A Cuba and China would try to flood a US embassy with its own spies.
Long term, nice and productive, totally trusted by the US embassy.
Humans walking out with all kinds of sensitive US information.
No tech needed to risk collection just lots of totally trusted human. Lots of split loyalty staff reporting back to Cuba, China that are totally trusted by the US gov/mil.
Why would a China and Cuba do the one thing to induce US security to look at all the embassy and find the spies using spy tech in place?
Cuba and China would want a happy relaxed US embassy so their spies could collect and be safe and stay in place.
Relaxed US officials are embassy workers not calling in US security to find problems and hunt down well established human spies.
What is the sound? US spying hardware projected out of the embassy using methods to avoid detection.
Someone got their gps wrong and has soaked the embassy in narrow, directional contractor collection communication system.
Great when pointed out of the US embassy for a site to site burst of data. Positioned the wrong way and that powerful direction beam is staying in the US embassy.
More a location and set up problem than any outside spying.
Have the contractor look at their spying equipment and ensure all of it is working out into a Cuba, China. Not beaming back into the office and hallways.
Do that and everything will return to normal. Spies can get o/n with their work and the rest of the staff will not be distracted by electronic communications from the tent/shack on the embassy roof.
The political documents walked out. They did not get moved out by a "network".
"Former NSA experts say it wasn’t a hack at all, but a leak" (Aug 9, 2017) https://www.thenation.com/arti...
"... demonstrating that 23 MB/s is a typical transfer rate when using a USB–2 flash device (thumb drive).”"
The NSA has all the details. Its just not good to talk about what can be done in real time with easy decryption.
So the FBI allows for some ambiguity to exist in the US media.
The very newest cell phone is not a live mic. Its all too advanced and academically difficult.
Please keep talking into the live mic.
Keep the newest cell phone on at all times and don't think about the gps.
Take lots of digital images too. The 4K video function is so creative too.
Think of in the way the USA and GCHQ view encryption in the media.
The GCHQ wants to collect it all and without having to do much decryption in real time. So all trusted big brand encryption sold has to be junk and weak.
Make sure nobody ever finds out and thats decades of effortless collection on every network and device.
No reports to the police, not one story in the media, no politicians able to get told methods, no lawyers reading about methods.
Just the clandestine and security services who use information the GCHQ collects.
The USA needs good news and something to get more funding and to win political support for more budget growth.
That needs good crypto news,
That the US political leadership understands than no crypto is beyond the USA if a budget exists to buy more super computers.
That places a lot of news in the wild about junk crypto and how police have the keys to all consumer crypto.
Interesting people slowly stop trusting their live mic and gps collecting cell phones.
Interesting people slowly understand methods like voice prints.
The FBI understands the UK method and likes that hidden side to total collection and later direct action.
But a budget has to be protected and that needs good winning news to present.
Winning news often has pointers to methods and thats not good.
A big brand US cell phone network its all private and too difficult to uncrypto. Its just too difficult.
PRISM showed just how safe...
The approved and allowed news stories show the need for collect it all and that no crypto is beyond the newest and most advanced US super computers.
Please buy law enforcement more super computers so they can get extract more data out of the new cell phones.
Wont someone think of the contractors... Just one new super computer cyber task force can work on 10000 cell phones.
What state like to be HQ to a new cyber task force? Think of the votes and the well paying new jobs.
The FBI did a great job all over the USA.
Rob a bank in a nice community and the FBI would help hunt down the person/group using advance science.
Bad crime in some part of the USA? The FBI would always help and support local law enforcement with the latest methods and insights into criminal behavior.
Peace groups and radical political/faith groups creating problems in communities? The FBI would place informants in such emerging groups and track their funding, supporters, politics, international connections.
Watching embassies and international visitors in the US who where spying on the USA. The FBI worked very hard to try and keep US secrets protected from other nations.
Entering US politics? The FBI was always interested in anyone entering state and federal politics.
Who was funding a politician, who a politician like to be friends with, any other "friends". Lots of files got created on all US political leaders and who supported them.
The FBI was always very busy.
Informants. Lots of informants. Take an offer to help the FBI and all was good.
Massive database searches all over the USA.
Lots of surveillance.
Science. Talking to people in jail and prison about their crimes and understanding criminal methods.
Anthropology and the direct study of every emerging community/cult/faith in the USA.
