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Traduzco, porque lo que dice Bert es importante:

"Por muy alarmante que sea, el artículo que aparece a continuación no lo es lo suficiente. Microsoft Francia afirma aquí que nunca han visto una solicitud de CLOUD ACT de datos del gobierno francés. Tal vez sea cierto. Sin embargo, en virtud de la sección 702 de la FISA y la OE 12333, Microsoft sigue estando obligada a entregar esos datos a la NSA, y los europeos nunca se enterarán de esa solicitud. ¡Los espías estadounidenses no necesitan pedir permiso a los europeos para espiar a los gobiernos europeos! #sigint "

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EUpolicy.social - A Mastodon server for the EU bubblebert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 (@bert_hubert@eupolicy.social)Alarming as it is, the article below is still not alarming enough! Microsoft France here claims they've never seen a CLOUD ACT request for French government data. Perhaps true. However, under the FISA section 702 & EO 12333, Microsoft is still mandated to deliver such data to the NSA, and Europeans will never learn of that request. US spies do not need to ask Europeans for permission to spy on European governments! #sigint https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/25/microsoft_admits_it_cannot_guarantee/

Alarming as it is, the article below is still not alarming enough! Microsoft France here claims they've never seen a CLOUD ACT request for French government data. Perhaps true. However, under the FISA section 702 & EO 12333, Microsoft is still mandated to deliver such data to the NSA, and Europeans will never learn of that request. US spies do not need to ask Europeans for permission to spy on European governments! #sigint theregister.com/2025/07/25/mic

The Register · Microsoft admits it 'cannot guarantee' data sovereigntyBy Paul Kunert
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Shop keeper Phyllis used her computer system to automate book keeping, taking the time to prepare from five hours to five minutes.

Having learned the system down to hardware level, Phyllis is now building an electronics kit. Her aim? Build a computer herself; Or as we called it an “electronic gadget”.

What Phyllis doesn’t say is she was a maths graduate from University and “#Cypher Clerk” in “Hut 5” at #BletchleyPark during the war.

The”Official Secrets Act” was in force in 1983 😂🤣☺️

#UK / WW2 / #computing / #bombe / #SigInt / #accounts / #hardware #kits / #Commodore / #PET / #RetroComputing

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@ticho @delta @torproject isn't that related to that "#blockchain-based" #AntisocialNetwork?

  • Having real #E2EE & decoupling the #message from #transport mechanism is key when communicating behind enemy lines and facing massive #SIGINT deployments against oneself.

Stuff like The "#OfflinePGP method" are really important skill for everyone!

youtube.com/watch?v=vdab4T_CoN8

@guenterhack
Ich brauch so eine Vogelstimmen-App für meine Huawei Taschenwanze. Und ich muss die Kamerasysteme schwenken lernen. 1e hängt direkt neben dem Vodgelfutterplatz, dessen Position ist schon fix programmiert. Die home haXors haben die samt x Sensoren ohne mein Wissen auf einem eigenen Iot Netz installiert.

Die ham gemeint, wir sollten doch a bisserl über nearfield #SIGINT verfügen angesichts der Russki #SIGINT Eskapaden

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I downloaded the book and read chapter 2 “MASS DIGITAL SURVEILLANCE AND
NATIONAL SECURITY TECHNOTOPIAS”
It taught me a few things about the constitutionality of surveillance in South Africa I did not now. It seems we are still waiting for politicians to do the right thing and most people stare at you as if you are a total nut-job if you talk about privacy and surveillance.
#southafrica #surveillance #sigint

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@funbaker @geist Operationen von der Größenordnung wie #O7 dürften selbst dem inkompetentesten #Geheimdienst nicht verborgen bleiben.

Ich meine, dass #Hamas z.T. kilometerweise #Plastikrohre für #Trinkwasser ausgebuddelt haben dürfte denen genauso auffallen wie das In Stellung bringen von 5.000 Raketen - selbst wenn es reine #Qassam-1 wären, ist das nicht mit einer Tour von einem LKW getan!

