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This seems like an interesting documentary…
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Yet another person who worked with TFG with nothing but critical things to say about him and transition 2024/25.
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Surveillance state
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Not on my bingo card today…
This reminds me of a grad school conversation with a 
and 
friend. The friend and his immediate family could travel back to Iran without a problem, but certain other members of the family had been killed by the Khomeini regime. The friend’s grandfather had fled 
and noted that Stalin’s crowd were much more into wiping out entire families.
But an 84 year-old, very much ex-politician? That’s quite the individual grudge.
Had the RCMP not foiled the plot, it would have expanded the list of assassinated 
politicians by half.
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Didn’t get a building permit. Bad move.
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Top senator calls Salt Typhoon ‘worst telecom hack in our nation’s history’
The severity of the Chinese breach highlights the need for more telecommunications regulation, lawmakers say.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/11/21/salt-typhoon-china-hack-telecom/
Though fewer than 150 victims have been identified and notified by the FBI — most of them in the D.C. region, the records of people those individuals have called or sent text messages to run into the “millions,” he said, “and that number could go up dramatically.”
The hackers targeted the phones of Donald Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, as well as people working for the campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris and State Department officials.
The networks are still compromised, and booting the hackers out could involve physically replacing “literally thousands and thousands and thousands of pieces of equipment across the country,” specifically outdated routers and switches, Warner said.
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When the digital wiretap law was passed in 1994, no one foresaw the kind of sophisticated intrusions apparently developed by the Chinese.
Very well informed people and organizations have been yelling for decades about the problems.
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This is fine.
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Christmas is quiz time, including for the security services.
GCHQ site in case that makes a difference.
But remember
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Roussev acted as the organiser, taking instructions from an Austrian national – Jan Marsalek
That guy is famous in Germany for being involved in the Wirecard fraud, in addition to being a Russian spy
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Of course it is Andrew.
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Off to the Tower with him!
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In a different incident involving similar metadata, AT&T disclosed in July that a breach on third-party cloud platform Snowflake exposed the call and text records of nearly all of its cellular customers. In that case, AT&T said it would “provide notice to current and former customers whose information was involved along with resources to help protect their information.”
The three major carriers have fought against FCC regulation of their data-handling practices. After the FCC fined the carriers for selling user location data, carriers sued and are arguing that the FCC didn’t have authority to issue the penalties.
Look for this one to be a target of “DOGE” ASAP. Can’t make it harder on Il Douche’s owners, after all.
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Both of them?
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