A Top Democrat Is Urging Colleagues to Support Trump’s Spy Machine
2026-03-20T20:52:13Z•f73cd52423ef44297bfd993510b477bd7e3f4017b3394bd1d25433fe8d41a809
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What happened
A range of high-impact security and privacy incidents reported by WIRED: a powerful iPhone exploit called “DarkSword” (affecting iOS 18 via poisoned websites) is in the wild and can fully compromise hundreds of millions of devices; US authorities disrupted multiple large botnets (Aisuru, Kimwolf, JackSkid, Mossad) that together infected millions of endpoints including home devices; Meta is rolling back end-to-end encryption for Instagram DMs while integrating Signal creator tech into Meta AI; widespread operational and privacy concerns including FBI warrantless-access debates, CBP using online
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- 2026-03-20T20:52:13Z
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