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PAI Research & OSINT enthusiast USAF Intel (retired) linktr.ee/snyde21

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Brad Snyder @snyde21.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
6 Government Databases Most People Don’t Know are Public wwww.youtube.com/watch?v=E6Nx...
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Brad Snyder @snyde21.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Why America is Losing the Secret War for the Arctic www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFCS...
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Why America Is Losing The Secret War For The Arctic | View From Above
YouTube video by Business Insider
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Brad Snyder @snyde21.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
How to Spot a Deepfake in 2026 (Video, Audio & Live Calls) www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCDm...
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How to Spot a Deepfake in 2026 (Video, Audio & Live Calls)
YouTube video by Jax S. - TheZaraAI
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Brad Snyder @snyde21.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
GitHub for Beginners: Your Roadmap to Mastering the GitHub Essentials github.blog/developer-sk...
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GitHub for Beginners: Your roadmap to mastering the GitHub essentials
New to GitHub? This beginner's guide explains version control, repositories, and pull requests, and everything else you need to start working on GitHub.
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Brad Snyder @snyde21.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Your ISP is Watching More Than You Think — DNS Alone Won’t Hide You spyboy.blog/2026/06/06/y...
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Your ISP Is Watching More Than You Think — DNS Alone Won’t Hide You
Most people think privacy works like this: Change DNS → Use private browser → Problem solved. Unfortunately… That’s not how the internet works. Your Internet Service Provider (ISP) sits between you…
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Brad Snyder @snyde21.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Your Browser Knows More About You Than Your Friends — The Hidden World of Online Tracking spyboy | May 16, 2026 spyboy.blog/2026/05/16/y...
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Your Browser Knows More About You Than Your Friends — The Hidden World of Online Tracking
Most people think websites only know: Their name Email address Maybe location But the reality is far more unsettling. Your browser can reveal: Your device type Your screen size Your installed fonts…
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Brad Snyder @snyde21.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Use a USB Condom Naomi Brockwell | May 8, 2026 www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJP_...
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Use THIS When You Plug In
YouTube video by Naomi Brockwell TV
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Brad Snyder @snyde21.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Why the World is Still Not Built for Women | Virginia Santy | TED www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtcY...
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Why the World Is Still Not Built for Women | Virginia Santy | TED
YouTube video by TED
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Brad Snyder @snyde21.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
What Happens When You Click a Random Link? (How Much Data You Expose Instantly) spyboy | April 26, 2026 spyboy.blog/2026/04/26/w...
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What Happens When You Click a Random Link? (How Much Data You Expose Instantly)
You didn’t type anything. You didn’t log in. You just clicked… and your browser already revealed a full profile. Most people think “nothing happens” when they click a random link. That’s completely…
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Brad Snyder @snyde21.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Global Satellite Manufacturing Market Analysis 2026 New Space Economy | April 20, 2026 newspaceeconomy.ca/2026/04/20/g...
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Global Satellite Manufacturing Market Analysis 2026 - New Space Economy
The global satellite manufacturing industry has moved past being a quiet corner of aerospace engineering and into one of the most competitive, capital-intensive, and strategically significant sectors ...
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Brad Snyder @snyde21.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Incognito Web Browsing is NOT Private! (Well...Sort of) DistroTube | Apr 9, 2026 www.youtube.com/watch?v=soN2...
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Incognito Web Browsing Is NOT Private! (Well...Sort Of)
YouTube video by DistroTube
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Brad Snyder @snyde21.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
FBI’s 2025 Internet Crime Report www.fbi.gov/news/press-r... also: www.ic3.gov/AnnualReport...
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Cryptocurrency and AI Scams Bilk Americans of Billions | Federal Bureau of Investigation
The FBI’s 2025 Internet Crime Report shows cyber-enabled crimes defrauded Americans of nearly $21 billion, with cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence-related complaints among the costliest.
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Brad Snyder @snyde21.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
This is What a Personal Surveillance System Actually Looks Like Chaincoder | April 3, 2026 cha1nc0der.wordpress.com/2026/04/03/t...
