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United to End Genocide (UEG), a group with only four staff members, was paying attention to the conflict in Yemen last year. Both their capacity as a group and the lack of a clear advocacy solution regarding the conflict left them in question as to WHEN to run advocacy campaign, so they listened.
Unless you are using GPG, email is not end-to-end encrypted, and the contents of a message can be intercepted and read at many points, including on Googles email servers," Eva Galperin, director of cybersecurity at the Electronic Frontier Foundation told the Post.
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officials' private contact details exposed on the internet, specifically information belonging to Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth , and national security advisor Michael Waltz. officials' group chat were linked to private phone numbers. How did reporters find U.S. officials' passwords?
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