Sig. Ug.
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You have precious little privacy in this global networked world; don't throw it away for a few clicks and likes.
You have precious little privacy in this global networked world; don't throw it away for a few clicks and likes.
I was glad to see them quote a professor who has studied Russian propaganda for 30 years, because the parallels to what happened there are striking. A pervasive disinformation machine made Putin wildly popular despite the country’s slide into authoritarianism.
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"Putin knows everything and prevents us from sliding into the abyss."
According to Kremlin propaganda, Putin never gets sick,never ages,never makes mistakes — nothing good awaits Russia without him.
📹: Current Time tells about the cult of personality built around Putin
According to Kremlin propaganda, Putin never gets sick,never ages,never makes mistakes — nothing good awaits Russia without him.
📹: Current Time tells about the cult of personality built around Putin
November 9, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I was glad to see them quote a professor who has studied Russian propaganda for 30 years, because the parallels to what happened there are striking. A pervasive disinformation machine made Putin wildly popular despite the country’s slide into authoritarianism.
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This film was a family event for us second only to Easter services every spring when it was on television.
November 8, 2025 at 3:07 PM
This film was a family event for us second only to Easter services every spring when it was on television.
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One of the founders of the Samourai Wallet mixing software has received the maximum sentence — five years. Like Tornado Cash, the case centered on arguments over whether the developers were creating privacy preserving technology or intentionally facilitating criminal activity.
![Samourai Wallet
Privacy advocates in the crypto world have been closely watching the Samourai Wallet case [I56, 57, 83, 84, 90], with many comparing it to the highly controversial prosecution of Tornado Cash founder Roman Storm [Tornado]. The Samourai Wallet founders, who pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business in exchange for prosecutors dropping the more severe money laundering conspiracy charge, have maintained that they were merely developing privacy-preserving software, and that they were not responsible for criminal use of the software. Prosecutors have argued that the developers actively intended the software to be used for criminal purposes, pointing to marketing aimed at “Dark/Grey Market participants” and those engaged in “Illicit activity”.
Prosecutors have sought a five-year sentence for the two founders — the statutory maximum for the charge — and Keonne Rodriguez received that full sentence, plus a $250,000 fine. Rodriguez has already paid $6.3 million in forfeiture. Judge Cote cited a letter to the court in which Rodriguez continued to say that he was merely motivated by a desire to protect financial privacy and not “a desire to facilitate criminal activity” as evidence that Rodriguez “has not come to terms with what he did. ... The letter indicated to me that you were very much still operating in a world with moral blinders on.”6 William Lonergan Hill, Rodriguez’s cofounder, will be sentenced later this month.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:exrxvyu6bpoym6mbnctke5tn/bafkreif3nenuufnk5j7x2usfz6vx6ocqyehhz44tmnzvwehmcmldmf5esm@jpeg)
November 7, 2025 at 7:21 PM
One of the founders of the Samourai Wallet mixing software has received the maximum sentence — five years. Like Tornado Cash, the case centered on arguments over whether the developers were creating privacy preserving technology or intentionally facilitating criminal activity.
Very reminiscent of the memes from a few years back of Igor Sechin standing stiffly in classical paintings or Soviet movie scenes.
November 6, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Very reminiscent of the memes from a few years back of Igor Sechin standing stiffly in classical paintings or Soviet movie scenes.
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Unveiling Russian intelligence failures in the Ukraine conflict: a strategic culture perspective
Huw Dylan & Elena Grossfeld
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Huw Dylan & Elena Grossfeld
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Unveiling Russian intelligence failures in the Ukraine conflict: a strategic culture perspective
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 was accompanied by a major intelligence failure. Russia’s intelligence machinery failed strategically and tactically, leaving leaders surprised and for...
www.tandfonline.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Unveiling Russian intelligence failures in the Ukraine conflict: a strategic culture perspective
Huw Dylan & Elena Grossfeld
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Huw Dylan & Elena Grossfeld
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....