Re 'phantom satellites"
All the ghost soldiers get paycheques, why not have an entire generation of ghost satellites?
Buy some commercial satellite images of interesting nations and see what they look like.
Find normal nations that kind of look the same. Fly a low plane and get some really hi res images of things that look a bit the same as the interesting nations for every day of the year.
Some photoshop and its a decade of ghost satellite federal funding as the ghost satellites pass over the interesting nations.
Count their tanks, aircraft and photoshop them around a bit. Military manoeuvres, bands, parades. Always be ready to read todays newspaper if asked for a live demo.
Re 'would be the best way to deal with DPRK."
The US has to think in terms of a 1950's Switzerland bunker complex. Lots of different caves packed with EMP resistant artillery thats pre set for action.
No CPU, no computers, no networks. Just a lot of artillery thats ready to use.
What does the US have that can get down into every cave and stop artillery?
The NSA and CIA would have already contacted every top ranking DPRK mil and gov official with a deal. Dont fight and get an escape into China, money, no questions.
Stay and the US will get down into every cave, bunker.
AC the smart people who use robots will be able to keep their wage costs lower. Prices will go down for the robot users and they will attract new consumers looking for better prices.
Increase prices will not work if business can set their own prices and pass on robot wage savings by not having the same human wages as competitors.
Re "If they have nearly unlimited resources to hide or obfuscate something, there is basically no way to know."
People can detect the shape moving, no matter the radar profile, a new color. Something new and bright/dark moving in front of everything else thats not as dark up in space that was not moving yesterday is going to get noticed by most nations able to map the night sky above their own nation to some level of skill over decades. The best way to avoid that is to use a space plane. Nobody expects an unmanned space plane and its very different movements.
CIA searching for answers behind its India-Nuclear failure (May 16, 1998) https://fas.org/irp/news/1998/...
"..able to halt suspicious activity during the periods when the spy satellites were passing overhead."
AC if it was a 100% gov/mil project then its cool to just try again. Nobody would know.
The problem now is the private sector wants to claim its been successful for their role.
So other projects have faith in their ability to put their things into space without fall apart.
It got into space at the right location and time. The private sector did everything correct and then something after it moved away and became a gov/mil project?
Keeping the population in closed science cities kept other nations human spies out.
Re "If it's super secret then maybe they made it disappear"
Most nations with "nuclear" ambitions and other well hidden production lines have their "university" "astronomers" map the spies above their nation.
For anything new and bright. Anything "new" that blocks out the existing data. Anything on the move.
Nobody wants a new spy sat or spy platform thats on the move over their nation at an unexpected times.
The mil toys get worked on when the spy sats have passed for a time then hide again.
For the price of a few "astronomers" and a super computer any nation could have had some level of secrecy.
That space plane upset all their nice calculations with its wide changes every 24h.
Smart people around the world have learned to look for the extra "darkness" of a US sat thats trying to hide.
No new darkness, no new bright light ? No new sat? Did they get it just right this time?
Misty (satellite) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
If a city, state, nation, province wants to demand a much higher wage for all jobs then business have a few ways of thinking about that:
1. Accept less profit and have less money to invest in upgrades, the business.
2. Pay the workers the new wage but only need the hours of work that add up to the old wage per person working. Dont hire new workers.
2.5 Look into what can be done with touch screens to save some wages.
3. Buy a robot.
4. Buy more robots.
A thought experiment...
How could a local community escape the demand to use a telco monopoly?
Dont got anywhere near the monopoly network.
Talk to the electric company (consumer, city), rail road, power company (state), water company, local businesses, private land owners.
Build a community network that spans out from different utility services, rail, power networks, land back to business and commercial real estate.
An innovative private sector cooperative initiative that brings together everyone locally but the wireline monopoly telco. Let the locals support an ISP from the back of that new private network.
Call it a network on a utility cooperative with local profits reinvested for network infrastructure. Any is ISP welcome from the same city, state, another state.
City and local gov did nothing for the existing telco monopoly to get legal about.
