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2026 4

  1. [NL] Opvolger van de Wiv 2017: meer ruimte voor de geheime diensten, minder voor toezicht
  2. Trump's new gold-trimmed phones in historical perspective
  3. New details from the Snowden files found by the Libroot collective
  4. Trump risked a compromise of his strike against Venezuela

2025 6

  1. AT&T's very rare Security-Plus Telephone
  2. Preventing telephone manipulation: the TSG standards
  3. The American secure phone of Canadian prime minister Trudeau
  4. How US defense secretary Hegseth circumvents the official DoD communications equipment
  5. The equipment that Trump's national security team should have used
  6. Interesting topics from the NSA's 2009 Presidential Transition Book

2024 4

  1. Treaties on the exchange and protection of classified information
  2. The phones of the new NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte
  3. [NL] Eerste Kamer bereikt iets meer duidelijkheid over de Tijdelijke wet cyberoperaties
  4. Safe and Free: comparing national legislation on electronic surveillance

2023 8

  1. [NL] Laatste kans voor duidelijkheid over de Tijdelijke wet cyberoperaties
  2. The NSA's new organizational designators
  3. Some new snippets from the Snowden documents
  4. On the 10th anniversary of the Snowden revelations
  5. New details about the Pentagon Leak
  6. Everything you want to know about the Pentagon/Discord Leak
  7. The National Security Operations Center (NSOC): 50 years in photos
  8. About the legality of the NSA's testing and SIGINT Development projects

2022 5

  1. A new secure red telephone for German chancellor Scholz
  2. Jareh Dalke arrested for offering NSA documents to the Russians
  3. The highly classified documents found at Trump's residence Mar-a-Lago
  4. The phones of Ukrainian president Zelensky
  5. Head of Danish military intelligence arrested but independent inquiry finds no wrongdoing

2021 7

  1. From the Hotline to the first video call between presidents Biden and Putin
  2. About Intellipedia and other intelligence wikis from the Snowden trove
  3. Edward Snowden and the targeted drone killing campaign
  4. What the NSA provides to its foreign partners, and vice versa
  5. The communications systems at the US Central Command headquarters
  6. The telephone contacts of president George W. Bush
  7. The phones in president Biden's Oval Office

2020 12

  1. The report of a Swiss investigation into the case of Crypto AG
  2. The NSA tried to spy on Danish and other European targets via cable tapping in Denmark
  3. Danish military intelligence uses XKEYSCORE to tap cables in cooperation with the NSA
  4. About the legality and constitutionality of the Section 215 metadata program
  5. Head of Danish military intelligence suspended after misleading the oversight board
  6. A unique note from the BND about European SIGINT alliances
  7. NSA documents and cover names from the book Dark Mirror
  8. Bulk interception by Germany's BND and what the Constitutional Court said about it
  9. Maximator and other European SIGINT alliances
  10. Edward Snowden and the STELLARWIND report
  11. The serial numbers of NSA reports
  12. US government uses Swiss diplomatic network to communicate with Iran

2019 10

  1. Review of Snowden's book Permanent Record - Part II: At the NSA
  2. Leaked report reveals security risks at the Austrian security service BVT
  3. Review of Snowden's book Permanent Record - Part I: At the CIA
  4. The communications equipment in Trump's Situation Room photo
  5. From 9-Eyes to 14-Eyes: the Afghanistan SIGINT Coalition (AFSC)
  6. A document about the UKUSA partnership with unknown classification compartments
  7. The NSA's regional Cryptologic Centers
  8. Daniel Hale arrested for being the source of The Drone Papers
  9. The Snowden files: where are they and where should they end up?
  10. The phones of former FBI Director Robert Mueller

2018 5

  1. A new secure phone for outside the White House
  2. The GRU close access operation against the OPCW in perspective
  3. Trump's telephones in the Treaty Room
  4. Collection of domestic phone records under the USA FREEDOM Act
  5. The hotlines between North and South Korea

2017 12

  1. Section 702 FAA expires: what are the problems with PRISM and Upstream?
  2. Trump's communications equipment outside the White House
  3. The hotline between Washington and the former German capital Bonn
  4. Are the Shadow Brokers identical with the Second Source?
  5. Do NSA compliance reports point to an unknown classification compartment?
  6. Dutch report provides metadata numbers to compare with Snowden documents
  7. Dutch-Russian cyber crime case reveals how the police taps the internet
  8. The equipment aboard an EP-3E electronic surveillance plane
  9. Mysterious devices in Trump's pop-up situation room
  10. Trump's "beautiful" Oval Office phones and what was changed on them
  11. The 5-year anniversary of this weblog
  12. The presidential communications equipment under Barack Obama

2016 14

  1. Obama used a cybersecurity link for the first time to warn Russia
  2. A perspective on the new Dutch intelligence law
  3. Wikileaks publishes classified documents from inside German NSA inquiry commission
  4. Data sharing systems used within the Five Eyes partnership
  5. With NSA contractor Martin arrested, other leakers may still be at large
  6. Secret report reveals: German BND also uses XKEYSCORE for data collection
  7. Is the Shadow Brokers leak the latest in a series?
  8. E-mails from inside the NSA bureaucracy
  9. German journalists about working with the Snowden documents
  10. The phones of US Director of National Intelligence James Clapper
  11. Something about the use of selectors: correlations and equations
  12. A look at the latest French laws on intelligence collection
  13. How NSA contact chaining combines domestic and foreign phone records
  14. Section 215 bulk telephone records and the MAINWAY database

