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DIRNSA Fired
In “Secrets and Lies” (2000), I wrote:
It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state.
<p... https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/04/dirnsa-fired.html
#nationalsecuritypolicy #Uncategorized #surveillance #privacy #NSA
Trump entlässt #NSA-Chef und weitere Führungskräfte
"US-Präsident Trump hat laut Medienberichten den Chef des wichtigen #Geheimdienst'es NSA gefeuert. Auch mehrere Mitglieder des Nationalen Sicherheitsrats müssen gehen - offenbar auf Empfehlung einer ultrarechten Aktivistin."
https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/amerika/entlassungen-us-sicherheitsrat-102.html
Wichtiger US-Geheimdienst: Trump feuert offenbar NSA-Chef
US-Präsident Trump hat bereits Tausende Regierungsangestellte entlassen. Auch unliebsame Spitzenkräfte mussten gehen. Nun hat er laut Medienberichten den Chef der NSA gefeuert - einem der größten Geheimdienste des Landes.
Head of #NationalSecurity Agency & #Cyber Command Is Ousted
No reason was given for the removal of Gen. Timothy D. Haugh, but the #FarRight #ConspiracyTheorist #LauraLoomer had called for his ouster in a meeting with #Trump, an official said.
#NSA #USCyberCom #DOD #military #USmilitary #MilitaryPreparedness #USpol #idiocracy #kakistocracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/us/politics/nsa-cyber-command-chief-fired.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=5EEED3CC-7459-4B93-9861-7531F383E2EB
Equal time for the other brilliant late-night host, deeply unloved by the #TrumpVirus / #GQP anti- #Truth #cult
> Jimmy Kimmel Live: “CHAT'S OUT OF THE BAG!”
https://youtu.be/nfKCwWN87jI
> "Team Trump’s Text Chain Disaster Gets Worse, “War Plans” Lies Won’t Stop & Very Dangerous Boom Mics"
#truth #decompensation #disinformation #propaganda #fascism #delusions #madmen #Hegseth #NSA #Signal #chat #treason #buffoonery #scandal
The #Senate Select Cmte on #Intelligence hearing is a regular briefing intelligence ofcls provide #Congress on worldwide threats & was scheduled before #JeffGoldberg’s report from The Atlantic.
But the controversy is likely to dominate the session.
Testifying:
#DNI Tulsi Gabbard
#CIA Dir John Ratcliffe
Timothy D. Haugh, #NSA
#Defense Intelligence Agency dir Jeffrey A. Kruse
#FBI director Kash Patel
#NationalSecurity #USpol #geopolitics
https://www.c-span.org/event/senate-committee/dni-director-gabbard-fbi-director-patel-other-security-officials-testfy-on-global-threats/431845
"In 2006, a retired AT&T engineer knocked on the door of the EFF's office in a rundown part of San Francisco's Mission district and asked, "Do you folks care about privacy?" With him he carried schematics exposing the largest US government domestic spying operation since Watergate.
That person was Mark Klein, who died on March 8 this year from cancer. He was 79.
After a life working in telecoms, Klein realized he had helped the NSA wire up a listening station in AT&T's San Francisco switching facility - the infamous Room 641A - that was being used to illegally spy on Americans.
The evidence he gathered and shared led to two lawsuits that exposed the extent to which US citizens were being spied on by their own government in the post-9/11 world. Klein faced legal pressure, death threats, and the constant fear of ruin, to get his story out and …
"In 2006, a retired AT&T engineer knocked on the door of the EFF's office in a rundown part of San Francisco's Mission district and asked, "Do you folks care about privacy?" With him he carried schematics exposing the largest US government domestic spying operation since Watergate.
That person was Mark Klein, who died on March 8 this year from cancer. He was 79.
After a life working in telecoms, Klein realized he had helped the NSA wire up a listening station in AT&T's San Francisco switching facility - the infamous Room 641A - that was being used to illegally spy on Americans.
The evidence he gathered and shared led to two lawsuits that exposed the extent to which US citizens were being spied on by their own government in the post-9/11 world. Klein faced legal pressure, death threats, and the constant fear of ruin, to get his story out and tell the public what was going on. But Klein regretted nothing."
https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/15/rip_mark_klein/
#USA #NSA #Surveillance #ATT #MassSurveillance #PoliceState #Privacy
Big Brother verdrahten ... und bekämpfen: Zum Tode von Whisteblower Mark Klein
Der US-amerikanische Whistleblower Mark Klein ist tot. Durch ihn wurde erstmals öffentlich bekannt, dass die NSA auch US-Amerikaner belauschte.
US-Cybersicherheit: Kapitulation vor Russland oder Zeichen für Verhandlungen?
In der Security-Branche herrscht große Unsicherheit, ob die Kehrtwende der US-Regierung womöglich das Land gefährde. Es gibt jedoch auch mäßigende Stimmen.
US-Verteidigungsminister stoppt Russland-Planungen der Cyberkräfte
Künftig sollen Militär und Behörden in den USA keine Cyberaktivitäten mit Russland-Bezug mehr planen. Ob das riskant ist, wird noch geprüft.
#Cybersecurity #Cyberwar #DonaldTrump #NSA #UkraineKrieg #news
Ich kann den Erfinder dieses Begriffes nur bewundern: Wer "NR NSA" als Name für einen Mobilfunk Daten Standard nutzt, hat Humor. Ich dachte schon mein Telefon will mich verarschen. #NSA
When organizes Crime is the President and a criminal narcist his Partner:
The #NSA's "Big Delete"
"the National Security Agency (NSA) is planning a "Big Delete" of websites and internal network content that contain any of 27 banned words, including "privilege," "bias," and "inclusion.""
https://popular.info/p/the-nsas-big-delete
Yeah, this isn't horrible at all. Let's remove the words "racism," "equity," and "inclusion" from everything at #NSA. (27 words in all, each one necessary for our country to even pretend to believe in justice.)
How could this be happening?
Joint Publications Focus on Mitigation Strategies for Edge Devices > NSA/Central Security Service
FORT MEADE - The #NSA has joined the Australian Signals Directorate’s Australian Cyber #Security Centre (ASD’s ACSC), the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (CCCS), & others to release 3 guides #Cybersecurity Info Sheets (CSIs) that highlight critically important mitigation strategies for securing edge device systems, including #firewalls, routers, & #VPN gateways.
