For #cybersecurity professionals, a failure to log activity is a cardinal sin & contradicts best practices as recommended by the National Institute of Standards & Technology [#NIST] & the #DHS's #CISA, as well as the #FBI & the #NSA.
"That was a huge red flag," said Berulis. "That's something that you just don't do. It violates every core concept of security & best practice."
"This #community that we have, that we're building, that does so much, has to grow. We can't compete with #Apple, we can't compete with #Google, directly, in the field of #resources. What we can eventually do is #head count and #heart count. We can compete on the ground of #ideology because ours is better." -- Edward #Snowden, #NSA #whisteblower, speaking at #LibrePlanet 2016.
https://media.libreplanet.org/u/libreplanet/m/libreplanet-2016-the-last-lighthouse-3d51/
Via: @fsf
#Trump fires head of National Security Agency and Cyber Command
https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/04/trump-fires-head-of-national-security-agency-and-cyber-command/
#NSA is now trending across Mastodon
…Gen Haugh was informed of the decision while traveling. Current & fmr ofcls said Gen Haugh’s deputy at the #NSA, Wendy Noble, was also removed from her post, & possibly reassigned to another position at the #Pentagon.
…#Defense Secy #PeteHegseth & #Trump have removed several top officers from their posts including the chair of the #JointChiefs of Staff…; the chief of naval operations [#Navy #CNO]…; & the commandant of the #CoastGuard….
The head of the #NSA & US #Cyber Command was removed from his job on Thurs, acc/to the top #Democrats on the congressional #intelligence committees.
Senator Mark Warner of Virginia & Representative Jim Himes of Connecticut condemned the ouster of Gen. Timothy D. Haugh, who led both the #spy agency & the #military command.
The move caught intelligence officials off guard.
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
"We don’t know what pressure the Trump administration is using to make intelligence services fall into line, but it isn’t crazy to worry that the NSA might again start monitoring domestic communications.
Because of the Signal chat leak, it’s less likely that they’ll use vulnerabilities in Signal to do that. Equally, bad actors such as drug cartels may also feel safer using Signal. Their security against the US government lies in the fact that the US government shares their vulnerabilities. No one wants their secrets exposed.
I have long advocated for a "defense dominant" cybersecurity strategy. As long as smartphones are in the pocket of every government official, police officer, judge, CEO, and nuclear power plant operator—and now that they are being used for what the White House now calls calls "sensitive," if not outright classified conversations among cabinet members—we need them to be as secure as possible. And that means no government-mandated backdoors.
We may find out more about how officials—including the vice president of the United States—came to be using Signal on what seem to be consumer-grade smartphones, in a apparent breach of the laws on government records. It’s unlikely that they really thought through the consequences of their actions.
Nonetheless, those consequences are real. Other governments, possibly including US allies, will now have much more incentive to break Signal’s security than they did in the past, and more incentive to hack US government smartphones than they did before March 24.
For just the same reason, the US government has urgent incentives to protect them."
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/03/the-signal-chat-leak-and-the-nsa.html
Farewell to Mark Klein, network engineer, civil libertarian, citizen, hero.
#surveillance #civilliberties #nsa #att #eff #citizen #whistleblower
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/memoriam-mark-klein-att-whistleblower-about-nsa-mass-spying
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
…Most of the #intelligence community, including the #CIA & the #NSA, agreed w/that assessment.
Only one agency, the #FBI [#KashPatel], partly dissented. It maintained the gang has a connection to the admin of #Venezuela’s #authoritarian president, Nicolás #Maduro, based on information the other agencies did not find credible.
"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."
... Que hay rumores y sospechas de que las empresas chinas están espiando a las personas en occidente en favor de su Gobierno...
TODOS A CERRARLE LAS PUERTAS Y EXPULSAR A SUS EMPRESAS
... Que hay mas que suficientes pruebas del espionaje de la #NSA y las empresas #BigTech de #SiliconValley, mejor conocidas como #GAFAM...
ES QUE NO PODEMOS HACER ENOJAR A NUESTRO MAS IMPORTANTE SOCIO Y AMIGOTE(JEFE)
-- La Autocracia nunca elegida (Comisión Europea)
Was verraten die #MetaDaten, die die #SignalApp sammeln lässt?
Tucker Carlson (konservativer Ex-Foxx Moderator) hatte bereits 2021 NUR über #Signal Kontakt zu #Putin sein Team.
Die #NSA wusste davon, hat ihn eingeschüchtert und ihm vorm Interview gewarnt.
www.westernjournal.com/tucker-worki...
Tucker: I Was Working on a Sec...
In Memoriam: #MarkKlein, AT&T Whistleblower Who Revealed #NSA Mass Spying
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/memoriam-mark-klein-att-whistleblower-about-nsa-mass-spying
Elon Musk Made Secret Visit to U.S. Spy Agency
Meeting between #Musk & the National Security Agency’s leadership was ‘positive’ but comes after he called for its overhaul
https://archive.is/42Id5#selection-5689.0-5693.124
"meeting with leadership a week after saying the #intelligence and #cybersecurity outfit needed an overhaul.
The discussion with the #NSA, which hadn’t been previously disclosed, centered on staff reductions & operations"
#Signal kooperiert nicht mehr mit der #Ukraine
Die #SignalApp gehorcht #Trump
Meidet die #USA = #DeleteSignal
#Threema ist ein europäisches Statement gegen digitalen Ami #Faschismus
#Krieg #Russland #Putin #NSA #CIA #FBI #UnplugTrump
therecord.media/signal-no-longer-cooperating-with-ukraine
Signal no longer cooperating w...