The placing of vast amounts of well paid informants in every community. Political groups and new social groups/faith/peace groups/academics and other criminal groups all over the USA slowly got filled with trusted informants.
A bit like the Stasi but the FBI had fast super computers to ensure every interesting group only got a set number of trusted informants.
The FBI was skilled in the way it never had its own informants reporting on its own undercover informants for years.
Just enough informants and undercover work per group to keep information flowing, with the option to disturpt the group internally if needed.
Ensuring people who would face criminals had some support from the FBI.
Constant "chat downs" and remembering any "strangers" who did not fit in a nice community.
How to keep evidence. A bank teller gets handed a note. Keep the note for later examination. Recall all past visits by strangers before a crime.
Bait. Publish the "movements" and "holidays" of wealthy people, movements of expensive products, new investments and see who was ready to do a crime.
Basically using a magazine, newspaper like "social media" over months to lay out a fake story and then see what criminal groups got attracted to the fake news story.
Then make offers to anyone who was caught. Become an informant and get released, protected. Report back to the FBI and become a productive informative for the FBI for decades.
In the past a "ram the yoke forward on takeoff" issue was rare.
The list of task to do was too long.
The alarms too loud and constant to allow the rest of the tasks to be done.
The needed taxi checklist could be done quickly and the flight would be ready in time for its take off slot.
Everything works well until the alarm that should have prevented the lack of a task been done was turned off.
Depends on what a nation will do. The US has clear legal guidance on that
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized"
So it takes a lot of work with the private sector and contractors domestically in the USA for police to get their parallel construction ready for the legal system.
In nations such as the UK you can just build a Ring of steel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and capture at every face, passenger and license plate in real time.
The real problem for US police investigations is they only get to keep searchable digital images of criminals. That makes looking for suspects in photos and videos on social media more difficult in the USA.
Police in the USA would have to have a suspect database and a every US citizen photo database.
Two groups of people who have had no contact with US police and who should not exist as data sets in any US police database domestically.
US police cant just keep every old and new images of every US citizen over decades so the FBI can match them in seconds should any US citizen do a crime.
Digital privacy laws sets the USA apart from nations like the UK. Laws and rules the FBI have to follow and not have any domestic database of all US citizens.
Someone is giving the US police and government images it should not have to find a "suspect" vs digital images of all US citizens.
Why is the USA so super protective of all images collected by city, state and federal databases and won't share with the FBI and other federal law enforcement?
Why the super strong privacy protections for data sets that cant allow the FBI to take one image from a crime and look back over all images every city, parish, state and federal database that has US citizen images?
That fast digital comparison of all existing US image databases would clear up voter fraud, illegal immigration, inner city crime, cyber crime, ID fraud, shared ID crimes, academic fraud with one modern database. Image matching is fast so it could be real time just like in the UK.
US courts and prisons would be full for a while. All illegal migrants would be discoverable. But then everyone would know that any photo ID was a police ID and change their methods.
Better to keep easy ID methods and make all criminals think they have federal "privacy" in their part of the USA?
The private sector that now helps US police "discover" online images would not have so much work if federal officials can set up their own police database.
So US law enforcement has to pay for and work with the private sector to create its own lists and them work out "how" they found the person without an image later.
Stop a car for a random legal reason in a state. Use that unique K9 that alerts on every car. ID can then be discovered in a very normal and totally random way.
Another way for US law enforcement to get around powerful US domestic digital privacy laws is to have a winning company in say France, Ireland "win" a federal US law upgrade and modernisation contract. Then the "contractors" can preform all kinds of searches in say France as they have no extra privacy laws for US data sets "found" globally on social media.
Lots of ways around matching every US citizen to images of interest to US law enforcement well outside any privacy laws.
A cell phone thats too hard to log into? Dont have the password? Never use a US company to get the data out. Make sure the "winning" method is with a company outside the USA. Match up every image recovered outside the USA and send the "results' back to the USA.
No new database was created or used in the USA.
The pulling of circuit-breakers to stop alarms and warnings resulted in a way to get around sounds and longer check lists.
Lots of no-brainer features got designed in and often got turned off to save time.
A lot of work had to be done to ensure warnings and no-brainer features did not get turned off.
Decode the federal politics of words like "affordable, efficient, and effective".
When one part of a city can afford a new network it won't be allowed to design a new network.
"Affordable" - every part of the city has to pay the same low cost for any new network plan.
"Efficient" - everyone all over a city gets the new network investment at a lower cost.
