AC why would the US have an online system like that that would be facing the internet?
At some stage in this "test" a real person in the USA with clearance had to physically give an order to allow the message to be sent. That would need some great social engineering on site:)
AC got a "clue" on how many other nations nationals are spying on the US navy in Hawaii? They would notice a strange message in real time. Some of them might have made contact with someone.
AC re you "If the alert is for real" then thanks to networks all over the US they got a few mins warning extra.
Such systems have oversight and a clear command structure. Its not a one person GUI mouse click in city hall to send everyone a message like that.
No one system user would be allowed to do a fat-finger error https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... with that kind of warning.
Start with what you have and build on that.
Store some food and water to start with.
If the home is yours and you can get planning approval consider an approved Root cellar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... design
If you have land, got gov approval and can hire an expert consider some of the much smaller bunker designs. They are turn key, functional and don't cost millions of $.
Stay in the house. Have water and food set aside.
The time after will be like the movie The Road https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... .
The shelters from the "Cold War" may have been reused in many buildings for parking, storage, converted to other use, the building might have been replaced by a new building with no new shelter.
Private shelters from the cold war had design limitations given the idea was to sell owners on bunker not design a bunker for different locations. The land the 1950/60 shelter got placed into might not have been well prepared and by 2018 that shelter might have cracked, moved, failed. Soil conditions and what water would do to under a bunker was not often considered by people motivated to sell a lot of bunkers to consumers.
A lot of people in a city do not have the needed land outside a city or a yard to build their own shelter in.
They might know of a good company to build one but not have the land for a $20,000 to $1000000 walk in or drive in bunker.
This needs an app. Something that can broadcast to a website for the rest of the world for say an hour.
Spare laptop with web cam, other spare cellphone that can pointed out a window after such an alert.
The US gov/mil needed to see what the US population would do in that state and all over the USA, globally given a simple cellphone message for a set time.
How would all diplomats in the USA react? Calls made, messages sent. Reactions in their embassy, communications used from their embassy out of the USA.
Spies been watched by the FBI all over the USA react in any way at all?
Do US survivalist have any national or global messaging system that was not yet under constant FBI/NSA/CIA watch?
What did average survivalist do? Drive out to their bug out location? Stay at work? Why? Did they know it was a test? Nice way to find out who they are and who got seen on CCTV, via cell phone tracking driving around in a very different way after the message:)
Did the message get repeated on unexpected and unknown communications networks? Totally new systems and unknown people who held back for just such a warning that had not been tracked by the NSA, CIA, GCHQ, FBI in the past?
Ham radio, cell phone, telephone numbers, IRC, forums, social media, changes to web sites, visits to strange web sites by many people? Different, direct messages to unexpected and new militia groups all over the US once thought to be isolated in their states?
Was the message a long conversation? A word? A number? Who passed it on locally deeper into the USA? Hops to different very networks all over the USA.
Such unexpected and urgent communications would have been a real time study for the FBI, NSA uncovering all kinds of survival and militia groups that stayed so well hidden for so long only to be detected USA wide by one simple message.
40 mins gave the study time to keep tracking all the people with "plans" all over the USA. Spies, embassy workers, US militia groups, cults, faith groups, dual citizens, survivalist, people in the US mil/gov/contractors, police might have done something very interesting for 40 mins.
Who stayed at their job in the US mil/gov/police? Who phoned their kin, strangers when they should not due to gov/mil secrecy? Who got a message and/or responded to someone they never had contact with in the past?
One message gave the FBI, US mil, police and NSA years of information on their workers, contractors, staff, special forces. Who made calls to tell people it was all a test... Who stayed loyal to the US mil/gov and who was talking to people.
Now the US gov knows who will do what in time of war.
No need for a new unified national photo ID card as that has a new risks in been an easy way to forge just one really useful new ID.
That would allow non citizens a new way to fake a one new federal ID and vote all day again.
State photo ID and other ID thats proves citizenship to a federal standard would be ok to ensure random people did not vote again and again.
That would ensure a citizen had to show a history documents that could be looked into.
Much harder to try and recreate a fake past in a nation with different ID, state, city documents that just create that new unified national photo ID card for a non citizen.
Just use existing city, state, federal ID, banking, work or US gov ID history per person to build up enough ID to show a person is a citizen and has voted once.
