Tootfinder

A former CIA officer
who helped lead the intelligence assessments over alleged Russia interference in the 2016 presidential election
has said Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence,
is ignorant of the practices of espionage
after she accused Barack Obama and his national security team of
“treasonous conspiracy” against Donald Trump.
Susan Miller, the agency’s head of counter-intelligence at the time of the election,
told the Guardian th…

Ex-CIA agent hits back at Tulsi Gabbard after she accused Obama of 'treasonous conspiracy' against Trump (Robert Tait/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/30/tulsi-gabbard-obama-russian-intelligence
http://www.memeorandum.com/250730/p105#a250730p105

I have vague memories of reading years ago about a weapon called a "photic driver" consisting of an LED or strobe or laser array flashing in patterns deliberately crafted to induce photosensitive seizures and disorientation (not just a conventional dazzler intended primarily to interfere with the target's vision).
I have no idea if it was a failed CIA project, a sci-fi plot element, something some military or police department actually fielded, etc.
Anybody ever hea…

TIL que hš na Crošcia um partido político chamado, em tradução bastante fiel, "Dalija Orešković e Pessoas com Nome e Apelido"
😂
Faz lembrar aqueles partidos do Herman Enciclopédia. 😂

Former CIA paramilitary officer Joe Kent
— who has said members of the Movement for Black Lives should be treated as terrorists, peddled conspiracy theories about the January 6 insurrection, and once earned the endorsement of white supremacist Nick Fuentes
— will be leading the National Counterterrorism Center.
Kent has most recently served as acting chief of staff for Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.
He’s railed against Black Lives Matter protesters a…

Jan. 6 Conspiracy Theorist Who Likened BLM to Terrorists to Lead Counterterrorism Center
The Senate confirmed Joe Kent as director of the National Counterterrorism Center in a 52 to 44 vote.

Quite the scoop for the Washington Times.
Hackers compromised the National Reconnaissance Office, with sources saying they likely obtained information on key technologies for CIA operations.
Hackers breach intelligence website used by CIA
https://www.

Trump, Gabbard purged top CIA Russia expert days after Alaska summit (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/08/27/cia-officer-russia-trump-gabbard/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzU2MjY3MjAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzU3NjQ5NTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NTYyNjcyMDAsImp0aSI6IjYwOTg2NTA3LWYyN2ItNDIwNS04M2Y4LTQyNTExYWYyYjZlZCIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9uYXRpb25hbC1zZWN1cml0eS8yMDI1LzA4LzI3L2NpYS1vZmZpY2VyLXJ1c3NpYS10cnVtcC1nYWJiYXJkLyJ9.njt1LpTXcmcNBgM_8SLH_y92llCplGVWBPFHdC2I4FQ&itid=gfta
http://www.memeorandum.com/250827/p144#a250827p144

Complete insensitivity to ab initio data -- A new perspective on modeling collision-induced absorption of noble gas atoms
Nikhila Ambika Chandran, Tijs Karman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22029

Complete insensitivity to ab initio data -- A new perspective on modeling collision-induced absorption of noble gas atoms
In this study, we systematically investigate how the accuracy of CIA spectra depends on the quality of the ab initio data used. We evaluate quantitatively the impact of different quantum chemical methods and basis sets on spectral features, finding that even the lowest-level calculations are accurate to approximately 10 % at room temperature, and better at higher temperatures. This study also reveals a previously unreported double-peak structure for the He-Ne complex, which cannot be described …

CIA TA Risk Assessment for AI Reasoning Vulnerabilities
Yuksel Aydin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15839 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.15839

CIA+TA Risk Assessment for AI Reasoning Vulnerabilities
As AI systems increasingly influence critical decisions, they face threats that exploit reasoning mechanisms rather than technical infrastructure. We present a framework for cognitive cybersecurity, a systematic protection of AI reasoning processes from adversarial manipulation. Our contributions are threefold. First, we establish cognitive cybersecurity as a discipline complementing traditional cybersecurity and AI safety, addressing vulnerabilities where legitimate inputs corrupt reasoning wh…

Gabbard and White House 'lying' about intel on Russian interference in 2016, ex-CIA official says (Dan De Luce/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/gabbard-white-house-lying-intel-russian-interference-2016-ex-cia-offic-rcna220870
http://www.memeorandum.com/250726/p3#a250726p3

CIA Employee Sentenced To Prison For Releasing Documents On Israel's Plans To Strike Iran https://thedissenter.org/cia-employee-sentenced-to-prison-for-releasing-documents-on-israels-plans-to-strike-iran/

Putin is 'obstacle to peace,' retired US General Petraeus says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/25/putin-is-obstacle-to-peace.html

Die CIA und die Star Wars-Fanwebsite
https://stohl.de/wordpress/?p=191361

Die CIA und die Star Wars-Fanwebsite
Die CIA hat eine Star-Wars-Fanwebsite genutzt, um mit ihren Agenten und Informanten zu kommunizieren: CIA hat geheime Star-Wars-Fanwebsite betrieben. Kann man machen. Das verdeckte Kommunikationssy…

This 'investigation' into Comey and Brennan is clearly meant only as a distraction from the #Epstein debacle, trying to keep Trump's supporters from burning their #MAGA hats.