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This Is What a Personal Surveillance System Actually Looks Like
You stop thinking of it as surveillance. It becomes “the system.” Just part of how things run.
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Brad Snyder @snyde21.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Russian Shadow Fleet openchronicle.org/2026/03/26/r...
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Russian shadow fleet Open Chronicle Open Chronicle
Image: Kyrylo Shevchenko X @KShevchenkoReal The Russian shadow fleet is a clandestine network of hundreds of vessels operated by Russia to evade sanctions, following the enactment of the 2022 Russian ...
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Brad Snyder @snyde21.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
2026 Annual Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community www.dni.gov/index.php/ne... also: www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/d...
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DNI Gabbard Releases 2026 Annual Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community | Office of the Director of National Intelligence
Joomla! - the dynamic portal engine and content management system
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Brad Snyder @snyde21.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Iran’s Ruling Structure Explained theconversation.com/irans-ruling...
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Iran’s ruling structure explained
Although the supreme leader assumes the majority of power, Iran’s regime consists of a network of governing bodies.
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Brad Snyder @snyde21.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
How a Music Streaming CEO Built an Open-Source Global Threat Map in His Spare Time www.wired.com/story/world-...
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How a Music Streaming CEO Built an Open-Source Global Threat Map in His Spare Time
Frustrated by fragmented war news, Anghami’s Elie Habib built World Monitor, a platform that fuses global data, like aircraft signals and satellite detections, to track conflicts as they unfold.
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Brad Snyder @snyde21.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Attributing Russian Information Influence Operations: Testing the Information Influence Attribution Framework with real-world case studies A Joint Report from the Ukrainian Centre for Strategic Communications and the NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
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Brad Snyder @snyde21.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Watch All of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons Performed on Original Baroque Instruments www.openculture.com/2026/02/viva...
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Watch All of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons Performed on Original Baroque Instruments
Antonio Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons reigns as one of the world’s most recognizable early 18th-century pieces, thanks to its frequent appearances in films and television commercials. Upon its debut in ...
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Brad Snyder @snyde21.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Russia's Little Red Men: The Shadow Fleet Spies Nobody’s Looking For Rae Baker | February 2, 2026 www.raebaker.net/blog/littler...
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Russia's Shadow Fleet Spies: The OSINT Gap Nobody Sees<br/> — Rae Baker: Deep Dive
Armed Russians from Moran Security Group are boarding shadow fleet tankers as covert operatives. Here's why OSINT analysts are missing the human layer and how to find crew data nobody's collecting.
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Brad Snyder @snyde21.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
China Maritime Studies Institute, Vol. 1, No. 2 digital-commons.usnwc.edu/cmsi-quarter...
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Vol. 1, No. 2 Full Issue
Full issue of Issue 1 of the CMSI Quarterly Review.
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Brad Snyder @snyde21.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Social Media Manipulation for Sale: 2025 NATO Experiment on Platform Capabilities to Detect and Counter Inauthentic Social Media Engagement SWJ Staff | February 3, 2026 smallwarsjournal.com/2026/02/03/s...
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Social Media Manipulation for Sale: 2025 NATO Experiment on Platform Capabilities to Detect and Counter Inauthentic Social Media Engagement
NATO released their latest experiment offering the comprehensive evidence to date of how commercially inauthentic engagement continues exploits platform vulnerabilities.
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Brad Snyder @snyde21.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
OSINT & Phaleristics: Unveiling FSB's 16th Center SIGINT Capabilities CheckFirst www.linkedin.com/posts/supers...
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Unveiling FSB&#39;s 16th Center SIGINT Capabilities | Claudia T.
The beauty of OSINT isn't in doing the same actions over and over for every similar case. It's the ability to find novel solutions to the problems posed by answering a question -- and being empowered ...
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Brad Snyder @snyde21.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Adulting 101: Free MSU courses teach balanced budgets, cooking, pet care bridgemi.com/talent-educa... Adulting 101 2026- Full Listing of Monthly Sessions www.canr.msu.edu/events/adult...
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Adulting 101: Free MSU courses teach balanced budgets, cooking, pet care - Bridge Michigan
Michigan State University Extension is offering free ‘Adulting 101’ courses to help young people learn essential life skills.
