national security
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White House Says Reports of an American Cyberwar With Russia Are Greatly Exaggerated
NBC reports that President Joe Biden has been presented with a “menu of options” for massive cyberattacks against Russia, an obvious retaliation for Putin’s illegal military campaign in Ukraine. However, the White House has since denounced the report, claiming that it does not “reflect what is actually being discussed in any shape or form.”
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New Leak Suggests Most Users Funding Canada’s ‘Freedom Convoy’ Reside in U.S.
A data set leaked by an unknown hacker appears to show that Americans comprise a vast majority of the users donating to Canada’s “Freedom Convoy” protest via the website GiveSendGo, a Christian-oriented platform that’s raised more than $US8.3 ($12) million to support the movement in opposition to public health measures intended to curb the spread…
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The FBI Will Neither Confirm Nor Deny the Existence of These Documents I Just Printed
Lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union are fighting to uncover more about the FBI’s role in helping local police acquire powerful mobile phone surveillance devices known widely as “stingrays.” The true scope of their use against Americans has, by design, remained a closely guarded secret for more than a decade. This is thanks to…
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U.S. Pentagon and State Lack ‘Technical Capacity’ to Detect ‘Stingray’ Phone Surveillance, Senator Says
A slew of federal agency heads and the nation’s top intelligence official are being pressed to respond to what one influential senator is calling an “abysmal failure” by the U.S. government to defend its own employees from unauthorised mobile phone surveillance.