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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 summary of this case in English can be found here.
Technische briefing in de Eerste Kamer over de Tijdelijke wet cyberoperaties, 14 november 2023...

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.
Here, I will introduce the project and discuss some general trends, as well as the different forms of prior approval of electronic surveillance operations....

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".
Wetgevingsoverleg in de Tweede Kamer over de Tijdelijke wet cyberoperaties, 16 oktober 2023...

For decades, the organizational structure of the NSA was classified, but the Snowden documents provided hundreds of designators of internal divisions, branches and units, which allowed me to reconstruct the agency's internal structure.
In 2016, the NSA was reorganized so that many of those designators may have changed. Some recent documents, however, provide designators from the new structure, which allows a peek at the new structure....