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Insights in Signals Intelligence, Communications Security and Top Level Telecommunications equipment. Photo: White House Situation Room
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The CIA aims to integrate AI-powered “coworkers” into analysts’ workflows in the coming years, as part of an effort to rapidly adopt the emerging capabilities for use in intelligence-gathering and analysis:
https://www.nextgov.com/artificial-intelligence/2026/04/cia-plans-ai-coworkers-deputy-director-says/412744/
CIA plans for ‘AI coworkers’, deputy director says

The spy agency managed a few hundred AI projects last year, and recently used AI to generate an intelligence report for the first time, deputy director Michael Ellis said.

Nextgov.com
Since the initial invasion of Ukraine in 2014, two Russian satellites have been secretly stalking European spacecraft: https://www.rand.org/pubs/commentary/2026/03/how-russia-is-intercepting-communications-from-european.html
A patch with the logo of the Information & Intelligence Analysis (IIA) division of the #NSA, which was created as part of the internal reorganization of 2016.
A reconstruction of the NSA's new organizational structure can be found here:
https://www.electrospaces.net/2023/10/the-nsas-new-organizational-designators.html
An interesting challenge coin from the #NSA showing the location of its four regional Cryptologic Centers (Georgia, Texas, Colorado, Hawaii) and its office in Alaska, but without the data center in Utah.
More about these regional NSA facilities: https://www.electrospaces.net/2019/06/the-nsas-regional-cryptologic-centers.html
In België wordt een nationale digitale messenger ingevoerd voor ambtenaren en militairen - nu Nederland nog
https://www.parool.nl/nederland/belgische-overheid-doet-whatsapp-in-de-ban-militairen-en-ambtenaren-krijgen-eigen-chatapp~bc7f893b/
Belgische overheid doet WhatsApp in de ban: militairen en ambtenaren krijgen eigen chatapp

De Belgische overheid vertrouwt niet meer op WhatsApp en Messenger. Militairen en ambtenaren krijgen een eigen chatapp. Geen slecht idee, nu Russische hackers blijken mee te lezen in berichten van hoogwaardigheidsbekleders.

Het Parool
In four countries of the Five Eyes, life evaluations among under 25-year-olds dropped significantly over the past decade, probably because of scrolling through social media:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/world-happiness-2026-canada-25-9.7134296
Canada slips further down in World Happiness rankings, due in part to social media use | CBC News

Heavy social media use has contributed to a stark decline in well-being among young people, with the effects particularly worrying in teenage girls in English-speaking countries — including Canada — and Western Europe, according to the 2026 World Happiness Report published Thursday.

CBC
China built a walled internet from the ground up. Iran, by contrast, builds a privileged access system on top of the standard internet infrastructure:
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/02/why-tehrans-two-tiered-internet-is-so-dangerous.html
Why Tehran’s Two-Tiered Internet Is So Dangerous - Schneier on Security

Iran is slowly emerging from the most severe communications blackout in its history and one of the longest in the world. Triggered as part of January’s government crackdown against citizen protests nationwide, the regime implemented an internet shutdown that transcends the standard definition of internet censorship. This was not merely blocking social media or foreign websites; it was a total communications shutdown. Unlike previous Iranian internet shutdowns where Iran’s domestic intranet—the National Information Network (NIN)—remained functional to keep the banking and administrative sectors running, the 2026 blackout ...

Schneier on Security
De @belastingdienst is van plan de btw voortaan door een Amerikaans bedrijf te laten beheren. Eerst leek het alsof het alleen maar om een softwareproduct ging, maar naar nu blijkt gaat dit geheel geoutsourced worden. Dit had niemand door alleen. Daarom hier stukje met uitleg:
https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/software-turnkey-as-a-service/
Btw: Software, turnkey, beheerd, as a service - Bert Hubert's writings

De belastingdienst is van plan om de BTW uit te besteden aan een Amerikaans bedrijf, wat echt waanzinnig is. Op 19 maart is er een commissievergadering in de Tweede Kamer hierover, en ik hoop van harte dat men bij zinnen komt. In de discussie over de btw-situatie de afgelopen jaren ging het eigenlijk alleen over dat de belastingdienst Amerikaanse software ging gebruiken. Lang was onduidelijk dat deze software (en de bijbehorende servers) ook geheel beheerd zouden gaan worden door Amerikanen.

Bert Hubert's writings
A unique look behind the scenes of the White House Communications Agency (WHCA) during Reagan's campaign tour by Presidential Train in 1984:
https://youtu.be/rOSMbh66R-c?si=a7QzFMcugNdpsNlR&t=300
Presidential Train "Ferdinand Magellan" WHCA Communications Operations in Ohio on October 11, 1984

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A few years ago, the #NSA had an official podcast, with an ugly decor but still some interesting content:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Om-OyjADgTA&list=PLWvkfYC3snpXb5gEJcJ0WOhkFud2L_Nsc&index=8
How We Found Bin Laden: The Basics of Foreign Signals Intelligence

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