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US president Trump has new telephone sets on his desk.

(Updated: August 6, 2026) More than 12 years after the start of the Snowden revelations in June 2013, there are still new details to be found in the ca. 1200 highly classified documents that have been released to the public.

(Updated: January 14, 2026) On January 3, 2026, the United States conducted a remarkable strike against Venezuela, during which president Maduro and his wife were captured and exfiltrated to New York.

Since 1987, AT&T advertised a new secure telephone that operated according to the STU-III standard of the NSA.

(Updated: September 10, 2025) Telephone conversations can be intercepted by tapping cables, but the telephone set itself can also be manipulated in order to secretly turn it into a listening device.

In my series about the phones of government leaders I will now look at Canada, where former prime minister Justin Trudeau had a rarely seen telephone on his desk: the vIPer Universal Secure Phone, which is manufactured by the American defense contractor G…

(Updated: June 10, 2025) US defense secretary Pete Hegseth appears to have a private computer in his office that is linked to the public internet.

(Updated: May 2, 2025) Recently, the editor in chief of The Atlantic found himself in a group chat on Signal, in which president Trump's national security team discussed a military operation in Yemen.

(Updated: April 8, 2025) In the period between the election and the inauguration, a new US president prepares to take over the administration and gets briefed by numerous officials and agencies, including the National Security Agency (NSA).

(Updated: February 6, 2025) According to parliamentary records from The Netherlands, almost all western countries have signed, or plan to sign treaties on the exchange and protection of classified information.

(Updated: January 13, 2025) Since October 1, former Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte is the new Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), succeeding Jens Stoltenberg from Norway, who had held this office since 2014.

(Update: July 19, 2024) This time a second blog post in Dutch about a new bill that gives Dutch intelligence and security services more leeway for operations against cyber actors.

A project called Safe and Free by the University of Texas now provides an overview of the legal framework for electronic surveillance by intelligence and law enforcement agencies in 12 democratic countries.

(Update: December 24, 2023) This time a blog post in Dutch about the temporary act that gives Dutch intelligence and security services more leeway for "operations against countries with an offensive cyber program directed against The Netherlands".

(Updated: August 30, 2026) For decades, the organizational structure of the NSA was classified, but since 2013 the Snowden documents provided hundreds of designators of internal divisions, branches and units, which allowed me to reconstruct the agency's i…

(Updated: September 20, 2023) It's been more than four years since the last regular publication of documents from the Snowden trove.

(Updated: April 7, 2025) To mark the 10-year anniversary of the start of the Snowden revelations I will look back at some of the most notable disclosures and how they developed, based upon the most recent books and the numerous blog posts I have written h…

(Updated: November 14, 2024) Last month it became clear that junior airman Jack Teixeira had posted highly classified military intelligence information on a Discord server, which became known as the Discord or Pentagon Leak.

(Updated: November 14, 2024) Two weeks ago, a few highly classified military maps from Pentagon appeared on social media.

(Updated: October 30, 2023) On February 21, the NSA's National Security Operations Center (NSOC) celebrated its 50-year anniversary.

(Updated: January 11, 2023) On November 1, 2022, Bloomberg published a remarkable story about an NSA analyst who in 2013 developed and tested a new collection method that resulted in the unauthorized collection of American telephone data.

(Updated: September 10, 2026) In December last year, Olaf Scholz succeeded Angela Merkel as chancellor of Germany.

(Updated: May 2, 2024) On September 28, the FBI arrested Jareh S.

(Updated: July 21, 2023) This weblog is not only about signals intelligence, communications security and top level telecommunications equipment, but also about the US Classification System, which is equally fascinating in all its complexities.

Ever since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, Ukrainian president Zelensky bravely leads his country in the fight against the Russian armed forces.