Yes AC at best a full list of all workers from HR can be recovered.
With that another nations spy agency/contractors can cross reference all workers for crimes, illegal lifestyles, gambling debts, unfaithfulness, strange expensive hobbies, the need for a holiday, health problems, addictions.
A person who is susceptible to needing a lot of cash or has something to hide.
That trusted person can then be asked to do things on site or hire a new person who will.
Most good companies do penetration testing to see about elevator alterations that can go direct to secure floors. Can a total stranger can walk in and charm their way into a secure server room.
Re Yes you could do social engineering to call in and set up a "go to my pc" session.
The walk in tech support person seen talking to the boss who then wants to put their usb stick into a workers computer. Well past any outside app detecting firewall.
The charity person talking to the boss who wants to show a video clip on their usb stick of what the charity does.. after all that name dropping...
No risky outside app getting caught in the powerful firewall needed. Just do it all from the inside where everything is totally trusted because the firewall was so expensive and always works to keep bad things from getting in.
Re "Any data crossing between from internet to intranet should require red tape"
East Germany faced just that problem. One day a trusted member of staff walked out with a list of East Germany spies in other nations.
Before creating new trusted spy networks with new names something had to be done to prevent a list of spies ever walking out again.
Details about mission, the spy codename, the real identity got split up into very different physical files kept separated.
Nobody could every put the real name to the results of a mission without mountains of red tape to walk each file together and see a person's name linked to a mission.
East Germany then went digital.
Th East Germans thought it would be good to have a full list that could be accessed if spies had to be given new missions very quickly.
The CIA walked out with the list of all their spies.
The same was used for NSA compartmentalization until the political rush for private sector contractors resulted in walk outs.
The storing of some US gov/mil/contractors/workers information, clearance levels, past work, mission history, lifestyles in plain text on internet facing computers.
Political parties who have trusted staff walk unencrypted data to the waiting media.
So much is done to save time, for politics, for cost savings that later results in vast amounts of data walking.
No apps needed as everything is in plain text as thats how its been used everyday.
Re Only hook something to the net if it must be hooked to the net to do its job.
But that would need more workers on site. They will fully unionize over the long shifts and demand a "living wage".
The idea of hooking something to the net was so one trusted engineer could do the jobs of many on site workers.
Without the internet local workers would have to be hired on site again and they will unionize.
Re Do not hire morons who will plug a memory stick into a unit that's not on the net, after that stick has been in a unit that is on the net.
That moron was the trusted engineer who found a memory stick on site and who was attempting to see who was walking out with company files.
Re Disable any wireless connectivity on systems you are not intentionally hooking to the net.
Why have a physical network all around a site when a wireless network will do? Thats some savings all over the site and the engineer has real time networking. No network to build in difficult places.
Re Do not hire anybody who would violate the preceding four rules.
But they have to be politically correct and virtue signal. The publicity photos have to have the correct optics.
Unskilled people who are not loyal to the USA have to be given jobs too. The federal gov knows if any company is not hiring the politically correct ratio of unskilled people. A failed security clearance cannot stop an unskilled person for been considered equally for a job needing a security clearance.
The CEO's have a lot of things to consider. The needs of the engineer to keep the production line working. To stop their workforce from falling under the spell of a union again. To not waste profits when a wireless network is ok.
To hire the correct ratio of unskilled people to avoid the federal government for asking questions about hiring practices.
Security is just another consideration on a list of political and spending problems.
Some nice fictional movie script could go like this:
Someone preppy who is photogenic has a modem and a new computer.
They had the phone number of their local power plant.
They created a script to dial every extension and only keep the number of any phone number extension that responded to a modem.
A day later they got a direct line to a modem in the power plant and could interact in computer ways with the local power company...
Black helicopters, federal law enforcement in suits swarm the local town looking for the computer owner.
In 2018 the movie has to have an app. The messages to and from the power plant are now are all on social media and have a pretty GUI.
Re If these small ISP's cant compete then why should they be in business?
Back in the early days of communications networks a local person got the spectrum and set up a wireless internet company selling bandwidth in that area.
The next generation of owners just expected that wealth to keep flowing and no competition to enter their part of the USA as they had the spectrum.
