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Released today: Virtual Schlüsselgerät 41
This cipher machine, based on Hagelin C-38 but WAY more complex was set to replace Enigma.
Over a year of work & research & it's ready for you to try for yourself.
sg41.virtualcolossus.co.uk
@tnmoc @GCHQ @bletchleypark @cryptomuseum @threejs
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Happy Valentines Day- Russian Illegal "spy" Anna Chapman wearing a "Lady in Red" Ulysse Nardin Diver. Chapman was arrested by the FBI in June 2010 as a part of Operation Ghost Stories.
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On Kapo's proposal, the @police sent out a Russian citizen, Andrei Zhuravlyov, from Estonia, whom Russia planned to use to gather intelligence. Such action is part of the preparation of a hybrid attack. Do not fall for it and let us know if you have received a similar job offer from Russia.
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Russia is now fitting Shahed drones with infrared dazzlers to blind air defense drones and aircraft
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Operation Banner (Northern Ireland) I don't know what this kit is on the aircraft and leave it to the aviation experts to id it.
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Altai PS-3S Soviet pre-cellular mobile communication system launched in Moscow in 1963, designed for use by government officials and emergency services.
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Found this tracking device literally in the middle of the road. Housing was a bit beaten up, circuitry looks fine. SIM installed, UART at the bottom, USB test points on the left, 2x microphone, BT, WiFi, and GSM antennas. Yes, I've disconnected the battery (it was dead).
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Good catch by a local spotter. Malaysia conducts special operations military exercise at Singapore's doorstep during election season, so the air force sent a rare ELINT/SIGINT platform to sniff out more.
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Cuban exiles in the Congo working for the CIA on the Makasi operation. The man on the left is carrying a very early AR-15.
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CIA Memorial Wall — STAR 26 (CLASSIFIED): Hugh Francis Redmond (Shanghai prison, China — April 13, 1970) inteltoday.org/2025/04/13/ci…
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#TechTuesday / NCSC Wall of Spies Artifact: These components of the PURPLE analogue were used by U.S. codebreakers to decrypt the World War II-era Japanese diplomatic cipher known as “PURPLE.” The decoded messages provided the U.S. with insights into Japanese strategy and operations.
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NEW: JFK Papers Reveal CIA “Family Jewels” Spying Operations in United States (Click below to read) nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-b…
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Former US SIGINT Station - 6912th Electronic Security Group - on Diedersdorfer Weg in West Berlin (1980s). In 1983/84, a young airman at the station leaks all of the NSA's top secrets to the #Stasi. His code name was ‚Kid’. The facility was closed in 1991 and demolished in 1996
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Another signal jammer pops up.. you can just pick them up off the ground in South Africa.
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The Taliban have transformed Afghanistan into a surveillance prison, with 90,000 CCTV cameras watching every step people take—a system built with China’s help—further suffocating those already stripped of basic rights and freedoms, especially women.
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An awesome photo showing all the antennas underneath the RAAF MC-55A Peregrine jet taking off for another test flight earlier this week.
Taken by Amarillo Aviation on Instagram: instagram.com/p/DGZQrRTM_cG/
SAME55 // N542GD // #A6DFF4
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Andropov signed #KGB executive order No. 0034 in 1982 which included Measure MN
-> "hidden application of marks with special substances on clothes, shoes, or hands of the person under surveillance & objects with which he comes into contact to determine his movement and actions."
