*Ahem* From the 'wire tapping' I know of it's all man in the middle, digitised, and stored on hard disk - with the cooperation of the telecoms or without. I haven't seen a 'tape recorder' in a good 10 years now. Still have them, just not needed any longer. I should imagine, given the hardware used in Australia, that US police would do a similar thing and if not - identical. The likelyhood these days of a machine that could be switched off remotely I would suggest is improbable at best.
They did use "publicly available information" - what is made (or leaked to the) public is often years out of date, inaccurate, or simply not even true - rarely does it describe the technology in actual use, so don't go and loosen the straps on the tin foil just yet:-)
The correct spelling is "Filipino", but don't worry, life over this side of the big blue lake gets better every day - soon the Philippines will be outsourcing to America for all their factory needs.
Yup, it was Martin Brady. Former head of the DSD. One thing to note though: The word Echelon is not used any longer, has not been for at least 15 years now - within the organisation(s) itself/themselves - it's called UKUSA. (YouKooZa is how I've heard it pronounced most freqently, though I say just the letters)
The newspapers reported on it big time somewhere in the late 90's, though in typical fashion they included boat loads of (lies) conspiracy theories...
It's called "active sigint" by foreign intelligence gathering agencies. The idea is not at all new, stories of 'boxes' that can infect, gather information, and vanish without trace have been reverberating through management offices since the early 90's. They don't exist in any sense that one might imagine. The 'active' component is not always as sophisticated as one might think - could be as simple as spiking an encrypted transmission over a satellite so that both systems have to run through their handshaking again, or jamming in the case of RADAR.
In reality, there is no box available to do this, likely never will be either. Man in the middle though... That's a whole different story.
The NSA doesn't infringe upon your rights - or any US citizen for that matter - they are a foreign intelligence gathering outfit, not domestic. Human intelligence is generally undertaken beneath the guise of a different 3 letter agency.:-) that said, I know you are joking.
I'm not quite sure what you are saying here, but either way, OO.org is still far cheaper than installing microsoft office, even at the price the government pays per seat.
Defence signals directorate has been using staroffice for at least 6 years now, and more recently openoffice - Microsoft largely takes a back seat unless you are an administrative weenie, not too many of those in the organisation though. Prior to that, applixware was the big thing, and before that, framemaker.
Sun on the other hand... They've made a fortune from defence. Many workstations are silently finding themselves installed with various flavours of linux these days. (SQ be damned)
What really ticks me off are the countless contractors charging upwards of AU $5000 per day, while the worker drones are told there is no outlay to upgrade that HP8566B with the clapped out CRT. It's a little inbred boys club up at the top. Always has been, always will be.
You forgot the part about zipping up W3Works.exe.doc and splitting it into 76 small files, zipping all those files into one large file, and then using RAR. Instructions? What for? : )
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Australians have started using 'then' instead of 'than'? : )
Reminds me of the movie 'The red planet' with Val Kilmer - he had a similar thing - full colour though - maybe that technology isn't so far off after all : )
I 'worry' about unauthorized computer access constantly - the law is irrelevant.
The internet doesn't just stop with lines on a map - I get hundreds of dictionary attacks on a daily basis - I don't care where they come from, I don't much care that they even occur (though obviously it'd be nice if they didn't) - the ones that are successful are the problem.
I'm gunna have to disagree, I use a small wrt54g http://dchky.info/ap-aa.jpg that lives out on my balcony - it has fallen from the 10th floor, been bricked with firmware updates more times than I can remember, rained upon, dirtied up, and there it sits, working perfectly. Uptime 44 days (mostly because I updated dd-wrt)
I live and work in the Philippines, it's not exactly cold out there either.
The code and associated overhead to deal with handoff between cell sites, to my knowledge, has not been implimented anywhere as of yet. Definitely computationally intense, and bandwidth hungry - cell sites would have to communicate info to each other over distances of hundreds of kilometres, and not just with their neighbours as they do now.
Might not be too TDMA friendly either, from memory the maximum range (due to timing) is somewhere around the 30 kilometre mark from the cell site. (Don't quote me on that, it's been a long time since I've had to care about it) It'd likely screw over the maximum capacity for each channel - tolerances and all - meaning less money, so I can understand why telco's are reluctant. As you also mentioned, computer crashes can sometimes be the result.
