Iranian Hackers Breached Kash Patel’s Email—but Not the FBI’s
Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images Save this story Save this story As the United States-Israel war with Iran barrels into its second month, President Donald Trump is reportedly plotting a potential mission to send US special forces into the country to take Tehran’s enriched uranium.
Experts WIRED spoke to say such a plan would be extremely risky, likely putting the lives of troops in peril with a low chance of success.
Since the war with Iran started at the end of February, a mysterious radio station has been broadcasting seemingly random numbers in Persian.
It’s unclear who is running the so-called number station, or who its intended audience is.
But many speculate that it’s an intelligence operation using cipher technology that dates back more than a century.
In addition to the conflict with Iran, WIRED explored combat from many angles with our War Machine package of coverage, including the saga of one teenager who went missing amid the destruction of Gaza, the Kafkaesque challenges Palestinians face when they’re unable to get a death certificate for a loved one, a family forced into hiding over fears of US immigration agents, a peek inside the challenges at Anduril as it attempts to disrupt the defense industry, and more .
Beyond the many battles, WIRED revealed how one small New Hampshire town is having its police department’s salaries and other costs covered by Immigration and Customs Enforcement .
Nearly a thousand other police departments around the US appear to be doing the same thing.
Think using a VPN gives you more privacy?
Think again.
A letter from US lawmakers this week questioned director of national security Tulsi Gabbard over whether US surveillance authorities allow the National Security Agency to target people who use a VPN .
Due to the ways in which US law allows the targeting of people outside the US, it may not even matter if the VPN you use connects to servers overseas.
Also this week, WIRED published an excerpt from author Andrew Guthrie Ferguson’s new book, Your Data Will Be Used Against You , about the ways in which fitness trackers and biometric surveillance are further degrading your right to privacy .
Finally, the United Kingdom imposed sanctions against Xinbi Guarantee , a black market that researchers estimate has facilitated $20 billion in illicit sales.
Xinbi, like other markets linked to the global scamming industry, operated on Telegram, where it managed to evade previous bans.
