British intel intern pleads guilty to smuggling top secret data out of protected facility.

Nothing about this makes sense.

1. A 25 year old intern.

No shade to interns but seems a bit old.

2. Intern had access to top secret intel.

Again nothing against interns, but give them access to top secret intel?

3. Intern uploaded top secret intel to a hard drive connected to his personal computer?

Why is anyone allowed to bring a personal phone int a facility that accesses top secret intel? Ever hear about a SCIF?

Either the story is missing a ton of facts or the British GCHQ had terrible operational security.

https://therecord.media/british-intern-gchq-charged-smuggling

https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/03/25/plans-militaires-divulgues-a-un-journaliste-la-maison-blanche-denonce-maintenant-une-tentative-coordonnee-de-diversion-politique_6585616_3211.html
#Plan #Topsecret

“Intentional violations of these requirements are a basis for disciplinary action.”

#USPol #TopSecret #LOL

https://archive.is/JEYep#selection-1013.0-1013.299

#GiftArticle

#Musk Set to Get Access to #TopSecret US Plan for Potential #War With #China

Giving #ElonMusk access to some of the nation’s most closely guarded #military secrets is a major expansion of his role as an adviser to #Trump & highlights his #ConflictsOfInterest.

The #Pentagon is scheduled on Fri to brief Musk on the US military’s plan for any war that might break out w/China, 2 US ofcls said on Thurs.

#NationalSecurity #intelligence #geopolitics #USpol #law
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/us/politics/musk-pentagon-briefing-china-war-plan.html?unlocked_article_code=1.5k4.bz3w.1b2kvAcmfE90&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Top Secret S.I. had a lot of accessories, some of them expanded the rules to include other genres. FREE Lancers made it into a superhero kind of game. TSAC7 (the 7th accessory!) by Scott Bowles goes into the setting. This was written in 1989.

Scholars will be able to look back and determine the precise date the American federal government began to disintegrate: Feb 11, 1994, the day Jim Bob Culpepper began building his wall.

Culpepper had successfully run for governor of Texas the previous year, promising, among other things, "to keep the Mexicans in Mexico." To this end, he took his lead from Berlin and proposed building a 12' high wall along the entire length of the Rio Grande, topping it with concertina wire, planting land mines in the area just north of the wall, and spacing guard towers, to be manned by Texas National Guardsmen, 150' apart.

I was flipping through Douglas Niles Top Secret S.I. rules again. I have a weakness for % based games. It is a great system, but not without flaws.

One of the skills a player can pick is "Piloting the Space Shuttle" I think this highlights one of the weaknesses of skill based games. How do you know that there will ever be an opportunity for a skill to come into play?

I remember encountering this in BECMI D&D. If a player picks a skill in horseback riding, but the only adventures in the future they come across will be dungeon crawls, then the skill becomes window dressing.

Milky Way galaxy with multiple shooting stars over the Tonopah Test Range, Nye County, Nevada August 2024 11 sec exposure #TTR #nye #nevada #landscape #Topsecret #moon #photography #nikon #D850 #longexposure #space #milkyway

Tra gravità, orologi atomici e segreti (declassificati): come il Programma Parcae ascoltò l’URSS dallo spazio, evitando l’apocalisse nucleare. Fino al 2023, nessuno lo sapeva. La rubrica "Il futuro di ieri" parla dei satelliti che "tennero in freddo" la Guerra Fredda con tecnologie avanti di decenni.

#ilfuturodiieri #Spionaggio #Spazio #GuerraFredda #Satelliti #Storia #Tecnologia #topsecret

https://www.futuroprossimo.it/2025/01/parcae-i-satelliti-spia-che-tennero-in-freddo-la-guerra-fredda/