“RIP Five Eyes? Global Spying Network Under Threat”
by Kit Klarenberg on Global Delinquents on Substack
“While the CIA and MI6 are well-known for working in lockstep, Five Eyes is the most intimate expression of this transatlantic espionage bromance, exclusion from which would drastically reduce Britain’s already evaporating international status”
https://open.substack.com/pub/kitklarenberg/p/rip-five-eyes-global-spying-network
@bob_zim @micahflee @heiseonline @golem Makes sense.
I wounder if I can get a compatible device in #Germany as well...
Decorated WW2 code breaker Betty Webb has died at the age of 101. She spent her youth working at Bletchley Park deciphering Axis messages.
1/2 @mattblaze @ai6yr the
#Russki_SIGINT longread is now out, gentlemen and it caused quite a stir, as the notorious Russian spy satellite Olymp-K2 suddenly came drifting into the segment of our research [0° to 15° east] . Special sort of #SIGINT sat performing dangerously close approaches to intercept the satellite bus *steering commands* of the Eutelsat teleports. All sat targets of the Vienna station included.
Had to compile a thread in English over there...
While I'm no longer in the IC and can't confirm my suspicions, I simply don't think it's that plausible that everything is flowing as normal in Five Eyes. I can see why people would *say* it is. But an American intelligence & CI apparatus run by malicious, compromised kooks Gabbard, Patel, Ratcliffe, Trump, is one you need to put strong filters on, going both ways. #FiveEyes #intelligence #SIGINT #HUMINT
Original: https://www.economist.com/international/2025/03/16/trump-v-the-spies-of-five-eyes
No paywall: https://archive.is/sgb2E
@jt_rebelo @mastodonmigration @GottaLaff I'd call #Ukraine "criminally incompetent" if they didn't already leverage domestic #Fiber & #GSM networks as well as procuring entire transponders for exclusive use.
I couldn't confirm X-Band use with either #XTAR or #BwSATCOM-2 simply because I have neither teleport access nor matching LNBs/BUCs ready, but existing press releases by @Bundesregierung & @AuswaertigesAmt hint that Ukraine has been upgraded to #NATO #Link22 capabilities.
Existing #SIGINT & purchases show huge amounts of COTS #KuBand & #KaBand and even #Cband-Equipment being used since 2022, which use higher-ping #GSO|s but are easier to decoy and protect against #ElectronicWarfare and #Sabotage (just by shoving the dish into a partially buried sewage pipe, making it look like a ghettohacked Copy of #BARS, the Soviet-Era #Troposcatter CnC Radio...
https://infosec.space/@kkarhan/114048983272826079
Yeah...
Whilst I am not a fan of #AI which I think will in the long run, will be detrimental to humans, I am far from the "AI Slop" luddites.
But when #deepseek killed their web login a few days back. I was extremely sceptical of loading the app on my device.
Thank you for doing the gods work and verifying my concerns.
I think the #Australian #sigint mob might have done a similar analysis because only a couple of days ago they issued a directive banning it off Government devices.
The Webby interface was under constant DOS attacks, so that might have accelerated app only deploy.
A good 8-minute summary of the #SIGINT situation in #Vienna, based on @harkank's investigation, has been published by @materie (a journal affiliated with the Austrian NEOS party): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CddUToKXZJ8
Tuning the local KiwiSDR and found this interesting signal at 6942.347 USB give or take - a little bit of research on the Signal ID Wiki convinced me that it's "Link-11" or "ALLIGATOR" or "STANAG 5511".
https://www.sigidwiki.com/wiki/Link-11
On the Signal ID wiki, specifically Link-11 CLEW at 2250 bit/s, described as PSK modulation.