I wouldn't be so quick to say the russians are not producing good product, one example is the slotback radar in the Mig 29 - it is easily as good as anything built in recent times by any other country. (I'm an ex ELINT weenie so I can speak with some knowledge on the subject)
The Russians are as good as anyone else. This whole stealth thing is rendered fairly useless by using multiple ground receivers in ones radar system anyway.
I'm not saying they would invade, but two countries that come to mind with the potential to attack are Singapore and Indonesia. Within Australian defence circles, Indonesia is looked at on a daily basis. Also Singapore has a defence budget that makes our GDP look like pocket change.
The Philippines are largely allied and not a threat militarily - though economically there is huge wealth in the country, they are a peaceful bunch of islands anyway, with no need to invade.
The South Korean military is aided by the US, they have no reason to attack anyone to the south.
I read a metric crapload of e-books on my k750i (cell phone) - often in direct sunlight. It has a reflective back surface that looks sharp and crisp in most lighting conditions. Direct sunlight is suprisingly clear - I can't read a paperback in the same conditions, not without dark shades anyway.
I guess it depends where you are upon the earth. In the tropics, sunlight is a tad harsh.
You'll find all the wifi networks that can penetrate the skin of the aircraft and make it through to the receiving unit. Like the parent said, you do need to tape your stuff to the perspex window before you get signal. WiFi networks can be picked up in space, all the tinfoil types may wish to go and switch on their encryption:-) It's not just limited to wifi though, anything that radiates above HF usually gets there, sometimes even HF. The question is, are there satellites out there that can pick this stuff up? I signed the delta brief so I can't tell you either way.
Aircraft electronics are sturdy, my cellphone has a GPS built in and they coexist perfectly fine. The primary reason for the cellphone ban is because it screws up the cellular network on the ground - not the aircraft electronics. GSM networks (or whatever you have in your country) were designed to deal with a phone that is visible across a limited number of cell sites, not across entire states.
Lightning has right of way in most cases, usually protection systems are built into the airframe, not specifically the electronics - all the good stuff is tempested anyway.
This whole subject falls in to the 'nothing to see here' category.
IMEI can be changed with a laptop and a cable in a matter of seconds. Not always inexpensive for the hardware, but if you don't want to be tracked or bothered by the 3 letter agencies... I'm sure it breaks a few laws in one or two countries, but whatever. They want to over-extend on the rules of intercept, then I'll swap my IMEI every day. A new sim card where I am at is about $0.50 US.
What really screws it all up is that your identity can be fairly well confirmed by who you are calling.
You are right about the IMEI (and to a lesser extent, the IMSI) It's not quite as simple as you make out though. GSM will clearly be a complicated beast from a 'them' perspective - the 'they' *may* have more difficulties than you might think. Since CCITT 7 doesn't need to be on the same trunk, let alone the same network or transmission path, it would be difficult, if not impossible to 'always' know which hand is holding the GSM unit - let alone exactly which phone is making the transmission. They don't constantly spit out IMEI's and IMSI's, most networks instruct the phone to identify with unique and often changing ID after the first contact.
While the telco will know exactly who to bill for the call, or explicitly know the phone codes, the man (or woman) in the middle most frequently will not. Study of the C7 would result in the need to infer such things based on a fair old crapload of previously gathered data, testing and making comparisons of the GSM activity to figure out which C7 signal is related to it - or take an educated 'guess' with a chunk of luck thrown in. Foreign telco's do not generally install little black boxes for the various 3 letter agencies dotted about the world.
Turning the phone off is sufficient, many networks are quite saturated as it is - they really don't care about a switched off phone, makes no economic sense. Removing the battery is overkill, unless one is paranoid enough to remove the battery AND use tempest, though I would expect you have more pressing 'issues' to deal with than caring about tin-foil in such cases.
I'm guessing you've never tried to layout a (simple) page using CSS - then comparing it in IE against pretty much every other browser. Certainly they all have their problems, though IE really does suck more than most - that would be why. I'd give examples, but google and 'IE css problems' should get you several days reading material.:-)
It doesn't matter what the phone uses 'over the air', your SMS can still be read out of the CCITT 7 which is beamed as part of a bog standard timeslot in a completely unencrypted T1/E1 between the cell station and the exchange. (Or mulitplexed in some other standard manner) Encryption usually only happens between the phone and the cell station, nowhere else along the chain.
It'll cost a small chunk for the equipment, though all of it can be obtained off the shelf. Spec An, RX equipment, downconverters, modems, digital capture card, pc.
