DHS and Kristi Noem Spied Upon

Noem: 'Deep state' in her own department installed spyware on her phone, computer

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem said Thursday that members of her own department secretly installed spyware on government-issued devices used by Trump administration officials, including her phone and laptop, allowing staffers to record meetings and monitor internal communications.

Noem said on "PBD Podcast" that tech experts, including Elon Musk and members of his team, helped her uncover what she described as unauthorized surveillance software embedded on devices assigned to political appointees. Noem said the discovery came after outside technology specialists examined DHS hardware and flagged suspicious software activity.

"I can't believe what I found since I've been in this department. I just found the other day a whole room on this campus that was a secret [SCIF, Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility] secure facility that had files nobody knew existed.

So we just happened to have an employee walk by a door and wonder what it was and started asking questions," Noem said. "We went in there. There were individuals working there that had secret files that nobody knew about on some of these most controversial topics like that, and now I've got that turned over to attorneys, and we're getting to the bottom of what exactly happened there."

Read about the Corruption at the DHS

Digital vulnerabilities weaponized in transnational crime.

A cartel hacker exploited city cameras to target FBI sources

A chilling revelation from the US Justice Department has exposed how one of Mexico's most notorious drug cartels infiltrated surveillance systems to hunt down and eliminate FBI informants in Mexico City.

According to The Mirror, the Sinaloa Cartel, formerly led by notorious drug lord El Chapo, employed a sophisticated hacker who gained unauthorized access to Mexico City's camera systems and phone records to track both FBI informants and officials.

The discovery came to light through a Justice Department audit titled "Audit of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Efforts to Mitigate the Effects of Ubiquitous Technical Surveillance."

The report revealed that the hacker offered various services related to exploiting mobile phones and electronic devices, raising serious concerns about the vulnerability of law enforcement operations. Cartel's Advanced Technical Capabilities Raise Alarms.

The hacker specifically targeted an FBI assistant legal attaché (ALAT) at the American embassy in Mexico City, obtaining their phone records and tracking their movements. This breach allowed the cartel to monitor the ALAT's communications, including incoming and outgoing calls, as well as precise location data through the city's surveillance network.

In 2018, a hacker recruited by Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel infiltrated Mexico City’s camera network and compromised the phone of a U.S. embassy official. Using this access, the cartel tracked meetings with potential FBI informants, some of whom were later intimidated or killed. The incident, revealed in a Justice Department audit, demonstrates how emerging digital threats are reshaping organized crime.

Read more about it...

"In Texas, big Tech is not above the law"

Google Agrees to Pay Texas $1.4 Billion Data Privacy Settlement

Google agreed to pay nearly $1.4 billion to the state of Texas to settle allegations of violating the data privacy rights of state residents, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said Friday.

Paxton sued Google in 2022 for allegedly unlawfully tracking and collecting the private data of users.

The attorney general said the settlement, which covers allegations in two separate lawsuits against the search engine and app giant, dwarfed all past settlements by other states with Google for similar data privacy violations.

Google’s settlement comes nearly 10 months after Paxton obtained a $1.4 billion settlement for Texas from Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, to resolve claims of unauthorized use of biometric data by users of those popular social media platforms.

Read about it...

The FBI broke the law “more than 278,000 times"

FBI admits illegal spying

The FBI was forced to admit that yes, they really have been illegally spying on Americans. They’ve been doing it for years and did it more than 278,000 times.

As revealed by Washington Post they broke the law “more than 278,000 times, including against crime victims, January 6 riot suspects, people arrested at protests after the police killing of George Floyd in 2020 and — in one case — 19,000 donors to a congressional candidate.”

“It’s okay and there’s no reason to take away our Section 702 toolkit or anything,” Christopher Wray insists, because they already fixed it.

We’re supposed to trust him on that. They might have gotten away with it if this report didn’t come out the same week as the one from John Durham. That’s the one which spelled out exactly how the Federal Bureau of Instigation and the Just Us Department conspired with Hillary Clinton to rig the 2016 election.

It was the FBI’s involvement in Russiagate which prompted this particular audit. The final report was completed a year ago but Merrick Garland was terrified to turn it loose.

Read more about the FBI spying on Americans

Andrew Surabian, Republican strategist said, "This is absolutely outrageous. The FBI illegally abused section 702 of FISA to digitally surveil American citizens without a warrant over 278k times. Any Republican who supports reauthorizing this digital spying program when it comes up for a vote in December deserves a Primary."