ConanDec 8
evacide

As a person who has followed Iranian cyberespionage operations for more than a decade, this story is crazypants and you should read it:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/01/mohammad-tajik-iran-cyber-intelligence/684954/?gift=kPTlqn0J1iP9IBZcsdI5IUTLJcsVKq12m0EyVlSYJBQ&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

They Killed My Source

A man claiming to be an Iranian intelligence officer promised me he would reveal his country’s secrets. Then he disappeared.

The Atlantic
Dec 8 at 6:50pmWeb
Show threadLowlandsDec 8
@evacide straight out of a John le Carré novel
Show threadZimmieDec 9
@lowlands @evacide Especially the ending. Goodness.
Show threadMatDec 8
@evacide amazing story. Thank you for sharing.
Show threadMitch Effendi (ميتش أفندي)Dec 8

@evacide for completeness, something we learned last night that has largely been ignored on social media:

https://www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/iran-says-second-flight-deportees-carrying-55-left-us-rcna247958

Trump is working with the Ayatollah.

Iran says a second flight of deportees, carrying 55, has left the U.S.

A second flight carrying Iranians deported from the United States has left America, Iranian officials said, as Washington reportedly planned to send hundreds of prisoners back to the Islamic Republic

NBC News
Show threadRay—Golden Retriever Whisperer—🔝InsightsDec 10
@evacide thanks for sharing! What a crazy story, and entirely believable as it pairs up well with other stories I have read or been told in confidence. (I’ve got stories from the late 70s involving attempts at corporate software by the KGB.)