President Donald Trump‘s personal lawyer Michael Cohen has hired his own lawyer, NBC News reports.

Cohen has hired Stephen Ryan, of McDermott, Will & Emery. Trump‘s lawyer is said to be testifying in front of the House Intelligence Committee on September 5, NBC News reported.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said Friday she is „growing increasingly concerned“ that President Trump will try to fire special counsel Robert Mueller, who is overseeing the investigation into Russian meddling in the presidential election, and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.

3. Is this related to Rosenstein’s odd statement on Thursday night? Late Thursday, Rosenstein issued an unusual statement.

It read:

Americans should exercise caution before accepting as true any stories attributed to anonymous ‘officials,’ particularly when they do not identify the country — let alone the branch of agency of government — with which the alleged sources supposedly are affiliated. Americans should be skeptical about anonymous allegations. The Department of Justice has a long established policy to neither confirm nor deny such allegations.

Why this was released isn’t clear.

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„Americans should exercise caution before accepting as true any stories attributed to anonymous ‘officials,’ particularly when they do not identify the country – let alone the branch or agency of government – with which the alleged sources supposedly are affiliated,“ read the statement from Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.

„Americans should be skeptical about anonymous allegations,“ it continues. „The Department of Justice has a long-established policy to neither confirm nor deny such allegations.”

Rod J. Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, encouraged Americans in a statement issued late Thursday to be “skeptical about anonymous allegations” after a string of recent news reports about the evolving focus of the special counsel’s investigation into Russia’s election interference and possible collusion with President Trump’s associates.

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(1985) In February, 1985, we carried out an eavesdropping experiment in London, in cooperation with the British Broadcasting Corporation. Part of the results were shown in the programme „Tomorrow‘s World.“ A small van was equipped with a 10 metre high pump mast to which a VHF band III antenna was clamped (10 dB gain). The received signal was fed through an antenna, amplified (18 dB) and displayed
on a television screen inside the van.

For obvious reasons we cannot give information on the data picked up during the experiment. The results can be
summarized as follows:

• It is possible to eavesdrop on the video display units or terminals in buildings from a large distance, using a car fitted up for the purpose.

• Although the experiment was carried out in broad
daylight and many people watched us, nobody asked what we were doing.

(1972) Now, let´s go back to the beginning. During World War II, the backbone systems for Army und Navy secure teletypewriter communications were one-time tapes and the primitive crypto-equipment SIGTOT. For encrypting, the Services used a Bell-telephone mixing device, called 131-B2. When one of these mixers was being tested in a Bell laboratory, a researcher noticed, quite by accident, that each time the machine stepped, a spike appeared on an oscilloscope in a distant part of the lab. After he examined these spikes more carefully, he found that he could read the plain text of the message being enciphered by the machine.

(Juli 2014) Wie das US-Militär und die Bell Company (heute AT&T) das Mitlesen verschlüsselter Telekommunikation durch elektromagnetische Strahlung entdeckte.

(ca.2006) In den achtziger Jahren wurden erste Fälle von Spionage öffentlich bekannt, die nach diesem Verfahren arbeiteten. So wurden beispielsweise mit mobilen Empfangseinrichtungen bestückte Kleintransporter in der Nähe einer auszuspähenden Firma geparkt, um in unmittelbare Reichweite der kompromittierenden Strahlung der dortigen Bürocomputer zu kommen. Man muß zum Ausspähen aber nicht, wie in dem geschilderten Fall, in unmittelbare Nähe der Computeranlagen gehen, denn mittels spezieller Richtantennen ist ein Empfang der kompromittierenden Strahlung auch über mehrere hundert Meter möglich. Sogar wenn mehrere Computer gleichen Typs zeitgleich verwendet werden, können sich die Datenpiraten mit ihren Empfangseinrichtungen auf einen einzigen Monitor aufsynchronisieren und gezielt dessen Bild wieder sichtbar machen.

(13.6.2017) Microsoft releases additional updates for older platforms to protect against potential nation-state activity