Electrospaces

Insights in Signals Intelligence, Communications Security and Top Level Telecommunications. Also tweeting in Dutch and sometimes in German. Photo: NTOC in 2006

[Electrospaces @electrospaces]

New: Research by the @LibrootOrg collective reveals interesting new details from the #Snowden files:
https://t.co/8ZVMUpOPnx

[Electrospaces @electrospaces]

For the main problems with Section 702 FAA, which is the legal authorization for PRISM and Upstream collection, see: https://t.co/fyHi3fKGyw

[Electrospaces @electrospaces]

Senate Democrats are warning that naming FHFA director Bill Pulte as acting DNI could make it harder to pass an extension for Section 702 FAA:
https://t.co/m4M7NRyHvv

[Lukasz Olejnik @lukOlejnik]

GPS navigation includes a publicly broadcast 176-bit special-message field that have carried high-entropy payloads for years. It looks like a one-way encrypted control or key-distribution channel. Effectively a GPS-transmitted, world-reachable number station. The publicly receivable GPS navigation signal appears to leak operational metadata about military cryptographic logistics? @sjmurdoch https://t.co/A7nu6HJe39

[John Biggs @johnbiggs]

Germany's decision to choose ChapsVision over Palantir marks a significant shift in national security strategy, prioritizing local control over sensitive data and signaling a new era of digital sovereignty. https://t.co/E5gzdCFmUK #defence

[Electrospaces @electrospaces]

Medewerkers van het omstreden technologiebedrijf #Palantir kunnen bij gevoelige data van #Defensie. Dat bevestigt het ministerie aan @FTM_nl. Ondertussen neemt de onrust over de afhankelijkheid van Palantir-software toe:
https://t.co/qXlY12sdut

[Electrospaces @electrospaces]

Vrijdag werd het boek "Onder diplomatieke dekmantel" gepresenteerd, waaruit blijkt dat Buitenlandse Zaken een eigen veiligheidsdienst (VDB) had, die verwikkeld was in tal van pikante kwesties en zelfs contacten met buitenlandse geheime diensten onderhield:
https://t.co/fQfzbJ17iG

[Electrospaces @electrospaces]

In Russland: Der Wandel von passiver Internetzensur zu aktiver Durchsetzung (mit verbot von VPNs, Whitelisting, usw.)
https://t.co/KeEB8XschE

[Electrospaces @electrospaces]

@Paulmd199 and even more enemies...

[Electrospaces @electrospaces]

The Trump regime goes for the visual look of Empire regardless of the damage it does to the American soft power mechanisms:
https://t.co/cVHqlu20FI

[Electrospaces @electrospaces]

Wat makes #Palantir software systems so attractive for governments: https://t.co/1hDgM3hkl7

[Electrospaces @electrospaces]

@_tuijl @ricwe123 Actually, Rutte's VVD party is worse than the radical right wing PVV, because VVD inflicted real damage to the Netherlands, weakening it on almost every front

[Electrospaces @electrospaces]

Many more numbers about #NSA surveillance operations can be found in the Annual Statistical Transparency Report for 2025:
https://t.co/EYAmBVYgvP

[Electrospaces @electrospaces]

The number of foreign targets subject to #PRISM and #Upstream collection rose considerably last year:

[Electrospaces @electrospaces]

A detailed overview of the laws and regulations governing #NSA operations can be found here: https://t.co/KkCBoEn2P3

[Electrospaces @electrospaces]

Last year, the FISA Court allowed the #NSA to use #PRISM and #Upstream collection for #counternarcotics operations. That makes a total of four topics for which these programs are used now:

[Electrospaces @electrospaces]

A bit more about the new counternarcotics certification for operations under Section 702 FAA can be found in the DNI's Annual Statistical Transparency Report for 2024 (page 22):
https://t.co/lWCBHWdqrY

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, said she is resigning because her husband has been diagnosed with a rare bone cancer. https://t.co/WnntPxzRHZ

[Electrospaces @electrospaces]

@DrWhax Dit is toch zeer recent? Komt dan wss volgend jaar in het rapport

[Electrospaces @electrospaces]

Onlangs was er weer een nieuwe uitspraak van de Raad van State op een beroep dat het Ministerie van Defensie instelde tegen een beslissing van de #TIB - ditmaal over de vraag of een mailbox een apart "geautomatiseerd werk" is:
https://t.co/G9pp9kxVcB

[The Defence Blog @Defence_blog]

Britain's new airborne radar plane landed in Scotland. The E-7 Wedgetail, which can track hundreds of aircraft at once, arrived at RAF Lossiemouth, ending years without a dedicated early warning aircraft of its own.

https://t.co/lHxgsY3q51