Summary of “The National Security Act in 2024” Report

A quick GROK

This document is the first annual report (dated December 2025) by Jonathan Hall K.C., the Independent Reviewer of State Threats Legislation, appointed in February 2024. It reviews the operation of Parts 1 and 2 of the National Security Act 2023 (NSA), which came into force on 20 December 2023, along with related border powers under Schedule 3 to the Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Act 2019. The review assesses whether the new laws effectively counter state threats (malign activities by foreign powers below the threshold of armed conflict) while avoiding excessive overreach, protecting rights, and ensuring proportionality.

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Can AI replace intelligence analysts?

Ok, it’s late, and well I wanted to look into cyber attacks where social engineering is a key component combined with technical hacking skills.

There’s been a growing number of these style events, so I tasked GROK to create an assessment for me, let’s see how it did! Let’s both try and answer the questions:

Can GROK replace intelligence officers and can GROK help us defend better against social engineering + technical attacks? What do you think? (please take all of this with a pinch of salt… LLMs are known to make mistakes/hallucinate/lie in a very convincing manner)….

they look nice…. but looks can as we know, be deceiving! (is the entire blog just a social engineering experiment by me?)

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