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Volgens het Franse weekblad L'Express staat de #AIVD in de top-3 van beste Europese inlichtingendiensten, na het Britse #MI6 en de Franse #DGSE: nos.nl/artikel/2625...
'AIVD behoort tot beste inlichtingendiensten van Europa'
Het Franse weekblad L'Express heeft een ranglijst gemaakt van inlichtingendiensten, waar de Nederlandse dienst op de derde plaats staat.
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Dit is toch wel een vrij schandelijke praktijk van @ingnl.bsky.social: eerst doen alsof er met #Wero niks verandert en dan op het laatste moment zeggen dat je geen scanner meer kan gebruiken voor het doen van betalingen: radar.avrotros.nl/artikel/ing-...
ING-scanner verdwijnt als iDeal verandert in Wero: ‘Mooi in de aap gelogeerd’
Toen de overstap van iDEAL naar Wero werd aangekondigd, werd gemeld dat alles hetzelfde zou blijven. Dit blijkt nu toch niet zo te zijn: meerdere mensen late...
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In this photo two STE secure telephone sets and a remarkable red phone, which is part of the Single Audio System (SAS), which provides both secure and non-secure voice communications for the US Navy:
Een hoop aandacht momenteel voor het nieuwe ontwerp voor de Eurobiljetten, maar laten de Nederlandse banken eerst maar eens de 100-euro biljetten hier ten lande in circulatie brengen! www.rtl.nl/economie/lif...
Zo zien de nieuwe briefjes van 100 en 200 euro eruit
De Europese Centrale Bank (ECB) heeft vandaag de nieuwe biljetten van 100 en 200 euro onthuld. Ze zijn iets kleiner en moeten beter beschermd zijn tegen namaak.
rtl.nl
'Wachtwoordmanager Passwork verzwijgt banden met Russische geheime diensten'
'Wachtwoordmanager Passwork verzwijgt banden met Russische geheime diensten'
Dat concludeert het journalistencollectief OCCRP, samen met onder meer Investico, NU.nl, De Groene Amsterdammer en De Tijd.
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If you want updates from websites and blogs but don't want the Big Tech algorithms, you can use a tool that’s been around for decades: Really Simple Syndication, more commonly known as RSS: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
Hate “The Algorithm?” RSS Is One of the Tools You’ve Been Looking For
Since at least the moment Facebook introduced (and apologized for) its News Feed, “the algorithm” has been shorthand for the ways the tech giants control what we see and when we see it. In the age of ...
eff.org
New: The Pentagon is asking Congress for broad new authority to withhold unclassified records from the public, a proposal that transparency advocates say could significantly reduce the public's ability to scrutinize the nation's largest federal agency. www.cbsnews.com/news/pentago...
Pentagon proposes new secrecy power to withhold unclassified records from public-access laws
The legislative proposal would allow the defense secretary to withhold "controlled unclassified information," potentially curbing public access to a wide range of defense records.
cbsnews.com
Trump's new Air Force One lacks the full package of defensive countermeasures, which poses a potential risk when the president travels overseas: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/u...
New Air Force One Lacks Defensive Countermeasures of Previous Model, Officials Say
Experts said the lack of such capabilities poses a potential risk when the president travels overseas. The White House defended the aircraft’s safety.
nytimes.com
The #BND was very successful during Brezhnev’s visits to West Germany. The intelligence service secretly photographed the complete Soviet communications technology. BND technicians documented the installation in detail. Some of the photos were taken through basement windows 1/4
Florian Flade@florianflade.bsky.social · 4w ago💥🕵️♂️ „Sondereinsatz TRIO“ - Drei Mal kam Leonid Breschnew in die Bundesrepublik. Historische Akten zeigen nun erstmals: Der #BND bespitzelte den Sowjetführer und seine Begleiter bei den Staatsbesuchen. Neuer Blog Post: ojihad.wordpress.com/2026/07/08/b... #Geheimdienste #Spionage #Geschichte
EU Politicians Investigated Pegasus Spyware. Then It Ended Up on One of Their Phones www.wired.com/story/eu-pol...
EU Politicians Investigated Pegasus Spyware. Then It Ended Up on One of Their Phones
“It is a direct attack on the rule of law,” says one European Parliament member of the new findings from Citizen Lab.
wired.com
Gisteren publiceerde toezichthouder #CTIVD een uitvoerig rapport over hoe #AIVD en #MIVD omgaan met bulkdatasets - een weerbarstige materie, waarvan de vraag is of die überhaupt wel afdoende en tegelijk werkbaar te regelen valt... www.ctivd.nl/actueel/nieu...
AIVD en MIVD moeten bij bulkdataverwerking persoonlijke privacy beter beschermen | CTIVD
De Commissie van Toezicht op de Inlichtingen en Veiligheidsdiensten (CTIVD) onderzocht of de AIVD en de MIVD aan de wettelijke randvoorwaarden voldoen bij grootschalige dataverwerking. Een aantal bela...
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Because of AI, signals intercepts will be harder to trust on their own but a human agent can help cut through that deluge of disinformation: www.rand.org/pubs/comment...
Why Human Intelligence Matters More in an AI World
AI will become an indispensable tool for case officers, agents, fabricators, counterintelligence services, and the rest of the intelligence world. But this will have the paradoxical effect of increasi...
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New records reveal that Hegseth, Rubio and Caine kept using the #Signal app, even after president Trump suggested they stop: www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
Hegseth, Rubio, and Caine Had an Auto-Deleting Signal Chat
New records reveal that officials kept using the app, even after the president suggested they stop.
theatlantic.com
Trump's former national security adviser John Bolton admitted to mishandling classified information and could face up to five years in prison: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/26/u...