"Effective" - poor areas of the city get new network investment even if the network costs will never be recovered.
The result is everyone stays on the same speed paper insulated wireline under federal NN rules.
No part of a city can invest in the new innovate networks as that would create a network divide.
So the entire USA has to stay on todays NN approved networks until someone pays to upgrade all US cities with "free" "affordable" new networks.
On federal monopoly telcos using paper insulated wireline.
Let different parts of the USA who are innovative design their own community broadband and escape federal NN rules.
Why should every part of the USA be held back by federal NN rules when amazing new community networks could be funded?
Why is the USA getting held back for decades on affordable, efficient, and effective wireline?
What not let local communities build their own affordable, efficient and fast new networks? Attract new investment with new networks and grow a city?
A city does not grow with "affordable, efficient, and effective" networks protected by federal NN rules..
Cities need the freedom to expand fast new networks that can make a brand select that city over the rest of the USA.
While some states and cities select to stay with "affordable, efficient, and effective" paper insulated wireline more advanced parts of the USA should have the freedom to network with their own new and faster networks.
Remove federal network rules and let innovative US cities network at their own pace.
Let the rest of the USA stay on their own affordable, efficient, and effective for decades if they want to project that existing wireline will provide the needed bandwidth.
Re "An obvious solution would be to add capacity. This can be more frequent trains, or adding a few cars to each train."
Someone has to pay for all that "free".
A new train will cost a nation real money to make/import.
Most people get a free ride? Thats no extra money to pay for the new service.
A tax rate has to then be set to cover that "free".
What to do with capacity during hours when its not needed? Just keep it all moving around a city? Thats a lot of extra power to pay for to move then near empty trains... all day.
Move the extra trains to get maintenance done on them until they are needed hours later?
Too many new trains adds to maintenance costs. To buy parts, to look after parts.
Set up a domestic train building factory for "free" too? Import new trains to add that extra capacity? Import costs do not stop with a train. The years of parts needed later have to be paid for.
Run more near empty trains more often all day for free getting free parts from a free train factory?
Thats more parts to replace over the years and more "free" trains to look after.
The costs of a nations "free" train service can add up even with a free factory making free trains. Lots of free trains over the years will need new parts.
Adding capacity is not free.
Re "Can this be fixed in software, by having the cell phone only communicate with known towers?"
Depends who paid for the "new" tower.
GCHQ wants to watch over the IRA in the USA? Interesting and sensitive sites get a new GCHQ tower in the USA without telling the NSA, FBI, DEA.
CIA wants to watch over an embassy in the USA domestically but does not want the FBI knowing?
DEA and FBI finds out about an Iran Contra like funding for other US clandestine "agencies" and needs to investigate?
A big US brand is tied of having city investigators track and investigate their gig economy contractors.
Set up a few fake towers near larger police stations and gov buildings to build up a database of all undercover city workers, police and informants.
The gig economy company then has a real time database of all police, city workers, investigators, undercover informants, city contractors and can alter its practices in realtime to avoid most police/city enforcement.
FBI finds out other US clandestine agencies are working with "freedom" fighters all over the USA to help spread "democracy" globally.
The FBI would like digital details on and faces of every US backed "freedom" fighter thats in the US.
US Army, Navy would like to know who is protesting for "peace" outside their base, camp, fort, port. Doing first amendment audits along the fence, using a camera and not showing photo ID off base when asked.
The software detection really gets interesting when you have that kind of support to "create" a tower and have a real telco tower. A tower that can be pass any scan by police, FBI, NSA, CIA, police contractors trying to secure a police building, city workers as it is the type and size of a normal "telco" registered tower.
The only way to be sure would be to sort lists of every tower that exists with every tower every telco really owns in that part of the USA.
Find the telco towers that work 24/7 but no big brand telco worker has every worked on. The contractor supported "Room 641A" towers.
The other reason why so many fake towers exist is that US police and state/federal task forces cannot trust any telco/court worker. So many investigations fail totally when cleared "staff" pass logs of real time investigations back to their own nations, cults, faith groups, criminals, the media due to their faith, for cash, staff with split loyalty to another nation.
When a US investigation has enough budget, why not build your own cell tower that nobody will ever know about. Then just keep using it and upgrading the tech?
Who is going to detect the real reason it was installed and report it? A competing telco? Another part of the US gov? Its just another telco looking tower thats always been in that location... Branding and kept to code.
