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"The furor after Apple removed full iCloud security for U.K. users may feel a long way from American users this weekend. But it’s not — far from it. What has just shocked the U.K. is exactly what the FBI told me it also wants in the U.S. “Lawful access” to any encrypted user data. The bureau’s quiet warning was confirmed just a few weeks ago.

The U.K. news cannot be seen in isolation and follows years of battling between big tech and governments over warranted, legal access to encrypted messages and content to fuel investigations into serious crimes such as terrorism and child abuse.

As I reported in 2020, “it is looking ever more likely that proponents of end-to-end security, the likes of Facebook and Apple, will lose their campaign to maintain user security as a priority.” It has taken five years, but here we now are.

The last few weeks may have seemed to signal a unique fork in the road between the U.S. and its primary Five Eyes ally, the U.K. But it isn’t. In December, the FBI and CISA warned Americans to stop sending texts and use encrypted platforms instead. And now the U.K. has forced open iCloud to by threatening to mandate a backdoor. But the devil’s in the detail — and we’re fast approaching a dangerous pivot."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2025/02/24/fbis-new-iphone-android-security-warning-is-now-critical/

#USA #FBI #CyberSecurity #Encryption #Privacy #UK #CISA #Apple #Backdoor


DOGE Dives Into Core National Defense and Data Systems Across Government
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/doge-dives-into-core-national-defense-and-data-systems-across-government

"DOGE currently has far deeper and far more extensive access to US #government computer systems — and is far deeper into the #NationalSecurity space — than is conceivably necessary for anything related to their notional brief & goals...

( #CISA), the agency charged w/the defense of the federal government’s civilian computer networks"

#ElonMusk #Musk #Coup #Politics #Data #Security #News #US #USA
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DOGE Dives Into Core National Defense and Data Systems Across Government


Trumps Regierung und #Musk greifen die US-Cybersicherheitsbehörde #CISA an. Mitarbeitern wird ein freiwilliges Ausscheiden mit Entschädigung angeboten. #Cybersicherheit #Trump #Internet #Sicherheit https://winfuture.de/news,148671.html?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=ManualStatus&utm_campaign=SocialMedia


Structure of the U.S. “industrial-censorship complex”

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In January 2017, Obama's outgoing Homeland Security Secretary Jay Johnson made protecting election infrastructure part of his agency's mandate.

And right behind that:

The Department of Homeland Security created a Foreign Influence Task Force to focus on “disinformation about election infrastructure.”

The State Department's Center for Global Engagement expanded its interagency mandate to counter foreign influence operations.

The FBI created a Foreign Influence Task Force to “identify and counter malicious foreign influence operations directed against the United States,” with a particular focus on voting and elections.

These were key components of what later became known as the censorship industrial complex.

In 2018, the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee requested a “Study on Russian Interference in Social Media,” a study that has become the rationale for pressuring social media management companies to stop being indecisive about content moderation.

The committee also commissioned Graphika, a social media analytics firm, to co-author a report on Russian interference in social media. Interestingly, Graphika cites DARPA and the Pentagon's Minerva initiative, which funds “basic social science research,” as its key partners. And Graphika's report “on Russian interference in social media” was the rationale behind the creation of the Stanford Internet Observatory-led “Election Integrity Partnership” - a key element of the government's censorship police during and after the 2020 election.

The Atlantic Council's Digital Forensics Research Lab is the organization that joined the Stanford-led quartet. Partially funded by the State Department - including through the Center for Global Engagement - and the Department of Energy, the think tank counts among its directors CIA executives and defense secretaries. The lab's senior director is Graham Bouki, former top aide to President Obama for cybersecurity, counterterrorism, intelligence and homeland security.

The third of four organizations to later join the Election Integrity Partnership was the University of Washington's 2019 Center for an Informed Public. Stanford alumna and visiting professor Kate Starbird co-founded the Center. The National Science Foundation and the Office of Naval Research provided funding for Dr. Starbird's social media work. The Observatory is a program of Stanford University's Center for Cyber Policy, which includes former Obama National Security Council staffer and Russian Ambassador Michael McFaul, as well as other prominent individuals with security backgrounds or affiliations .

In the run-up to the 2020 election, the Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), which took on the task of protecting election infrastructure, expanded its scope to include combating disinformation perceived as a threat to election security. This eventually came to encompass any political speech by Americans, including speculation and even satire to the extent that it questioned or undermined state-approved narratives about unprecedented mass mail-in elections.


#USA #US #american #censorship #CIA #FBI #Pentagon #DARPA #Stanford #CISA #deepstate