Some locals wanted a new network and they built it on private land that just happened to be linked by non telco private sector utilities.
What can a monopoly telco do? Block the local gov, community broadband first? Then demand a stop to the private sector in the same community second?
Thats a lot of monopoly power to enforce federally on both state, city governments and the private sector.
States and cities can build own networks. No more paper insulated wireline telco monopolies getting court protection for their monopolies.
Soon the more skilled gated communities, cities and states will have the freedom to build and extend their own networks.
No more federal NN rules directing the use of one monopoly NN ready network.
Freedom to design, connect and network all over the USA. The private sector and local people escaping federal NN rules that kept all their networks beholden to a select few federally protected telcos.
Small business and new telcos working together to find innovative network solutions that do not get told to use paper insulated wireline monopoly networks.
Re " intelligence led counter insurgency"
That worked well until the GCHQ and SAS found the supplies the US was allowing to flow into Ireland.
The UK asked the US police to stop that flow. Nothing resulted in such direct law enforcement to law enforcement discussions.
So the UK intelligence services had to get active in the USA and the US secret police never worked how the direct flow of funds and hardware from the US to Ireland just stopped.
Skilled UK SIGINT intelligence ensured UK teams working deep in the USA never got caught.
Good counter insurgency often has to go to very unexpected places.
Re "reverse ID lookups"
The fun part is all the early social media that got kept over the years. All that past data can uncover many cover stories used by the once protected clandestine services/police/mil.
Faith groups, criminals, other nations brands, embassies are running complex background investigations on anyone new getting to near them.
Who was in the mil, went to university to study law, law enforcement, engineering related topics but present as another occupation, unrelated skill set.
Not the person they try to present as and social media kept the party, university, friend pictures, video files.
On anyone undercover been introduced as been trusted to a faith group, criminal group. Getting informants and undercover teams in is a task in finding people who have never done social media and who are trusted by the UK gov...
Trying to recreate old social media now is a fail as so many private sector investigative brands kept the old social media in real time. Later cover story alterations show up against what was collected and save by the private sector years ago. Pay enough and get social media played back over years as saved at that time.
Hard to hide that new face with a new addition to old online social media files by the security services.
Criminals and faith groups are happy to suggest people in the community become informants, join the police, mil, security services just to ensure investigative busy work. Only so many usable surveillance teams to try and stay in the many no go areas:)
With background investigations not stopping a person from not getting a UK gov/mil/clandestine service job, such people of faith/crime can rise up the gov/mil ranks.
Reverse ID lookups by faith groups then get even more productive once inside the gov, mil for generations.
That some of the malware discovered domestically and only in the UK would have been the work of/contractors for the security services?
Create bespoke code for every mission that no AV or OS will ever know about?
Unique code only every seen in select locations in the UK and Ireland would stand out to any researcher.
Use international malware thats not been discovered in the wild but might be discovered at any time? It might collect all for hours, days, months, years?
Until the OS, AV tells the user about the infected OS, files.
What to do with all the research in the UK that will find UK sensitive security service code litter online, on devices, in the telco networks?
Code never seen outside the UK, Ireland that no OS, AV was aware of?
Another domestic Operation Socialist gets found? https://theintercept.com/2014/... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
How to accept such discoveries and tell the researcher that their work will result in an OS patch, AV update as needed?
Centralise legal malware reporting in the UK and keep the researchers productive and feeling like their efforts get better results than talking to the global AV community.
Re "Why seek a technical solution to the problem?"
The problem is the digital files that exist on a computer and cloud that are all interesting to law enforcement globally.
Checksums to every file discovered, recovered, found, investigated, copied over by law enforcement around the world.
Thats great to scan the cloud, ISP, web sites and free net services for the same files but what about the files only a users OS can see? The direct-attached storage, HD only and OS and files the user can see.
If only some way existed to run such file details against every other file on existing brands internet connected desktop computers?
Like a powerful reverse version of anti virus software pushed down by an OS maker to look at all files on that OS.