Die Hamas-Führung chillt derweil im beheizten Wirlpool im klimatisierten Penthouse in Doha und lacht sich mit Milliarden an veruntreuuten Geldern (Einnahmen durch #Schutzgelderpressung) krumm...

  • Selbstverständlich atmen die nur noch weil das gewollt ist!
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@bob_zim @micahflee @heiseonline @golem Makes sense.

  • After all, the whole #IMSIcatcher system can be detected by passive #SIGINT as it's an active attack on mobile networks.

I wounder if I can get a compatible device in #Germany as well...

  • Bonis points if that device has a freely reprogrammable #IMEI to allow hiding it's identity.
GitHublists.d/imei.devices.list.tsv at main · greyhat-academy/lists.dList of useful things. Contribute to greyhat-academy/lists.d development by creating an account on GitHub.

1/2 @mattblaze @ai6yr the

#Russki_SIGINT longread is now out, gentlemen and it caused quite a stir, as the notorious Russian spy satellite Olymp-K2 suddenly came drifting into the segment of our research [0° to 15° east] . Special sort of #SIGINT sat performing dangerously close approaches to intercept the satellite bus *steering commands* of the Eutelsat teleports. All sat targets of the Vienna station included.

Had to compile a thread in English over there...

threadreaderapp.com/thread/190

threadreaderapp.comThread by @harkank on Thread Reader App@harkank: 1/more Servus the lot of new followers! Much appreciated. Here is a 🧵for you. Intro video to our latest findings on #RusskiSIGINT in Vienna. The 3 large C-band dishes on the embassy to the UN intercept...…

While I'm no longer in the IC and can't confirm my suspicions, I simply don't think it's that plausible that everything is flowing as normal in Five Eyes. I can see why people would *say* it is. But an American intelligence & CI apparatus run by malicious, compromised kooks Gabbard, Patel, Ratcliffe, Trump, is one you need to put strong filters on, going both ways. #FiveEyes #intelligence #SIGINT #HUMINT
Original: economist.com/international/20
No paywall: archive.is/sgb2E

The Economist · Trump v the spies of Five EyesBy The Economist

@jt_rebelo @mastodonmigration @GottaLaff I'd call #Ukraine "criminally incompetent" if they didn't already leverage domestic #Fiber & #GSM networks as well as procuring entire transponders for exclusive use.

Infosec.SpaceKevin Karhan :verified: (@kkarhan@infosec.space)@dragonfrog@mastodon.sdf.org @benh@mastodon.scot @mastodonmigration@mastodon.online @GottaLaff@mstdn.social as for #ITsec amd the whole #Starlink #Network: It basically uses a homegrown mix of #DOCSIS, #GSM and #ViaSat #SurfBeam technologies to generate these hexagon coverage areas. - Certainly not trivial, but not impossible to #BlueBox, tho unless one needs #FPS-grade #Ping|s, it's not worth the effort when other Options like #KaSAT are easier and cheaper to get hold of... https://infosec.space/@kkarhan/114048966406486263
#xtar#bwsatcom#nato
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@mbacarella

Yeah...
Whilst I am not a fan of #AI which I think will in the long run, will be detrimental to humans, I am far from the "AI Slop" luddites.

But when #deepseek killed their web login a few days back. I was extremely sceptical of loading the app on my device.
Thank you for doing the gods work and verifying my concerns.

I think the #Australian #sigint mob might have done a similar analysis because only a couple of days ago they issued a directive banning it off Government devices.

The Webby interface was under constant DOS attacks, so that might have accelerated app only deploy.

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At 12:29 in the podcast, there’s info about a specific encrypted German Police message - transmitted in #Morsecode during #WWII - which was intercepted by the #ChicksandsPriory #Ystation - then forwarded to #BletchleyPark for decryption - through which the Allies heard ( for the 1st time through #SIGINT ) about horrific mass killings of Jews that were happening across Europe at the time. #RAFChicksands #ChicksandsRAFB #Chicksands #WWIIhistory #MilitaryIntelligence #SignalsIntelligence #Holocaust