National Security

Check Your Settings
Even More Venmo Accounts Tied to Trump Officials in Signal Group Chat Left Data Public
Dhruv Mehrotra and Tim Marchman





Logging On
Using Starlink Wi-Fi in the White House Is a Slippery Slope for US Federal IT
Lily Hay Newman


(B)add-On
Low-Cost Drone Add-Ons From China Let Anyone With a Credit Card Turn Toys Into Weapons of War
Lily Hay Newman

Security Roundup
End-to-End Encrypted Texts Between Android and iPhone Are Coming
Andy Greenberg and Dhruv Mehrotra




Fourth Amendment
Trump’s Spy Chief Urged to Declassify Details of Secret Surveillance Program
Dell Cameron

Loose Cannons
Pentagon Cuts Threaten Programs That Secure Loose Nukes and Weapons of Mass Destruction
Justin Ling




Safety Squeeze
The National Institute of Standards and Technology Braces for Mass Firings
Will Knight, Paresh Dave, and Leah Feiger

Surveillance Economy
Google Ad-Tech Users Can Target National Security ‘Decision Makers’ and People With Chronic Diseases
Dell Cameron and Dhruv Mehrotra

Not Now, Putin
A Signal Update Fends Off a Phishing Technique Used in Russian Espionage
Andy Greenberg