Not to find existing malware but to discover all images, text files, video clips on an OS. Both to compare to existing databases and to checksum all files found at the OS level. Create/copy over a digital image on the OS and the networked OS uploads a new checksum in real time, everytime, all the time.
Camera details in the original file, GPS, image checksum, checksum of the coveted image, user edited compressed video.
Not just files moving in free big brand email systems, the free cloud but every file at the OS level. Every file user created and downloaded.
If the file ever turns up for law enforcement in the wild, the very first computer to have/create that file can be reconstructed. Every computer that has the same file can be discovered. The first users to then get the same file. No more just using checksums on networks. Down to an OS level of file indexing.
Win, win and go direct with the same brand trusted payment when you have your camera or movie related digital files, film with the same brand.
No CC banking percentage to take away from every payment.
AC you don't think most nations have learned from people from the West with "free" offers of many gifts created by the NSA, CIA, MI6, GCHQ?
The Soviet Union got fooled by a lot of people offering information, hardware, software for political reasons and the need for cash just walking in from the West.
A nice cover story and lots of free information, that perfect way to export hardware into the Soviet Union?
Once investigated by real trusted spies a lot was found to be a set up to discover spies.
So most nations are now a lot more smart when it comes to trusting walk in information. Sample computer parts that are delivered in person with the ability to get unlimited number of parts later.
AC the old methods look great in todays spy novels, movies and other AC fiction.
Re "What puzzles me is, with all of the resources that the US federal government has at their disposal, why aren't they actually trying to crack encrypted phones?"
The FBI is slowly learning from the advanced and very productive GCHQ methods in 1980s'-90's Ireland and the way MI5 works in parts of Ireland now.
Never tell lawyers, human rights lawyers, city/state police, courts, court workers about methods.
Keep them all guessing and tell them everything went back to an informant, information given rather than US domestic collect it all.
The FBI cannot trust its new citizens, their faiths, their cults, their total loyalty to their faith, other nations, criminals and party political operatives, contractors within the FBI.
Too many faith and political traitors deep within the courts, police, media, gov, legal system, telcos reporting methods and altering criminals and members of their faith. Interesting people escape the USA as the FBI gets tech support to log the cell phone moments.
The FBI cannot trust its own requests to telcos support. The cleared dual citizens and people of faith are more supportive of criminals than federal US law enforcement.
So the FBI has to keep everything related to the FBI police methods well away from city/state police, lawyer, telco and media discovery.
The FBI was people to trust and enjoy using their cell tower products as it gets voice prints, location, live mic, camera, files but never wants to alert people that its all going to be collected on in real time.
Thats the skill set the GCHQ skill the FBI understands. Dont be like the NSA and talk about global, domestic collect it all and the budget and methods.
Be like the GCHQ and say nothing for generations and many decades. Let all the interesting people keep guessing.
Re the ""Federal Bureau of Device Recovery"" . The UK did than under a Government Technical Assistance Centre, National Technical Assistance Centre to hide the role of the GCHQ from having to be seen doing decryption. It looked like police finding files on unencrypted computers and nobody was to understand the mil grade decryption computer power in hours, days, weeks, years given police to counter junk consumer encryption.
The USA has that "capability" federally they have just finally learned not be the NSA and never tell anyone about methods.
The other really neat side to all this confusion about decryption is to keep corrupt criminal city/state police, telco workers and state/city/federal politicians using their "trusted" cell phone. Trusting their big brand US cell phone to keep their crimes hidden. Voice prints, all files are wonderful for the FBI in real time.
If the interesting people int he USA ever worked out what the GCHQ and now MI5 did to the Irish telco system they would never us a phone, cell phone, network computer again.
So public relations like this keep trust in US big brands junk encryption and allows the FBI to collect globally. The FBI keeps looking at interesting people who go on holiday. The FBI will not trust the CIA, NSA and other agencies to do international collection anymore for them due to the staff and contractors used for global collection.
If that digital consumer trust stops, the FBI would need informants in every police station, political, faith and criminal meeting again.
