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CBP’s 7-Year Security Blind Spot: What the Agency Won’t Explain About Its Undetected Vulnerability
In 2019, a misconfigured service account gave all 76,000 CBP network users access to powerful administrative functions — resetting passwords, modifying permissions, changing security settings. CBP didn't catch it for seven years. A federal auditor found it during a routine penetration test. CBP still hasn't explained how. -
The official, a unit chief who directly oversaw more than 100 employees who evaluated thousands of #ICE applicants, was so troubled by what he saw that he outlined these concerns not to his superiors, but in a formal #whistleblower complaint to the Office of #InspectorGeneral in the #DHS.
#Trump #law #immigration #Sturmabteilung #ExtraJudicialKillings #DueProcess #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #CivilRights #MafiaState #AbuseOfPower #fascism #tyranny #WhiteSupremacy
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/09/03/us/ice-recruits-whistleblower-complaint.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-VA.Kf_q.RleXDEq3_hqW&smid=nytcore-ios-share -
#Trump Fired the #Watchdogs. Their Replacements Have a Different Mission.
Trump is installing his allies in the offices of #InspectorGeneral, which are meant to provide #independent #government #oversight.
#law #corruption #RevengePolitics #LegalEthics #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/us/politics/trump-inspector-general.html?unlocked_article_code=1.7lA.mZJ-.CdEXIhVgqg4R&smid=nytcore-ios-share -
#Wyden: #ATT, #TMobile, and #Verizon weren't notifying senators of #surveillance requests, despite a contractual requirement to do so.
Wyden’s letter in wake of report last year by #InspectorGeneral, which revealed Trump in 2017 and 2018 secretly obtained logs of calls and text messages of 43 congressional staffers and 2 serving House lawmakers.
Wyden said in one unnamed carrier “confirmed that it turned over #Senate data to #lawenforcement without notifying the Senate.”
https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/21/wyden-att-t-mobile-and-verizon-werent-notifying-senators-of-surveillance-requests/