AC this is about selling different electronics parts all over the USA from one location via a web site.
Not the needs of on site food production and the changes to wage costs in one state.
Paying 100% of a nation a UBI to wealthy, working citizens with good average wages is not going to "save" on the amount of UBI payments.
Paying a few citizens doing further education, who cant work, doing seasonal work who are between work will save on UBI payments every generation.
Only so many citizens are not working, doing study, cant work in any given generation. For many years most of the rest of the normal citizens are earning a real wage and paying taxes to pay for the UBI.
No need to pay a citizen who is working a UBI. Ensure the UBI is for citizens who are not working, cant work, looking for work.
Governments use less "paperwork"now and can use gov computers to sort their entire population of citizens. Who gets a payment, who is working, who is doing seasonal work, who is doing study, who needs an old age pension, who has a/some private sector pension.
No work and a citizen gets their full UBI.
The UBI fully covers all citizens who need it until they are working again, reach retirement age. Then they can use their private sector pension or get an old age pension. The UBI can then keep helping generations of citizens when they needed it.
Workers, professionals who are working and productive don't need a UBI and can be set to not get a UBI with a tax database. No "paperwork" needed.
What if virtue signalling politicians tell the FBI to hire more local people and that not passing full FBI vetting was not a reason not to get a job with the federal government?
That having no past to investigate (new citizen), some criminal past in the USA was not a good reason not to work for the US government?
That questions of been able to prove been loyal to the USA would not stop a person from been given a job in the US government?
Only once found to be criminal at their new federal gov job could they be questioned. Not investigated beyond that one person.
New citizens with no background investigations, some criminals, people of faith who are not loyal to the USA could be walking around once very secure gov office buildings. Working around, near and with the FBI secure areas for many years.
People who might not be a criminal but who have a number of criminals in their family, as friends, who are criminals get to work in a federal gov job?
People of faith who put their faith and another country first and would be able to spy on the US if so requested by people of their faith, that other nation?
That vetting might be strong for the contractors working on the computers sorting the domestic voice prints but all the "new" staff who are not loyal to the USA in the same gov building?
A small part of a secure NATO base in the EU with 100% vetted US contractors in a secure site is starting to look good better long term for the FBI.
No US FOIA, no US courts, no US lawyers to find domestic voice print database projects, funding for such hardware as such work never existed in the USA.
No US human rights groups, lawyers looking into US FBI funding?
What the US mil did for the FBI in the EU on part of a US base? Thats a real mil secret kept by fully vetted contractors.
No risking random individuals working for the US federal gov wondering around spying on the FBI all day, everyday for criminals, other nations, their faith, their cult.
The trusted and vetted individuals only helps good security until virtue signalling politicians demand anyone get to work for the US gov.
Once the US gov cant do vetting everything walks out everyday with the new gov workers.
So that people working who are in full time employment pay tax and don't get paid a Universal Basic Income.
They are working and get a good wage in the private sector, from the gov, mil as part of working and having a real job every day.
That keeps the universal basic income for people who really need it. Citizens who cant work, who have seasonal work, are doing part time work, are doing education or re entering the work force.
Lots of citizens will need the universal basic income as they study, cant work, change jobs, find seasonal work.
Citizens with full time jobs don't need a universal basic income as they have a normal income every month and year. Working citizens have a wage.
Means testing ensures a government can keep the universal basic income working well for generations of all its citizens.
Working citizens pay taxes to support the universal basic income.
Citizens not working or looking for work get the universal basic income.
The ratio of tax payers and people not in work can cover the costs of supporting a universal basic income thats only for a nations citizens.
An old age pension then covers citizens without a private pension or a low/failed private sector pension plan.
No need to cover non citizens. Citizens who are working normal jobs and paying tax to support the universal basic income payments every year.
Means testing ensures all citizens get their universal basic income until they find full time work, find a good job after getting an education and stat paying taxes.
False positives happened in the past due to systems that needed a face presented in a direct face on way with a good standard of lighting from a set of CCTV images.
That saved on needing to hire many new skilled programmers, have advanced new CCTV network that could work in low light and allowed for a low cost system that could use a lot of consumer CPU's.
Images of people been interviewed, criminals taken at police stations, jail, prison in the past did not get much mathematical consideration as the image to be matched with.
With more understanding of what a human face looks like in 3d, side on, from above, below, in different light the number of false positives can be reduced.