The other aspect is who does FBI collection. The FBI is going direct to the US mil for upgrades to its more advanced aircraft to collect on entire cities. No more light planes with a 2 mile collection ability over a city. No more easy to map circles over a city for hours, landing at the same airport. No more registering LETC upgrades on FBI light aircraft front companies.
The FBI is going US mil grade fly over, collect it all in one pass, one direction, nothing for anyone to map on low, no more circle flight paths. No front companies to find in open databases, no flight plans to and from the same airport.
Everything is been done to keep new FBI methods away from criminals, faith groups, courts, police, telco workers, dual citizens. Some disinformation every year about total collection is just part of that.
The FBI wants in on all the cell phones. Not just the fact they are wondering around an city looking for a cell tower.
Data, voice prints, images, files, GPS, live mic on/off, live camera on/off.
A next gen Domain Awareness System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... beyond just a face, a bag and a real time cell phone location.
What to do about activist lawyers and human rights lawyers who will demand the right to see the parallel construction of a person walking down a street and having all their cell phone data examined?
Re 'won't make a difference."
Hows that "difference" been working out for networks and communities over the past years?
Time to try the private sector and see what they can do where federal NN rules and federally protected telco monopolies failed.
The message to future people with skills is to keep innovating.
When 4K60 is about to become a low cost product for consumers, be ready, first and with a good product.
Dont expect sales of last gen product lines to keep the creative and gifted people brand loyal.
The most creative people want the next gen product now to be more creative with.
The next brand to offer that is the brand they will be using and telling the world about.
Other brands are waiting to offer just that product, service, support, software, hardware.
Got to keep been innovative and actually listen to the best users who enjoyed your products in the past.
Slashdot Mirror
AC its legal when its 5 hops from any foreigner. 6 hops if the foreigner is well-disciplined and attempts to avoid NSA global collection.
Re 'phantom satellites"
All the ghost soldiers get paycheques, why not have an entire generation of ghost satellites?
Buy some commercial satellite images of interesting nations and see what they look like.
Find normal nations that kind of look the same. Fly a low plane and get some really hi res images of things that look a bit the same as the interesting nations for every day of the year.
Some photoshop and its a decade of ghost satellite federal funding as the ghost satellites pass over the interesting nations.
Count their tanks, aircraft and photoshop them around a bit. Military manoeuvres, bands, parades. Always be ready to read todays newspaper if asked for a live demo.
Re "grab it with a big arm"
Canada has a spare space arm in a museum.
Re 'would be the best way to deal with DPRK."
The US has to think in terms of a 1950's Switzerland bunker complex. Lots of different caves packed with EMP resistant artillery thats pre set for action.
No CPU, no computers, no networks. Just a lot of artillery thats ready to use.
What does the US have that can get down into every cave and stop artillery?
The NSA and CIA would have already contacted every top ranking DPRK mil and gov official with a deal. Dont fight and get an escape into China, money, no questions.
Stay and the US will get down into every cave, bunker.
AC the smart people who use robots will be able to keep their wage costs lower. Prices will go down for the robot users and they will attract new consumers looking for better prices.
Increase prices will not work if business can set their own prices and pass on robot wage savings by not having the same human wages as competitors.
AC then you don't attract and keep the best executives.
Re "If they have nearly unlimited resources to hide or obfuscate something, there is basically no way to know."
People can detect the shape moving, no matter the radar profile, a new color.
Something new and bright/dark moving in front of everything else thats not as dark up in space that was not moving yesterday is going to get noticed by most nations able to map the night sky above their own nation to some level of skill over decades.
The best way to avoid that is to use a space plane. Nobody expects an unmanned space plane and its very different movements.
CIA searching for answers behind its India-Nuclear failure (May 16, 1998) https://fas.org/irp/news/1998/...
"..able to halt suspicious activity during the periods when the spy satellites were passing overhead."
AC if it was a 100% gov/mil project then its cool to just try again. Nobody would know.
The problem now is the private sector wants to claim its been successful for their role.
