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NEW: Trump has new, gold-trimmed phones on his desk in the Oval Office. Here's more about Trump's new phones, as well as about the visual customization of the phones of his predecessors:
electrospaces.net/2026/09/tr…
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New: from 404 Media. The catastrophic FBI hack also exposed the FBI's own hacking unit. The Remote Operations Unit is a highly secretive part of the FBI, responsible for making tools to break into peoples' devices. Some of their names are in the data 404media.co/fbi-hack-exposed…
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The #Libroot collective has a fascinating and highly detailed reconstruction of what happened with the #Snowden archive: libroot.org/posts/what-happe…
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Libroot's reconstruction provides an update to my own piece about the whereabouts of the Snowden files from 2019:
electrospaces.net/2019/04/th…
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Toezichthouder #CTIVD wil snel interne kaders voor het gebruik van #AI en geautomatiseerde data-analyse (GDA) bij de #AIVD en de #MIVD:
ctivd.nl/actueel/nieuws/2026…
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As Russia’s hybrid campaign intensifies and confidence in Washington wanes, governments across Europe are loosening the restraints on their intelligence agencies:
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I discovered that the website of the unofficial virtual White House Museum is back - with floorplans and lots of highly interesting photos! ➡️ tysto.com/index.htm
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The #NSA starts an extensive internal restructuring again, creating five new mission departments: Artificial Intelligence, China, Cybersecurity, Combat support or warfighting, and Global Intelligence:
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The previous internal reorganization of the #NSA was in 2016, following the Snowden leaks. A reconstruction of the agency's current structure can be found here:
electrospaces.net/2023/10/th…
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Added three unique photos showing vice-president Cheney in the tunnel that led to the President's Emergency Operations Center (PEOC) underneath the White House on 9/11:
electrospaces.net/2015/09/91…
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A very rare glimpse inside an active #BND (Federal Intelligence Service) facility in Germany. The Gablingen field station near Augsburg, Bavaria. In the stairwell and adjoining areas of the evaluation building, there is a small museum 1/5 🧵
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For the 25th anniversary of 9/11, a repost of an earlier blog post with unique photos of Cheney and Bush in the presidential emergency bunker (also known as the PEOC) underneath the White House:
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Begint het NOS journaal nu serieus met de AI-berichten van premier Jetten? Prima hoor om kwaliteitseisen te stellen aan de publieke omroep, maar wees dan wel consequent...
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German president Frank-Walter Steinmeier in his new temporary office with a large red telephone, which is called the SINA Communicator H and can be used for encrypted communications:
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Many more details about the SINA Communicator H, which in 2022 was installed in the office of former German chancellor Olaf Scholz, can be found here:
electrospaces.net/2022/10/a-…
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De amerikaanse president Trump heeft nu ook goudomrande telefoons op zijn bureau, maar ook eerdere presidenten hadden al speciaal aangepaste toestellen:
electrospaces.net/2026/09/tr…
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Closure of the Russian Consulate General in Bonn (Bad Godesberg) is more than a diplomatic measure. The site was one of Russia’s most important remaining land-based #SIGINT nodes in western Germany 🧵1/6
ALT Source: Aerial photo, Russian Consulate General Bonn (2013): Wolkenkratzer / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Scoop: The FBI asked Federal Air Marshals to covertly monitor former congressman Eric Swalwell during an international flight, to see if they could visually ascertain the passcodes to his electronic devices.
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Lang, maar interessant interview met een voormalig AIVD-analist: piped.video/watch?v=G96H7Zn_…
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Last month, the #NSA renamed its Office of Computer Network Operations (CNO) back to its original name Tailored Access Operations (TAO):
therecord.media/nsa-revives-…
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Subsequently, the #NSA organized a reunion for alumni of TAO in an apparent effort to rebuild this legendary hacker unit:
therecord.media/nsa-to-host-…
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