One tell could be the quality of equipment around the tower. Full backup kept to a spec no private sector telco in the area pays to keep their consumer networks.
Over engineered, way to much cooling, battery and a big power supply that looks new due to years of real support and testing.
A big quality fence, New CCTV in a box on a pole looking over the entire site, extra complex locks, lack of rust, no grass growing into equipment, quality cement was used on site. All the additional power, bandwidth. Upgrades done before any other telco finally moves to anew standard and upgrades.
The much older idea was for a gov, mil to "clone" their own site an existing telco site. So a telco would build a tower and the gov/mil would have a tower site that looked the same near that side. Same style, size, power. But city maps would only show the telco site. Easy access to the data was needed site to site in the past so location and a short distance was a design consideration.
That allows the feds to talk about under oath before any oversight committee that the US federal databases only contain images of past criminals.
What is for sale on the open market is never mentioned.
Re "have we become that this is the norm?"
Issues with crypto and hardware? 1920-30's would have been the start and global radio network collect it all.
1945 with the results of Enigma like real time decryption would have seen the need to control all advanced crypto sold for embassy and commercial use after ww2.
Every message to/from any French embassy in the 1950's in plain text in real time.
Any early advance computer system, communications, crypto product on sale in the West would have been defective by design and leaked plain text from the 1950's into the 1970's.
Early 1980's would have seen the need for the GCHQ to be all over every new computer and digital network in/out of Ireland. The NSA all over every CPU like chip design "copied" by the Soviet Union, East Germany.
Follow the need to spy and the defective Western hardware is on sale, at a low cost and very easy to export.
Set standards so every commercial system sold for decades is 100% 'ready' for NSA, GCHQ collection methods.
The other stand out network at that time was South African. South African mil communications system had to stay 100% secure for decades given constant Soviet, East German, Cuban spying.
PRISM and BULLRUN https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... then fills out ideas surrounding this generations collect it all.
Enjoy that secure VPN that offers 110% security:)
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A Cuba and China would try to flood a US embassy with its own spies.
Long term, nice and productive, totally trusted by the US embassy.
Humans walking out with all kinds of sensitive US information.
No tech needed to risk collection just lots of totally trusted human. Lots of split loyalty staff reporting back to Cuba, China that are totally trusted by the US gov/mil.
Why would a China and Cuba do the one thing to induce US security to look at all the embassy and find the spies using spy tech in place?
Cuba and China would want a happy relaxed US embassy so their spies could collect and be safe and stay in place.
Relaxed US officials are embassy workers not calling in US security to find problems and hunt down well established human spies.
What is the sound? US spying hardware projected out of the embassy using methods to avoid detection.
Someone got their gps wrong and has soaked the embassy in narrow, directional contractor collection communication system.
Great when pointed out of the US embassy for a site to site burst of data. Positioned the wrong way and that powerful direction beam is staying in the US embassy.
More a location and set up problem than any outside spying.
Have the contractor look at their spying equipment and ensure all of it is working out into a Cuba, China. Not beaming back into the office and hallways.
Do that and everything will return to normal. Spies can get o/n with their work and the rest of the staff will not be distracted by electronic communications from the tent/shack on the embassy roof.
Its a Pentagon papers like walk out due to domestic US politics.
sitting in the car in the wrong way.
All that quality Ada space code needs support.
The political documents walked out. They did not get moved out by a "network".
"Former NSA experts say it wasn’t a hack at all, but a leak" (Aug 9, 2017)
https://www.thenation.com/arti...
"... demonstrating that 23 MB/s is a typical transfer rate when using a USB–2 flash device (thumb drive).”"
The unique voice print gets counted as one user every time they buy a new cell phone?
The NSA has all the details. Its just not good to talk about what can be done in real time with easy decryption.
So the FBI allows for some ambiguity to exist in the US media.
The very newest cell phone is not a live mic. Its all too advanced and academically difficult.
Please keep talking into the live mic.
Keep the newest cell phone on at all times and don't think about the gps.
Take lots of digital images too. The 4K video function is so creative too.
Think of in the way the USA and GCHQ view encryption in the media.
The GCHQ wants to collect it all and without having to do much decryption in real time. So all trusted big brand encryption sold has to be junk and weak.
Make sure nobody ever finds out and thats decades of effortless collection on every network and device.
No reports to the police, not one story in the media, no politicians able to get told methods, no lawyers reading about methods.
Just the clandestine and security services who use information the GCHQ collects.
