https://www.justice.gov/usao-az/pr/united-states-attorneys-office-district-arizona-july-2021-immigration-and-border-crimes

https://www.thedefensepost.com/2021/08/17/audit-cybersecurity-us-pacific-submarines/

A recent internal audit of the US Navy revealed that Pacific Fleet submarines and their tenders have not received internal and external cybersecurity inspections in recent years.

The audit — conducted by the Institute for Defense Analyses and obtained by Navy Times through a Freedom of Information Act request — detailed “the specter of cyber vulnerability among some of the sea service’s most potent platforms,” exposing lapses in the cybersecurity standards of the Naval fleets.

For example, the Navy’s Fleet Cyber Command did not inspect and assess the cybersecurity of 41 SUBPAC submarines and its two sub tenders. This was a requirement from 2016 to 2018. Furthermore, the fleet command failed to submit a proper explanation as to why the units were not inspected.

The auditors wrote that personnel said they did “not have enough staff” to meet the three-yearly inspection for all information systems, and therefore, they “excluded Navy submarine networks.”

Facts matter

https://www.cnsnews.com/index.php/blog/craig-bannister/taliban-tweets-updates-while-trump-remains-banned-posting

Twitter is allowing the Taliban, which has captured the Afghan capital of Kabul and continues to violently seize control of Afghanistan, to regularly post messages to its social media platform, while former U.S. President Donald Trump remains banned.

I thought she was on vacation

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-live-jen-psaki-national-security-adviser-jake-sullivan-give-news-briefing

White House press secretary Jen Psaki will hold a news conference Tuesday alongside National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan amid fallout over the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and the Taliban’s subsequent takeover.

Watch the news briefing live at 1:30 p.m. ET in the video player above.

First message "Trump Won" Heads would explode

https://www.inverse.com/innovation/spacex-ad-in-space

The company plans to launch a CubeSat satellite in 2022. This is a standard unit of measurement: A one-unit CubeSat measures 10 centimeters by 10 by 10 (2.5 inches). The satellite will launch on a Falcon 9 rocket.

Canadian startup Geometric Energy Corporation will build the satellite. It will use a built-in selfie stick to record the billboard once it is in space and Livestream the ad — or whatever else the screen might show — via YouTube and Twitch.

Customers here on Earth will be able to buy advertising space on the billboard using one of five cryptocurrency tokens:

A beta token lets people choose the X coordinate of their pixel

A rho token lets people choose the Y coordinate

A gamma token lets people choose the pixel’s brightness

A kappa token covers the pixel’s color

An XI token determines the duration of the ad

People will be able to buy the tokens with Ethereum. Dogecoin, the cryptocurrency of choice for SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, may become a future payment option.