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[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

A Camera Inside Special Forces Headquarters Was Quietly Talking to China

The Ministry of Defence says no evidence exists that data or systems were compromised. In the same breath, it confirms that cameras fitted to Royal Navy special forces drones were sending signals to an IP address in China, and that every internet connection on the fleet had to be ripped out once this was discovered. Those two claims cannot both be reassuring. One of them is the scandal, and the MoD's own statement admits it.

The devices in question are K3 Scout surveillance drones, part of a £12 million fleet used by the Royal Marines' Coastal Forces Squadron and 47 Commando since March. They operated close to the Special Boat Service headquarters in Poole, one of the most sensitive military sites in Britain, where security-cleared personnel plan operations most of the country will never hear about. The cameras were sending what investigators call heartbeat communications, signals confirming a device is live and functioning, to China. A camera that quietly proves to Beijing it is switched on and working, stationed beside special forces headquarters, is not a data breach waiting to happen. It is a channel that already existed, whether or not anything more passed through it.

The certification failure here matters as much as the breach itself. Kraken, the British contractor that supplied the drones, describes the cameras as NDAA-compliant, certified under US law to be free of components from restricted Chinese manufacturers. That certification was supposed to be the safeguard. It failed on equipment marketed as British, deployed beside Britain's most secretive forces, sourced through a supply chain nobody appears to have checked closely enough before signing off.

Alicia Kearns, the shadow security minister, put the stakes plainly: if Britain cannot say with confidence what is inside its own military equipment, it cannot say that equipment is truly its own, or that the country remains sovereign over it. That is not overstatement. A drone fleet intended to support a British defence package securing freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz was quietly reporting to the very state Britain's own intelligence services have spent years warning about.

None of this happened in isolation. It follows the revelation of a concealed chamber built into China's new embassy beside cables carrying the City's financial data. It follows the SBS banning Chinese-built electric cars from its own headquarters over near-identical fears. It arrived not long after MI5 warned MPs that Chinese intelligence was working relentlessly to harvest information through ordinary employment websites, and weeks after a spy trial collapsed because the government would not call Beijing a threat in open court. Each of these was defended individually as manageable, isolated, contained. A camera phoning home from inside special forces territory is what containment actually looks like once tested.

Downing Street has spent the past year pursuing a diplomatic thaw with Beijing, high-profile visits, trade ambitions, a super-embassy waved through despite the warnings attached to it. This discovery does not fit comfortably into that story. It sits instead as evidence of what happens when a government treats vigilance as an obstacle to relations rather than a precondition for them. The camera has been switched off. The question it leaves behind, why it took an accidental discovery rather than a functioning safeguard to catch it, has not been.

"Alicia Kearns, the shadow security minister, put the stakes plainly: if Britain cannot say with confidence what is inside its own military equipment, it cannot say that equipment is truly its own, or that the country remains sovereign over it."

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@YesterdaysBrit1 Lifebuoys smell was so addictive and Pears the amber coloured bar

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@KingBobIIV

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@Marcus___007 After a million phone calls to every book shop In the Yellow Pages I finally found it.

[Queen Bee @KingBobIIV]

Jason Arday pictured alongside Admiral Lord Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar, 1805.

Arday is widely credited with devising the entire British battle plan after Nelson reportedly became confused about which way the French were coming from.

He then personally commanded 17 ships simultaneously, sank 34 French and Spanish vessels, captured another 11, and swam between HMS Victory and the enemy fleet several times because the rowing boats were “taking too long.”

When Nelson was fatally wounded, Arday removed the musket ball with his teeth, briefly resuscitated him, finished commanding the battle, and then carried Nelson back to England on his shoulders.

Nelson's famous signal, “England expects that every man will do his duty,” was apparently Jason's idea, although early drafts reportedly read: “Don’t worry lads, Jason’s here.”

Historians now believe Britain would never have achieved naval supremacy without him.

[Frank Bruno MBE 🇬🇧 @frankbrunoboxer]

Evening so you are walking with a couple of your mates in an open piece of ground and a football is sitting there, no one about do you ignore it or kick it to your mates? So I have been asked to place some footballs all over the place and today did so in Leighton Buzzard Bedfordshire. If a small game of football between a few people means they wont be up to other things in the park it gets my thumbs up so these went to Pages Park Billington Rd, Leighton Buzzard LU7 4TG and Astral Park Johnson Dr, Leighton Buzzard LU7 4AY they will be gone by now but look out. You CANNOT beat a bit of exercise have a good night

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@90sWWE Really cool picture

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

Sometimes as Johnny played Bach’s Chaconne from Partita No. 2 in D Minor, he was overcome with sadness about the time that prick Daniel-san cheated like a motherfucker and kicked him in the face.

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@TrumpWarRoom @realDonaldTrump El Viva Espana

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@libsoftiktok Michelle looks better without the wig.

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@Beetaa79 @Inevitablewest @BBCNews Few hundred migrants is correct the rest are Doctor's,Dentists, Scientists,Teachers I cant wait for the cultural enrichment that awaits us.

[Purplereign @Angiemut]

GOOD POINT👇👇👇
To all the Supermarkets and big commercial stores that operate 'Self Check-outs'....... You are heading towards almost exclusively self-checkout now. Yesterday I went shopping at one such store and the lady checking receipts at the exit was stopping everyone.
I didn't choose to participate in that nonsense, I had already filled my trolly, emptied my trolly and scanned the items, refilled my trolly and so I just skipped the exit line and left.
I heard her saying "Umm - Excuse me “ as I kept walking and raised the receipt above my head, leaving the store.
You can either trust me to do self-checkout, or you can put your cashiers back in place like it used to be.
• I'm not interested in proving that I did your job for you.
• If you want me to be a cashier with no training then that's your problem not mine.
• Keep employing young people and give them job opportunities.
YOU DON'T PAY ME TO SCAN MY OWN SHOPPING.
YOU DON’T GIVE ME STAFF DISCOUNT FOR WORKING FOR YOU.
Signed ......All of us
People we need to share this statement its basically about PROFIT to the stores AND putting People out of a JOB....!!!

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@reformparty_uk Carrying a hammer is this the diversty built Britain bit.

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How the UK government treats people facing genuine persecution.
https://t.co/e3uQaEX74S

[Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hkfp]

[Recap] Ex-Hong Kong opposition leader Wu Chi-wai granted 6-month stay in UK after border detention, thanks supporters https://t.co/oqMTDuRZHJ

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@reformparty_uk The death penalty sorts this out.

[Bootsy Collins @Bootsy_Collins]

Happy Birthday George Clinton🎂🎂🎂 & may u continue to Funk Up the World!🤪🤘🫡
Bootsy baby!!!🤩#Parliament #Funkadelic #Rubberfans & #Funkateers #PFUNK #MaggotBrain #EddieHazel @BrotherMob @BigBoi @drdre @icecube @MrChuckD @SnoopDogg

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@ElZakalwe @PolitlcsUK You forgot the racing pigeons.

[Rory Trappe @RoryTrappe]

Spitfires through the Mach Loop last Friday just before the Embraer KC-390 came through #machloop #embraer #thesuffolkspitfire

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@adampogrund You can just walk away from these rent a thugs.

[Things From the Past @pastarchive]

In 1987 an estimated 800,000 people flocked to the Golden Gate Bridge for its 50th anniversary. The weight of the large crowd caused the bridge to sag 7 feet, flattening its usual convex shape. Engineer Daniel E. Mohn reaffirmed the bridge was not overstressed due to Bridgewalk '87.