I've had an article published in Diplomacy & Statecraft: 'Behind the Enigma: How GCHQ's Authorised History Appeared'. The first 50 people to click on the link get a copy for free! www.tandfonline.com/eprint/BCZTB...

My new article is up: thespacereview.com/article/5064/1

RCMP investigation into alleged Quebec right-wing extremist group. The Mounties planted a GPS beacon on a soldier's vehicle to track his whereabouts but had to remove it when he talked on a podcast about changing his truck's tires and suspension. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

🚨🗞ICYMI last week, here's all the terrorist financing news from around the world for the month of August. Have a read to stay up to date on shifting trends! newsletter.insightthreatintel.com/p/global-ter...

🚨🎙️Out now! Season 2, episode 2 of Secure Line, Canada's top national security and intelligence podcast. We're talking about Bill C-2, our "strong borders" bill (that has a lot more than just border stuff in it). Have a read to understand what's at stake. open.spotify.com/episode/3Hp3...

I hate to be one of the "told you so" types, but I told you so... ( just a couple of weeks ago: www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...) Excellent summary of the AI risks to cyber security by @joemenn.bsky.social 👇

There are so many areas where Canada could go on the offensive and strengthen our economy and society by taking advantage of US self-immolation. This is one. Poaching all of US academia/R&D is another. But they all require an activist, high-capacity state, not an austerity-obsessed government.

This morning, there has been significant air activity visible off the east and west coasts of Novaya Zemlya over a number of hours with Sentinel 3. Contrails from orbiting/maneuvering aircraft are clearly visible. I cannot say a Burevestnik test is occurring, but this is what I'd expect to see.

The National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians' (NSICOP's) "Special Report on the Lawful Access to Communications by Security and Intelligence Organizations" was tabled in Parliament on September 15th www.nsicop-cpsnr.ca/press-releas...

The 2024 Annual Report of the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (NSICOP) was tabled in Parliament on September 15th www.nsicop-cpsnr.ca/press-releas...

New from 404 Media: a CIA contractor used classified CIA systems as "his own personal Google," according to a court record we reviewed. The details are staggering: sold classified info to a foreign client accused of embezzlement. Sold info to U.S. lobbying firm www.404media.co/contractor-u...

"DOD has established almost 440 organizations that contain about 61,000 military and civilian personnel (and over 9,500 contractors), to conduct cyberspace operations." NSA personnel and contractors not included. www.gao.gov/products/gao...

Excited to share that I’ll be in Ottawa and speaking @carleton.ca as part of the 2025 Shannon Lectures on Oct. 6th. My talk will focus on the history of medical research ethics in Canada during the Cold War and will draw on recent research. Details and registration: carleton.ca/history/shan...

Today I joined with 14 of my colleagues from 10 law schools across the country to send a letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney, and the other leaders in Parliament, expressing grave concerns about Bill C-2, and it's likely impact on privacy and cybersecurity:

Spyware industry pockets EU subsidies while snooping on its citizens www.ftm.eu/articles/spy... Great work by @vaspanagiotopoulos.com showing how EU taxpayer money funds a surveillance industry that sells to authoritarian regimes abroad.

Check out @citizenlab.ca's @sanstis.bsky.social on the extraterritorial human rights dimensions of digital transnational repression 👇

Report: At this point we are just trying to figure who Canadian Parliament WON'T give a standing ovation to

On Five Eyes & Trump and also Burnham & Orwell journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

BCCLA joins civil society orgs, companies, and cybersecurity experts, in calling for the withdrawal of Bill C-2. There’s no way to provide backdoor access to encrypted data & communications without harming the privacy & security of millions. Learn more: www.globalencryption.org/2025/09/open...

Secure Line is back! Season 2 opens with an overview of this summer's events, including Carney's plans (maybe?), CAF problems, Quebec terrorism arrests & implications of Trump Administration's actions regarding the US IC. Available on all the podcast apps & Youtube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wrl...

You can see the huge FLR-9 antenna array at Ramasun Station near Udon Thani, which Thailand ordered the US to close down three years earlier (in 1976), at 17.292, 102.869.

Very proud to be showing work at the Four Corners Gallery in London, along with the other members of my MA in Doc Photo cohort. I will follow up with some posts of my own work, a project on the state of Canada's House of Commons.

The early-1960s revelation that British spy Kim Philby had worked for Moscow alarmed Canadian intelligence officials who feared that he had betrayed confidences gleaned from Soviet defector Igor Gouzenko, once-secret archival records show. Our story: tinyurl.com/3ums4x2r #cdnfoi #cdnpoli

🚨40 years of security and intelligence in Canada 🚨 Join us for our annual symposium and hear from some of the top minds on current issues! Check out the full program here, and register soon -- space is limited. event.fourwaves.com/casissymposi...