Trump day 170-171: Trump opens investigation into former FBI and CIA directors, wants to take over DC and NY administration, Grok becomes MechaHitler, lights on 24/7 at Alligator Alcatraz, maggots in food and Gor turns out to be Russian - Reporters Online
New decisions from Trump, and new fallout. An overview of day 170 and 171.

I actually think it would be wise for high-profile right-wing figures to forgo any device capable of storing digital files.
https://gizmodo.com/tucker-carlson-says-he-doesnt-own-a-computer-because-the-cia-plants-kiddie-porn-20006…

Tucker Carlson Says He Doesn't Own a Computer Because the CIA Plants 'Kiddie Porn'
Tucker also doesn't think President Trump "likes creepy sex stuff."

"As the West debates red lines and escalation risks, Ukraine’s spies are doing what no NATO agency dared: hunting Russian war criminals across three continents, from Moscow’s suburbs to Mali’s deserts — the very territories where Russia projected power unopposed for years.
Russia’s failed blitzkrieg birthed something far more dangerous than Ukrainian resistance — Ukrainian revenge."
CIA forged Ukraine's spy service into Mossad for Putin— now it can't make them stop
https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/06/08/cia-forged-ukraines-broken-spy-service-into-mossad-for-putin-now-it-cant-make-them-stop/

Holy fucksticks: watching the 1st and only season of #TheManWhoFellToEarth and we got a CIA operative flashing a badge while working in the UK. The purpose of a CIA spy is to fly under the radar and will never have any identifying objects on his person. Further more such a badge will have zero importance on UK soil. Rookie mistakes.

Don't leave for the weekend before you check out today's Metacurity for the most crucial infosec developments you should know, including
--Operation Checkmate seized the sites of BlackSuit ransomware operation,
--US sanctions three DPRK officials involved in worker schemes,
--AZ woman sentenced to 8 years for hosting DPRK laptop farm,
--Plankey promises to pitch for more CISA funding,
--UK student sentenced to 7 years for distributing phishing kits,

Operation Checkmate seized the BlackSuit ransomware sites
US sanctions three DPRK officials involved in worker schemes, AZ woman sentenced to 8+ years for hosting DPRK laptop farm, Plankey promises to pitch for more CISA funding, UK student sentenced to 7 years for distributing phishing kits, Hackers stole info from CIA spy satellite arm, much more

CIA Director John Ratcliffe Delivers on President Trump's Executive Order (CIA)
https://www.cia.gov/stories/story/cia-director-john-ratcliffe-delivers-on-president-trumps-executive-order/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250612/p56#a250612p56

Kennt ihr diese Skulptur?

Yesterday upon the stair
I met a man who wasn't there.
He wasn't there again today --
I think he's from the CIA.

Imagine spending years as an intelligence officer, working diligently to subvert the Kremlin,
only to watch the US stand with Russia, Iran and North Korea,
as it did in February when it voted against a UN resolution condemning the invasion of Ukraine.
In that moment, Tim Weiner said: “You come to the realization, if you hadn’t already:
‘My God, the president of the United States has gone over to the other side. He has joined the authoritarian axis.’”

My favorite clip of Terry A. Davis is when he sends a Letter to the CIA!
https://peertube.wtf/w/64f8KBvcWcU3tXZqPTMjuC
Terry had schizophrenia, which affected how he saw the world and how he worked on his projects.

CNN's chief national security correspondent Alex Marquardt, whose 2021 story led to a suit in which a jury awarded $5M to an ex-CIA operative, is leaving CNN (Stephen Battaglio/Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latime…

CNN parts ways with correspondent whose story led to defamation lawsuit
A jury awarded a military contractor $5 million over Alex Marquardt's 2021 report on a military contractor.

A senior CIA officer who oversaw Russia analysis
has been stripped of her security clearance,
part of a sweeping removal of
37 serving and former officials accused of "betray[ing] their oath to the Constitution," the Economist reported on Aug. 21.
The officer, who served as the CIA’s top Russia and Eurasia analyst during the 2016 election
and helped produce the report detailing Moscow’s interference on behalf of Donald Trump,
was among the most s…

Trump administration escalates purge of senior US intelligence officials, Economist reports
The officer, who served as the CIA’s top Russia and Eurasia analyst during the 2016 election and helped produce the report detailing Moscow’s interference on behalf of Donald Trump, was among the most senior career officials targeted.