So they expect that the idea of presenting as "small ISP"s" will keep new competition out.
A tower on a central building with a link to a national network that connects a few other towers in an area.
The very private sector network version of a small power utility cooperative for a small area.
They have the local spectrum and if the locals pay they can enjoy the list of prices set.
If they don't pay its back to a paper insulated wireline network.
Great for the owners of the only local wireless "internet" company.
Once national and state wide networks are allowed in with real price competition that generational wealth is open to competition.
So its presented as "small ISP's" rather than a locals having control over spectrum for generations. Local wanting internet, networking will soon have more freedom to use national networks.
Its the network version of bridge building, a rail network, paved roads, water and electricity arriving in a small town.
So its all about the "small ISP's" who now face quality competition for the first time.
With a relaxing of federal rules competition can move all over the USA and so the "small ISP's" that have the local spectrum want to present it as good "them" vs the "big telecom".
Re "rural communities out of any chance of getting affordable broadband"...
Hows that paper insulated wireline working out? Enjoying the local monopolies quality networks?
That one wireless provider who has an owner who enjoys a lifestyle build on selling locals expensive data plans?
With competition and access locals can enjoy all kinds of new and innovative services. From a larger national telco finally able to enter that part of the USA to new services and networks entering the area locally.
Freedom of choice for many locals needing more than a local wireless monopoly what controls the spectrum or a paper insulated wireline network.
Re "I bet there's a backdoor."
Recall PRISM? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... https://www.theguardian.com/wo... (12 Jul ‘13)
"... bought Skype, the NSA boasted that a new capability had tripled the amount of Skype video calls being collected through Prism"
"'.. routinely shared with the FBI and CIA, with one NSA document describing the program as a "team sport"."
Enjoy that big brand junk encryption again and again.
No driving from city to city and changing to smaller more expensive networks.
No fees to access another small network in the USA simply for enjoying the freedom to move around the USA.
Stay with your existing plan all over the USA as your brand will finally be able to get access to all of the USA.
No more very local monopolies that gathered up all the local spectrum keeping out other brands from all over the USA.
Enjoy your bands support, pricing and quality of service all over the USA. No more unexpected payments demanded from local monopolies to connect in their state, city.
Wireless spectrum was to allow innovative communications services all over the USA. Not to be small local monopolies that demand connection payments as they got granted the ability to be the only network in that part of the USA.
Enjoy the freedom to travel all over the USA with your own trusted telco plan. No more strange costs just for making a call in California or New Jersey because someone local got all the spectrum and kept it so they could get extra payments for people trying to make a call. Soon your trusted telco brand will be available all over the USA at the same easy to understand rates. Enjoy making calls and using data all over the USA without local monopolies adding their extra data costs.
China has a political firewall to keep democracy and the CIA, MI6 out.
The only remaining "civil society" in China is communist.
The generation of students who got back in university in China after the Cultural Revolution by passing university entrance exams had to be good Communists. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The students that got allowed to study in the USA for years could only be very good Communists. They would have not been allowed to go to the USA if they where not fully treated to stay loyal to China.
Re "What will happen when, inevitably, the economy stops growing so fast and corruption becomes more obvious?"
If a person wants to keep their education, uniform and rank, good city living conditions, healthcare, pension, keep good standing with the Communist list party they don't show up to protest.
Take part in a protest? All the normal things a person worked so hard for can be removed during one interview.
Education? No graduation, no results can be found. Address? Not in the good part of a nice city anymore. Healthcare? Much less. Pension? Much less. Wage? Reduced to minimum. Show a good attitude by denouncing others and some of that quality of life will be restored.
Every protester is turned into an informant.
East Germany had its Zersetzung to change minds about freedom and democracy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
China is changing in the way it never lets a protest start by going after everyone who protests. Not just all the CIA, MI6 backed protest leaders.
The messy part would be opening shops all over states than demand $15 an hour min wages.
A website and quality delivery from a state with more realistic min wage can avoid all the other city and state wage costs around the USA.
The more a shop in a city has to accept a minimum wage to $15 an hour the more a well located national website can pass on savings for the same parts.
All the parts needed, in stock ready to ship. No need for local prices to cover a $15 an hour worker.
