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Posted at 11:54 am on December 15, 2020 by Greg P. Just to update you on this story we told you about on Sunday. . . A foreign government-backed hacking group stole information from @USTreasury & @NTIAgov, & may have hacked other US government agencies, @Reuters reports. The hack was deemed so serious it led to a National Security Council meeting at the WH on Saturday. https://t.co/ONtQOFiiar . . .The White House National Security Council is now calling the hacking of multiple government agenci...

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You are a druglord or terrorist. thats also a way to protect yourself from stalkers, abusive ex-spouses, people who are trying to surveil you in illegal ways. these apps provide a way to protect yourself and other forms of security. provide a way for you to protect yourself from people who dont have permission to spy on you. what were going to see is director comey grappling with not just the privacy concerns on the other side but also the security concerns on the other side. its not just nation...

Authentic. not necessarily somebody from the inside of our own intelligence community. >> eric, you asked people if they want to contact you securely, which many people may want to do, particularly with journalists, that they should use apps like signal or whatsapp which are encrypted. wikileaks says the cia and british intelligence are capable of bypassing the security in those kinds of apps even before the app itself can encrypt it. i didnt know before these leaks that that was possible. whats...

Contain the agencys secret tools for hacking common electronics like phones, computers and some smart tvs. nbc news has not verified the documents and the cia wont comment on their authenticity. joining me is eric geller, a cybersecurity reporter for politico pro and tara mahler, a former cia military analyst now the spokesperson and senior policy adviser for the counterextremism program. thank you for being with us. tara, we havent got confirmation of this yet, though people are talking about i...