So other projects have faith in their ability to put their things into space without fall apart.
It got into space at the right location and time. The private sector did everything correct and then something after it moved away and became a gov/mil project?
Keeping the population in closed science cities kept other nations human spies out.
Re "If it's super secret then maybe they made it disappear"
Most nations with "nuclear" ambitions and other well hidden production lines have their "university" "astronomers" map the spies above their nation.
For anything new and bright. Anything "new" that blocks out the existing data. Anything on the move.
Nobody wants a new spy sat or spy platform thats on the move over their nation at an unexpected times.
The mil toys get worked on when the spy sats have passed for a time then hide again.
For the price of a few "astronomers" and a super computer any nation could have had some level of secrecy.
That space plane upset all their nice calculations with its wide changes every 24h.
Smart people around the world have learned to look for the extra "darkness" of a US sat thats trying to hide.
No new darkness, no new bright light ? No new sat? Did they get it just right this time?
Misty (satellite) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
If a city, state, nation, province wants to demand a much higher wage for all jobs then business have a few ways of thinking about that:
1. Accept less profit and have less money to invest in upgrades, the business.
2. Pay the workers the new wage but only need the hours of work that add up to the old wage per person working. Dont hire new workers.
2.5 Look into what can be done with touch screens to save some wages.
3. Buy a robot.
4. Buy more robots.
The robots come from a factory with a set time before they need work done again.
A thought experiment...
How could a local community escape the demand to use a telco monopoly?
Dont got anywhere near the monopoly network.
Talk to the electric company (consumer, city), rail road, power company (state), water company, local businesses, private land owners.
Build a community network that spans out from different utility services, rail, power networks, land back to business and commercial real estate.
An innovative private sector cooperative initiative that brings together everyone locally but the wireline monopoly telco. Let the locals support an ISP from the back of that new private network.
Call it a network on a utility cooperative with local profits reinvested for network infrastructure. Any is ISP welcome from the same city, state, another state.
City and local gov did nothing for the existing telco monopoly to get legal about.
Some locals wanted a new network and they built it on private land that just happened to be linked by non telco private sector utilities.
What can a monopoly telco do? Block the local gov, community broadband first? Then demand a stop to the private sector in the same community second?
Thats a lot of monopoly power to enforce federally on both state, city governments and the private sector.
States and cities can build own networks. No more paper insulated wireline telco monopolies getting court protection for their monopolies.
Soon the more skilled gated communities, cities and states will have the freedom to build and extend their own networks.
No more federal NN rules directing the use of one monopoly NN ready network.
Freedom to design, connect and network all over the USA. The private sector and local people escaping federal NN rules that kept all their networks beholden to a select few federally protected telcos.
Small business and new telcos working together to find innovative network solutions that do not get told to use paper insulated wireline monopoly networks.
Re " intelligence led counter insurgency"
That worked well until the GCHQ and SAS found the supplies the US was allowing to flow into Ireland.
The UK asked the US police to stop that flow. Nothing resulted in such direct law enforcement to law enforcement discussions.
So the UK intelligence services had to get active in the USA and the US secret police never worked how the direct flow of funds and hardware from the US to Ireland just stopped.
Skilled UK SIGINT intelligence ensured UK teams working deep in the USA never got caught.
Good counter insurgency often has to go to very unexpected places.
If you like your paper insulated wire line monopoly, you can keep it.
Re "reverse ID lookups"
:)
The fun part is all the early social media that got kept over the years. All that past data can uncover many cover stories used by the once protected clandestine services/police/mil.
Faith groups, criminals, other nations brands, embassies are running complex background investigations on anyone new getting to near them.
Who was in the mil, went to university to study law, law enforcement, engineering related topics but present as another occupation, unrelated skill set.
Not the person they try to present as and social media kept the party, university, friend pictures, video files.
On anyone undercover been introduced as been trusted to a faith group, criminal group. Getting informants and undercover teams in is a task in finding people who have never done social media and who are trusted by the UK gov...