Warehouse with robots getting packs of parts together ready to send out all over the USA from a pro business part of the USA.
Not a new shop front in failed state with lots of regulations for a $15 an hour min wage.
Put the wage savings offered by that state towards getting more parts in from China, Germany, France, South Korea, Japan, England, other parts of the USA in bulk.
The end user gets their project kit parts with lots of new innovative parts that no other shop in the USA can offer in store at that price.
Then let the people who have the creativity to sign kits, projects create parts lists and get more savings as they drive business to the web site.
Win, win for the brand and the customers all over the USA who get freedom of choice and great savings.
Messy for the $15 an hour wage cities and their shops offering the same products.
The coastal elistists in the CIA really thought they had China accepting students back that had enjoyed democracy, freedom, fun, pleasure.
That within a generation the best of the best in China would want everything China did not have thanks to their free education the USA.
China did not send over its most susceptible students. It sent over its smartest and only the most loyal.
They took back everything they could extract from the USA and return to China with every useful aspect the US education system gave away.
Nobody returned to China as a CIA spy. Nobody spread democracy in China after been allowed to study in the USA for years.
Back into uniform, better quality communist housing given the academic skills, a job the Communist party provided, better health care.
A student selected by the Communist party returns to the Communist party after a free US education.
No democracy. No new people working deep in China for the CIA every generation. All the next gen US innovation now been worked on in China after been handed over for free by generations of US academics.
The CIA hoped the graduates would return home with ideas of democracy and change China within a generation.
China only sent over its smartest and most ideologically trusted students to the USA. They returned with all the US gov, mil, academic methods and did not change politically after years of study in the USA.
The best US education on offer was just used to build China up. The US educated its competitors for free always thinking it would export democracy back into China.
The CIA did not even get to tempt people to spy back to China for all that freedom, money, education and lifestyle on offer. The USA got nothing but debt after educating another nations students for generations.
Not with the way the US is now accepting students for social reasons rather than actually only getting the very best exam results. Merit and academic skill was the pathway into a top US university.
Thats what made and kept the USA great. Only the very best got into a top US university after years of testing and only the very best grades.
Wealthy parents could buy into a university for generations but that did not alter the intake by using scholarships only for the best of the best. That did not exclude the very best from been accepted only after the best academic results over years.
Now its a failed generation been accepted on political correctness and for virtue signalling.
The best scholarships given out only to reflect wider US culture, not just the people who can actually study. Who have passed their exams better than most other people in real terms and who can and want to study. People who got the best grades without new political "considerations".
The benefits of been surrounded by random people who cant study and never will study is only in brand virtue signalling.
The US has nothing to offer now as it has weakened its once great educational system with party politics and by accepting a generation of failed students who cant study.
China spent a few decades to understand who the USA educated its very best students.
How they got tested before for years before university. Who got into university and why. What was done in lectures and given to study. What lab equipment was used for that generation considering the gov, mil, science, consumer products in the USA at the time.
Say from the 1980's to 2017.
Once China fully understood how the US education system worked and sorted populations over a generation. What created the best creative, innovative parts that ensured the USA kept winning at the time.
No need to send as many of the best students to the USA as the domestic system is now better funded, as creative, as innovative and as fun as the best the USA has to offer at any price.
The USA was studied on how it educates for a generation and the best results used to build up China.
MI6 and the CIA thought all that "free" US education to counter communism would induce freedom and democracy into the minds of generations of the best students for when they went back to China.
The West did not understand that China was taking the educational methods back and would not allow the Western lifestyles to alter its selected students allowed to study in the USA.
China walked out with the US way to innovate and did not take democracy back.
The USA did not get to change the way the visiting students viewed democracy and the need for democracy in China after that study in the US.
The USA just gave its best education system to China for free.
Re "whether we like it or not, there's always going to be some data about what you are doing recorded somewhere."
Not so much if a person did not carry an Apple, Google product.
Then it is only nation wide CCTV for face, gait, car drivers face, passengers face, license plates....
A website is all that us needed to keep people parts all over the USA.
Find your parts needed online. When ready get them shipped for that project.
A person asks for 10, 100 sets of parts to be shipped for a project that needs 15 parts.
