Actually, Lockheed Martin (or whatever they're called this week) does the subs. And the off-the-shelf products are usually the only ones that work. The rest is 70's crud that never worked right in the first place, and is lumbering under 10-plus years of "improvements". I do heartily agree with your last statement, they just can't attract quality personnel. But, it may be that the right kind of people aren't available. Being stuck in the muck while trying to do a difficult and detailed taks is not for most teen hackers.
Interesting article, but these methods of misleading an enemy have been around more or less forever. Several electronic means of disrupting enemy communications include "meaconing"- broadcasting or re-transmitting navigational signals; "intrusion"- transmitting false orders or commands to units; and "jamming"- overpowering the enemy transmitter to prevent communication. All of the services are aware of the possibility, and regularly train to deal with them. Doing it over the internet is a new door to an old trick, but it will never cause more than temporary confusion, and that probably not more than once.
The path that surveillance data takes is labyrinthine at best, who collects the data sees the data first, then decides who else gets it. NSA only has say over intel collected by US-operated systems. So it works in all directions, show-me-yours; I'll show-you-mine fashion.
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Actually, Lockheed Martin (or whatever they're called this week) does the subs. And the off-the-shelf products are usually the only ones that work. The rest is 70's crud that never worked right in the first place, and is lumbering under 10-plus years of "improvements". I do heartily agree with your last statement, they just can't attract quality personnel. But, it may be that the right kind of people aren't available. Being stuck in the muck while trying to do a difficult and detailed taks is not for most teen hackers.
Interesting article, but these methods of misleading an enemy have been around more or less forever. Several electronic means of disrupting enemy communications include "meaconing"- broadcasting or re-transmitting navigational signals; "intrusion"- transmitting false orders or commands to units; and "jamming"- overpowering the enemy transmitter to prevent communication. All of the services are aware of the possibility, and regularly train to deal with them. Doing it over the internet is a new door to an old trick, but it will never cause more than temporary confusion, and that probably not more than once.
The path that surveillance data takes is labyrinthine at best, who collects the data sees the data first, then decides who else gets it. NSA only has say over intel collected by US-operated systems. So it works in all directions, show-me-yours; I'll show-you-mine fashion.