The USA needs good news and something to get more funding and to win political support for more budget growth.
That needs good crypto news,
That the US political leadership understands than no crypto is beyond the USA if a budget exists to buy more super computers.
That places a lot of news in the wild about junk crypto and how police have the keys to all consumer crypto.
Interesting people slowly stop trusting their live mic and gps collecting cell phones.
Interesting people slowly understand methods like voice prints.
The FBI understands the UK method and likes that hidden side to total collection and later direct action.
But a budget has to be protected and that needs good winning news to present.
Winning news often has pointers to methods and thats not good.
A big brand US cell phone network its all private and too difficult to uncrypto. Its just too difficult.
PRISM showed just how safe...
The approved and allowed news stories show the need for collect it all and that no crypto is beyond the newest and most advanced US super computers.
Please buy law enforcement more super computers so they can get extract more data out of the new cell phones.
Wont someone think of the contractors... Just one new super computer cyber task force can work on 10000 cell phones.
What state like to be HQ to a new cyber task force? Think of the votes and the well paying new jobs.
The FBI did a great job all over the USA.
Rob a bank in a nice community and the FBI would help hunt down the person/group using advance science.
Bad crime in some part of the USA? The FBI would always help and support local law enforcement with the latest methods and insights into criminal behavior.
Peace groups and radical political/faith groups creating problems in communities? The FBI would place informants in such emerging groups and track their funding, supporters, politics, international connections.
Watching embassies and international visitors in the US who where spying on the USA. The FBI worked very hard to try and keep US secrets protected from other nations.
Entering US politics? The FBI was always interested in anyone entering state and federal politics.
Who was funding a politician, who a politician like to be friends with, any other "friends". Lots of files got created on all US political leaders and who supported them.
The FBI was always very busy.
Informants. Lots of informants. Take an offer to help the FBI and all was good.
Massive database searches all over the USA.
Lots of surveillance.
Science. Talking to people in jail and prison about their crimes and understanding criminal methods.
Anthropology and the direct study of every emerging community/cult/faith in the USA.
The placing of vast amounts of well paid informants in every community. Political groups and new social groups/faith/peace groups/academics and other criminal groups all over the USA slowly got filled with trusted informants.
A bit like the Stasi but the FBI had fast super computers to ensure every interesting group only got a set number of trusted informants.
The FBI was skilled in the way it never had its own informants reporting on its own undercover informants for years.
Just enough informants and undercover work per group to keep information flowing, with the option to disturpt the group internally if needed.
Ensuring people who would face criminals had some support from the FBI.
Constant "chat downs" and remembering any "strangers" who did not fit in a nice community.
How to keep evidence. A bank teller gets handed a note. Keep the note for later examination. Recall all past visits by strangers before a crime.
Bait. Publish the "movements" and "holidays" of wealthy people, movements of expensive products, new investments and see who was ready to do a crime.
Basically using a magazine, newspaper like "social media" over months to lay out a fake story and then see what criminal groups got attracted to the fake news story.
Then make offers to anyone who was caught. Become an informant and get released, protected. Report back to the FBI and become a productive informative for the FBI for decades.
In the past a "ram the yoke forward on takeoff" issue was rare.
The list of task to do was too long.
The alarms too loud and constant to allow the rest of the tasks to be done.
The needed taxi checklist could be done quickly and the flight would be ready in time for its take off slot.
Everything works well until the alarm that should have prevented the lack of a task been done was turned off.
Depends on what a nation will do. The US has clear legal guidance on that
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized"
So it takes a lot of work with the private sector and contractors domestically in the USA for police to get their parallel construction ready for the legal system.
In nations such as the UK you can just build a Ring of steel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and capture at every face, passenger and license plate in real time.
The real problem for US police investigations is they only get to keep searchable digital images of criminals. That makes looking for suspects in photos and videos on social media more difficult in the USA.
Police in the USA would have to have a suspect database and a every US citizen photo database.
Two groups of people who have had no contact with US police and who should not exist as data sets in any US police database domestically.
US police cant just keep every old and new images of every US citizen over decades so the FBI can match them in seconds should any US citizen do a crime.
Digital privacy laws sets the USA apart from nations like the UK. Laws and rules the FBI have to follow and not have any domestic database of all US citizens.
Someone is giving the US police and government images it should not have to find a "suspect" vs digital images of all US citizens.