The project is made, a video uploaded. The how to order list is included so fans can place the same order.
Fans can then request the extra parts direct from the person who made the video. Shipped out to fans as a set of parts with instructions.
Dont want to build a project? The kit can be sent ready to use as the project has extra parts.
Win for the website that sent out 15 project parts as the users are sharing its brands, lists from their site. Win for the person making the project video and their fans getting all the parts at a low cost from one well designed website.
No wages in a store needed to count out one part by hand over a counter. For that city or states to set min wage.
A web site and the cheapest state for wages to send parts out from. All over the USA without local wages, shops to need workers, upkeep.
AC did you forget how some big US brands helped?
"... handed the NSA access to encrypted messages" (12 Jul ‘13) https://www.theguardian.com/wo...
"pre-encryption stage access to email"
"had tripled the amount of Skype video calls being collected"
"routinely shared with the FBI and CIA, with one NSA document describing the program as a "team sport"."
"helped the NSA to circumvent its encryption"
Cant skilled people who design complex things look back at weather records?
Rain might happen.
Design some way to get the max amount of water had happened in the past out from around networks that need protecting from water?
The national internet is a China wide intranet.
Want to invest and build a brand in China? Laws are clear about how encryption will be used, the needs of law enforcement.
All international networks in and out are tracked back to see if they are a VPN thats new, unknown to the gov and mil in China.
Some VPN's will work in China at full speed and without question. Why? The government gets to se all its own citizens who are trying to use the service.
For that agreement foreigners get to feel like the VPN is winning with a fast VPN that got past the gov due to skills..
The same for other brands. Help the communist party and all is good.
China will not accept your freedoms.
Your brand accepts the laws under the Communist party in China.
What did the West think it would be like? All Tiananmen Square like with a digital democratic civil society forming around the US brand?
Communist governments do not allow freedom in. Communism controls brands so Communism has no competitors that can spread democracy and freedom.
Slashdot Mirror
The new cyber command funding will allow the NSA and GCHQ to follow any forensic trail back to any computer anywhere in real time.
Yes AC at best a full list of all workers from HR can be recovered.
With that another nations spy agency/contractors can cross reference all workers for crimes, illegal lifestyles, gambling debts, unfaithfulness, strange expensive hobbies, the need for a holiday, health problems, addictions.
A person who is susceptible to needing a lot of cash or has something to hide.
That trusted person can then be asked to do things on site or hire a new person who will.
Most good companies do penetration testing to see about elevator alterations that can go direct to secure floors. Can a total stranger can walk in and charm their way into a secure server room.
Re Yes you could do social engineering to call in and set up a "go to my pc" session.
The walk in tech support person seen talking to the boss who then wants to put their usb stick into a workers computer. Well past any outside app detecting firewall.
The charity person talking to the boss who wants to show a video clip on their usb stick of what the charity does.. after all that name dropping...
No risky outside app getting caught in the powerful firewall needed. Just do it all from the inside where everything is totally trusted because the firewall was so expensive and always works to keep bad things from getting in.
Re "Any data crossing between from internet to intranet should require red tape"
East Germany faced just that problem. One day a trusted member of staff walked out with a list of East Germany spies in other nations.
Before creating new trusted spy networks with new names something had to be done to prevent a list of spies ever walking out again.
Details about mission, the spy codename, the real identity got split up into very different physical files kept separated.
Nobody could every put the real name to the results of a mission without mountains of red tape to walk each file together and see a person's name linked to a mission.
East Germany then went digital.
Th East Germans thought it would be good to have a full list that could be accessed if spies had to be given new missions very quickly.
The CIA walked out with the list of all their spies.
The same was used for NSA compartmentalization until the political rush for private sector contractors resulted in walk outs.
The storing of some US gov/mil/contractors/workers information, clearance levels, past work, mission history, lifestyles in plain text on internet facing computers.
Political parties who have trusted staff walk unencrypted data to the waiting media.
So much is done to save time, for politics, for cost savings that later results in vast amounts of data walking.
No apps needed as everything is in plain text as thats how its been used everyday.
Re Only hook something to the net if it must be hooked to the net to do its job.
But that would need more workers on site. They will fully unionize over the long shifts and demand a "living wage".
