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The European Commission is issuing burner phones and basic laptops to some US-bound staff to avoid the risk of espionage — a measure traditionally reserved for trips to China, Russia and Ukraine.

#EUPolitics #Espionage #USPolitics #Security

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Financial Times · EU issues US-bound staff with burner phones over spying fearsBy Andy Bounds

This is a warning!

Make no mistake, what we are currently seeing all over the world, is an attack of fossil oligarchs and surveilance capitalists on democracy & climate protection. Europe isn't as united as it seems!

In Germany two parties are taking office, that have helped financing Putins war machine in the past (Northstream 2 etc.). Last year the CDU repeatedly has held meetings with the heritage foundation (project 25)...

Speaking as a European, Id like to be reassured that EU+UK are going to dump USA in future given the blatant unerring hostility of JD Vance towards us.
And speaking as a Brit-Aussie dual national, Id like to be reassured that the Aus govt does NOT kowtow to US govt and allow them to bleed us dry of minerals, money and land to build their frigging bases against China.

Its us who would get ripped off and bombed.
Think about that.

newsweek.com/jd-vance-europe-s

#EUPolitics #UKPolitics #UnplugTrump

The disgusting comments made in their Signal group chat shows the real attitude that vile administration has towards 'allies'.

Calling Europe freeloaders? To coin a phrase used by Vance: "have you said thank you once?" For our support and dead bodies in the war on terror at the back and call of the US?

No longer. Kick them out the Five Eyes, build a new economic and security partnership with Canada, UK, EU, and international partners.

#USPolitics #UKPolitics #EUPolitics

Again, as so many times before, this cultish Trump-Vance administration illustrates a brazen disregard for allies, a diplomatic ineptitude, an arrogance and ignorance of staggering proportions, and most of all... Stupidity.

This is why we must #UnplugTrump and switch from as many US apps, services, and products as is reasonable for your situation.

If you can delete US accounts, then do so. If you can switch to open source Euro/UK alternatives then do so

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@yogthos The Signal Technology Foundation is a United States 501(c)(3) nonprofit, and the US government is turning fascist. The #UK and the #EU countries should seriously reconsider attempting to compel the best channel for domestic #CivilResistance to organize to bring the #USA back into geopolitical alignment with NATO. They should seriously reconsider exposing all the most vulnerable secrets of every EU and UK citizen, and everyone else who relies on Signal (including the #AFU) to Trump and Musk, and through them, to Xi and Putin.

As soon as the infrastructure is in place to defeat #E2EE with key escrow, the private lives and communications of European and British and Canadian and Mexican and Ukrainian and other democratic peoples the world over become immediately exposed to the fascist mafia state oligarchs of the US, Russia, and China.

That immediately endangers Ukrainian armed forces. It also exposes Canadian federal police communications with UCs and CIs (and I assume similar comms in Europe), sexting between spouses, and countless conversations everywhere with doctors, therapists, and lawyers. That benefits the psychopathic oligarchs in the current US regime and their Russian and Chinese handlers, and does irrevocable harm to national security throughout the democratic world. The benefit to French law enforcement is not worth the harm to French and allied everything else.

Vive la vie privée. Vive la France.