Trying to recreate old social media now is a fail as so many private sector investigative brands kept the old social media in real time. Later cover story alterations show up against what was collected and save by the private sector years ago. Pay enough and get social media played back over years as saved at that time.
Hard to hide that new face with a new addition to old online social media files by the security services.
Criminals and faith groups are happy to suggest people in the community become informants, join the police, mil, security services just to ensure investigative busy work. Only so many usable surveillance teams to try and stay in the many no go areas
With background investigations not stopping a person from not getting a UK gov/mil/clandestine service job, such people of faith/crime can rise up the gov/mil ranks.
Reverse ID lookups by faith groups then get even more productive once inside the gov, mil for generations.
That some of the malware discovered domestically and only in the UK would have been the work of/contractors for the security services?
Create bespoke code for every mission that no AV or OS will ever know about?
Unique code only every seen in select locations in the UK and Ireland would stand out to any researcher.
Use international malware thats not been discovered in the wild but might be discovered at any time? It might collect all for hours, days, months, years?
Until the OS, AV tells the user about the infected OS, files.
What to do with all the research in the UK that will find UK sensitive security service code litter online, on devices, in the telco networks?
Code never seen outside the UK, Ireland that no OS, AV was aware of?
Another domestic Operation Socialist gets found? https://theintercept.com/2014/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... How to accept such discoveries and tell the researcher that their work will result in an OS patch, AV update as needed?
Centralise legal malware reporting in the UK and keep the researchers productive and feeling like their efforts get better results than talking to the global AV community.
Re "Why seek a technical solution to the problem?"
The problem is the digital files that exist on a computer and cloud that are all interesting to law enforcement globally.
Checksums to every file discovered, recovered, found, investigated, copied over by law enforcement around the world.
Thats great to scan the cloud, ISP, web sites and free net services for the same files but what about the files only a users OS can see? The direct-attached storage, HD only and OS and files the user can see.
If only some way existed to run such file details against every other file on existing brands internet connected desktop computers?
Like a powerful reverse version of anti virus software pushed down by an OS maker to look at all files on that OS.
Not to find existing malware but to discover all images, text files, video clips on an OS. Both to compare to existing databases and to checksum all files found at the OS level. Create/copy over a digital image on the OS and the networked OS uploads a new checksum in real time, everytime, all the time.
Camera details in the original file, GPS, image checksum, checksum of the coveted image, user edited compressed video.
Not just files moving in free big brand email systems, the free cloud but every file at the OS level. Every file user created and downloaded.
If the file ever turns up for law enforcement in the wild, the very first computer to have/create that file can be reconstructed. Every computer that has the same file can be discovered. The first users to then get the same file. No more just using checksums on networks. Down to an OS level of file indexing.
Win, win and go direct with the same brand trusted payment when you have your camera or movie related digital files, film with the same brand.
No CC banking percentage to take away from every payment.
AC you don't think most nations have learned from people from the West with "free" offers of many gifts created by the NSA, CIA, MI6, GCHQ?
The Soviet Union got fooled by a lot of people offering information, hardware, software for political reasons and the need for cash just walking in from the West.
A nice cover story and lots of free information, that perfect way to export hardware into the Soviet Union?
Once investigated by real trusted spies a lot was found to be a set up to discover spies.
So most nations are now a lot more smart when it comes to trusting walk in information. Sample computer parts that are delivered in person with the ability to get unlimited number of parts later.
AC the old methods look great in todays spy novels, movies and other AC fiction.
Re "What puzzles me is, with all of the resources that the US federal government has at their disposal, why aren't they actually trying to crack encrypted phones?"
The FBI is slowly learning from the advanced and very productive GCHQ methods in 1980s'-90's Ireland and the way MI5 works in parts of Ireland now.
Never tell lawyers, human rights lawyers, city/state police, courts, court workers about methods.
Keep them all guessing and tell them everything went back to an informant, information given rather than US domestic collect it all.
The FBI cannot trust its new citizens, their faiths, their cults, their total loyalty to their faith, other nations, criminals and party political operatives, contractors within the FBI.