The ability to keep tacking a person via gait from camera to camera until a better image is captured also stops reduces false positives.
Police stations, jails, prisons now capture suspects images from all sides, their gait, in different light when walking to an interview, been interviewed, in jail, been released, changes when with their lawyer/legal team.
That builds up an almost 3d data set, from ears, side of face, top of face, under face, mouth, eyes, body art, scars, changes to facial hair/hair style. All in different lighting with much better quality CCTV and other more advanced hidden camera systems no always on show.
So a quality database of a persons measurements of face, gait, walk, ear, nose, chin, neck, shoulders, legs, hip now exists for anyone who had to be with police for any reason. Even getting a drivers licence, the face image might be one of many images taken on that day.... at that another nations DMV like location.
Why just take one image when the person is in line, entering data, been questioned, been photographed once...
Much better math is then done on all that so other CCTV systems can understand how to match all that police data with new data captured in real time.
The new CCTV networks are now not just a camera with one image to match later. Its real time at many frames per second sorting every measurement of chin, eyes, nose, shoulders, side of face, top of face, under face as a person moves from CCTV to CCTV camera. That math is then sorted and compared to the data sets of existing people of interest.
The days of 2d like flat images needed have been replaced to total 3d like face, head, gait collection over a network of cameras with much better math and CPU like support.
The software and hardware has now been tested to the needs of the CCTV math. No more sets of consumer CPU's been sold as a CCTV security system.
All that police, jail, DMV like data is the worked on. Driving a car, truck, van? In a train, aircraft, boat? Walking around a city? Driving out of a city? As a driver, passenger all that is now CCTV ready. Match that with a cell phone, electronic toll collection and gait. Day, night, all weather.
False positives are no longer a problem. In the USA its just how not to tell a persons lawyer the discovery part of how that person got tracked all over the USA.
In Communist nations the only problem was upgrading all the CCTV hardware nation wide to one new system and standard.
Domain Awareness System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... solved that false positives problem generations ago.
Have a national ID card or set of national ID to prove citizenship. Not a citizen? No basic income.
Just go for real means testing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Citizen is not working for any reason for a longer time and is not between work for a short time? Basic Income long term with no questions asked.
Citizen is not getting a wage above the min wage for any reason? Basic Income support long term with the need to report any wage changes.
Citizen has a varied and seasonal wage that is below the min wage for some months in the year? Basic Income support and monthly reporting of any wage changes. So they are always supported.
The citizen finds full, part time work thats well above the min wage again? No more basic income.
That would be more fair on citizens who are not working and people who need support while re entering the work force.
A provision that covers all citizens at the many different stages of productive work in many different parts of a nation.
Been in full time work or a profession and changing to another job? Unemployment benefits that stop when a citizen has found a job again.
Automate the basic income for the poor from the existing support payments.
No citizen with a good paying job, good income gets the basic income.
Non citizens attempting to prove their need to become citizens can stay in supported housing with no claim to basic income.
Non citizens can become citizens, move to another nation wanting to accept large numbers of non citizens or get deported back to their own nations.
The basic income does not become a reason for non citizens to stay in the nation offering its own citizens a basic income.
We have one last bit of information.
U.S. secretly tracked billions of calls for decades (April 7, 2015) https://www.usatoday.com/story...
Would the FBI still risk such bulk sorting of voice print data within the USA given criminal, cult, faith and legal interest in all things collect it all?
What happens when the same kinds of people who now derank search results and ban links get into car data?
Attend the wrong political meeting and their car has terms of service issues?
Use the wrong words in their car and get locked out?
Look at the wrong web sites and their car wont start?
Register all the citizens who can vote legally using photo ID. No illegal migrants, non citizens get to vote.
Use the computers to ensure the citizens can vote once with their registered voter photo ID.
Use paper votes and count them with all party, independent candidate observers looking over the paper court in real time for each vote counted.
Collect each count of the vote by citizens in a town, city, part of the USA.
More party, independent observers to see the final count is correct given their own count from each paper vote counted.
That removes the ability to use illegal migrants presenting as citizens.
Illegal migrants presenting as citizens to vote many times all day.
Citizens getting to vote many times all day.
The use of another citizens "name" to vote.
