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Before taking office, Trump was told Putin ordered DNC hack, reports say

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Two weeks before assuming the office of the presidency, Donald Trump was shown highly classified intelligence that Russian President Vladimir Putin had personally ordered a wave of Russian-sponsored hacking and disinformation blitzes to interfere in the 2016 presidential election. According to the New York Times, who first reported the news Wednesday, the evidence was compiled from Russian military officers’ digital footprints, intercepted by U.S. and allied intelligence agencies, as well as top-secret sources close to Putin, who told the CIA how Moscow orchestrated its digital interference operation. Speaking to CNN on Thursday morning, James Clapper confirmed that Trump was briefed on Putin’s personal involvement in Russia’s 2016 election cyberattacks, adding: “we left very highly classified written documents that laid out in more detail the evidence.” The directors of the CIA, NSA, FBI, and national intelligence, John Brennan, Michael Rogers, James Comey, and Clapper, respectively, briefed the president-elect on January 6, […]

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A ‘Technical Malfunction’ Made an FBI Twitter Account Seem Anti-Clinton in the Final Days of the Election

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A report from the Department of Justice Inspector General revealed a mundane technical glitch was behind the 2016 Twitter beef. Continue reading A ‘Technical Malfunction’ Made an FBI Twitter Account Seem Anti-Clinton in the Final Days of the Election→

Good Leadership Results in Better Security Practices: James Comey’s Keynote Address to OpenText Enfuse 2018

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“I made a mistake.” That’s how former FBI Director James Comey introduced himself to the audience attending the OpenText Enfuse 2018 conference in Las Vegas. I heard the murmurs around me, “Was this about the emails?” Comey smiled. “I scre… Continue reading Good Leadership Results in Better Security Practices: James Comey’s Keynote Address to OpenText Enfuse 2018→

Evidence Suggests the GOP Bought at Least 17 Anti-James Comey Domains

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The Republican party has apparently created a series of domains to discredit and attack former FBI director James Comey. Meanwhile, Democratic party sympathizers appear to have created similar domains to counter the Republicans’ anti-Comey campaign. Continue reading Evidence Suggests the GOP Bought at Least 17 Anti-James Comey Domains→

Congress Is About to Vote On Expanding the Warrantless Surveillance of Americans

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Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act has been abused by the intelligence agencies to spy on Americans. This week the House of Representatives will vote on a bill to make that legal. Continue reading Congress Is About to Vote On Expanding the Warrantless Surveillance of Americans→

Justice Department waves legislative stick at tech sector over encryption

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If U.S.-based tech companies don’t find a way to allow cops with a warrant to access to encrypted communications — a move derided as a crypto backdoor by critics — the Trump administration may propose legislation to force them, according to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. Addressing law enforcement officials at an anti-terrorism conference in Utah, Rosenstein went further than other officials have this year in threatening the tech sector with legislative action that would compel them to provide technical means for court-ordered wiretaps or device searches. “I hope that technology companies will work with us to stop criminals from defeating law enforcement. Otherwise, legislation may be necessary,” he warned. He recalled the aftermath of the San Bernardino terror attack, when Apple successfully fought off court orders aimed at forcing it to create a backdoor into the iPhone used by the shooter. “Unfortunately, some companies are unwilling to help enforce court orders to […]

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