{"id":208469,"date":"2026-01-31T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/31\/jeffrey-epstein-had-a-personal-hacker-informant-claims\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T07:55:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T12:55:16","slug":"jeffrey-epstein-had-a-personal-hacker-informant-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/31\/jeffrey-epstein-had-a-personal-hacker-informant-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeffrey Epstein Had a \u2018Personal Hacker,\u2019 Informant Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jeffrey Epstein Had a \u2018Personal Hacker,\u2019 Informant Claims<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/security-news-this-week-jeffrey-epstein-had-a-personal-hacker-informant-claims\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-01-31 06:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.wired.com<\/a><\/p>\n

As the standoff<\/span> between the United States government and Minnesota continues this week over immigration enforcement operations that have essentially occupied the Twin Cities and other parts of the state, a federal judge delayed a decision this week and ordered a new briefing on whether the Department of Homeland Security is using armed raids to pressure Minnesota into abandoning its sanctuary policies for immigrants.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, minutes after a federal immigration officer shot and killed 37-year-old Alex Pretti in Minneapolis last Saturday, Trump administration officials and right-wing influencers had already mounted a smear campaign, calling Pretti a \u201cterrorist\u201d and a \u201clunatic.\u201d<\/p>\n

As part of its surveillance dragnet, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been using an AI-powered Palantir system since last spring to summarize tips sent to its tip line, according to a newly released Homeland Security document. DHS immigration agents have also been using the now notorious face recognition app Mobile Fortify to scan the faces of countless people in the US\u2014including many citizens. And a new ICE filing provides insights on how commercial tools, including for ad tech and big data analysis, are increasingly being considered by the government for law enforcement and surveillance. And an active military officer broke down federal immigration enforcement actions in Minneapolis and around the US for WIRED, concluding that ICE is masquerading as a military force, but actually uses immature tactics that would get real soldiers killed.<\/p>\n

WIRED published extensive inside details this week of the inner workings of a scam compound in the Golden Triangle region of Laos after a human trafficking victim calling himself Red Bull communicated with a WIRED reporter for months and leaked a massive trove of internal documents from the compound where he was being held. Crucially, WIRED also chronicled his own experiences as a forced laborer in the compound and his attempts to escape.<\/p>\n\n

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