Gerrymandering would be a problem but the citizen count of actual voters would at least be more correct. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
East Germany lost its actual spy contact lists. Names, locations, everything needed to find the person in another nation quickly and contact them.
The US stored some of its workers, contractors, some gov/mil background information in plain text on internet facing networks.
That copy kept in plain text, copied out onto the internet gave away all information about some workers life, some work within the US gov/mil. The skills set they had. Any past lifestyle issues with say gambling, healthcare, past legal issues. The quality of interviews done to grant them some security clearance.
Re the NOC list. All the names that are not on the copied files but work for the US/gov mil kind of put a different list together.
The US kept its non-official cover much more private and totally secure but a simple comparison of actually staff working and the copied plain text database would give another skilled nation a list to guess from.
Dont keep interesting data in plain text, on networks that can be seen from the internet. Keeping an investigation open to watch what interesting people do as the data is been copied out still results in the data been copied out..
Re "What makes you think they don't let the FBI see it?"
The FBI want people to keep using their live mic, camera, GPS, file system copy system with confidence over every generation of big brand product.
What could convince many interesting people to still trust a big US brand not be working with US law enforcement?
If interesting people see all the phones been used as part of evidence they will just stop using the phones. The free domestic voice print collection goes dark.
The real issue is how many criminals/spies in the USA have the security clearance connections to see the real time voice print results of domestic collection? In the FBI? Telco workers? Police? City/state Internal affairs? Mil contractors? Cult/faith members working for a gov/contractor in secure legal and telco areas with a top security clearance? Lawyers? The mil support teams? Other agency staff?
The people who work on the LETC upgrades to law enforcement front company aircraft?
How many people need to be in on nation wide domestic voice and data collection if the junk encryption keeps collection wide open over every generation of big brand product?
Is domestic collection all out sourced to some part of the EU?
A trusted set of contractors in a "France" does the US domestic sorting so no other level of law enforcement/mil/gov in the USA can ever find their own files in any FBI database? Nobody interesting in the US would then have to know?
The secret is not that all US big brand encryption is junk. The place outside the USA where the real time results are sorted and kept away from US telco workers, cults, criminals, city/state police would be the secret to keep.
No US spy under federal suspicion would be able to find results in any US database by searching domestically. Domestic parallel construction hidden out side the USA for safe keeping.
Any criminal/faith group/corrupt police looking deep into FBI files would only find pictures of people with convictions, all US drivers license images, DNA and finger prints. All the usual data any advanced national police force has on convicted people. The domestically collected voice prints do not get stored in the USA? So the trust stays as the criminals and faith groups are sure nothing is collected from their secure big brand phone in real time. Yet the LETC flights circle a city for hours. What is getting collecting domestically if the big brands products are so secure and the results are still protected with secure encryption?
From PRISM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... to China?
How about data staying in the USA and providing freedom of speech and freedom after speech for users around the world?
Let users globally enjoy US freedoms rather than what is allowed under a Communist party legal system.
The UK could declare a diplomat Persona non grata. That person keeps all their diplomatic protection on the way out of the UK.
Arresting any other nations embassy staff after been declared Persona non grata as they are leaving is not something the UK would want to.
A legal precedent for arresting any diplomat is not acceptable within the diplomatic community.
The Persona non grata allows a person to exit the nation with diplomatic protection as they are been recalled.
If not the prisons in the UK, USA and Soviet Union would have been full of each others embassy staff during the cold war.
They did not and many embassy staff got to be recalled to their own nations in a very normal way.
So that "but they could also arrest" is not a good path for any nation to attempt with another nations diplomats.
AC any diplomatic missions would be under constant threat if nations could make up a "crime" and swap out an entire nations embassy.
So thats why Persona non grata https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... exists.
That person with diplomatic immunity is then recalled but do not lose their diplomatic immunity while been recalled from another nation.
They get to leave the nation with full diplomatic immunity and do back to their own nation.
AC diplomatic immunity is not a get out of jail free card. It protects members of a diplomatic staff.
Is the ice in a good location to explore space from later?
Send humans to Mars.
Get them using the water with more space exploring supplies sent from earth.
A nuclear reactor and rocket fuel factory.
Extract water to create more rocket fuel.