Why is the USA so super protective of all images collected by city, state and federal databases and won't share with the FBI and other federal law enforcement?
Why the super strong privacy protections for data sets that cant allow the FBI to take one image from a crime and look back over all images every city, parish, state and federal database that has US citizen images?
That fast digital comparison of all existing US image databases would clear up voter fraud, illegal immigration, inner city crime, cyber crime, ID fraud, shared ID crimes, academic fraud with one modern database. Image matching is fast so it could be real time just like in the UK.
US courts and prisons would be full for a while. All illegal migrants would be discoverable. But then everyone would know that any photo ID was a police ID and change their methods.
Better to keep easy ID methods and make all criminals think they have federal "privacy" in their part of the USA?
The private sector that now helps US police "discover" online images would not have so much work if federal officials can set up their own police database.
So US law enforcement has to pay for and work with the private sector to create its own lists and them work out "how" they found the person without an image later.
Stop a car for a random legal reason in a state. Use that unique K9 that alerts on every car. ID can then be discovered in a very normal and totally random way.
Another way for US law enforcement to get around powerful US domestic digital privacy laws is to have a winning company in say France, Ireland "win" a federal US law upgrade and modernisation contract.
Then the "contractors" can preform all kinds of searches in say France as they have no extra privacy laws for US data sets "found" globally on social media.
Lots of ways around matching every US citizen to images of interest to US law enforcement well outside any privacy laws.
A cell phone thats too hard to log into? Dont have the password? Never use a US company to get the data out. Make sure the "winning" method is with a company outside the USA. Match up every image recovered outside the USA and send the "results' back to the USA.
No new database was created or used in the USA.
The faces of people in the
Shares its collection of social media with NATO so everything is all legal and good in the EU?
The pulling of circuit-breakers to stop alarms and warnings resulted in a way to get around sounds and longer check lists.
Lots of no-brainer features got designed in and often got turned off to save time.
A lot of work had to be done to ensure warnings and no-brainer features did not get turned off.
Decode the federal politics of words like "affordable, efficient, and effective".
When one part of a city can afford a new network it won't be allowed to design a new network.
"Affordable" - every part of the city has to pay the same low cost for any new network plan.
"Efficient" - everyone all over a city gets the new network investment at a lower cost.
"Effective" - poor areas of the city get new network investment even if the network costs will never be recovered.
The result is everyone stays on the same speed paper insulated wireline under federal NN rules.
No part of a city can invest in the new innovate networks as that would create a network divide.
So the entire USA has to stay on todays NN approved networks until someone pays to upgrade all US cities with "free" "affordable" new networks.
On federal monopoly telcos using paper insulated wireline.
Let different parts of the USA who are innovative design their own community broadband and escape federal NN rules.
Why should every part of the USA be held back by federal NN rules when amazing new community networks could be funded?
Why is the USA getting held back for decades on affordable, efficient, and effective wireline?
What not let local communities build their own affordable, efficient and fast new networks? Attract new investment with new networks and grow a city?
A city does not grow with "affordable, efficient, and effective" networks protected by federal NN rules..
Cities need the freedom to expand fast new networks that can make a brand select that city over the rest of the USA.
While some states and cities select to stay with "affordable, efficient, and effective" paper insulated wireline more advanced parts of the USA should have the freedom to network with their own new and faster networks.
Remove federal network rules and let innovative US cities network at their own pace. Let the rest of the USA stay on their own affordable, efficient, and effective for decades if they want to project that existing wireline will provide the needed bandwidth.
Its all about the ads. Just the ads.
Re "An obvious solution would be to add capacity. This can be more frequent trains, or adding a few cars to each train."
Someone has to pay for all that "free".
A new train will cost a nation real money to make/import.
Most people get a free ride? Thats no extra money to pay for the new service.
A tax rate has to then be set to cover that "free".
What to do with capacity during hours when its not needed? Just keep it all moving around a city? Thats a lot of extra power to pay for to move then near empty trains... all day.
Move the extra trains to get maintenance done on them until they are needed hours later?
Too many new trains adds to maintenance costs. To buy parts, to look after parts.
Set up a domestic train building factory for "free" too? Import new trains to add that extra capacity? Import costs do not stop with a train. The years of parts needed later have to be paid for.
Run more near empty trains more often all day for free getting free parts from a free train factory?
Thats more parts to replace over the years and more "free" trains to look after.
The costs of a nations "free" train service can add up even with a free factory making free trains. Lots of free trains over the years will need new parts.