Echelon, does it still exist in the same sense it once may or may not have, based upon your assumption of said codeword? (Whatever that may be:-) ) The word hasn't been used commonly for near on 20 years. Not quite sure why people still use the term as a main reference. I would think UKUSA would be a better replacement, Martin Braidy spilled that to Australian newspapers and television years ago.
Where such 'shit' does not happen?, which country would that be? I don't know of any, I do have some professional insight on the subject, not that it's important mind.
I'm not sure, though I'm guessing some people are quite missing the boat on this one. The law doesn't give the NSA a blanket right to monitor US citizens, the NSA monitors and does analysis on FOREIGN communications. Where things become grey is when a foreign entity is talking to a US entity, or one from any of the primary allied countries. (Grey in the eyes of the US public that is). The procedures to be followed in such events are spelled out quite clearly. Have been for more years than I've known these agencies existed.
This stuff is all public domain knowledge anyway. Not quite sure why the US is getting all angry about it _now_, as several other posters have said, it's been going on for decades.
:-) The sig is largely for my own amusement. It used to be an internal joke that would land itself on the desks of various department heads, field sites, as well as the odd directorate level brown noser seeking an edge on the ladder. How it would land there was indeed the amusing part. The depth of trouble that would follow, that was (sometimes) less amusing, though most frequently even more so.
What's to know about Bali? It's more like an extended state of Australia:-) Given that Australian tourists seemingly outnumber the Indonesians that live there.
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Weird, the 770 is already selling in the Philippines. Not sure if that makes the country ahead or behind the rest of the world:-) 3G was switched on about a month ago. Stupidly expensive for data, though 3G phones have been on sale for a long while now.
...and do you have any idea which parts of the electromagnetic spectrum are passing through your body right this second? More often than not, at vastly higher radiated power levels than any cellphone is capable.
If you only knew the half of what Telstra actually does. One tiny irritating example of the many thousands: CCITT 7 and SMS - usually this signal takes up a 64kbps timeslot on the same trunk as your call, has to exist for GSM to function, yet still they hit you up for 25 cents per SMS for a feature that would exist and function regardless. Meh, it's all GREED.
Country Australia where dial up is still common, instead of giving everyone their 4kHz of analogue, they digitise it, give it some ADPCM, then mux it all up before it even gets to the end of the street. Some people are lucky if they get 14.4kbps.
When you complain, they give the standard line that the only government mandate is to support up to v.29 (Fax G3) - so consider yourself lucky you even get that, and have a nice day.
Greedy bums. I live in Asia now. Don't have this problem any longer.
The V2.2's have some kind of hardware bug that exactly matches what you describe - the latest firmware will overclock the router slightly (by 16MHz) - becomes rock solid stable after that. Most alternate firmware does this automatically now too - though you can do it manually with an nvram / commit thingy.
I've got several versions, I've never had one bricked so bad that it couldn't be fixed by placing a wire from the antenna ground across to pin 16 on the intel flash as the thing is powered on.
Much as I like dd-wrt and use it myself, after briefly joining the IRC room listed on their forum pages at dd-wrt, I find out that the goal of the day was to obtain the latest sveasoft source from 'someone on the inside' - this was said in private to me by brainslayer - take it for the little it is worth, since I am nobody - didn't log the chat, and can't prove it either way - Hell, I don't even know if it was the real 'brainslayer' I was typing at. Our conversation started mostly because I was in the sveasoft room making somewhat less than intelligent (light hearted) banter about getting booted just for mentioning competing firmware. (And the fact that maple syrup in the Philippines now contains up to 2 percent real maple syrup, though I digress) - Not so bad that I actually got booted though.
See sig below, I am fully serious. The days of police parking outside a house in a van with dark tinted windows have long since faded into history. The same police that go out on patrol are not the same ones that sit in an airconditioned operations room full of E1/T1 analysers, DTX-240's, modems, and all the other identical kit that the telco's use. These people are (though somewhat less frequently these days) mostly poached from the military - and if not, they always come complete with university degree. (Type of degree doesn't even matter, just the fact that they got one usually means some level of rational competence)
Every other week I read about computer and network related problems the FBI, the NSA, DSD, the CIA, GCHQ, GCSB, etc... From the inside it's all business as usual, same old help desk calls, same old sparc's that nobody quite remembers what they do any longer (until you switch them off) - these problems of which you speak are typically manufactured and fed out from higher up in the political spheres. (Yeah, I get my butt kicked for these comments sometimes too) They have a message all of their own.
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I wouldn't be so quick to say the russians are not producing good product, one example is the slotback radar in the Mig 29 - it is easily as good as anything built in recent times by any other country. (I'm an ex ELINT weenie so I can speak with some knowledge on the subject)
The Russians are as good as anyone else. This whole stealth thing is rendered fairly useless by using multiple ground receivers in ones radar system anyway.
