NEW: A company that sells spyware that monitors individuals on parole & probation, many of whom are sex offenders, was hacked. The hacked data contains sensitive info such as the names, email addresses, IP addresses, home addresses & phone numbers of offenders and officers. san.com/cc/company-t...

The documents show Steve Bannon and Peter Thiel had scheduled meetings with Epstein, while Elon Musk may have visited his island.

NEW: Jeffery Epstein's emails, obtained by Bloomberg news, shine a freshlight on how the disgraced financier's elite network supported him as investigators closed in. 🎁 LINK: www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

ICE shooter Joshua Jahn's politics aren't what's being reported, three longtime former friends tell me. www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-ice-sh...

Another contract for ICE to buy iris recognition technology to identify people in the field. This one is for ~$4.5 million. Details on the company here: www.404media.co/ice-is-buyin...

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) flew its drones, which could include the agency’s MQ-9 Predator drones, at least 50 times last year in support of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), according to new data obtained by 404 Media. 🔗 www.404media.co/cbp-flew-dro...

Proud to announce our unnamed tech partners tracked the cell phone locations of hundreds of thousands of people without their knowledge or consent

Grok's sexy AI "companions" are being powered by listening in on user's private conversations with chatbots, say former workers. "It made me feel like I was eavesdropping... like people clearly didn't understand that there's people on the other end listening to these things."

The app Cancel the Hate was set up to let users report people who spoke negatively about Charlie Kirk after his assassination. But then the app leaked personal data about its users, per @mikaelthalen.bsky.social's investigation. san.com/cc/app-for-o...

NEW: An app launched by Cancel the Hate, a website for anonymously reporting those accused of speaking ill against Charlie Kirk, was leaking user data. Cancel the Hate declined to respond to my inquires & removed the app from its website shortly after. san.com/cc/app-for-o...

A confidential memo obtained by CBS News reveals Jeffrey Epstein claimed that his cellmate tried to kill him just 18 days before his eventual death www.cbsnews.com/news/jeffrey...

Flight pattern of a surveillance aircraft operated by the Phoenix Police Department over State Farm Stadium, the site of the Charlie Kirk memorial.

NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable. This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed. From me for @rollingstone.com: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

EXCLUSIVE: Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down.

NEW: The Pentagon told journalists it will require them to pledge they won’t gather any information — even unclassified — that hasn’t been expressly authorized for release, and will revoke the press credentials of those who do not obey. @washingtonpost.com

The FBI is preparing to label transgender people as “violent extremists” in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/fbi-readie...

NEW: Cybercriminals are increasingly being caught driving around cities with SMS blasters in the backs of their cars These blasters connect to nearby phones, downgrade their connections to 2G, and then push scam text messages to phones Some SMS blasters can reportedly send 100,000 texts per hour

SCOOP: ICE's Homeland Security Investigation signed a $3 million contract with Magnet Forensics, which makes phone hacking tech for law enforcement agencies, "essential to mission of protecting national security & public." Magnet Forensics makes the phone unlocking system Graykey.

A misconfigured platform used by the Department of Homeland Security left national security information—including some related to the surveillance of Americans—accessible to thousands of people. www.wired.com/story/a-dhs-...

New Tyler Robinson posts leaked to me tell a very different story than you've heard before: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...

Ever considered using a burner phone or an alternative phone but weren't quite sure if you needed one (some people definitely do) or how to get one and set it up? @lhn.bsky.social and @mattburgess1.bsky.social have you covered with an exhaustively detailed guide:

New from 404 Media: airlines are selling *5 billion* ticketing records to the government for warrantless searching, per new docs we obtained. ARC is a data broker owned by United, American, Delta, etc. Then sells peoples' travel info to ICE, Secret Service, FBI etc www.404media.co/airlines-sel...

NEW: We got access to Jeffrey Epstein’s personal Yahoo inbox — more than 18,000 emails. It shows Epstein’s world in his own words: an unfiltered look at how his operation worked, who enabled it, and how Ghislaine Maxwell stayed at the center of it all.

"We emailed Infidels MC for comment. In response, Mr Mulford instructed fellow leaders of the biker gang not to reply but included the BBC when he clicked 'reply all'—inadvertently disclosing email addresses and names of fellow Infidels MC members...working in Gaza." www.bbc.com/news/article...

Contract records show ICE is arming its new agents with military-grade gear, from Silicon Valley’s autonomous drones to Glock handguns.

A National Guard report accidentally emailed to the Post says veterans and active-duty troops view the D.C. deployment with "shame and alarm" @alexhorton.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

🚨NEW🚨 A recently-unsealed warrant shows how ICE is using controversial cell tower simulators to locate undocumented individuals. Contract records also show a recent order for the surveillance devices, also known as Stingrays, bundled in with some snooping vehicles. www.forbes.com/sites/the-wi...