A Project Iceworm for Mars? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
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AC why would the US have an online system like that that would be facing the internet? :)
At some stage in this "test" a real person in the USA with clearance had to physically give an order to allow the message to be sent. That would need some great social engineering on site
AC got a "clue" on how many other nations nationals are spying on the US navy in Hawaii? They would notice a strange message in real time. Some of them might have made contact with someone.
AC re you "If the alert is for real" then thanks to networks all over the US they got a few mins warning extra.
Such systems have oversight and a clear command structure. Its not a one person GUI mouse click in city hall to send everyone a message like that.
No one system user would be allowed to do a fat-finger error https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... with that kind of warning.
Start with what you have and build on that.
Store some food and water to start with.
If the home is yours and you can get planning approval consider an approved Root cellar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... design
If you have land, got gov approval and can hire an expert consider some of the much smaller bunker designs. They are turn key, functional and don't cost millions of $.
Stay in the house. Have water and food set aside.
The time after will be like the movie The Road https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... .
The shelters from the "Cold War" may have been reused in many buildings for parking, storage, converted to other use, the building might have been replaced by a new building with no new shelter.
Private shelters from the cold war had design limitations given the idea was to sell owners on bunker not design a bunker for different locations.
The land the 1950/60 shelter got placed into might not have been well prepared and by 2018 that shelter might have cracked, moved, failed. Soil conditions and what water would do to under a bunker was not often considered by people motivated to sell a lot of bunkers to consumers.
A lot of people in a city do not have the needed land outside a city or a yard to build their own shelter in.
They might know of a good company to build one but not have the land for a $20,000 to $1000000 walk in or drive in bunker.
This needs an app. Something that can broadcast to a website for the rest of the world for say an hour.
Spare laptop with web cam, other spare cellphone that can pointed out a window after such an alert.
The US gov/mil needed to see what the US population would do in that state and all over the USA, globally given a simple cellphone message for a set time. :)
How would all diplomats in the USA react? Calls made, messages sent. Reactions in their embassy, communications used from their embassy out of the USA.
Spies been watched by the FBI all over the USA react in any way at all?
Do US survivalist have any national or global messaging system that was not yet under constant FBI/NSA/CIA watch?
What did average survivalist do? Drive out to their bug out location? Stay at work? Why? Did they know it was a test? Nice way to find out who they are and who got seen on CCTV, via cell phone tracking driving around in a very different way after the message
Did the message get repeated on unexpected and unknown communications networks? Totally new systems and unknown people who held back for just such a warning that had not been tracked by the NSA, CIA, GCHQ, FBI in the past?
Ham radio, cell phone, telephone numbers, IRC, forums, social media, changes to web sites, visits to strange web sites by many people? Different, direct messages to unexpected and new militia groups all over the US once thought to be isolated in their states?
Was the message a long conversation? A word? A number? Who passed it on locally deeper into the USA? Hops to different very networks all over the USA.
Such unexpected and urgent communications would have been a real time study for the FBI, NSA uncovering all kinds of survival and militia groups that stayed so well hidden for so long only to be detected USA wide by one simple message.
40 mins gave the study time to keep tracking all the people with "plans" all over the USA. Spies, embassy workers, US militia groups, cults, faith groups, dual citizens, survivalist, people in the US mil/gov/contractors, police might have done something very interesting for 40 mins.
Who stayed at their job in the US mil/gov/police? Who phoned their kin, strangers when they should not due to gov/mil secrecy? Who got a message and/or responded to someone they never had contact with in the past?
One message gave the FBI, US mil, police and NSA years of information on their workers, contractors, staff, special forces. Who made calls to tell people it was all a test...
Who stayed loyal to the US mil/gov and who was talking to people.
Now the US gov knows who will do what in time of war.
No need for a new unified national photo ID card as that has a new risks in been an easy way to forge just one really useful new ID.
That would allow non citizens a new way to fake a one new federal ID and vote all day again.
State photo ID and other ID thats proves citizenship to a federal standard would be ok to ensure random people did not vote again and again.
That would ensure a citizen had to show a history documents that could be looked into.
Much harder to try and recreate a fake past in a nation with different ID, state, city documents that just create that new unified national photo ID card for a non citizen.
Just use existing city, state, federal ID, banking, work or US gov ID history per person to build up enough ID to show a person is a citizen and has voted once.
AC this is about selling different electronics parts all over the USA from one location via a web site.
Not the needs of on site food production and the changes to wage costs in one state.