CIA releases more RFK assassination records (Jared Gans/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5346508-cia-releases-rfk-assassination-documents/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250613/p95#a250613p95

CBTOPE2: An improved method for predicting of conformational B-cell epitopes in an antigen from its primary sequence
Anupma Pandey, Megha, Nishant Kumar, Ruchir Sahni, Gajendra P. S. Raghava
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13395

CBTOPE2: An improved method for predicting of conformational B-cell epitopes in an antigen from its primary sequence
In 2009, our group pioneered a novel method CBTOPE for predicting conformational B-cell epitopes in a protein from its amino acid sequence, which received extensive citations from the scientific community. In a recent study, Cia et al. (2023) evaluated the performance of conformational B-cell epitope prediction methods on a well-curated dataset, revealing that most approaches, including CBTOPE, exhibited poor performance. One plausible cause of this diminished performance is that available meth…

Invitation Is All You Need! Promptware Attacks Against LLM-Powered Assistants in Production Are Practical and Dangerous
Ben Nassi, Stav Cohen, Or Yair
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12175

Invitation Is All You Need! Promptware Attacks Against LLM-Powered Assistants in Production Are Practical and Dangerous
The growing integration of LLMs into applications has introduced new security risks, notably known as Promptware - maliciously engineered prompts designed to manipulate LLMs to compromise the CIA triad of these applications. While prior research warned about a potential shift in the threat landscape for LLM-powered applications, the risk posed by Promptware is frequently perceived as low. In this paper, we investigate the risk Promptware poses to users of Gemini-powered assistants (web applicat…

Ex-FBI Director Comey and ex-CIA Director Brennan are under investigation by Trump Justice Department (CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/07/09/politics/comey-brennan-ratcliffe-fbi-cia-referral
http://www.memeorandum.com/250709/p116#a250709p116

Imprisoned For Exposing US-Israel's War Plans Against Iran https://thedissenter.org/imprisoned-for-exposing-us-israels-war-plans-against-iran/

Former Intel Chief Banned From Dog's Graduation Ceremony (Shane Harris/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/archive/2025/07/james-clapper-cia-dog-trump/683575/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250717/p139#a250717p139

Pessoas, não me importo nada que continuem a pedir a demissão da ministra da saúde, mas espero que saibam que ela não se vai demitir porque, pura e simplesmente, estš a fazer um ótimo trabalho.
Foi posta lš para destruir o SNS. Estš a destruir o SNS com enorme eficšcia. Ninguém a vai tirar de lš por destruir o SNS.

""highly sensitive counterterrorism operation with national security implications" - that was then.
'Mistake': Nicolle Wallace uses Trump admin's own words to slam MS13 claims - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/kilmar-abrego-garcia-2672324359/

A large, chemically enriched, neutral gas reservoir in a galaxy at z = 6.782
A. Saccardi, S. D. Vergani, L. Izzo, V. D'Elia, K. E. Heintz, A. De Cia, D. B. Malesani, J. T. Palmerio, P. Petitjean, S. Savaglio, N. R. Tanvir, R. Salvaterra, R. Brivio, S. Campana, L. Christensen, S. Covino, J. P. U. Fynbo, D. H. Hartmann, C. Konstantopoulou, A. J. Levan, A. Martin-Carrillo, A. Melandri, L. Piro, G. Pugliese, P. Schady, B. Schneider

A large, chemically enriched, neutral gas reservoir in a galaxy at z = 6.782
The chemical characterization of galaxies in the first billion years after the Big Bang is one of the central goals of current astrophysics. Optical/near-infrared spectroscopy of long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have been heralded as an effective diagnostic to probe the interstellar medium of their host galaxies and their metal and dust content, up to the highest redshift. An opportunity to fulfill this expectation was provided by the recent blast triggered by the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory of …

Ex-CIA chief John Brennan may have opened himself up to perjury charges over Trump-Russia hoax (Miranda Devine/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/07/06/us-news/miranda-devine-ex-cia-chief-john-brennan-may-have-opened-himself-up-to-perjury-charges-over-trump-russia-hoax/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250707/p30#a250707p30

Tulsi Gabbard declassified documents over objections from CIA, sources say (Dan De Luce/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/tulsi-gabbard-declassified-documents-objections-cia-sources-say-rcna223548
http://www.memeorandum.com/250806/p146#a250806p146

Patel and Ratcliffe try to bolster claims that FBI and CIA conspired against Trump (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/patel-ratcliffe-try-bolster-claims-fbi-cia-conspired-trump-rcna216848
http://www.memeorandum.com/250704/p57#a250704p57

CIA review of 2016 Russia election probe finds no major flaws (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/02/cia-review-of-2016-russia-election-probe-finds-no-major-flaws-00438159
http://www.memeorandum.com/250703/p58#a250703p58

Securing AI Systems: A Guide to Known Attacks and Impacts
Naoto Kiribuchi, Kengo Zenitani, Takayuki Semitsu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23296 https://

Securing AI Systems: A Guide to Known Attacks and Impacts
Embedded into information systems, artificial intelligence (AI) faces security threats that exploit AI-specific vulnerabilities. This paper provides an accessible overview of adversarial attacks unique to predictive and generative AI systems. We identify eleven major attack types and explicitly link attack techniques to their impacts -- including information leakage, system compromise, and resource exhaustion -- mapped to the confidentiality, integrity, and availability (CIA) security triad. We…