I make no comparisons between the NSA and DSD, they are two different entities. As close as I ever came to American soil was Pine Gap. (Central Australia)
That which you find hard to believe is, indeed, reality. It generally takes 'years' for one to attain a 'managerial' position. Most of those years (above ASO-4 at least) are pen-pushing. Not technical streams.
Managers that maintain state of the art knowledge are few and far between.
I don't know a great deal about the NSA, however, I can call myself an expert on the DSD.
There are countless advocates of linux throughout the organisation. (though management has the 'microsoft, oooh shiny' mentality)
I have asked a few about the backdoor thing in SELinux, and they have all said 'it's not going to happen'
I'm told it is about a 'standard' in secure computing, not an easy kill for collectors. Most people do not trust government anyway, let alone NSA, so their work is an uphill battle right from the start. (SELinux started around 1998/99 if I recall correctly)
At work I'm a solaris guy anyway - management do not trust linux anywhere near as much as they trust Sun. (Too much eye candy)
This is all just for what it is worth, my opinion does not reflect the DSD's.
(And despite my sig, no, I will not sell secrets, so stop asking!)
I toyed with ideas of free lighting (living close to high tension power lines)... seems a little pointless considering thousands of locals run jumper leads of the damn things anyway, with complete immunity from Meralco (Elec company)
Easier to jumper someone elses jumper leads anyway.
You are correct, at least in the Australian Military SOP's exist that limit actions of the operator, the equipment generally has no 'locked' limitation on spectrum - However, upper limits are around 40-60GHz - Way up that high it is all RADAR though.
Were it me, I'd have done it for 'kicks' and just shut up about it...:-)
The Indonesian Navy, Army, and Airforce still use it as a major component of their communications - lots of Asian countries still rely on it greatly. Even for super top secret 'encrypted' messages:-) So I'm told...
I learnt morse (Receive only 25 wpm) with the military back in 1988(ish) - an entire 44 weeks of my life, 8 hours a day.. 5 days a week.. Used it for a year after completion of training, and never thought about it until a few weeks ago. (Joint telecommunications school, cabarlah, Australia for anyone who might like to talk old times.)
The odd part is I can manage about 20 wpm with few errors even after a little over a decade break.
I used to be an 'expert' at radar (Elint, DSD many years ago) - The only way this would be successful is if the radar system presents its small picture of the world to all other cars nearby. (I glossed over the article - maybe it does) Like aircraft transponder based collision avoidance.
What good is a radar when you have a car screaming up your rear end at 200 kilometres per hour anyway...
rlogin - nfs - solaris. You've got access, even if you don't... really, you do. Internal security does not exist... The theory from anyone with half a brain is that you have a high level security clearance, thus you 'can' be trusted implicitly. Management have no concept of computer security. After all, most of them think this internet thing is brand new anyway...
Here in the Philippines they don't so much change the titles, though most all pirated 'vcd' movies are labled as DVD's.
Anyone know where I too can get a recent version of Linux in this country? All the... er.. pirated cd places I go to have the same problem as mentioned above. Legit stores sell only boxed versions for stupidly high prices. I don't need the books, just the CD's.
When I was last living in Australia, you also paid for SMS (20 cents per message as I recall) You do know that the data path (ss7) is a core requirement for the system to work anyway - SMS could be free and it wouldn't make the slightest difference. Lets define the real reason as good old greed. Private number, that sounds like something we can make money from...
Does this mean one might construct an algorithm to determine which of these 'female' specimines is more likely to be infact genuinely screaming out their makers name as they procreate.
Same goes for the Philippines.. Take a ride downtown to somewhere like SM Megamall (Makati) and side by side you have the option of legitimate or pirated software - no rocket science needed. If you are so morally inclined I guess you buy the originals (I have few morals myself!)
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Leak, blow :-)
Seriously, what does happen to air in space? Where does it go?
Apologies for the delayed reply.