Kind of stupid to reply to myself... To be more precise, I have only ever seen an increasing load on satellite systems, never the opposite. There are more signals (and satellites) now than there were 10 years ago. Big business to be had.
Ah, what planet are you from? I er, do satellite signals for a living. Still by far the vast majority are voice circuits - although technically they are all binary when spat out of the modems. Most of these are in the form of CEPT E1's and DTX-240's (Stanard IDR's), although there are still many IBS systems kicking around - more and more frequently we see packet switched voice, have always seen multiplexed and compressed, or simply jammed into vocoders of varied size and fed over any number of transmission types. Voice is still pretty common. Internet is not nearly as common as you would imagine, though there are huge numbers of private networks that sometimes carry internet. I haven't seen any reduction of voice in my visible section of the clark belt.
I live one street over from Mabini, in Ermita, just near the US embassy - You make me laugh, I know more than a few handfuls of foreigners going home with troubled stories to tell the wife about this country.
Cell Phones are insignificant when compared with submarine navigation systems, microwave links, and a thousand more emitters pumping out megawatts more energy, all of which has been going on for more like 70 years in various forms and frequencies.
Rapid is the wrong word to use. Most domestic use stuff is down in the milliwatt range, so you could hold it against your privates for a lifetime without problem. (I'm sure someone will argue that statement though)
Dude, where in any religious dogma do the preachers of such spout anything that is actually IN their bible???
Think about it. (Christian/catholic) Religion is as good a target as any given the wide latitude they allow themselves for interpretation of a text that is illogical, contradictory, and incomprehensible at the best of times.
I live and work in the Philippines, I hear it every time I step outside.
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*Ahem* From the 'wire tapping' I know of it's all man in the middle, digitised, and stored on hard disk - with the cooperation of the telecoms or without. I haven't seen a 'tape recorder' in a good 10 years now. Still have them, just not needed any longer. I should imagine, given the hardware used in Australia, that US police would do a similar thing and if not - identical. The likelyhood these days of a machine that could be switched off remotely I would suggest is improbable at best.
:-)
They did use "publicly available information" - what is made (or leaked to the) public is often years out of date, inaccurate, or simply not even true - rarely does it describe the technology in actual use, so don't go and loosen the straps on the tin foil just yet
The correct spelling is "Filipino", but don't worry, life over this side of the big blue lake gets better every day - soon the Philippines will be outsourcing to America for all their factory needs.
Yup, it was Martin Brady. Former head of the DSD. One thing to note though: The word Echelon is not used any longer, has not been for at least 15 years now - within the organisation(s) itself/themselves - it's called UKUSA. (YouKooZa is how I've heard it pronounced most freqently, though I say just the letters)
The newspapers reported on it big time somewhere in the late 90's, though in typical fashion they included boat loads of (lies) conspiracy theories...
It's called "active sigint" by foreign intelligence gathering agencies. The idea is not at all new, stories of 'boxes' that can infect, gather information, and vanish without trace have been reverberating through management offices since the early 90's. They don't exist in any sense that one might imagine. The 'active' component is not always as sophisticated as one might think - could be as simple as spiking an encrypted transmission over a satellite so that both systems have to run through their handshaking again, or jamming in the case of RADAR.
In reality, there is no box available to do this, likely never will be either. Man in the middle though... That's a whole different story.
The NSA doesn't infringe upon your rights - or any US citizen for that matter - they are a foreign intelligence gathering outfit, not domestic. Human intelligence is generally undertaken beneath the guise of a different 3 letter agency. :-) that said, I know you are joking.
I'm not quite sure what you are saying here, but either way, OO.org is still far cheaper than installing microsoft office, even at the price the government pays per seat.
Defence signals directorate has been using staroffice for at least 6 years now, and more recently openoffice - Microsoft largely takes a back seat unless you are an administrative weenie, not too many of those in the organisation though. Prior to that, applixware was the big thing, and before that, framemaker.
Sun on the other hand... They've made a fortune from defence. Many workstations are silently finding themselves installed with various flavours of linux these days. (SQ be damned)
What really ticks me off are the countless contractors charging upwards of AU $5000 per day, while the worker drones are told there is no outlay to upgrade that HP8566B with the clapped out CRT. It's a little inbred boys club up at the top. Always has been, always will be.
I have no idea what my point is though.