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Brad Snyder @snyde21.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Verify Everything – Viral Information in the AI Era aprendiendoialearningai.substack.com/p/verify-eve...
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Verify Everything – Viral Information in the AI Era
When you’re having a tough time telling fact from fiction
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Brad Snyder @snyde21.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Reviewing the Chinese Navy in 2025 – Part I: The Surface Fleet www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2...
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Reviewing The Chinese Navy In 2025 - Part I: The Surface Fleet
Naval News takes a look at notable events for the Chinese Navy in 2025, In this first part we cover PLAN carriers, amphibs and escorts.
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Brad Snyder @snyde21.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Congress Will Not Limit Itself so the States Must havokjournal.com/politics/con...
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Congress Will Not Limit Itself so the States Must • The Havok Journal
Americans across the political spectrum agree on almost nothing anymore—but one idea keeps surviving the culture war unscathed: term limits for Congress. Congress won’t impose term limits. An Article ...
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Brad Snyder @snyde21.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
The Gray Zone at Sea: How Adversaries Disrupt Without Firing a Shot windward.ai/blog/the-gra...
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2026's Maritime Gray Zone Threats and How to Detect Them
Gray-zone maritime threats are rising, from dark activity to covert surveillance. Learn how Remote Sensing Intelligence enables early detection and exposure.
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Brad Snyder @snyde21.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
The Integrity Gap: Why Know Your Data is the New Frontier of Maritime Intelligence windward.ai/blog/why-kno...
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Why Know Your Data is Essential for Maritime Intelligence
Learn what KYD™ is and how it uses Remote Sensing Intelligence to validate AIS signals, reduce false positives, and expose deceptive shipping practices.
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Brad Snyder @snyde21.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
What is Cookieless Tracking? How are You Being Tracked? Discover what cookieless tracking is, which techniques exist, how it compares to traditional cookies, and steps you can take to limit it www.comparitech.com/blog/informa...
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What is cookieless tracking? How are you being tracked?
Discover what cookieless tracking is, which techniques exist, how it compares to traditional cookies, and steps to limit it.
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Brad Snyder @snyde21.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
They Droned Back Young Journalists Expose Russian-Linked Vessels Circling Off the Dutch & German Coast www.digitaldigging.org/p/they-drone...
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They Droned Back
Young journalists expose Russian-linked vessels circling off the Dutch and German coast
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Sofia Santos @gralhix.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
1/6 It’s that time of the year again. As we wrap up 2025, I have compiled a list of the best OSINT and CTF Advent calendar challenges that are sure to put your skills to the test this season! 🌟 Are you ready for a busy December? 👇 gralhix.com/2025/11/30/t...
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Top 2025 OSINT and CTF Advent calendar challenges to keep you busy this December
It’s that time of the year again! An entire month dedicated to learning, exploring, and putting your OSINT skills to the test with daily challenges and Capture the Flag (CTF) events. Are you …
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Brad Snyder @snyde21.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
GreyNoise Launches Free Scanner to Check if You'Re Part of a Botnet www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...
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GreyNoise launches free scanner to check if you're part of a botnet
GreyNoise Labs has launched a free tool called GreyNoise IP Check that lets users check if their IP address has been observed in malicious scanning operations, like botnet and residential proxy networ...
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Brad Snyder @snyde21.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Gmail might be harvesting your emails to train AI—here's how to opt out www.howtogeek.com/gmail-might-...
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Gmail might be harvesting your emails to train AI—here's how to opt out
This is pretty bad.
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Brad Snyder @snyde21.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
China's Five Year Plan and Why You Should Care as an Investigator www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1VQ...
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China's five year plan and why you should care as an investigator
YouTube video by Authentic8
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Brad Snyder @snyde21.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
2600 The Hacker Quarterly archive.org/details/maga...
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Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
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Brad Snyder @snyde21.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
For Those Struggling During the Shut Down & for Food www.reddit.com/r/VeteransBe...
