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The secret #Kilowatt intelligence system linked Western intel agencies with Israel from 1971. It funneled data on Palestinians, safehouses, and movements. Enabling targeted killings across Europe by #Mossad, all without the knowledge of elected governments www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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The US has been concerned for years about backdoors in Chinese hardware - including the that used for internet providers, energy and computer servers. They've found coding so bad it might be a back door in the past. If true (and for this purpose) this is most overt implanted devices.

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US Army deactivates its information warfare center I say find an annoyed former Prighozin IRA staffer and sub-contract them www.army.mil/article/2854...

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Bright side: Nate Erskine-Smith would be an amazing chair of NSICOP

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Spent many hours doing this back in the day.

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Following up from our Globe and Mail Op-Ed yesterday (which you can read here www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...) I discuss some of the criticisms of establishing a foreign human intelligence service and address them briefly. open.substack.com/pub/stephani...

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The coolest thing about this device is that it was invented by Leon Theremin, the inventor of the musical instrument of the same name.

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You don't suppose they'd mess with a sovereignty referendum, do you? Perhaps something to ask the Premier as she paves the way for the vote. edmontonjournal.com/news/politic...

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Huge news out of Canada: Canadian ISIS financier has pled guilty. He used a combination of crypto, Western Union, PayPal, and crowdfunding to raise and move funds for the terrorist group. This is only the third terrorist financing conviction in Canadian history* globalnews.ca/news/1074916...

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Gradual changes largely made in secret have made it easier for the US military to wage war in space. breakingdefense.com/2025/05/excl...

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The G7 Cybersec Working Group has finally put nat cyber agencies in one room to align on critical infra and AI safeguards. Now let us see if a small task force can truly overcome the deep institutional silos that have long slowed collective cyber security/defense: bindinghook.com/articles-hoo...

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From the archive - Uncovering #ColdWar #Soviet #secrets with the #USAF and #NSA pod.fo/e/1f1221

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A new substack from me: Cyber-protection agency a victim of fraud - federal agency caught in wide-ranging overbilling scam deanbeeby.substack.com/p/cyber-prot... #cdnfoi #cdnpoli

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The world has changed and Canada needs to establish a foreign human intelligence service New for @theglobeandmail.com by @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social, Vincent Rigby (former national security and intelligence adviser to the prime minister) and me: www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

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Sounds like UK is getting their own CMMC/CPCSC

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Declassified study from the early 1960s on the security advantages of satellite communications over other transmission technologies. The observation about traffic analysis is esp. interesting.

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BOXTOP is the mission that keeps Canada's northernmost SIGINT site, Canadian Forces Station alert, supplied with fuel and other major materiel items.

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🧵 #VEDay80 Much has been made of the role of Bletchley Park and ULTRA during #WW2 yet the role of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service (SIS/MI6) was often underplayed. ⬇️ JIC chair Victor Cavendish-Bentinck noted SIS had "failed badly" initially and had been "saved" by ULTRA. #VEDay80

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New addition Report: Report of the 2024 Independent Intelligence Review [Australia] by Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (published 20-03-2025) https://www.pmc.gov.au/resources/2024-independent-intelligence-review

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MANCHESTER, England — Britain’s intelligence services are seeing a “direct connection between Russian cyber attacks and physical threats to our security,” the country’s cyber chief announced on Wednesday.

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Yeah. To me the kinds of intel Gabbard is asking for look like stuff that would be useful if the administration was thinking about covert action against Greenland or Denmark.

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US intelligence agencies ordered to focus spying activities on Greenland

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Today's Insight Monitor is out, and we're looking at what the intelligence and national security priorities should be for the new Liberal government (and I throw a little shade at their failure to implement the last mandate's priorities) Free to 📖 newsletter.insightthreatintel.com/p/security-a...

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Fun fact: There are more people in the US intelligence community than in all of Greenland.

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The Canadian Council of Innovators released a report called Mandate to Innovate, essentially laying out how the new government can improve innovation across Canada. www.canadianinnovators.org/content/a-ma... Shout out to @laurentdcar.bsky.social for the good work. 1/4

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Come work with us! We are looking for a creative and self-motivated communications professional to join our team this summer in the role of Digital Communications Specialist. This is a FT, hybrid position based at @uoft.bsky.social in downtown Toronto. Learn more: citizenlab.ca/2025/05/job-...

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I'm thinking of all of the countless victims, only a fraction of which we @citizenlab.ca @accessnow.org @amnesty.org and others identified of NSO Group's malicious sales to ruthless despots and corrupt security agencies. Never let bullies win.

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BREAKING: jury awards massive $167 million in punitive damages against spyware company NSO Group. Precedent-setting win against notorious #Pegasus spyware maker. Very consequential for victims to see this. Congratulations to #WhatsApp on sticking this case through since 2019. Some thoughts 1/

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Our most devastating weapon as a people

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New addition Book: The Cyber Eye: Inside the Network Wars and Secrets of the Five Eyes Alliance by Karwan Kareem (published 03-05-2025) https://figshare.com/articles/book/The_Cyber_Eye_Inside_the_Network_Wars_and_Secrets_of_the_Five_Eyes_Alliance/28926095/1

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NEW: The NSA has been directed to cut 8 percent of its civilian employees — between 1,500 and 2,000 personnel — as part of the Trump administration’s push to reduce the size of the federal government. On @therecordmedia.bsky.social therecord.media/nsa-to-cut-u...

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CSE is recruiting Foreign Language Intelligence Analysts for both foreign intelligence and foreign cyber operations. Languages of interest include but are not limited to Hindi, Punjabi, German, Italian, Arabic, Portuguese and Farsi. careers.cse-cst.gc.ca/en/careers/f... 1/2

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Huge shout out to Bill - one of Canada’s best observers of national security, especially as it relates to cyber. A thoughtful and insightful critic that should inspire everyone in this space. Congrats and many thanks. 💻

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Congrats, Bill! Bill is one of the OGs in tracking Canadian sigint cyber-related developments. Lux Ex Umbra made many of my early forays into researching Canadian cyber defence possible. Give his blog a follow or add it to your RSS feed. It is necessary reading to understand Canadian SIGINT.

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