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Thunderbird is actively maintained and has recent security fixes — Mozilla lists multiple advisories including fixes in Thunderbird 140.4 and versions around 141–143 (security advisories) . Independen...
Using Tor does not make you immune to being detected or caught for torrenting or other piracy: defenders can detect Tor usage and researchers have methods to classify activities over Tor, and copyrigh...
Congress’s FY2026 Homeland Security appropriations—at least as reported in House committee text and analyzed by the Congressional Research Service—allocates roughly $11.0 billion to U.S. Immigration a...
Independent election-security experts and multiple nonpartisan organizations concluded the 2020 U.S. presidential election was secure and without evidence of widespread fraud; CISA called it “the most...
Several jurisdictions and local governments cut ties with Dominion after 2020, but no single source in the provided reporting lists a full, state-by-state map of statewide terminations; Dominion equip...
The phrase "Project 25" can refer to two very different initiatives: the Heritage Foundation’s political blueprint called Project 2025 (commonly miswritten as "Project 25" in some coverage) that seeks...
Project 2025 is a 900‑page conservative blueprint, led by the Heritage Foundation and former Trump officials, that proposes sweeping reorganization of the executive branch and many policies critics ca...
Available sources show multiple 2024 security reviews and audits of Dominion systems produced mixed findings: federal and vendor testing reports largely found systems met certification tests and produ...
Tor exit nodes are the point where encrypted Tor traffic re-enters the public Internet, creating both a privacy boundary and an exposure point: exit operators can see plaintext when the application-la...
Calling a public figure “stupid” is a crude shorthand that confuses raw intellect with political judgment, truthfulness and leadership style; a review of Kristi Noem’s record shows a mix of ideologica...
Using Tor alone exposes users to the well-documented risk that a malicious exit relay can view or modify any unencrypted traffic leaving the network , while putting a trusted VPN or “Secure Core”-styl...
Network-level observers such as your ISP can see that you are using Tor but not the specific websites or content you visit; Tor “obfuscates the source and destination of a web request,” though the ISP...
ICE’s publicly available and reviewed materials from 2024–2025 present a mixed and incomplete picture: agency documents and press materials say recruits receive , but independent reporting and NGO ana...
Official fact-checks and multiple court rulings have rejected or found false the central claims that Dominion Voting Systems was owned, controlled, or operated by foreign governments or foreign politi...
The balance of the Senate in 2026 hinges on a small list of competitive Senate seats — analysts list Michigan, Georgia and several Sun Belt races among the most consequential as Republicans defend a 5...
The available sources do not produce a definitive, contemporaneous list of the “top 5 states with the most secure voting systems in the 2024 election.” , which identified New Mexico, Michigan, Colorad...
Tor exit nodes are the network hops that bridge onion-routed traffic to the open internet and therefore can observe any unencrypted traffic leaving the Tor network; documented incidents show exit oper...
Tor protects network-level anonymity but operational mistakes and misconfigurations routinely deanonymize users — including people using it for piracy. CISA and multiple security analyses show DNS lea...
Multiple U.S. federal agencies — notably the FBI and other law‑enforcement and intelligence bodies — have historically sought “lawful access” or backdoor capabilities into encrypted systems; debates o...
Eric Swalwell has been an active national-security voice in Congress — serving on Homeland Security subcommittees, pressing cybersecurity agencies like CISA, and coauthoring public statements on the N...