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Insights in Signals Intelligence, Communications Security and Top Level Telecommunications equipment. Also tweeting in Dutch and German. Picture: NSOC in 2006.
Apr 18, 2023 4 tweets 2 min read
Gisteren verscheen het jaarverslag van de Algemene Inlichtingen- en Veiligheidsdienst (AIVD) over 2022:
aivd.nl/actueel/nieuws… Uit het jaarverslag blijkt dat de AIVD vorig jaar 1930 gerichte telefoon- en internettaps uitvoerde, wat wederom een daling is ten opzichte van de 2004 taps van het jaar daarvoor: Image
Nov 22, 2022 9 tweets 5 min read
Forget that Utah Data Center - this is were it actually happened: the #NSA's Tordella Supercomputer Building (TSCB), built in 1996 just outside Fort Meade, Maryland: Image The Tordella Supercomputer Building is somewhat hidden in the woods, north of the well-known #NSA-headquarters buildings: Image
Dec 30, 2020 7 tweets 2 min read
NEW: Summary of the report about the investigation by the by the Swiss intelligence oversight committee into the case of Crypto AG, which was secretly owned by CIA and BND: electrospaces.net/2020/12/a-swis… The committee found that the Swiss foreign intelligence service knew that Crypto AG was owned by CIA and BND since 1993, but failed to inform the responsible minister
Dec 1, 2020 5 tweets 2 min read
NEW: Danish media revealed that the NSA tried to spy on Danish and other European targets via a joint cable tapping operation in Denmark: electrospaces.net/2020/11/via-ca… The NSA sent the Danish military intelligence service FE selectors related to targets in Denmark and other European countries - just like the Americans did during their cooperation with the German BND: electrospaces.net/2015/05/german…
Oct 28, 2020 8 tweets 3 min read
NEW: Danish military intelligence uses XKEYSCORE to tap cables in cooperation with the NSA: electrospaces.net/2020/10/danish… In the last months the Danish press provided a surprisingly comprehensive and detailed picture of how Danish intelligence and the NSA cooperated in cable tapping on Danish soil, based upon an agreement from the mid-1990s
Jun 17, 2020 6 tweets 4 min read
According to a declassified report, the #CIA's hacking unit failed to secure its own systems, which resulted in the loss of the #Vault7 hacking tools: washingtonpost.com/national-secur… Here's the declassified internal #CIA investigation report into the loss of its #Vault7 hacking tools, many of which were published by #Wikileaks in 2017: wyden.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/…