2015 20

  1. Leaked documents that were not attributed to Snowden
  2. How NSA targeted the Venezuelan oil company PdVSA
  3. Unnoticed leak answers and raises questions about operation Eikonal
  4. New details about the selectors NSA provided to BND
  5. NSA's Legal Authorities
  6. 9/11 inside the White House emergency bunker
  7. FAIRVIEW: Collecting foreign intelligence inside the US
  8. New IP phones in the White House
  9. Wikileaks published some of the most secret NSA reports so far
  10. A mysterious Tektron secure telephone
  11. New details about the joint NSA-BND operation Eikonal
  12. German BND didn't care much about foreign NSA selectors
  13. Some equipment that connects NSA with its foreign partners
  14. Torus: the antenna to significantly increase satellite interception
  15. New Zealand and XKEYSCORE: not much evidence for mass surveillance
  16. US military and intelligence computer networks
  17. NSA and GCHQ stealing SIM card keys: a few things you should know
  18. Snowden would not have been able to legally "wiretap anyone"
  19. How GCHQ prepares for interception of phone calls from satellite links
  20. German investigation of the cooperation between NSA and BND (III)

2014 30

  1. German investigation of the cooperation between NSA and BND (II)
  2. Update on tapping German chancellor Merkel's phone
  3. INCENSER, or how NSA and GCHQ are tapping internet cables
  4. German investigation of the cooperation between NSA and BND (I)
  5. The phones of the Dutch Prime Minister
  6. The German operation Eikonal as part of NSA's RAMPART-A program
  7. NSA's Strategic Mission List
  8. About STELLARWIND and other mysterious classification markings
  9. NSA's Foreign Partnerships
  10. Another "red phone" for the Israeli prime minister
  11. What if Google was an intelligence agency?
  12. New phones aboard Air Force One
  13. Document shows that it was not NSA, but FBI that monitored 5 Americans
  14. NSA still uses the UMBRA compartment for highly sensitive intercepts
  15. The National Security Agency in 2002
  16. Snowden-documents show no evidence for global mass surveillance
  17. Some numbers about NSA's data collection
  18. NSA's largest cable tapping program: DANCINGOASIS
  19. Pictures from inside the German intelligence agency BND
  20. What is known about NSA's PRISM program
  21. Some SIGINT and COMSEC during the Nuclear Security Summit
  22. Video demonstration of two intelligence analysis tools
  23. OLYMPIA: How Canada's CSEC maps phone and internet connections
  24. NSA director Alexander's phones
  25. Dutch government tried to hide the truth about metadata collection
  26. BOUNDLESSINFORMANT: metadata collection by Dutch MIVD instead of NSA
  27. New interpretations of NSA monitoring the German chancellor
  28. Did CSEC really track Canadian airport travellers?
  29. Slides about NSA's Upstream collection
  30. NSA's organizational designations

2013 32

  1. The British classification marking STRAP
  2. 14-Eyes are 3rd Party partners forming the SIGINT Seniors Europe
  3. The BOUNDLESSINFORMANT interface
  4. NSA's global interception network
  5. DRTBOX and the DRT surveillance systems
  6. Screenshots from BOUNDLESSINFORMANT can be misleading
  7. Five Eyes, 9-Eyes and many more
  8. How NSA targeted chancellor Merkel's mobile phone
  9. How secure is the Merkel-Phone?
  10. BOUNDLESSINFORMANT only shows metadata
  11. What are SIGADs starting with DS for?
  12. From BULLRUN to NOCON and LACONIC
  13. PRISM as part of the BLARNEY program
  14. The US Classification System
  15. An NSA eavesdropping case study
  16. The red phone that was NOT on the Hotline
  17. The 50th anniversary of the Washington-Moscow Hotline
  18. NSA also has arrangements with foreign internet providers
  19. New slides about NSA collection programs
  20. New insights into the PRISM program
  21. Is PRISM just a not-so-secret web tool?
  22. Abbreviations, Acronyms, Nicknames and Codewords
  23. Are the NSA's PRISM slides photoshopped?
  24. General Dynamics secures commercial smartphones for classified information
  25. How Obama's BlackBerry got secured
  26. The phones and the iMac of Kim Jong-un
  27. Papal telephony
  28. President Reagan using a STU-II telephone
  29. US State Department red phones
  30. Dutch queen Beatrix' phone
  31. The Israeli prime minister's red phone
  32. A White House staff phone

2012 10

  1. Pictures at the NSA's 60th anniversary
  2. Bilateral Hotlines Worldwide
  3. Commander Petraeus' phones
  4. The Washington-Moscow Hotline
  5. Obama using a secure GSM phone
  6. Highly secure mobile phones
  7. Swiss video on mobile phone security
  8. Obama on vacation
  9. Does Obama really lack cool phones?
  10. Inside the White House Situation Room