The idea of hooking something to the net was so one trusted engineer could do the jobs of many on site workers.
Without the internet local workers would have to be hired on site again and they will unionize.
Re Do not hire morons who will plug a memory stick into a unit that's not on the net, after that stick has been in a unit that is on the net.
That moron was the trusted engineer who found a memory stick on site and who was attempting to see who was walking out with company files.
Re Disable any wireless connectivity on systems you are not intentionally hooking to the net.
Why have a physical network all around a site when a wireless network will do? Thats some savings all over the site and the engineer has real time networking. No network to build in difficult places.
Re Do not hire anybody who would violate the preceding four rules.
But they have to be politically correct and virtue signal. The publicity photos have to have the correct optics.
Unskilled people who are not loyal to the USA have to be given jobs too. The federal gov knows if any company is not hiring the politically correct ratio of unskilled people.
A failed security clearance cannot stop an unskilled person for been considered equally for a job needing a security clearance.
The CEO's have a lot of things to consider. The needs of the engineer to keep the production line working. To stop their workforce from falling under the spell of a union again. To not waste profits when a wireless network is ok.
To hire the correct ratio of unskilled people to avoid the federal government for asking questions about hiring practices.
Security is just another consideration on a list of political and spending problems.
Some nice fictional movie script could go like this:
Someone preppy who is photogenic has a modem and a new computer.
They had the phone number of their local power plant.
They created a script to dial every extension and only keep the number of any phone number extension that responded to a modem.
A day later they got a direct line to a modem in the power plant and could interact in computer ways with the local power company...
Black helicopters, federal law enforcement in suits swarm the local town looking for the computer owner.
In 2018 the movie has to have an app. The messages to and from the power plant are now are all on social media and have a pretty GUI.
A few great comments to reflect on per week for 10 years?
Thats going to need a fansite )))
Re If these small ISP's cant compete then why should they be in business?
Back in the early days of communications networks a local person got the spectrum and set up a wireless internet company selling bandwidth in that area.
The next generation of owners just expected that wealth to keep flowing and no competition to enter their part of the USA as they had the spectrum.
So they expect that the idea of presenting as "small ISP"s" will keep new competition out.
A tower on a central building with a link to a national network that connects a few other towers in an area.
The very private sector network version of a small power utility cooperative for a small area.
They have the local spectrum and if the locals pay they can enjoy the list of prices set.
If they don't pay its back to a paper insulated wireline network.
Great for the owners of the only local wireless "internet" company.
Once national and state wide networks are allowed in with real price competition that generational wealth is open to competition.
So its presented as "small ISP's" rather than a locals having control over spectrum for generations. Local wanting internet, networking will soon have more freedom to use national networks.
Its the network version of bridge building, a rail network, paved roads, water and electricity arriving in a small town.
So its all about the "small ISP's" who now face quality competition for the first time.
With a relaxing of federal rules competition can move all over the USA and so the "small ISP's" that have the local spectrum want to present it as good "them" vs the "big telecom".
Re "rural communities out of any chance of getting affordable broadband"...
Hows that paper insulated wireline working out? Enjoying the local monopolies quality networks?
That one wireless provider who has an owner who enjoys a lifestyle build on selling locals expensive data plans?
With competition and access locals can enjoy all kinds of new and innovative services. From a larger national telco finally able to enter that part of the USA to new services and networks entering the area locally.
Freedom of choice for many locals needing more than a local wireless monopoly what controls the spectrum or a paper insulated wireline network.
Re "I bet there's a backdoor."
Recall PRISM? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://www.theguardian.com/wo... (12 Jul ‘13)
"... bought Skype, the NSA boasted that a new capability had tripled the amount of Skype video calls being collected through Prism"
"'.. routinely shared with the FBI and CIA, with one NSA document describing the program as a "team sport"."
Enjoy that big brand junk encryption again and again.
No driving from city to city and changing to smaller more expensive networks.
No fees to access another small network in the USA simply for enjoying the freedom to move around the USA.
Stay with your existing plan all over the USA as your brand will finally be able to get access to all of the USA.
No more very local monopolies that gathered up all the local spectrum keeping out other brands from all over the USA.
