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DENVER, Colorado — Last winter, on the outskirts of a large U.S. city, an FBI hostage rescue team set up an elevated observation post to assess an unfolding situation. Soon they heard the buzz of small drones — and then the tiny aircraft were all around them, swooping past in a series of “high-speed low passes at the agents in the observation post to flush them,” the head of the agency’s operational technology law unit told attendees of the AUVSI Xponential conference here. Result: “We were then blind,” said Joe Mazel, meaning the group lost situational awareness of the target. “It definitely presented some challenges.”

The incident remains “law enforcement-sensitive,” Mazel said Wednesday, declining to say just where or when it took place. But it shows how criminal groups are using small drones for increasingly elaborate crimes.

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There is a general tendency among counterterrorism analysts to understate rather than hyperbolize terrorists’ technological adaptations. In 2011 and 2012, most believed that the “Arab Spring” revolutions would marginalize jihadist movements. But within four years, jihadists had attracted a record number of foreign fighters to the Syrian battlefield, in part by using the same social media mobilization techniques that protesters had employed to challenge dictators like Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Hosni Mubarak, and Muammar Qaddafi.

Militant groups later combined easy accessibility to operatives via social media with new advances in encryption to create the “virtual planner” model of terrorism. This model allows online operatives to provide the same offerings that were once the domain of physical networks, including recruitment, coordinating the target and timing of attacks, and even providing technical assistance on topics like bomb-making.

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The Pentagon is cracking down on the sale of Chinese-designed phones and other devices over hacking concerns.

The Defense Department announced Wednesday that it is banning the sale of phones made by Chinese-based companies Huawei and ZTE on military bases worldwide over worries that the companies could hack the phones and use them to gather intelligence for the Chinese government.

“Huawei and ZTE devices may pose an unacceptable risk to Department’s personnel, information and mission,” said Pentagon spokesman Major Dave Eastburn. “In light of this information, it was not prudent for the department’s exchanges to continue selling them to DOD personnel.”

Military personnel are still currently allowed to buy a Huawei or ZTE device for personal use from stores off base. DoD is considering issuing a wider advisory about the brands and their devices, however.

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snakeoil wrote:

The Pentagon is cracking down on the sale of Chinese-designed phones and other devices over hacking concerns.

The Defense Department announced Wednesday that it is banning the sale of phones made by Chinese-based companies Huawei and ZTE on military bases worldwide over worries that the companies could hack the phones and use them to gather intelligence for the Chinese government.

“Huawei and ZTE devices may pose an unacceptable risk to Department’s personnel, information and mission,” said Pentagon spokesman Major Dave Eastburn. “In light of this information, it was not prudent for the department’s exchanges to continue selling them to DOD personnel.”

Military personnel are still currently allowed to buy a Huawei or ZTE device for personal use from stores off base. DoD is considering issuing a wider advisory about the brands and their devices, however.

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I'm not sure if the phone in itself is the problem. The government can ban Huawei and ZTE, but if people install Wechat on an Android or Apple phone it's not going to matter.

Dudes, that's a lame article, the PX doesn't have a phone net work, they allow cell phone vendors like T-Mobile, AT&T and other carriers to set up booths at the PX as a service to the military members, it's the same vendors as those off post. The PX it's self does not sell phones or cell services. It's fake news to get a rise out of libtards...WOW the military is selling compromised Chinese phones to our military members, spread the word. :lol: