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‘Disposable’ operatives for hire are a new menace for western countries

>Once, a hostile secret service had to send a skilled and experienced operative to commit assassination, sabotage or terrorism thousands of miles away, or activate networks of sleeper agents, or find and train ideologically committed recruits ready to betray their country. Such schemes took years to prepare.

Now spymasters can use a series of proxies, each thousands of miles apart, to find candidates for recruitment. Their new operatives might be less capable than their predecessors but are easier to find in significant numbers.

theguardian.com
u/greenbergz — 1 day ago
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Response to Feedback: "I built a geopolitical intelligence aggregator that monitors 641 sources and clusters events with auditable confidence scoring"

https://panopsik.com/

Eight days ago, I posted this project Panopsik here and got some of the most useful feedback I've received since starting it. Thank you genuinely. The kind of criticism this sub gave would cost serious money from a consultant and you gave it for free.

I want to address the main points directly rather than just saying "we listened."

Basically...  you were right on almost everything. The event points were showing too little to be actionable, the intelligence assessments were AI-generated noise that wouldn't survive five seconds with a real analyst, and the related articles were embarrassingly off-topic. These have been the priority this week.

What's changed:

  • Added a landing page.
  • Broke down the main dashboard into multiple lighter dashboards.
  • Fixed a mountain of imperfections.
  • Added the infrastructure layer.
  • Currently in the process of allowing users to create their own dashboards depending on what information they want.

What's new:

You can now create an account. This lets you save searches, set alert thresholds for specific regions, and track how situations develop over time rather than getting a snapshot. It also means we can start understanding how people actually use this, which will drive what we fix next.

Still rough: clustering confidence on lower-tier sources, multilingual support, Southeast Asia coverage. We know.

If you tested it last week and wrote it off... fair. Come back and tell us if it's any better. If you haven't looked yet, now's a better time than eight days ago.

u/Ben_C17 — 4 days ago
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Norwegian police arrest a Chinese citizen on spying allegations

From the article (bold emphasis added):

>"[...] Authorities in Norway arrested a Chinese citizen on espionage allegations Thursday in connection with a purported effort to set up a receiver to collect sensitive satellite data, the country’s domestic intelligence service said. [...] Police launched their operation on the suspicion that a Norwegian-registered company was operating as a front for a Chinese state actor, the Police Security Service, or PST, said. [...] The suspect, who was identified only as a Chinese woman, allegedly tried “to establish a receiver for satellite downloads from satellites in polar orbits suitable for collecting data that could harm fundamental Norwegian interests if it becomes known to a foreign state,” PST police attorney Thomas Blom said in a statement. [...]"

washingtonpost.com
u/mrkoot — 12 days ago