Paying 100% of a nation a UBI to wealthy, working citizens with good average wages is not going to "save" on the amount of UBI payments.
Paying a few citizens doing further education, who cant work, doing seasonal work who are between work will save on UBI payments every generation.
Only so many citizens are not working, doing study, cant work in any given generation. For many years most of the rest of the normal citizens are earning a real wage and paying taxes to pay for the UBI.
No need to pay a citizen who is working a UBI. Ensure the UBI is for citizens who are not working, cant work, looking for work.
Governments use less "paperwork"now and can use gov computers to sort their entire population of citizens. Who gets a payment, who is working, who is doing seasonal work, who is doing study, who needs an old age pension, who has a/some private sector pension.
No work and a citizen gets their full UBI.
The UBI fully covers all citizens who need it until they are working again, reach retirement age. Then they can use their private sector pension or get an old age pension.
The UBI can then keep helping generations of citizens when they needed it.
Workers, professionals who are working and productive don't need a UBI and can be set to not get a UBI with a tax database. No "paperwork" needed.
What if virtue signalling politicians tell the FBI to hire more local people and that not passing full FBI vetting was not a reason not to get a job with the federal government?
That having no past to investigate (new citizen), some criminal past in the USA was not a good reason not to work for the US government?
That questions of been able to prove been loyal to the USA would not stop a person from been given a job in the US government?
Only once found to be criminal at their new federal gov job could they be questioned. Not investigated beyond that one person.
New citizens with no background investigations, some criminals, people of faith who are not loyal to the USA could be walking around once very secure gov office buildings.
Working around, near and with the FBI secure areas for many years.
People who might not be a criminal but who have a number of criminals in their family, as friends, who are criminals get to work in a federal gov job?
People of faith who put their faith and another country first and would be able to spy on the US if so requested by people of their faith, that other nation?
That vetting might be strong for the contractors working on the computers sorting the domestic voice prints but all the "new" staff who are not loyal to the USA in the same gov building?
A small part of a secure NATO base in the EU with 100% vetted US contractors in a secure site is starting to look good better long term for the FBI.
No US FOIA, no US courts, no US lawyers to find domestic voice print database projects, funding for such hardware as such work never existed in the USA.
No US human rights groups, lawyers looking into US FBI funding?
What the US mil did for the FBI in the EU on part of a US base? Thats a real mil secret kept by fully vetted contractors.
No risking random individuals working for the US federal gov wondering around spying on the FBI all day, everyday for criminals, other nations, their faith, their cult.
The trusted and vetted individuals only helps good security until virtue signalling politicians demand anyone get to work for the US gov.
Once the US gov cant do vetting everything walks out everyday with the new gov workers.
So that people working who are in full time employment pay tax and don't get paid a Universal Basic Income.
They are working and get a good wage in the private sector, from the gov, mil as part of working and having a real job every day.
That keeps the universal basic income for people who really need it. Citizens who cant work, who have seasonal work, are doing part time work, are doing education or re entering the work force.
Lots of citizens will need the universal basic income as they study, cant work, change jobs, find seasonal work.
Citizens with full time jobs don't need a universal basic income as they have a normal income every month and year. Working citizens have a wage.
Means testing ensures a government can keep the universal basic income working well for generations of all its citizens.
Working citizens pay taxes to support the universal basic income.
Citizens not working or looking for work get the universal basic income.
The ratio of tax payers and people not in work can cover the costs of supporting a universal basic income thats only for a nations citizens.
An old age pension then covers citizens without a private pension or a low/failed private sector pension plan.
No need to cover non citizens. Citizens who are working normal jobs and paying tax to support the universal basic income payments every year.
Means testing ensures all citizens get their universal basic income until they find full time work, find a good job after getting an education and stat paying taxes.
False positives happened in the past due to systems that needed a face presented in a direct face on way with a good standard of lighting from a set of CCTV images.
That saved on needing to hire many new skilled programmers, have advanced new CCTV network that could work in low light and allowed for a low cost system that could use a lot of consumer CPU's.
Images of people been interviewed, criminals taken at police stations, jail, prison in the past did not get much mathematical consideration as the image to be matched with.
With more understanding of what a human face looks like in 3d, side on, from above, below, in different light the number of false positives can be reduced.
The ability to keep tacking a person via gait from camera to camera until a better image is captured also stops reduces false positives.