I make no comparisons between the NSA and DSD, they are two different entities. As close as I ever came to American soil was Pine Gap. (Central Australia)
That which you find hard to believe is, indeed, reality. It generally takes 'years' for one to attain a 'managerial' position. Most of those years (above ASO-4 at least) are pen-pushing. Not technical streams.
Managers that maintain state of the art knowledge are few and far between.
I don't know a great deal about the NSA, however, I can call myself an expert on the DSD.
There are countless advocates of linux throughout the organisation. (though management has the 'microsoft, oooh shiny' mentality)
I have asked a few about the backdoor thing in SELinux, and they have all said 'it's not going to happen'
I'm told it is about a 'standard' in secure computing, not an easy kill for collectors. Most people do not trust government anyway, let alone NSA, so their work is an uphill battle right from the start. (SELinux started around 1998/99 if I recall correctly)
At work I'm a solaris guy anyway - management do not trust linux anywhere near as much as they trust Sun. (Too much eye candy)
This is all just for what it is worth, my opinion does not reflect the DSD's.
(And despite my sig, no, I will not sell secrets, so stop asking!)
I toyed with ideas of free lighting (living close to high tension power lines)... seems a little pointless considering thousands of locals run jumper leads of the damn things anyway, with complete immunity from Meralco (Elec company)
Easier to jumper someone elses jumper leads anyway.
You are correct, at least in the Australian Military SOP's exist that limit actions of the operator, the equipment generally has no 'locked' limitation on spectrum - However, upper limits are around 40-60GHz - Way up that high it is all RADAR though.
:-)
Were it me, I'd have done it for 'kicks' and just shut up about it...
The Indonesian Navy, Army, and Airforce still use it as a major component of their communications - lots of Asian countries still rely on it greatly. Even for super top secret 'encrypted' messages :-) So I'm told...
I learnt morse (Receive only 25 wpm) with the military back in 1988(ish) - an entire 44 weeks of my life, 8 hours a day.. 5 days a week.. Used it for a year after completion of training, and never thought about it until a few weeks ago. (Joint telecommunications school, cabarlah, Australia for anyone who might like to talk old times.)
The odd part is I can manage about 20 wpm with few errors even after a little over a decade break.
I used to be an 'expert' at radar (Elint, DSD many years ago) - The only way this would be successful is if the radar system presents its small picture of the world to all other cars nearby. (I glossed over the article - maybe it does) Like aircraft transponder based collision avoidance.
What good is a radar when you have a car screaming up your rear end at 200 kilometres per hour anyway...
Groklaw, is it down, or just under higher than normal load given the SCO thing today?
What does it feel like to be modded off topic....
And I thought my circuit boards hacks were messy!
Permission to keep it closed from that old spamming grandmother I'd imagine.
rlogin - nfs - solaris. You've got access, even if you don't... really, you do. Internal security does not exist... The theory from anyone with half a brain is that you have a high level security clearance, thus you 'can' be trusted implicitly. Management have no concept of computer security. After all, most of them think this internet thing is brand new anyway...
Here in the Philippines they don't so much change the titles, though most all pirated 'vcd' movies are labled as DVD's.
Anyone know where I too can get a recent version of Linux in this country? All the... er.. pirated cd places I go to have the same problem as mentioned above. Legit stores sell only boxed versions for stupidly high prices. I don't need the books, just the CD's.
When I was last living in Australia, you also paid for SMS (20 cents per message as I recall) You do know that the data path (ss7) is a core requirement for the system to work anyway - SMS could be free and it wouldn't make the slightest difference. Lets define the real reason as good old greed. Private number, that sounds like something we can make money from...
Does this mean one might construct an algorithm to determine which of these 'female' specimines is more likely to be infact genuinely screaming out their makers name as they procreate.
The sane reaction would be 'oh shit, thanks mate, have a beer on me'.
Naught more than silly managerial types.
Same goes for the Philippines.. Take a ride downtown to somewhere like SM Megamall (Makati) and side by side you have the option of legitimate or pirated software - no rocket science needed. If you are so morally inclined I guess you buy the originals (I have few morals myself!)