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From the VeteransBenefits community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the VeteransBenefits community
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 18/10/2025
Take some time this weekend to get caught up in our #OptOutOctober series, where we’re providing daily tips to reclaim your privacy, one small task at a time. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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Opt Out October: Daily Tips to Protect Your Privacy and Security
Trying to take control of your online privacy can feel like a full-time job. But if you break it up into small tasks and take on one project at a time it makes the process of protecting your privacy
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Brad Snyder @snyde21.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Ex-Spymaster on How China Hacks the U.S. 60 Minutes www.youtube.com/watch?v=43vx...
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China hacking America’s critical infrastructure, retired four-star general warns | 60 Minutes
YouTube video by 60 Minutes
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Brad Snyder @snyde21.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Constantly Curious: One Ring to Track Them All? osintamy.medium.com/constantly-c...
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Constantly Curious: One Ring to Track Them All?
What does the Ōura Ring have to do with government surveillance?
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Brad Snyder @snyde21.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
These Encrypted DNS Providers Actually Protect Your Privacy (Unlike Your ISP) www.makeuseof.com/best-encrypt...
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These encrypted DNS providers actually protect your privacy (unlike your ISP)
Encrypted DNS is the easiest upgrade you can make for privacy online.
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Brad Snyder @snyde21.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Google is the World’s Premier Intelligence Agency Ami Elazari | September 20, 2025 presale1.com/home/f/googl...
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Google is the World’s Premier Intelligence Agency: By Ami Elazari
Data Dominance, Government Alliances, and the Shadow AI Intelligence Project Maven.
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Brad Snyder @snyde21.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Media-opoly www.youtube.com/shorts/OpZ2S... Kinda old, but still relevant
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This seems relevant today…
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
MUST-WATCH: “When you live here it feels like a poor country— you’re so reasonable. They painted you in a bad light. It makes me angry.” Bernie wins over WV Trump voters, shows how @marshablackburn & Trump use averages to lie to us + help the rich. Full: www.youtube.com/watch?v
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Sofia Santos @gralhix.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
OSINT Exercise 032 is now live! gralhix.com/osint-exerci... A video was recorded by an unknown traveller at an undisclosed airport. Despite the absolutely chaos of the footage (be warned!), it is possible to determine the exact date, time, an in which terminal the person was. I hope you enjoy ❤️
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OSINT Exercise #032
Welcome to OSINT Exercise #032! Task briefing: Airports are global hubs where cultures, languages, and lives briefly intersect. Millions of people pass through them each day. On an undisclosed date…
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Brad Snyder @snyde21.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Why is the US government prioritizing the Islamic State in #Somalia | ACLED Briefed www.youtube.com/shorts/TMWK4... ACLED Briefed, the new series where ACLED experts unpack today’s most talked-about conflicts — short videos, bigger picture. Read the full analysis: acleddata.com/qa/qa-islami...
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Why is the US government prioritizing the Islamic State in #Somalia | ACLED Briefed
YouTube video by ACLED
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Brad Snyder @snyde21.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Maritime Sector Faces Surge in APT and Hacktivist Cyber Threats cyble.com/blog/cyberat...
cyble.com
Cyber Threats Surge Against Maritime Industry In 2025
APT groups, ransomware gangs, and hacktivists are targeting the maritime industry with advanced cyberattacks amid rising geopolitical tensions and conflict.
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Brad Snyder @snyde21.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
US Airlines Built a Secret Data Broker to Help the Government Spy on Customers www.techdirt.com/2025/06/12/u...
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U.S. Airlines Built A Secret Data Broker To Help The Government Spy On Customers
We’ve noted many times that there are two major reasons the U.S. doesn’t have a functional privacy law for the modern internet era. One, we’re too corrupt and greedy to do the rig…
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Brad Snyder @snyde21.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
30+ FREE Career Certifications for the Military Community (No GI Bill Needed) www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uX-...
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30+ FREE Career Certifications for the Military Community (No GI Bill Needed)
YouTube video by ACT Now Education
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Brad Snyder @snyde21.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
America’s Coming Brain Drain: Trump’s War on Universities Could Kill U.S. Innovation by L. Rafael Reif www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
foreignaffairs.com
America’s Coming Brain Drain
Trump’s war on universities could kill U.S. innovation.
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