Police stations, jails, prisons now capture suspects images from all sides, their gait, in different light when walking to an interview, been interviewed, in jail, been released, changes when with their lawyer/legal team.
That builds up an almost 3d data set, from ears, side of face, top of face, under face, mouth, eyes, body art, scars, changes to facial hair/hair style. All in different lighting with much better quality CCTV and other more advanced hidden camera systems no always on show.
So a quality database of a persons measurements of face, gait, walk, ear, nose, chin, neck, shoulders, legs, hip now exists for anyone who had to be with police for any reason. Even getting a drivers licence, the face image might be one of many images taken on that day.... at that another nations DMV like location.
Why just take one image when the person is in line, entering data, been questioned, been photographed once...
Much better math is then done on all that so other CCTV systems can understand how to match all that police data with new data captured in real time.
The new CCTV networks are now not just a camera with one image to match later. Its real time at many frames per second sorting every measurement of chin, eyes, nose, shoulders, side of face, top of face, under face as a person moves from CCTV to CCTV camera. That math is then sorted and compared to the data sets of existing people of interest.
The days of 2d like flat images needed have been replaced to total 3d like face, head, gait collection over a network of cameras with much better math and CPU like support.
The software and hardware has now been tested to the needs of the CCTV math. No more sets of consumer CPU's been sold as a CCTV security system.
All that police, jail, DMV like data is the worked on. Driving a car, truck, van? In a train, aircraft, boat? Walking around a city? Driving out of a city? As a driver, passenger all that is now CCTV ready. Match that with a cell phone, electronic toll collection and gait. Day, night, all weather.
False positives are no longer a problem. In the USA its just how not to tell a persons lawyer the discovery part of how that person got tracked all over the USA.
In Communist nations the only problem was upgrading all the CCTV hardware nation wide to one new system and standard.
Domain Awareness System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... solved that false positives problem generations ago.
Have a national ID card or set of national ID to prove citizenship. Not a citizen? No basic income.
Just go for real means testing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Citizen is not working for any reason for a longer time and is not between work for a short time? Basic Income long term with no questions asked.
Citizen is not getting a wage above the min wage for any reason? Basic Income support long term with the need to report any wage changes.
Citizen has a varied and seasonal wage that is below the min wage for some months in the year? Basic Income support and monthly reporting of any wage changes. So they are always supported.
The citizen finds full, part time work thats well above the min wage again? No more basic income.
That would be more fair on citizens who are not working and people who need support while re entering the work force.
A provision that covers all citizens at the many different stages of productive work in many different parts of a nation.
Been in full time work or a profession and changing to another job? Unemployment benefits that stop when a citizen has found a job again.
Automate the basic income for the poor from the existing support payments.
No citizen with a good paying job, good income gets the basic income.
Non citizens attempting to prove their need to become citizens can stay in supported housing with no claim to basic income.
Non citizens can become citizens, move to another nation wanting to accept large numbers of non citizens or get deported back to their own nations.
The basic income does not become a reason for non citizens to stay in the nation offering its own citizens a basic income.
We have one last bit of information. U.S. secretly tracked billions of calls for decades (April 7, 2015)
https://www.usatoday.com/story...
Would the FBI still risk such bulk sorting of voice print data within the USA given criminal, cult, faith and legal interest in all things collect it all?
What happens when the same kinds of people who now derank search results and ban links get into car data?
Attend the wrong political meeting and their car has terms of service issues?
Use the wrong words in their car and get locked out?
Look at the wrong web sites and their car wont start?
AC projects like DROPOUTJEEP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... will not care about the user and their user "encryption".
Register all the citizens who can vote legally using photo ID. No illegal migrants, non citizens get to vote.
Use the computers to ensure the citizens can vote once with their registered voter photo ID.
Use paper votes and count them with all party, independent candidate observers looking over the paper court in real time for each vote counted.
Collect each count of the vote by citizens in a town, city, part of the USA.
More party, independent observers to see the final count is correct given their own count from each paper vote counted.
That removes the ability to use illegal migrants presenting as citizens.
Illegal migrants presenting as citizens to vote many times all day.
Citizens getting to vote many times all day.
The use of another citizens "name" to vote.
Gerrymandering would be a problem but the citizen count of actual voters would at least be more correct. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
East Germany lost its actual spy contact lists. Names, locations, everything needed to find the person in another nation quickly and contact them.
