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Russian-Owned Snooping Software Used By US Secret Service (telegraph.co.uk) 20

Bruce66423 shares a report from The Telegraph: British police forces, including specialist units within the Metropolitan Police, have used Oxygen Forensics software to break into the phones of suspects during live investigations, public documents show. The Virginia-based company behind the software has been accused in the US of having hidden its Russian ownership to avoid sanctions, before it was awarded government contracts. Its American chief executive and a Russian national were arrested last week after a US investigation found the company had sought to hide its ownership in an alleged attempt to avoid sanctions and scrutiny.

[...] By September 2024, the US Secret Service had awarded Oxygen a five-year contract for its software. In December 2022, and in October 2023, Oxygen's chief executive told the US government that Oxygen Forensics had "no immediate or highest-level owner." By September 2024, the US Secret Service had awarded Oxygen a five-year contract for its software. In March, Mr Reiber allegedly told the US government that there had been no Russians involved in developing the software and that no one in Russia had access to the environment in which it was built. US prosecutors say this was false. If convicted, both Mr Reiber and Mr Davydov could face a sentence of 20 years in prison.

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  • Russian-Owned Snooping Software Used By US Secret Service

    Would be OK if its pirated and not paid for. :-)

  • And they implicate Trump in child rape. I should think that's obvious at this point.

    I understand why some of the 77 million people voted for Trump even though he is an obvious pedophile and Russian stooge. It's not economic anxiety like the dipshit left-wing keeps going on about. People under enormous economic pressure makes stupid decisions. People do not make good decisions under pressure. That's why people in the military and bomb disposal people and SWAT teams get a shitload of training. Well not th
    • by dunkelfalke ( 91624 ) on Friday October 02, 2026 @02:38AM (#66359330)

      At this point even the last trumptard should know what the orange shitgibbon is. They know, they don't care.

    • HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex

      HCO BULLETIN OF 2 OCTOBER 2026

      RE: THE OVERT OF SUPPORTING A KNOWN SUPPRESSIVE AND THE BANK-DRIVEN DECISIONS OF THE PTS

      It has been observed and is hereby stated as Tech that certain beings continue to grant beingness to a clear-cut Suppressive Person who has been demonstrated to engage in the most degraded overts against children.

      This is not a matter of “economic anxiety” as the lower-toned left-bank continues to d
    • Trump is the nastiest of vengeful dirty old men. I don't think there's conclusive evidence of pedophilia however, and harping on that takes away from all the shitty and horrible things he has undisputably done.
      • Not like they were photographed together many times https://www.gettyimages.com/ph... [gettyimages.com] and Epstein was suddenly arrested and died mysteriously under Trump's first term.

        • Doesn't matter if DNA matched Trump to a child born to a 14 year old girl. As a powerful Republican, he is immune from it getting reported credibly; let alone consequences. That is if he doesn't stall the whole DNA thing in court for 3 years like he did with his actual Rape case where he refused a DNA test and ultimately they gave up but still got him convicted of lying about the assault (which means he did it but they didn't want to go 100% on the rape itself.)

          Reasonably, he was guilty because nobody would

  • Is snooping on the snoopers, betcha never thought of that angle.
  • by Gravis Zero ( 934156 ) on Thursday October 01, 2026 @08:19PM (#66359112)

    It's not an understatement to say this a break of national security. Everyone involved with the deception needs to be sent to federal prison for this.

  • by BoogieChile ( 517082 ) on Thursday October 01, 2026 @08:19PM (#66359114)
    What are they, then, some sort of anarcho-syndicalist commune where they take turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week?
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    In 3....2....1...

  • They're giving access to these US based phones to foreign adversaries. I applaud them for being sneaky enough to get the software (... bad boys.) Our data means our data. You can't abuse what you don't have.

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