#Tradecraft

JUST IN: The Senate Intelligence Committee affirms the intelligence community's conclusion that Russia acted to aid Trump in 2016 — and explicitly breaks with the House GOP."The ICA reflects strong

HostileSpectrum

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With today's announcement of IPv4 exhaustion, it may be time to surface all the legacy FINTEL predicting this day would come, & look at tradecraft. The oldest published cyber intel

who benefits when researchers publicly posts information about vulnerabilities in an attacker's infrastructure or tools? a typical argument defending this practice can be boiled down to the following: "im sharing

This seems a good moment to highlight the importance of keeping perspective and sticking to the evidence. A few thoughts on "bot networks" in general, and Chinese info ops in

Sack Andy Coles

As #SpyCops officer Andy Coles has just been mentioned at the #SpyCopsInquiry, here's a quick overview of who he is. He was a Special Demonstration Squad officer in 1990s, using

Dear GRU, a bit dumb to try to phish-hack exactly the journos who just outed your largest black-op ever. You might have waited a day or two. And generally you

Finally today at the #SpyCopsInquiry, an opening statement from Matthew Ryder QC. He is representing anti-apartheid activists Ernest Rodker, Professor Jonathan Rosenhead & Lord Peter Hain, as well as Blair

M'ask me anything!

Listened with interest to Jesse Mulligan's RNZ interview with Jack Vowles on how irresponsible reporting on Covid quarantining has caused needless public fear & uncertainty. One thing he didn't cover

A bookstorm of eight highlights, from this no-wasted-words guide to leadership, whether of a company or a play... a brief-but-potent read.(By theater director Frank Hauser, and his mentee @russellreich.) Starting

A thread on @JohnBrennan's Durham Interview:Earlier today Brennan was interviewed by US Attorney John Durham on issues related to Russia's interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. 1/8 Brennan was

Steven Cash @thesteadystate3, #HESFINISHED

1/ What is happening Portland should be terrifying everybody. It is what happens (up to now) “in foreign parts” – not here. But let’s get our terminology straight, so we

Now that many of William Gibson’s ardent fans will have read his latest novel "Agency", here are few thoughts about it (spoilers ahead). [1/81] Having been involved in the "new

Thread: FBI’s counterintelligence investigation of Trump, and Senate Intel Volume 5 on that investigation, took time because they were done by the book.You need to understand why things went down

Shaunak Agarkhedkar

It's been a little more than two months since I started Espionage&. I thought I'd collate each of these stories into a single thread. Happy reading.https://espionage.substack.com/ 'The Billion Dollar Spy'

Let's Get Back To Tradecraft For A Moment, And Take A Quick Look At How Barry And His Accomplices Could Set Up The Entire Spying Operation Against Donald J. Trump,

I see where @KimStrassel has taken a swipe at @NormEisen for Eisen's endorsement of the report discussed in today's @washingtonpost that addresses Barr's politicized DoJ. https://twitter.com/KimStrassel/status/131394745286141132