John Bolton, Former Trump Adviser, Pleads Guilty in Classified Information Case
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Misschien een idee om die enorme pot geld voor "weerbaarheid" ook eens aan te wenden om een buffer bij dit soort cruciale voorzieningen in stand te houden? nos.nl/artikel/2619...
VUmc stopt in 2040 als ziekenhuis, zorgtaken gaan naar locatie AMC
In de aankomende veertien jaar worden de zorgtaken van het medisch centrum overgeheveld naar het AMC in Amsterdam-Zuidoost.
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Given that the training document is from 2016, it's also possible that #NSA replaced #PRISM by a new, longer codeword after the immense exposure of this program by the #Snowden leaks
Electrospaces.net@electrospaces.bsky.social · last mo.This is strange: in the declassified internal #NSA training for Section 702 FAA operations from 2016 the term #PRISM doesn't fit the redacted space:
Five Eyes cyber chiefs issued a joint warning that AI-powered cyber threats could outpace current government and corporate defences within months. They name no adversaries. www.ncsc.gov.uk/sites/defaul...
Trump unveiled his new, temporary Air Force One that was gifted by Qatar, replacing one of the Boeing 747s that came into service back in 1990: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Trump unveils new Air Force One, a converted Qatari 747
New craft, called VC-25B Bridge, had provoked protest since $400m jet wildly exceeds limit on unsolicited gifts
theguardian.com
Recherchen von BR und @netzpolitik.org zeigen, wie fremde Staaten Mitarbeitende deutscher Sicherheitsbehörden ausspähen können - mit Standortdaten aus Smartphone-Apps, die im Internet gehandelt werden: interaktiv.br.de/ausspioniert...
Ausspioniert mit Standortdaten
Spitzenbeamte, Soldaten, Nachrichtendienstler: Recherchen von BR und netzpolitik.org zeigen, wie fremde Staaten Mitarbeitende deutscher Sicherheitsbehörden ausspähen können - mit Standortdaten aus Sma...
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From @citizenlab.ca @cyn-k.bsky.social : Bill C-22 could expose Canadian data to U.S. surveillance policyoptions.irpp.org/2026/06/bill...
Bill C-22 could expose Canadian data to U.S. surveillance
Ottawa should reject any data-sharing agreement that allows U.S. authorities to access Canadians' personal information without Canadian oversight.
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Section 702 sunsets today. What’s next? Surveillance can continue until March 2027 under a grandfather clause. In the meantime, Congress must take this opportunity to build real protections for Americans’ privacy into any Section 702 2.0. 1/17
Oekraïne meldt de "vernietiging" van het Russische inlichtingenschip Ivan Churs (Ivan Khurs) in de haven van Sebastopol (Krim). Gaat om een relatief nieuw SIGINT-schip, te water gelaten in 2017. Zie ook en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yury_Iv...
Yury Ivanov-class intelligence ship - Wikipedia
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🇺🇦 News@uazmi.media · 2mo agoRussian Black Sea Fleet reconnaissance ship Ivan Khurs destroyed. #news #uazmi #war #russia The Russian Black Sea Fleet reconnaissance ship Ivan Khurs, which is moored in the Naftova Harbor of the temporarily occupied city of Sevastopol, has been de...
Almost exactly 13 years after the start of the NSA-leaks, Edward #Snowden appeared on a state-owned Russian television channel in a report about the risks of foreign technology: united24media.com/investigatio...
Snowden Used in FSB Campaign Against Western Runet Infrastructure and Apple Smartphones
The FSB is using Edward Snowden to claim that Western tech firms and agencies like the NSA use tools like Cloudflare to spy on Russian officials' smartphones.
united24media.com
New Executive Order creates a “voluntary framework” for #AI developers to give the #NSA and other US government agencies early access to their latest AI models: breakingdefense.com/2026/06/trum...
Trump executive order on AI gives central role to NSA - Breaking Defense
The EO creates a “voluntary framework” for AI developers to give the government early access to their latest tech.
breakingdefense.com
Inlichtingenexperts: ‘Buitenlandse Zaken kende aanzienlijk meer corruptie dan andere ministeries’
Inlichtingenexperts: ‘Buitenlandse Zaken kende aanzienlijk meer corruptie dan andere ministeries’
Visumfraude, drugstransporten, vrouwenhandel: de leek zal zulke snode praktijken niet snel koppelen aan het keurige Nederlandse diplomatencorps. Ten onrechte, zeggen twee experts, die een boek schreven vol corruptiegevallen bij ambassades.
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Senate Democrats are warning that naming FHFA director Bill Pulte as acting DNI could make it harder to pass an extension for Section 702 FAA: www.nextgov.com/people/2026/...
Pulte appointment threatens fragile spy powers deal
Senate Democrats are warning that Trump’s move to install the FHFA director at the head of the nation’s top intel office could make it harder to pass an extension for Section 702 of FISA.
nextgov.com
GPS navigation includes a publicly broadcast 176-bit special-message field that have carried high-entropy payloads for years. It looks like a one-way encrypted control or key-distribution channel, a GPS-transmitted, world-reachable number station lsc-pagepro.mydigitalpublication.com/publication/...
New: Research by the Libroot collective reveals interesting new details from the #Snowden files: www.electrospaces.net/2026/06/new-...
New details from the Snowden files found by the Libroot collective
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