NEW: There's a second Epstein birthday book. Hacked emails show efforts to compile a “booklet” for Epstein's 63rd birthday in 2016, more than a decade after President Donald Trump allegedly contributed to a similar gift. san.com/cc/epstein-a...

The hacked emails of ex-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak (story in post below) included a 2015 message from Epstein's assistant in which Barak was asked to contribute to a birthday booklet for Epstein. Shows Epstein repeatedly received such books on his birthday.

“Social media sites and chat apps normally strip metadata by default,” which protects privacy, EFF’s Jacob Hoffman-Andrews told Straight Arrow News. ”If XChat is failing to strip metadata, it’s putting its users at risk.” san.com/cc/not-so-s...

“An end-to-end encrypted chat application should be architected in such a way that even the service provider, by design, cannot read the messages, even if they wanted to,” @mshelton.bsky.social told @mikaelthalen.bsky.social. “Right now, it appears XChat does not provide these basic protections.”

"These emails discuss Johnson’s private endeavors, including a document pitching a reality TV show to popular streaming platforms, complete with AI-generated photos of the former world leader"

massive. phenomenally reported, @mikaelthalen.bsky.social!

Wow -- a lot going on in here

EXCLUSIVE: Over 2,000 files tied to ex-U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson were leaked online by hackers, exposing his daily diaries while in office, handwritten notebook entries, his passport, driver's license & candid views on world leaders such as Putin san.com/cc/partygate...

I told @joshua.stealingheather.com, developer of @iceblock.app, that he was running a vulnerable version of Apache on his server. He ignored my vulnerability report and blocked me, and his service is still vulnerable today micahflee.com/iceblock-han...

BREAKING: ICE is sending Russian dissidents back to Russia. When the dissidents arrived in Russia, the Russian authorities were given documents relating to their asylum applications in the US which under US law are confidential. This seems to be part of a secret agreement between Trump and Putin.

NEW: I discovered that X's new end-to-end encrypted chat feature does not remove sensitive metadata from images, which could lead to the unintended exposure of information such as GPS coordinates. san.com/cc/not-so-se...

NEW: I discovered that X's new end-to-end encrypted chat feature does not remove sensitive metadata from images, which could lead to the unintended exposure of information such as GPS coordinates. san.com/cc/not-so-se...

I decided to test whether EXIF data is removed from images sent over X's new encrypted chat feature like Signal and other messengers do. I can confirm it is not. I was able to extract information including GPS coordinates from a test image sent to me.

Got access to X's beta encrypted chat feature, too. Incredibly, as reported by @lorenzofb.bsky.social: -X stores private keys on its server. -No perfect forward secrecy, meaning X doesn't encrypt each chat with a new key -X even admits “a malicious insider" could potentially gain access to chats

NEW: State Department agents are now working with ICE on immigration -- an area solidly outside its usual duties. One source compares it to IRS agents investigating espionage at NASA. read @telliotter.bsky.social:

New from 404 Media: this company turns dashcams into 'virtual CCTV cameras'. Then hackers got in. Hacker accessed terabytes of users recordings. Includes a user driving to CIA entrance; others at U.S. military bases. Big tech also buying images from the cameras www.404media.co/this-company...

Cybersecurity experts who spoke to TPM described the situation with Kristi Noem's poorly hidden secret Facebook as "sloppy," "inadvisable," and a problem for "basic operational security." talkingpointsmemo.com/news/dhs-sec...

Here is the public procurement record showing that ICE is to regain access to its $2 million purchase of Paragon spyware. Paragon sells powerful mobile phone spyware to governments. Biden admin stopped ICE at time; now lifted (jackpoulson.substack.com/p/exclusive-...)

ICE is on track to gain access to controversial Israeli spyware designed to hack phones and read private messages after the Trump administration jettisoned a Biden-era order. www.bloomberg.com/news/article... via @rjgallagher.co.uk

Prince Andrew ‘stayed in touch with Epstein five years longer than claimed’ www.thetimes.com/uk/royal-fam... In his Newsnight interview, the duke said he dropped contact with the paedophile in 2010. Emails suggest they were still talking in late 2015

crazy to have actual proof of this timeline but unfortunately completely unsurprising

NEW: Ex-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak denied knowing Epstein's activities after his 2019 arrest. But hacked emails show his assistant sent him 2 articles about Epstein in 2011. And in 2016, Epstein forwarded Barak an email from Alan Dershowitz referencing allegations. san.com/cc/the-pm-an...