The US stored some of its workers, contractors, some gov/mil background information in plain text on internet facing networks.
That copy kept in plain text, copied out onto the internet gave away all information about some workers life, some work within the US gov/mil. The skills set they had. Any past lifestyle issues with say gambling, healthcare, past legal issues. The quality of interviews done to grant them some security clearance.
Re the NOC list. All the names that are not on the copied files but work for the US/gov mil kind of put a different list together.
The US kept its non-official cover much more private and totally secure but a simple comparison of actually staff working and the copied plain text database would give another skilled nation a list to guess from.
Dont keep interesting data in plain text, on networks that can be seen from the internet. Keeping an investigation open to watch what interesting people do as the data is been copied out still results in the data been copied out..
Re "What makes you think they don't let the FBI see it?"
The FBI want people to keep using their live mic, camera, GPS, file system copy system with confidence over every generation of big brand product.
What could convince many interesting people to still trust a big US brand not be working with US law enforcement?
If interesting people see all the phones been used as part of evidence they will just stop using the phones. The free domestic voice print collection goes dark.
The real issue is how many criminals/spies in the USA have the security clearance connections to see the real time voice print results of domestic collection?
In the FBI? Telco workers? Police? City/state Internal affairs? Mil contractors? Cult/faith members working for a gov/contractor in secure legal and telco areas with a top security clearance? Lawyers? The mil support teams? Other agency staff?
The people who work on the LETC upgrades to law enforcement front company aircraft?
How many people need to be in on nation wide domestic voice and data collection if the junk encryption keeps collection wide open over every generation of big brand product?
Is domestic collection all out sourced to some part of the EU?
A trusted set of contractors in a "France" does the US domestic sorting so no other level of law enforcement/mil/gov in the USA can ever find their own files in any FBI database? Nobody interesting in the US would then have to know?
The secret is not that all US big brand encryption is junk. The place outside the USA where the real time results are sorted and kept away from US telco workers, cults, criminals, city/state police would be the secret to keep.
No US spy under federal suspicion would be able to find results in any US database by searching domestically. Domestic parallel construction hidden out side the USA for safe keeping.
Any criminal/faith group/corrupt police looking deep into FBI files would only find pictures of people with convictions, all US drivers license images, DNA and finger prints. All the usual data any advanced national police force has on convicted people. The domestically collected voice prints do not get stored in the USA? So the trust stays as the criminals and faith groups are sure nothing is collected from their secure big brand phone in real time. Yet the LETC flights circle a city for hours. What is getting collecting domestically if the big brands products are so secure and the results are still protected with secure encryption?
From PRISM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... to China?
How about data staying in the USA and providing freedom of speech and freedom after speech for users around the world?
Let users globally enjoy US freedoms rather than what is allowed under a Communist party legal system.
Recall the TAO CPU logo slide from the https://leaksource.wordpress.c... and the role of Tailored Access Operations.
The UK could declare a diplomat Persona non grata. That person keeps all their diplomatic protection on the way out of the UK.
Arresting any other nations embassy staff after been declared Persona non grata as they are leaving is not something the UK would want to.
A legal precedent for arresting any diplomat is not acceptable within the diplomatic community.
The Persona non grata allows a person to exit the nation with diplomatic protection as they are been recalled.
If not the prisons in the UK, USA and Soviet Union would have been full of each others embassy staff during the cold war.
They did not and many embassy staff got to be recalled to their own nations in a very normal way.
So that "but they could also arrest" is not a good path for any nation to attempt with another nations diplomats.
AC any diplomatic missions would be under constant threat if nations could make up a "crime" and swap out an entire nations embassy.
So thats why Persona non grata https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... exists.
That person with diplomatic immunity is then recalled but do not lose their diplomatic immunity while been recalled from another nation.
They get to leave the nation with full diplomatic immunity and do back to their own nation.
AC diplomatic immunity is not a get out of jail free card. It protects members of a diplomatic staff.
What are the other plans? Protect the ice from all future use as national historical ice parks?
Is the ice in a good location to explore space from later?
Send humans to Mars.
Get them using the water with more space exploring supplies sent from earth.
A nuclear reactor and rocket fuel factory.
Extract water to create more rocket fuel.
A Project Iceworm for Mars? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...