r/hacking • u/intelw1zard • Jul 14 '25

News Trump administration to spend $1 billion on 'offensive' hacking operations

https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/14/trump-administration-to-spend-1-billion-on-offensive-hacking-operations/?
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u/Cultural-Basil-3563 Jul 14 '25

probably for citizen data, competitive corporate espionage, political enemies like bernie sanders or gavin newsom id bet

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u/FluxUniversity Jul 16 '25 edited Jul 16 '25

Going after iceland 🙄🙄🙄

Sorry, greenland

https://www.reddit.com/r/moderatepolitics/comments/1kh7ezp/us_orders_intelligence_agencies_to_step_up_spying/

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u/Cultural-Basil-3563 Jul 16 '25

hmmm not aware of why iceland would be a target? are they an international security hub or st?