I'm not saying they would invade, but two countries that come to mind with the potential to attack are Singapore and Indonesia. Within Australian defence circles, Indonesia is looked at on a daily basis. Also Singapore has a defence budget that makes our GDP look like pocket change.
The Philippines are largely allied and not a threat militarily - though economically there is huge wealth in the country, they are a peaceful bunch of islands anyway, with no need to invade.
The South Korean military is aided by the US, they have no reason to attack anyone to the south.
I read a metric crapload of e-books on my k750i (cell phone) - often in direct sunlight. It has a reflective back surface that looks sharp and crisp in most lighting conditions. Direct sunlight is suprisingly clear - I can't read a paperback in the same conditions, not without dark shades anyway.
I guess it depends where you are upon the earth. In the tropics, sunlight is a tad harsh.
Surprisingly so are the Philippines. Got everything there.
You'll find all the wifi networks that can penetrate the skin of the aircraft and make it through to the receiving unit. Like the parent said, you do need to tape your stuff to the perspex window before you get signal. WiFi networks can be picked up in space, all the tinfoil types may wish to go and switch on their encryption :-) It's not just limited to wifi though, anything that radiates above HF usually gets there, sometimes even HF. The question is, are there satellites out there that can pick this stuff up? I signed the delta brief so I can't tell you either way.
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Ex 'them'
That's the TDMA transmission doing its thing... Not really a sound as such, though it does induce it in unshielded electronics with audio output.
Aircraft electronics are sturdy, my cellphone has a GPS built in and they coexist perfectly fine. The primary reason for the cellphone ban is because it screws up the cellular network on the ground - not the aircraft electronics. GSM networks (or whatever you have in your country) were designed to deal with a phone that is visible across a limited number of cell sites, not across entire states.
Lightning has right of way in most cases, usually protection systems are built into the airframe, not specifically the electronics - all the good stuff is tempested anyway.
This whole subject falls in to the 'nothing to see here' category.
IMEI can be changed with a laptop and a cable in a matter of seconds. Not always inexpensive for the hardware, but if you don't want to be tracked or bothered by the 3 letter agencies... I'm sure it breaks a few laws in one or two countries, but whatever. They want to over-extend on the rules of intercept, then I'll swap my IMEI every day. A new sim card where I am at is about $0.50 US.
What really screws it all up is that your identity can be fairly well confirmed by who you are calling.
-- ex 'them'
You are right about the IMEI (and to a lesser extent, the IMSI) It's not quite as simple as you make out though. GSM will clearly be a complicated beast from a 'them' perspective - the 'they' *may* have more difficulties than you might think. Since CCITT 7 doesn't need to be on the same trunk, let alone the same network or transmission path, it would be difficult, if not impossible to 'always' know which hand is holding the GSM unit - let alone exactly which phone is making the transmission. They don't constantly spit out IMEI's and IMSI's, most networks instruct the phone to identify with unique and often changing ID after the first contact.
While the telco will know exactly who to bill for the call, or explicitly know the phone codes, the man (or woman) in the middle most frequently will not. Study of the C7 would result in the need to infer such things based on a fair old crapload of previously gathered data, testing and making comparisons of the GSM activity to figure out which C7 signal is related to it - or take an educated 'guess' with a chunk of luck thrown in. Foreign telco's do not generally install little black boxes for the various 3 letter agencies dotted about the world.
Turning the phone off is sufficient, many networks are quite saturated as it is - they really don't care about a switched off phone, makes no economic sense. Removing the battery is overkill, unless one is paranoid enough to remove the battery AND use tempest, though I would expect you have more pressing 'issues' to deal with than caring about tin-foil in such cases.
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I'm guessing you've never tried to layout a (simple) page using CSS - then comparing it in IE against pretty much every other browser. Certainly they all have their problems, though IE really does suck more than most - that would be why. I'd give examples, but google and 'IE css problems' should get you several days reading material. :-)
It doesn't matter what the phone uses 'over the air', your SMS can still be read out of the CCITT 7 which is beamed as part of a bog standard timeslot in a completely unencrypted T1/E1 between the cell station and the exchange. (Or mulitplexed in some other standard manner) Encryption usually only happens between the phone and the cell station, nowhere else along the chain.
It'll cost a small chunk for the equipment, though all of it can be obtained off the shelf. Spec An, RX equipment, downconverters, modems, digital capture card, pc.
Echelon, does it still exist in the same sense it once may or may not have, based upon your assumption of said codeword? (Whatever that may be :-) ) The word hasn't been used commonly for near on 20 years. Not quite sure why people still use the term as a main reference. I would think UKUSA would be a better replacement, Martin Braidy spilled that to Australian newspapers and television years ago.