Adding capacity is not free.
CCTV of every face connected to using computer currency.
That would be under the "CIA wants to watch over an embassy". Every embassy in the USA.
Re "Can this be fixed in software, by having the cell phone only communicate with known towers?"
Depends who paid for the "new" tower.
GCHQ wants to watch over the IRA in the USA? Interesting and sensitive sites get a new GCHQ tower in the USA without telling the NSA, FBI, DEA.
CIA wants to watch over an embassy in the USA domestically but does not want the FBI knowing?
DEA and FBI finds out about an Iran Contra like funding for other US clandestine "agencies" and needs to investigate?
A big US brand is tied of having city investigators track and investigate their gig economy contractors.
Set up a few fake towers near larger police stations and gov buildings to build up a database of all undercover city workers, police and informants.
The gig economy company then has a real time database of all police, city workers, investigators, undercover informants, city contractors and can alter its practices in realtime to avoid most police/city enforcement.
FBI finds out other US clandestine agencies are working with "freedom" fighters all over the USA to help spread "democracy" globally.
The FBI would like digital details on and faces of every US backed "freedom" fighter thats in the US.
US Army, Navy would like to know who is protesting for "peace" outside their base, camp, fort, port. Doing first amendment audits along the fence, using a camera and not showing photo ID off base when asked.
The software detection really gets interesting when you have that kind of support to "create" a tower and have a real telco tower. A tower that can be pass any scan by police, FBI, NSA, CIA, police contractors trying to secure a police building, city workers as it is the type and size of a normal "telco" registered tower.
The only way to be sure would be to sort lists of every tower that exists with every tower every telco really owns in that part of the USA.
Find the telco towers that work 24/7 but no big brand telco worker has every worked on. The contractor supported "Room 641A" towers.
The other reason why so many fake towers exist is that US police and state/federal task forces cannot trust any telco/court worker. So many investigations fail totally when cleared "staff" pass logs of real time investigations back to their own nations, cults, faith groups, criminals, the media due to their faith, for cash, staff with split loyalty to another nation.
When a US investigation has enough budget, why not build your own cell tower that nobody will ever know about. Then just keep using it and upgrading the tech?
Who is going to detect the real reason it was installed and report it? A competing telco? Another part of the US gov? Its just another telco looking tower thats always been in that location... Branding and kept to code.
One tell could be the quality of equipment around the tower. Full backup kept to a spec no private sector telco in the area pays to keep their consumer networks.
Over engineered, way to much cooling, battery and a big power supply that looks new due to years of real support and testing.
A big quality fence, New CCTV in a box on a pole looking over the entire site, extra complex locks, lack of rust, no grass growing into equipment, quality cement was used on site.
All the additional power, bandwidth. Upgrades done before any other telco finally moves to anew standard and upgrades.
The much older idea was for a gov, mil to "clone" their own site an existing telco site. So a telco would build a tower and the gov/mil would have a tower site that looked the same near that side. Same style, size, power. But city maps would only show the telco site. Easy access to the data was needed site to site in the past so location and a short distance was a design consideration.
That allows the feds to talk about under oath before any oversight committee that the US federal databases only contain images of past criminals.
What is for sale on the open market is never mentioned.
Also deep into the border states. Every plate, face, drivers face, passengers face. All cell phone use, data.
Nobody can. Thats the idea. Recall the Domain Awareness System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Re "have we become that this is the norm?"
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Issues with crypto and hardware? 1920-30's would have been the start and global radio network collect it all.
1945 with the results of Enigma like real time decryption would have seen the need to control all advanced crypto sold for embassy and commercial use after ww2.
Every message to/from any French embassy in the 1950's in plain text in real time.
Any early advance computer system, communications, crypto product on sale in the West would have been defective by design and leaked plain text from the 1950's into the 1970's.
Early 1980's would have seen the need for the GCHQ to be all over every new computer and digital network in/out of Ireland. The NSA all over every CPU like chip design "copied" by the Soviet Union, East Germany.
Follow the need to spy and the defective Western hardware is on sale, at a low cost and very easy to export.
Set standards so every commercial system sold for decades is 100% 'ready' for NSA, GCHQ collection methods.
The other stand out network at that time was South African. South African mil communications system had to stay 100% secure for decades given constant Soviet, East German, Cuban spying.
PRISM and BULLRUN https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... then fills out ideas surrounding this generations collect it all.
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