You forgot the part about zipping up W3Works.exe.doc and splitting it into 76 small files, zipping all those files into one large file, and then using RAR. Instructions? What for? : )
Australians have started using 'then' instead of 'than'? : )
(Yes, I'm Australian as well)
Not everyone is a scum sucking leech.
The big bang (I don't believe it myself!) happened 'everywhere' - not just at one point in space. That's the theory anyway.
Reminds me of the movie 'The red planet' with Val Kilmer - he had a similar thing - full colour though - maybe that technology isn't so far off after all : )
So now you Americans are paying 148 bucks for black marker pens at the rate of one per document : )
Over on this side of the world (Australia) we're still paying $10,000 per hammer, so I guess it's all relative given exchange rates and all...
I 'worry' about unauthorized computer access constantly - the law is irrelevant.
The internet doesn't just stop with lines on a map - I get hundreds of dictionary attacks on a daily basis - I don't care where they come from, I don't much care that they even occur (though obviously it'd be nice if they didn't) - the ones that are successful are the problem.
Yes, just the same way a CEPT E1/E2... T1/T2/T3 etc do not exist.
Only I see thousands of them right across the clark belt.
One persons negligence is another persons innocent accident. In the military I would say "just fell apart in my hands chief" :-)
I'm gunna have to disagree, I use a small wrt54g http://dchky.info/ap-aa.jpg that lives out on my balcony - it has fallen from the 10th floor, been bricked with firmware updates more times than I can remember, rained upon, dirtied up, and there it sits, working perfectly. Uptime 44 days (mostly because I updated dd-wrt)
I live and work in the Philippines, it's not exactly cold out there either.
The code and associated overhead to deal with handoff between cell sites, to my knowledge, has not been implimented anywhere as of yet. Definitely computationally intense, and bandwidth hungry - cell sites would have to communicate info to each other over distances of hundreds of kilometres, and not just with their neighbours as they do now.
Might not be too TDMA friendly either, from memory the maximum range (due to timing) is somewhere around the 30 kilometre mark from the cell site. (Don't quote me on that, it's been a long time since I've had to care about it) It'd likely screw over the maximum capacity for each channel - tolerances and all - meaning less money, so I can understand why telco's are reluctant. As you also mentioned, computer crashes can sometimes be the result.
Kind of stupid to reply to myself... To be more precise, I have only ever seen an increasing load on satellite systems, never the opposite. There are more signals (and satellites) now than there were 10 years ago. Big business to be had.
Ah, what planet are you from? I er, do satellite signals for a living. Still by far the vast majority are voice circuits - although technically they are all binary when spat out of the modems. Most of these are in the form of CEPT E1's and DTX-240's (Stanard IDR's), although there are still many IBS systems kicking around - more and more frequently we see packet switched voice, have always seen multiplexed and compressed, or simply jammed into vocoders of varied size and fed over any number of transmission types. Voice is still pretty common. Internet is not nearly as common as you would imagine, though there are huge numbers of private networks that sometimes carry internet. I haven't seen any reduction of voice in my visible section of the clark belt.
I live one street over from Mabini, in Ermita, just near the US embassy - You make me laugh, I know more than a few handfuls of foreigners going home with troubled stories to tell the wife about this country.
Cell Phones are insignificant when compared with submarine navigation systems, microwave links, and a thousand more emitters pumping out megawatts more energy, all of which has been going on for more like 70 years in various forms and frequencies.
Rapid is the wrong word to use. Most domestic use stuff is down in the milliwatt range, so you could hold it against your privates for a lifetime without problem. (I'm sure someone will argue that statement though)
I thought 50% of near everything on the planet tested positive to some amount E.Coli.
I think not, because we will, collectively, just invent new words that skirt or mock the existing ones.
I'm still waiting for 'WTF' to get a listing. I use it often, wherever possible I try to incorporate it into end product sigint reports.
Dude, where in any religious dogma do the preachers of such spout anything that is actually IN their bible???
Think about it. (Christian/catholic) Religion is as good a target as any given the wide latitude they allow themselves for interpretation of a text that is illogical, contradictory, and incomprehensible at the best of times.
I live and work in the Philippines, I hear it every time I step outside.
Don't forget 'cosplay', been around since forever, along with race bunnies, E3 looks tame compared to all the Asian gigs going on.
Mmmmm dressed up japanese chicks.... I'm going to live in asia forever.