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A scholar of Russia’s legal code explains the case against the Wall Street Journal reporter accused of espionage.
Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich is far from the first American journalist to be accused of spying, a media historian explains.
Balloons can still be useful for gathering intelligence when used alongside satellites and aircraft.
Despite China’s complaints about the United States shooting down its balloon, the U.S. was within its rights — and China has done the same thing in the past.
Espionage routinely plays out between countries like the US and China. But a public spectacle like the Chinese spy balloon can change the game.
While human spies are the best-known way nations collect intelligence, there are several methods countries can use to spy on one another.
A Chinese high-altitude balloon violated U.S. airspace, a serious enough breach to nix a high-level diplomatic meeting in Beijing. The balloon itself, however, was not much of a threat.
School officials are becoming increasingly wary of TikTok amid concerns that the app poses a risk to student safety and privacy and makes the nation vulnerable to spies.
Prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis admits his intelligence agency surveilled journalists but denies using illegal Predator software on them.
The story of a Dutch double agent who spied on the Stasi. Listen to The Conversation Weekly podcast.
A double agent who operated for the CIA and the Dutch security service against the Stasi tells his story for the first time.
Scientific research done through international collaboration has boomed in the past 30 years. But recently, powerful countries are using science as a tool of politics, threatening that work.
Women taking precautions to conceal their identities while seeking reproductive advice is akin to spies using tradecraft to avoid enemy agents.
As war begins between Ukraine and Russia, a range of stories provides context to help readers understand the conflict.
Once again allegations have surfaced that the former US president was a Russian ‘asset’. Maybe so, but that doesn’t mean he was their agent.
Amid increasingly sophisticated ploys online, it can be difficult to tell the difference between innocent social networking and a national security offence.
The lawyer and his client, Witness K, are accused of disclosing information related to a covert ASIS spying operation. These are the legal issues that are likely to be raised at trial.
Mike Burgess, the head of ASIO, warns there are more foreign agents operating in Australia than at the height of the cold war - and many of them have the capability, intent, and persistence to cause significant harm.
The US government wants to seize all the proceeds from Snowden’s new memoir.
Top contributors
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Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, The University of Western Australia
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Lecturer in Intelligence and Security Studies, Brunel University London
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Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Adjunct Professor, Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University
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Professor, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University
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Professor of Geopolitics, Royal Holloway University of London
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Assistant Professor, Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Oklahoma
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Lecturer, Cyberintelligence and Cybercrime Investigations, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Associate professor of international history, Utrecht University
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Research Fellow, Leiden University
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Associate Professor, School of Law, University of Canberra
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Senior Lecturer in Sociology (Ageing and Dementia), University of Tasmania
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Professor of Law, The University of Western Australia
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Associate Professor Journalism & Media, Deakin University
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Associate Professor, School of Media, Film and Journalism, Monash University