Enjoy your bands support, pricing and quality of service all over the USA. No more unexpected payments demanded from local monopolies to connect in their state, city.
Wireless spectrum was to allow innovative communications services all over the USA. Not to be small local monopolies that demand connection payments as they got granted the ability to be the only network in that part of the USA.
Enjoy the freedom to travel all over the USA with your own trusted telco plan. No more strange costs just for making a call in California or New Jersey because someone local got all the spectrum and kept it so they could get extra payments for people trying to make a call.
Soon your trusted telco brand will be available all over the USA at the same easy to understand rates. Enjoy making calls and using data all over the USA without local monopolies adding their extra data costs.
China has a political firewall to keep democracy and the CIA, MI6 out.
The only remaining "civil society" in China is communist.
The generation of students who got back in university in China after the Cultural Revolution by passing university entrance exams had to be good Communists.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The students that got allowed to study in the USA for years could only be very good Communists. They would have not been allowed to go to the USA if they where not fully treated to stay loyal to China.
Re "What will happen when, inevitably, the economy stops growing so fast and corruption becomes more obvious?"
If a person wants to keep their education, uniform and rank, good city living conditions, healthcare, pension, keep good standing with the Communist list party they don't show up to protest.
Take part in a protest? All the normal things a person worked so hard for can be removed during one interview.
Education? No graduation, no results can be found. Address? Not in the good part of a nice city anymore. Healthcare? Much less. Pension? Much less. Wage? Reduced to minimum. Show a good attitude by denouncing others and some of that quality of life will be restored.
Every protester is turned into an informant.
East Germany had its Zersetzung to change minds about freedom and democracy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
China is changing in the way it never lets a protest start by going after everyone who protests. Not just all the CIA, MI6 backed protest leaders.
The messy part would be opening shops all over states than demand $15 an hour min wages.
A website and quality delivery from a state with more realistic min wage can avoid all the other city and state wage costs around the USA.
The more a shop in a city has to accept a minimum wage to $15 an hour the more a well located national website can pass on savings for the same parts.
All the parts needed, in stock ready to ship. No need for local prices to cover a $15 an hour worker.
Warehouse with robots getting packs of parts together ready to send out all over the USA from a pro business part of the USA.
Not a new shop front in failed state with lots of regulations for a $15 an hour min wage.
Put the wage savings offered by that state towards getting more parts in from China, Germany, France, South Korea, Japan, England, other parts of the USA in bulk.
The end user gets their project kit parts with lots of new innovative parts that no other shop in the USA can offer in store at that price.
Then let the people who have the creativity to sign kits, projects create parts lists and get more savings as they drive business to the web site.
Win, win for the brand and the customers all over the USA who get freedom of choice and great savings.
Messy for the $15 an hour wage cities and their shops offering the same products.
The coastal elistists in the CIA really thought they had China accepting students back that had enjoyed democracy, freedom, fun, pleasure.
That within a generation the best of the best in China would want everything China did not have thanks to their free education the USA.
China did not send over its most susceptible students. It sent over its smartest and only the most loyal.
They took back everything they could extract from the USA and return to China with every useful aspect the US education system gave away.
Nobody returned to China as a CIA spy. Nobody spread democracy in China after been allowed to study in the USA for years.
Back into uniform, better quality communist housing given the academic skills, a job the Communist party provided, better health care.
A student selected by the Communist party returns to the Communist party after a free US education.
No democracy. No new people working deep in China for the CIA every generation. All the next gen US innovation now been worked on in China after been handed over for free by generations of US academics.
The CIA hoped the graduates would return home with ideas of democracy and change China within a generation.
China only sent over its smartest and most ideologically trusted students to the USA. They returned with all the US gov, mil, academic methods and did not change politically after years of study in the USA.
The best US education on offer was just used to build China up. The US educated its competitors for free always thinking it would export democracy back into China.
The CIA did not even get to tempt people to spy back to China for all that freedom, money, education and lifestyle on offer. The USA got nothing but debt after educating another nations students for generations.
Not with the way the US is now accepting students for social reasons rather than actually only getting the very best exam results. Merit and academic skill was the pathway into a top US university.
Thats what made and kept the USA great. Only the very best got into a top US university after years of testing and only the very best grades.
