Category Archives: Security

Sinking Section 702 Wiretap Program Offered One Last Lifeboat

A bill introduced by United States senators Dick Durbin and Mike Lee to reauthorize the Section 702 surveillance program is the fifth introduced in the US Congress this winter. The authority is threatening to expire in a month, disrupting a global wiretapping program said to inform a third of articles in the President’s Daily Briefing—a…
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The ‘Emergency Powers’ Risk of a Second Trump Presidency

Donald Trump appears to dream of being an American authoritarian should he return to office. The former US president, who on Tuesday secured enough delegates to win the 2024 Republican nomination, plans to deport millions of undocumented immigrants and house scores of them in large camps. He wants to invoke the Insurrection Act to deploy…
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There Are Dark Corners of the Internet. Then There’s 764

WIRED collaborated with Der Spiegel, Recorder, and The Washington Post on this reporting. Each wrote separate stories that the news organizations agreed to publish in tandem. This story contains descriptions of abuse, self-harm, murder, and suicide. Reader discretion is advised.It sounds like a cheap true-crime conspiracy: An international network of predators steeped in Satanism lure…
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