Insights in Signals Intelligence, Communications Security and Top Level Telecommunications. Also tweeting in Dutch and sometimes in German. Photo: NTOC in 2006

Cyberspace
Joined June 2013
NEW: Trump has new, gold-trimmed phones on his desk in the Oval Office. Here's more about Trump's new phones, as well as about the visual customization of the phones of his predecessors: electrospaces.net/2026/09/tr…
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Als het meezit gaan we eindelijk biljetten van 100 euro uit de geldautomaat krijgen - totaal misplaatste betutteling van de banken dat ze zo'n wettig betaalmiddel gewoon buiten de roulatie hielden nos.nl/artikel/2635323-heeft…
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Electrospaces retweeted
[fact-checking!] NSA’s darkest cryptographic secret of the 1990s: it seeded its random numbers like a first-year student. Claude tested the decades-old theory of some cryptographers that the NSA secretly planted weak NIST elliptic curves behind unexplained seeds. It was a quasi-conspiracy theory which gained credibility when the agency was caught backdooring Dual_EC_DRBG. The seeds turned out not to be rigged. They were the plain output of a 1990s C random number generator, seeded with the computer clock in 1997 and 1998. Thanks to AI, the alleged backdoor is now a timestamp anyone can reproduce, and the theory is debunked. Why only now...? Claude pursued the right problem: how would 1990s software have generated them? The curves were cleared just in time to retire them in the move to post-quantum cryptography. But, but fortunately, there's something left - who decided to not use the perfectly good curve number 876? Maybe a coin toss? anthropic.com/research/ecdsa…
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There's a new posting from the Libroot collective, this time revealing that NSA can turn a computer's Wi-Fi card into a beacon in order to track a target: libroot.org/posts/going-thro…
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A summary of all the close examinations of Snowden documents by the Libroot collective can be found here: electrospaces.net/2026/06/ne…
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Mensen maken zich zorgen over de digitale problemen bij Albert Heijn... mss je gegevens dan eens niet uitleveren aan zo'n commerciële datagraaier...?
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In Germany, they arrested August Hanning, who was head of the intelligence agency #BND from 1998 to 2005. From 2010 to 2022, Hanning paid an accomplice at the BND to provide him with classified information which he used for his private consulting work: dw.com/en/germanys-ex-spy-ch…
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So the problem isn't as much with former director Hanning but more with his accomplice, former BND chief of staff Manfred D., who was willing to sell the agency's classified reports...
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August Hanning, #BND-Chef von 1998 bis 2005, ist festgenommen worden. Er soll von 2010 bis 2022, gegen Bezahlung, fast 2.000 geheime Dokumente von seinem ehemaligen Büroleiter erhalten haben: zdfheute.de/politik/deutschl…
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Het Nederlandse ministerie van Defensie heeft een nieuwe website, ditmaal op een eigen platform, mede om ook tijdens crisissituaties betrouwbare informatie te kunnen blijven bieden: defensie.nl/nieuws/20261001-…
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Opmerkelijk blijft wel dat de tapstatistieken van de #MIVD niet meer op de defensiewebsite staan, toevallig net sinds die gigantisch gestegen zijn...
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Electrospaces retweeted
New: from 404 Media. The catastrophic FBI hack also exposed the FBI's own hacking unit. The Remote Operations Unit is a highly secretive part of the FBI, responsible for making tools to break into peoples' devices. Some of their names are in the data 404media.co/fbi-hack-exposed…
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The #Libroot collective has a fascinating and highly detailed reconstruction of what happened with the #Snowden archive: libroot.org/posts/what-happe…
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Libroot's reconstruction provides an update to my own piece about the whereabouts of the Snowden files from 2019: electrospaces.net/2019/04/th…
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