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WARNINGS IGNORED: The Iowa Democratic Party barreled ahead with the use of an unvetted, undisclosed mobile app despite admonishments from security experts. DHS offered to test the app, but was turned away. 1/

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Sen. @RonWyden's office asked the DNC three times about details regarding the app during the run up to the Iowa caucuses, but received no reply, an aide to the senator said. wsj.com/articles/iowa-…
@RonWyden Some campaigns, including Biden and Buttigieg, have used a Shadow-built app to send texts to supporters and solicit donations. But the Biden campaign halted its use of that app amid concerns about its security and reliability after just ONE USE. wsj.com/articles/iowa-…
@RonWyden Precinct chairs in rural areas said they did not know about the app until a few weeks ago, received no training and decided not to use it. "We weren’t going to chance it," said Tracy Freese, chair of the Democratic Party in Grundy County. wsj.com/articles/iowa-…
@RonWyden Freese said she tried to get her results through on the hotline, but she was put on hold and gave up after 12:30 a.m. She called back this morning and the Iowa Democratic Party chief answered.

“I don’t know what the hell is going on,” Freese said.

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@RonWyden Sen. Wyden is not happy.
@RonWyden Iowa Dem Party Chairman Troy Price said "I have no knowledge of DHS making that offer" to test the app.

Acting DHS Secretary Wolf said this morning on TV an offer was made, as WSJ reported last night. wsj.com/articles/iowa-…
MORE WARNINGS IGNORED: Bob Lord, the DNC’s cybersecurity chief, also directly urged Iowa Dems to drop plans to use the Shadow app, an overture that was ignored, according to people familiar with the matter. wsj.com/articles/iowa-…
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Some incredible reporting here from @JennaMC_Laugh and @zachsdorfman, including the concern among intelligence officials that China may have shared hacked OPM data with the Kremlin, who in turn leveraged it to identify undercover CIA spies.

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It’s worth remembering that the top takeaway from the worldwide threat assessment in January was that China and Russia were more strategically aligned today than at any time since the 1950s. wsj.com/articles/allie…
This Yahoo story also expertly lays out why and how cybersecurity and intelligence have fully merged and are no longer two separate worlds. This has profound implications for national security.
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SCOOP: The Navy and its contractors are "under cyber siege" by China and others, hemorrhaging national security secrets at a rate that threatens U.S. standing as the world's top military power, internal review finds w/ @glubold wsj.com/articles/navy-…
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One senior Navy official was particularly dire:

“People think it’s much like a deathly virus—if we don’t do anything, we could die.”

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I have that right?
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Sure, let's call it a tie
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