Too many faith and political traitors deep within the courts, police, media, gov, legal system, telcos reporting methods and altering criminals and members of their faith. Interesting people escape the USA as the FBI gets tech support to log the cell phone moments.
The FBI cannot trust its own requests to telcos support. The cleared dual citizens and people of faith are more supportive of criminals than federal US law enforcement.
So the FBI has to keep everything related to the FBI police methods well away from city/state police, lawyer, telco and media discovery.
The FBI was people to trust and enjoy using their cell tower products as it gets voice prints, location, live mic, camera, files but never wants to alert people that its all going to be collected on in real time.
Thats the skill set the GCHQ skill the FBI understands. Dont be like the NSA and talk about global, domestic collect it all and the budget and methods.
Be like the GCHQ and say nothing for generations and many decades. Let all the interesting people keep guessing.
Re the ""Federal Bureau of Device Recovery"" . The UK did than under a Government Technical Assistance Centre, National Technical Assistance Centre to hide the role of the GCHQ from having to be seen doing decryption. It looked like police finding files on unencrypted computers and nobody was to understand the mil grade decryption computer power in hours, days, weeks, years given police to counter junk consumer encryption.
The USA has that "capability" federally they have just finally learned not be the NSA and never tell anyone about methods.
The other really neat side to all this confusion about decryption is to keep corrupt criminal city/state police, telco workers and state/city/federal politicians using their "trusted" cell phone. Trusting their big brand US cell phone to keep their crimes hidden. Voice prints, all files are wonderful for the FBI in real time.
If the interesting people int he USA ever worked out what the GCHQ and now MI5 did to the Irish telco system they would never us a phone, cell phone, network computer again.
So public relations like this keep trust in US big brands junk encryption and allows the FBI to collect globally. The FBI keeps looking at interesting people who go on holiday. The FBI will not trust the CIA, NSA and other agencies to do international collection anymore for them due to the staff and contractors used for global collection.
If that digital consumer trust stops, the FBI would need informants in every police station, political, faith and criminal meeting again.
The other aspect is who does FBI collection. The FBI is going direct to the US mil for upgrades to its more advanced aircraft to collect on entire cities. No more light planes with a 2 mile collection ability over a city. No more easy to map circles over a city for hours, landing at the same airport. No more registering LETC upgrades on FBI light aircraft front companies.
The FBI is going US mil grade fly over, collect it all in one pass, one direction, nothing for anyone to map on low, no more circle flight paths. No front companies to find in open databases, no flight plans to and from the same airport.
Everything is been done to keep new FBI methods away from criminals, faith groups, courts, police, telco workers, dual citizens. Some disinformation every year about total collection is just part of that.
The FBI wants in on all the cell phones. Not just the fact they are wondering around an city looking for a cell tower.
Data, voice prints, images, files, GPS, live mic on/off, live camera on/off.
A next gen Domain Awareness System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... beyond just a face, a bag and a real time cell phone location.
What the USA wants domestically is the Greek wiretapping case 2004–05 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...–05 and the
Italian SISMI-Telecom scandal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ability to look down over any cell network.
From the NSA ANT catalog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... something like a domestic DROPOUTJEEP to push, pull files from any phone in the USA.
What to do about activist lawyers and human rights lawyers who will demand the right to see the parallel construction of a person walking down a street and having all their cell phone data examined?
Re 'won't make a difference."
Hows that "difference" been working out for networks and communities over the past years?
Time to try the private sector and see what they can do where federal NN rules and federally protected telco monopolies failed.
The message to future people with skills is to keep innovating.
When 4K60 is about to become a low cost product for consumers, be ready, first and with a good product.
Dont expect sales of last gen product lines to keep the creative and gifted people brand loyal.
The most creative people want the next gen product now to be more creative with.
The next brand to offer that is the brand they will be using and telling the world about.
Other brands are waiting to offer just that product, service, support, software, hardware.
Got to keep been innovative and actually listen to the best users who enjoyed your products in the past.