State-sponsored assassination threats in Canada: "investigators returned on Monday and told him there was new intelligence indicating that the suspected hitmen “are here and they’re ready to take me out,”" globalnews.ca/news/1140185...

Great news. The more uniformity in privacy law nationwide, the better.

Thankfully, up here in Canada, we’re— …oh. Oh no.

Today in 1986, a Soviet SS-N-8 SLBM test-launched from a Delta II nuclear submarine in the Barents Sea flew more than 1,500 miles off course, sending its dummy warhead into China. An unidentified Pentagon official told Newsweek the “glitch” was “the sort of thing that could happen to anyone.”

Josephine Baker spied for France 🇫🇷 against the Axis- but what if her most secret operation was against an ally? 🇬🇧 This essay uses intelligence records to trace a desperate effort to counter British subversion & save the French Empire @engelsbergideas.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/portraits/jo...

It's out! Truly a wonderful book, full of useful new insights. A groundbreaking contribution to the field of Intelligence Studies by so many of our favorite scholars. www.amazon.com/Covert-Actio...

'The UK should probably reconsider intelligence-sharing arrangements on some sensitive issues, where there is little chance of influencing the US position, but considerable risks of exposure of sourcing' writes Matthew Savill in the latest RUSI Commentary.

Great post on CSE's significant growth with particular attention to it's expanded crime fighting role:

Looks like a new receiver array for the British over the horizon radar in Cyprus was installed at the SIGINT site at Ayios Nikolaos in late 2022. (The 700-m x 30-m grey rectangle.) Good location and alignment to monitor events in and near Ukraine. maps.app.goo.gl/yBVHU371XHLM...

"A tsunami of AI-enabled disinformation is already upon us, polluting the public sphere and seeping back into the language models that AI systems feed upon. What to do?" My latest oped in @theglobeandmail.com 👇 www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Looks like a new receiver array for the British over the horizon radar in Cyprus was installed at the SIGINT site at Ayios Nikolaos in late 2022. (The 700-m x 30-m grey rectangle.) Good location and alignment to monitor events in and near Ukraine. maps.app.goo.gl/yBVHU371XHLM...

Okay it has taken me ALL DAY to get to Part 14 and 15 - where the controversial surveillance parts come in. (page 68/127) This bill is complex and really should have been broken up into three pieces of legislation. Canada only passes natsec legislation in omnibus bills and I think that is not great.

If you're planning to be in London from Sept 11-13, grab your robes and hat and come see my project, "The Ottawa Bubble." I'll be showing the work as part of my U. of South Wales Doc Photo MA degree show with the other members of my cohort at Four Corners Gallery in Bethnal Green, London.

A fragment of a military intelligence report from the Roman fort at Vindolanda, on the northern frontier of #RomanBritain. The thin, postcard-sized wooden tablet describes the fighting style of the native Britons, disparagingly referred to as BRITTUNCULI or 'Little Brits.' #EpigraphyTuesday

On Sept. 5, 1945, Soviet clerk Igor Gouzenko changed history when he walked out of the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa. His defection, and the documents he took, proved the Soviets were spying on their Second World War allies. This is his story. 🧵 1/16

#OTD 1945, Soviet cipher clerk Igor Gouzenko defected to Canada and revealed a large Soviet spy ring in Canada, and another in the United States. Listen to his story here pod.fo/e/e189c

Chinese-backed hackers 'almost certainly' targeted Canada during theft of millions of Americans' data, @cattunneycbc reports www.cbc.ca/news/politic... Find out more at nationalnewswatch.com

This is a deeply reported, heart-pounding read Gift link ⤵️ www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/u...

NEW: Remember the documents former MP Chris Alexander submitted to parliament that he claimed show @davidpugliese.bsky.social is a Russian spy? Experts in typology and graphology say they're fabricated. www.readtheorchard.org/p/former-mp-...

🚨New series release! We are digging into the primary sources from the Canada Declassified online archive that contributed to The Next War 📖 #CanadaDeclassified #ColdWarHistory #TheNextWar

Trump Claims the Power to Summarily Kill Suspected Drug Smugglers The move to treat criminals as if they were wartime combatants escalated an administration pattern of using military force for law enforcement tasks at home and abroad. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/u...

The "Secrets on Display" discussion originally scheduled to be streamed from the International Spy Museum next Wednesday has been postponed. We'll post an update once a new day has been set. In the meantime, we highly recommend the book that underpins the discussion: www.amazon.com/Secrets-Disp...