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The FBI’s Honeypot Phones Were More Widely Distributed in the U.S. Than Previously Thought
One of the weirder stories from last year involved a gargantuan FBI honeypot operation designed to catch crooks all over the world. According to Motherboard, that operation had a bigger imprint in the U.S. than originally believed.
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Former U.S. Navy Nuclear Engineer Allegedly Tried to Sell Submarine Secrets via Sandwich
With all due apologies to the Forbidden Sandwich — the feds may have discovered the world’s most dangerous sammie.
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Secret FBI Watchlist Leaks Online, and Boy Do the Feds Think a Lot of People Are Terrorists
Back in July, cybersecurity researcher Bob Diachenko found what seemed to be a leaked FBI watchlist naming the personal details of close to 2 million suspected terrorists. Diachenko quickly filed a report to the Department of Homeland Security, hoping the agency would issue some sort of patch to keep this data from leaking into the…
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How the FBI Is Trying to Break Encryption Without Actually Breaking Encryption
Since at least the 1990s, U.S. federal officials have publicly worried that encrypted communications give aid to terrorists and criminals. More often than not they have, to some degree, been right.