A Researcher Hijacked the CIA’s Secure Contact Link for Informants Due to a Flaw in X
Kevin McSheehan discovered that the CIA’s link for informants was bugged on X, leaving the door open for a malicious actor to impersonate the agency.
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The Spy Law That Big Tech Wants To Limit
Top tech companies are mounting a push to limit how US intelligence agencies collect and view texts, emails and other information about their users, especially American citizens.
Reuters, BBC, and Bellingcat Participated in Covert UK Foreign Office-Funded Programs to “Weaken Russia,” Leaked Docs Reveal
New leaked documents show Reuters’ and the BBC’s involvement in covert UK FCO programs to effect “attitudinal change” and “weaken the Russian state’s influence,” alongside intel contractors and Bellingcat.
The Selective Prosecution of Julian Assange
As the extradition hearing for Wikileaks Editor-in-Chief Julian Assange unfolds, it is increasingly clear that the prosecution of Assange fits into a pattern of governments selectively enforcing laws in order to punish those who provoke their ire.
Social Media and Social Control: How Silicon Valley Serves the US State Department
Facebook isn’t the only Silicon Valley firm with partisan oversight of what we see: the bipartisan billionaire class and their security state have partnered with tech firms since the dawn of the internet to control the parameters of users’ thinking.
John Kiriakou: What Was This CIA Officer Thinking?
Given Langley’s intolerance for whistleblowing, the current case now in the headlines has a couple of curious features.
Opinion: The Eulogy Of An Immortal Russiagate Scandal
From the latest joke-indictment by Robert Mueller to the hysterical press-coverage of the Trump-Putin summit, the way establishment media has been acting over the past week has been apoplectic.
The Day That Guccifer 2.0 Quit Hacking The DNC
In November 2017, the DNC quietly changed their Russian hacking narrative via an Associated Press report, invalidating the circumstantial evidence that had been used to support the DNC’s Russian hacking claims, and representing a groundbreaking contradiction that has gone unobserved by establishment press outlets.