Wonder what he's up to these days...
Where such 'shit' does not happen?, which country would that be? I don't know of any, I do have some professional insight on the subject, not that it's important mind.
I'm not sure, though I'm guessing some people are quite missing the boat on this one. The law doesn't give the NSA a blanket right to monitor US citizens, the NSA monitors and does analysis on FOREIGN communications. Where things become grey is when a foreign entity is talking to a US entity, or one from any of the primary allied countries. (Grey in the eyes of the US public that is). The procedures to be followed in such events are spelled out quite clearly. Have been for more years than I've known these agencies existed.
This stuff is all public domain knowledge anyway. Not quite sure why the US is getting all angry about it _now_, as several other posters have said, it's been going on for decades.
:-) The sig is largely for my own amusement. It used to be an internal joke that would land itself on the desks of various department heads, field sites, as well as the odd directorate level brown noser seeking an edge on the ladder. How it would land there was indeed the amusing part. The depth of trouble that would follow, that was (sometimes) less amusing, though most frequently even more so.
The truth? That is what it is.
What's to know about Bali? It's more like an extended state of Australia :-) Given that Australian tourists seemingly outnumber the Indonesians that live there.
Weird, the 770 is already selling in the Philippines. Not sure if that makes the country ahead or behind the rest of the world :-) 3G was switched on about a month ago. Stupidly expensive for data, though 3G phones have been on sale for a long while now.
...and do you have any idea which parts of the electromagnetic spectrum are passing through your body right this second? More often than not, at vastly higher radiated power levels than any cellphone is capable.
Find yourself a spec-an and plug it in some time.
Perhaps tomorrow when you sober up, you could provide an english version of your post? :-)
If you only knew the half of what Telstra actually does. One tiny irritating example of the many thousands: CCITT 7 and SMS - usually this signal takes up a 64kbps timeslot on the same trunk as your call, has to exist for GSM to function, yet still they hit you up for 25 cents per SMS for a feature that would exist and function regardless. Meh, it's all GREED.
Country Australia where dial up is still common, instead of giving everyone their 4kHz of analogue, they digitise it, give it some ADPCM, then mux it all up before it even gets to the end of the street. Some people are lucky if they get 14.4kbps.
When you complain, they give the standard line that the only government mandate is to support up to v.29 (Fax G3) - so consider yourself lucky you even get that, and have a nice day.
Greedy bums. I live in Asia now. Don't have this problem any longer.
Then why is it I wake up each day and appear to remember that I exist in continuation from the day before?
In so far as my understanding goes, the human brain is a (slightly more complicated) computer...
The V2.2's have some kind of hardware bug that exactly matches what you describe - the latest firmware will overclock the router slightly (by 16MHz) - becomes rock solid stable after that. Most alternate firmware does this automatically now too - though you can do it manually with an nvram / commit thingy.
I've got several versions, I've never had one bricked so bad that it couldn't be fixed by placing a wire from the antenna ground across to pin 16 on the intel flash as the thing is powered on.
Much as I like dd-wrt and use it myself, after briefly joining the IRC room listed on their forum pages at dd-wrt, I find out that the goal of the day was to obtain the latest sveasoft source from 'someone on the inside' - this was said in private to me by brainslayer - take it for the little it is worth, since I am nobody - didn't log the chat, and can't prove it either way - Hell, I don't even know if it was the real 'brainslayer' I was typing at. Our conversation started mostly because I was in the sveasoft room making somewhat less than intelligent (light hearted) banter about getting booted just for mentioning competing firmware. (And the fact that maple syrup in the Philippines now contains up to 2 percent real maple syrup, though I digress) - Not so bad that I actually got booted though.
The politics of firmware.... Sigh...
See sig below, I am fully serious. The days of police parking outside a house in a van with dark tinted windows have long since faded into history. The same police that go out on patrol are not the same ones that sit in an airconditioned operations room full of E1/T1 analysers, DTX-240's, modems, and all the other identical kit that the telco's use. These people are (though somewhat less frequently these days) mostly poached from the military - and if not, they always come complete with university degree. (Type of degree doesn't even matter, just the fact that they got one usually means some level of rational competence)
Every other week I read about computer and network related problems the FBI, the NSA, DSD, the CIA, GCHQ, GCSB, etc... From the inside it's all business as usual, same old help desk calls, same old sparc's that nobody quite remembers what they do any longer (until you switch them off) - these problems of which you speak are typically manufactured and fed out from higher up in the political spheres. (Yeah, I get my butt kicked for these comments sometimes too) They have a message all of their own.