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Swiss šŸ‡ØšŸ‡­, but not neutral. Between Geneva and Zurich. Applied security policy (effects-oriented). šŸ‡ŗšŸ‡¦ ā€œItā€™s the oldest question of all, George. Who can spy on the spies? Who can smell out the fox without running with him?ā€ - John le CarrĆ©
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#MICE sums up the key reasons people commit treason or turn into insider threats: #Money for financial gain, #Ideology driven by beliefs, #Compromise through blackmail, and #Ego, whether for power, recognition, or revenge www.cnn.com/2025/02/28/p...

Š”Š»Š°Š²Š° Š£ŠŗрŠ°Ń—Š½Ń–! #slavaukraini

Desperate times call forā€¦ *checks notes* en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzer...

Sabotage, assassinations & infiltration threaten Germanyā€™s defense industry, infrastructure & politics. Seen as NATOā€™s weak link, Germany is now a prime target for Russian covert ops. Putin's sabotage unit, the Special Tasks Department #SSD 1/3 www.wsj.com/world/europe...

I servizi segreti russi - conferme anche dal Wsj - hanno creato nel 2023 un Dipartimento per le missioni speciali, diretto da Andrei Averyanov, vice Ivan Kasyanenko, per operazioni segrete contro l'Occidente (tra cui un tentativo di assassinio dell'ad di Rheinmetall) che ha assorbito lā€™ex 29155

Change of government in Austria: ā€žThe FPƖ was a gateway for Russian intelligence gathering [ā€¦] Russia will continue to exploit these connectionsā€

New: After an eighteen-month investigation, @theins.press has uncovered new evidence suggesting that Russiaā€™s GRU paid tens of millions of dollars to the Taliban to target American, coalition, and Afghan military forces. Unit 29155 was behind this operation. theins.press/en/politics/...

šŸššŸ† GUR the first in the world to destroy an air target using a Magura V5 naval drone. During the battle in the Black Sea and Crimea, a Russian Mi-8 helicopter was destroyed by R-73 ā€œSeeDragonā€ missiles. Ā  šŸ’„ Another similar enemy helicopter was hit by fire and was able to reach its base airfield.

The Global Hunt for Putinā€™s ā€˜Sleeper Agentsā€™ www.wsj.com/world/europe...

'Nick Harkaway has honoured John le CarrĆ© with a work of real attention and affection, as good as most of his father's books, and better than several. It is heartening to know that there might be more.' ā€“ Times Literary Supplement www.the-tls.co.uk/literature/f...

December is GRU month at @theins.press. I mean, every month more or less isā€”but this month is especially so. Several big investigations dropping. All of them long in the works.

theins.ru/en/politics/...

The unit was called Detachment A, with the classified name of 39th Special Forces Operational Detachment (SFOD), a clandestine Special Forces unit. Technically illegal under the Four Powers Agreement, Det A was on twenty four hour standby in Berlin in the event that the USSR

Russia is conducting active spy operations on the European continent. At various levels and with many means. This is shown in a recent report by Radio Tele Suisse and SRF on the espionage activities of the Russian mission in Geneva in Switzerland.Ā But there's more 1/5

CISA and the FBI confirmed that a Chinese hacking group tracked as Salt Typhoon compromised the "private communications" of a "limited number" of government officials after breaching multiple U.S. broadband providers. www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...

šŸ‡ŖšŸ‡ŗšŸš« EU countries have started compiling a 15th round of Russia sanctions, despite a potential U-turn in US foreign policy, EUobserver The 27 European capitals have begun sending national wish-lists for new anti-Russian measures to the European Commission in Brussels.

āš”ļø NATO chief Mark Rutte: We must do more than just keep Ukraine in the fight. We need to raise the cost for Putin and his enabling authoritarian friends by providing Ukraine with the support it needs to change the trajectory of the conflict. šŸ“¹: NATO News

X has a new terms of service that goes into effect on November 15. It says that by using X, you agree that everything you post can be used to train their AI models.

Intelligence expert Erich Schmidt-Eenboom: 'I believe that all telecoms of our armed forces but also police, intel services are intercepted by šŸ‡·šŸ‡ŗ foreign #SVR and military intel #GRU and i am not sure whether #NATO's encryption technologies are sufficiently secureā€˜ www.swr.de/swr1/swr1leu...

ƀ GenĆØve : Agressions aux HĆ“pitaux Universitaires: les soignants ne sont pas des punching-balls www.tdg.ch/hopital-les-...

*sigh*

Deep dive into Jan #Marsalek's family history and long-standing involvement in intelligence matters. Impressive summary by @thomasriegler.bsky.social #Wirecard Must readšŸ‘‡ thomas-riegler.net/2024/03/13/j...

Least suprising Elon Musk interaction

Kudos to the guy from the MSS who trained for this all his life and even studied Russian - he rose to the challengeā€¦

Ian Bremmer shared this analysis compiled by the news outlet Quartz.

The Chairman of the Hamas Politburo, Ismail Haniyeh, appealed to the residents of Gaza not to evacuate to the south of the strip. ā€œWe remain on our land,ā€ he said.

The eclipse at its fullest Los Angeles extent

Gorgeous annular eclipse in west Texas today!

āž”ļøā€The plan didn't succeed; the so-called ā€œfifth columnā€ never materialized. That hasn't affected Petrovsky's career ā€” he continues to fly on private jets and buy luxury apartments, registering them to third parties.ā€ I wonder why the ā€œfifth columnā€ couldnā€™t be paid appropriately by the FSBā€¦ waitā€¦

The least we can and should doā€¦

Russia arrests three of Alexei Navalnyā€™s lawyers https://on.ft.com/3rOTtiy

About 80 of the all spy agents sent by Russia to Europe, or one in five, live in Switzerland. So Finland did not become Nordic Switzerland, but Switzerland became Alpine Finland. At least in this one thing (Finnlandisierung)

The EU has just sent formal letter to Elon Musk over "indications" that Twitter/X is ā€œbeing used to disseminate illegal content and disinformation in the EU" in the wake of Hamasā€™ attacks on Israel. #EUsky

Is that even a serious question? šŸ™„

Finnish govt will hold press conference today to discussĀ gas pipeline leakĀ in Gulf of Finland. The leak reportedly "does not appear to be an accident," and press conference relates to "worrying change in Finland's security situation". yle.fi/a/74-20054419

Me. According to AI.