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Vienna Buys the Bidstream

Austria has renewed a licence for a surveillance system built on advertising data. Nobody in government will say under what legal authority, and the data protection regulator was never asked. A procurement notice on Austria’s public tender portal records the extension of

July 27, 2026

Europe·Intelligence

Austria’s Spyware Law Goes Before the Judges. The Real Question Is Who Sells the Exploit.

On June 22 the Austrian Constitutional Court will sit in public session and hear arguments about whether the state may read your Signal messages. The hearing starts at 9:30 in the morning. I expect the courtroom to be full and the answers

June 12, 2026

Analysis·Europe·Intelligence

Vienna’s Antenna Forest and Austria’s Quiet Course Change

There is a stretch of road in Vienna’s 22nd district, just off the U1 metro line, where you can stand on one side of a small park and see the Russian diplomatic compound on the left and the UN City complex on

May 30, 2026

Europe·Intelligence·Security

Austria Finally Drafts a Real Espionage Law. The Ott Trial Will Decide Whether It Matters.

Austria has spent the better part of half a century letting foreign intelligence officers run operations from its capital, because the law, quite literally, does not care as long as the target is somebody else. Section 256 of the Criminal Code criminalises

April 26, 2026

Intelligence·OSINT·Security

Open Source, Ignored: Why Europe Must Get Serious About Social Media Threat Monitoring Before the Next School Attack

On April 15, 2026, a 14-year-old student walked into Ayser Çalık Middle School in Kahramanmaraş, Turkey, carrying five firearms and seven magazines. By the time it was over, nine people were dead. One of them was a math teacher named Ayla Kara,

April 16, 2026

Analysis·Intelligence

AI Broke the Criminal Profile. Now What?

How artificial intelligence is rewriting the rules of criminal behavior, and why the profiler’s playbook needs a fundamental reset. Criminal profiling has always rested on one core assumption: criminals are creatures of habit. They leave behavioral signatures. They escalate predictably. Their psychology

March 26, 2026

Analysis·Intelligence·Worldwide

The First Cyber War: How Digital Intelligence Shaped Operation Epic Fury

I’ve been covering cyber threats for years now, and I’ve sat through countless conference panels where retired generals talk about “the coming cyber war.” Always in the future tense. Always hypothetical. That era is over. On February 28, the US and Israel

March 16, 2026

Analysis·Intelligence

WiFi Signals Can See You: How CSI Sensing Works

Your WiFi router does more than connect you to the internet. The radio waves it sends are bouncing off everything in your room, including you. And those reflections contain a surprising amount of information. This is called CSI sensing, and it is

January 6, 2026

Analysis·Europe·Intelligence·Worldwide

AI is the Ultimate Distraction for National Security

Signal Poisoning: Why AI is the Ultimate Distraction for National SecurityThe Haystack Has Changed We used to say that intelligence work was like looking for a needle in a haystack. It was difficult, sure, but at least we knew that if we

December 3, 2025

Analysis·Europe·Intelligence·Worldwide

Notes from a Cyber Intelligence Insider: How Digital Disinformation Really Works

The Greatest Danger is Hacked Perceptions For years, I have monitored cyber threats for governments and international institutions. From securing diplomatic missions across 12 countries for the German Federal Foreign Office (Auswärtiges Amt) to tracking the digital footprints of terror financing for

November 22, 2025

Vienna Buys the Bidstream

Austria’s Spyware Law Goes Before the Judges. The Real Question Is Who Sells the Exploit.

Vienna’s Antenna Forest and Austria’s Quiet Course Change

Austria Finally Drafts a Real Espionage Law. The Ott Trial Will Decide Whether It Matters.

Open Source, Ignored: Why Europe Must Get Serious About Social Media Threat Monitoring Before the Next School Attack

AI Broke the Criminal Profile. Now What?

The First Cyber War: How Digital Intelligence Shaped Operation Epic Fury

WiFi Signals Can See You: How CSI Sensing Works

AI is the Ultimate Distraction for National Security

Notes from a Cyber Intelligence Insider: How Digital Disinformation Really Works

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