Wealthy parents could buy into a university for generations but that did not alter the intake by using scholarships only for the best of the best. That did not exclude the very best from been accepted only after the best academic results over years.
Now its a failed generation been accepted on political correctness and for virtue signalling.
The best scholarships given out only to reflect wider US culture, not just the people who can actually study. Who have passed their exams better than most other people in real terms and who can and want to study. People who got the best grades without new political "considerations".
The benefits of been surrounded by random people who cant study and never will study is only in brand virtue signalling.
The US has nothing to offer now as it has weakened its once great educational system with party politics and by accepting a generation of failed students who cant study.
China spent a few decades to understand who the USA educated its very best students.
How they got tested before for years before university. Who got into university and why. What was done in lectures and given to study. What lab equipment was used for that generation considering the gov, mil, science, consumer products in the USA at the time.
Say from the 1980's to 2017.
Once China fully understood how the US education system worked and sorted populations over a generation. What created the best creative, innovative parts that ensured the USA kept winning at the time.
No need to send as many of the best students to the USA as the domestic system is now better funded, as creative, as innovative and as fun as the best the USA has to offer at any price.
The USA was studied on how it educates for a generation and the best results used to build up China.
MI6 and the CIA thought all that "free" US education to counter communism would induce freedom and democracy into the minds of generations of the best students for when they went back to China.
The West did not understand that China was taking the educational methods back and would not allow the Western lifestyles to alter its selected students allowed to study in the USA.
China walked out with the US way to innovate and did not take democracy back.
The USA did not get to change the way the visiting students viewed democracy and the need for democracy in China after that study in the US.
The USA just gave its best education system to China for free.
Re "whether we like it or not, there's always going to be some data about what you are doing recorded somewhere."
Not so much if a person did not carry an Apple, Google product.
Then it is only nation wide CCTV for face, gait, car drivers face, passengers face, license plates....
Bones of their wrist works well too in any advanced nation. A persons age should be not be a mystery to law enforcement.
A website is all that us needed to keep people parts all over the USA.
Find your parts needed online. When ready get them shipped for that project.
A person asks for 10, 100 sets of parts to be shipped for a project that needs 15 parts.
The project is made, a video uploaded. The how to order list is included so fans can place the same order.
Fans can then request the extra parts direct from the person who made the video. Shipped out to fans as a set of parts with instructions.
Dont want to build a project? The kit can be sent ready to use as the project has extra parts.
Win for the website that sent out 15 project parts as the users are sharing its brands, lists from their site. Win for the person making the project video and their fans getting all the parts at a low cost from one well designed website.
No wages in a store needed to count out one part by hand over a counter. For that city or states to set min wage.
A web site and the cheapest state for wages to send parts out from. All over the USA without local wages, shops to need workers, upkeep.
AC did you forget how some big US brands helped?
"... handed the NSA access to encrypted messages" (12 Jul ‘13)
https://www.theguardian.com/wo...
"pre-encryption stage access to email"
"had tripled the amount of Skype video calls being collected"
"routinely shared with the FBI and CIA, with one NSA document describing the program as a "team sport"."
"helped the NSA to circumvent its encryption"
Cant skilled people who design complex things look back at weather records?
Rain might happen.
Design some way to get the max amount of water had happened in the past out from around networks that need protecting from water?
The national internet is a China wide intranet.
Want to invest and build a brand in China? Laws are clear about how encryption will be used, the needs of law enforcement.
All international networks in and out are tracked back to see if they are a VPN thats new, unknown to the gov and mil in China.
Some VPN's will work in China at full speed and without question. Why? The government gets to se all its own citizens who are trying to use the service.
For that agreement foreigners get to feel like the VPN is winning with a fast VPN that got past the gov due to skills..
The same for other brands. Help the communist party and all is good.
China will not accept your freedoms.
Your brand accepts the laws under the Communist party in China.
What did the West think it would be like? All Tiananmen Square like with a digital democratic civil society forming around the US brand?
Communist governments do not allow freedom in. Communism controls brands so Communism has no competitors that can spread democracy and freedom.
The same protections and skill used to keep the NSA out?
PRISM (surveillance program) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...