRK! Not to mention, George Orwell’s Animal Farm (film) paid for by the CIA!
How US gov’t prosecution of Uhuru activists threatens a ‘First Amendment exception’
The Uhuru 3 are accused by the US DOJ of “sowing discord” on behalf of Russia. Their attorneys warn the case threatens to “blow a hole in the First Amendment.”
How US gov’t prosecution of Uhuru activists threatens a ‘First Amendment exception’
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‘Hunt Forward’ cyber teams have deployed to 24 countries, including Ukraine
The cyber defense teams monito crucial networks in allied countries. US cyber chief Gen. Paul Nakasone also said the NSA is centralizing AI-related missions.
‘Hunt Forward’ cyber teams have deployed to 24 countries, including Ukraine
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NSA to stand up AI security center
Securing artificial intelligence entails “protecting AI systems from learning, doing, and revealing the wrong thing,” he said. “We must build a robust understanding of AI vulnerabilities, foreign intelligence threats to these AI systems, and ways to encounter the threat in order to have AI security. We must also ensure that malicious foreign actors can’t steal America’s innovative AI capabilities.”
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Asked about AI—including deepfakes—influencing voting in the upcoming 2024 U.S. general election, Nakasone said people need to practice vigilance, and that his team is making sure they “understand the threat techniques of our adversaries”—which the center will help them do
Menendez’s New Jersey: Global power hidden in plain sight
Menendez’s New Jersey: Global power hidden in plain sight (archived)
During the Monday press conference, Menendez implied that he was also one of the many fleeing Communism. He called himself the “son of Cuban refugees,” and said that the cash found by the FBI was “from my personal savings account, which I have kept for emergencies, and because of the history of my family facing confiscation in Cuba.” But Menendez was born in New Jersey years before Castro’s revolution, to a family of working-class immigrants who had left Cuba under the previous, capitalist dictatorship. Menendez’s Senate office did not respond to a question about what confiscation his family faced.
US spy agency NSA ‘hacked Huawei HQ’: China confirms Snowden leak
Nearly a decade after documents leaked by Edward Snowden revealed that the US National Security Agency(NSA) hacked the servers of Chinese telecoms giant Huawei, Beijing has officially acknowledged the attack.
US spy agency NSA ‘hacked Huawei HQ’: China confirms Snowden leak
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EXCLUSIVE: US spies on Chinese mobile phone companies, steals SMS data: Edward Snowden
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