Hows that wireline paper insulated monopoly network been under the years of NN rules?
With rule changes some of the better funded states, cities, towns might just have a chance to build a network, community broadband if they so want.
No more NN rules to keep giving the protected monopoly court wins to block any new networks.
Some parts of the USA might just get better networks. Gated communities can find a new, better quality ISP.
Resorts, hotels, small business that employ local people might just attract more business and offer better internet to their guests with NN rule changes as they can expand their own new networks.
Some areas will stay the same due to local politics, tax rates, funding, taxes been spent on welfare. Not much can be done in such areas and they will stay on their paper insulated wireline.
Other sates, cities will see the new freedoms that have and invite in innovative and new telco, ISP products and services. Now they have they freedom to build their networks without federal NN monopoly rules blocking new network investment and growth.
The better, smarter, more imaginative, more industrious parts of the USA have just got the ability to plan new networks. They with do great with the new network building freedoms. Cities, states, towns, communities, business and the private sector with the ability, skills and people to build networks can now invest and grow without federal rules blocking them.
China has a few limited areas of direct internet interest.
People using a VPN the Communist party in China has not been given a backdoor to in China.
If the VPN works well all over China, some deal to report users is in place.
CIA, MI6 funded and supported protesters in China.
Wealthy people who have escaped China and who are now supporting protesters in China.
The creation of new network to try and support protesters in China.
To probe dual use mil/gov/comsumer telco networks that collect to on mil. air force, navy, army, special forces bases globally.
Was a nation foolish and trusted another nations consumer telco products expect them to probe your secret mil infrastructure thats on the wide open "internet".
Connect your most sensitive sites to the open "web" and other nations will take a look.
The rest of the spying is done by humans loyal to the Communist party all over the world in academia, business, civil society. No internet is risked as the FBI, MI5, GCHA, NSA can discover entire spy networks who chat too much on the "net"
vs. the NSA and GCHQ 5 hops of global collect it all efforts.
The West collects it all online. Other nations use their own trusted humans to spy globally for generations.
The West has Prism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
China has human spies. From the average US consumer, the junk NSA encryption sold in tame US OS, hardware, software is a real problem.
That has reduced the protection of working encryption and replaced it with backdoors, trapdoors, no encryption.
How did that "trust" the consumer had work out over the years and years of PRISM? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
That was US and UK backed collect it all on networks and OS. The product line was the collection method.
AC re "without the internet where we plan to put government and private interests"
So no running water into public lands?
No electricity?
No paved roads?
Public lands are just left to become wild? Some sates in the USA have a lot of "public land" between other parts of their state, towns and cities.
Kind of a great idea to build a paved road, bridges, connect electricity, have working phones, fast internet as needed all over the USA? Some of the networks will have to pass "public land" to connect real people and their new business, homes, places of work, hospitals and schools. People live all over the USA and thanks to new ISP rules will be getting good quality, new internet services.
On public land, near public land, around public land. Working, fast internet to connect more people and their growing business.
Makes a change from years of NN rules, paper insulated wireline, modems and been told to accept one or two existing monopoly network services.
Time to see what the private sector can do for ISP all over the USA rather than federal NN rules protecting a few monopoly telcos.
The rules in the past set who could be a NN ready monopoly telco.
With NN rules changes expected, more innovative and new telcos can connect the USA again.
No more federal NN rules to hold back US ISP building new networks with federal NN compliance rules.
The ability to enter the US telco market is now not protected for just a few NN monopolies.
Nobody expects perfection. Just some quality control for the amount paid.
Just not shipping junk encryption, OS and generations of CPU would be a great start.
Good software by good people can then be designed and tested over good hardware.
The funding for a new search engine?
The funding examine how an existing search engine does its human guided and automated deranking?
Reverse engineer and correct for the political search results? What result deranked back to page 1000 is back in the top 10 results?
Look at how search results got done in the past when the brand was growing and had to be still be accurate to gain marketshare.
What happened when the deranking pushed results back.
Re "... with an identical socket that is unaffected by the problem."
All we can do is wait for the next CPU and see if better testing was done.
Then upgrade.
The global buying cycle of CPU upgrading has a few options:
For people who play computer games and need a fast CPU:
Trust the same brand to get a new CPU thats works next time.
Try another existing brand that has a different, new CPU that is tested and reward them.
Want security and know to walk away form the brands that fail?
Find, create a better CPU and get a fab to make that for CPU use that has to be secure.
Re 'It might help with the next generation but it won't prevent bugs from appearing in the first place."
All we can do is fix the next generation. Bugs can be prevented with much better questions, people doing things with new CPU's and sharing their test results.
The big brands have failed. The OS have failed.
Re "Open hardware is always free of faults."
We have seen what the best names in some sectors of the computing community did for security for years.
PRISM (surveillance program) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Open software and open hardware is a good start at having a few people have a look at computer security.
The big brands keep failing.
Generations of failed hardware, junk encryption, CPU's, OS and networking. Backdoors, trapdoors.
Thats is great for privacy angel'o'sphere.
The political deranking from the original search engine is still not avoided. The same selected results are just much more private.
The world needs a real, new search engine again.
What is at the end of the network?
Hotline? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The use of a tracker to find your fav servers new ip?
A network of wifi hardware around a city that anyone can join but never has any connection to the internet.
A server that is found and has information, files on it?
The dark web ? Something that can be part of the internet but is more secure to political censorship?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The megaocorps now control search. They can derank any result for any party political reason they want.
We need a new search engine that actually gets real results rather than filters the internet politically.
Get their internet censorship proof and encrypted.
Too many gov, mil, NGO, people, brand owners want to censor and totally stop free speech, search results.
Create an internet that works again that does not get blocked.
Links can be shared without losing an account, been banned, reported.
Something that is resilient to the US party politics of a few computer brand and social media owners.
List the news cars that do this and rank them below the most defective decades of car designs.
Ensure customers looking for a new car online find the warning about ads in cars before they consider that new car.
Defective by design and to avoid will be the results found, not your brands good reviews.
Sell ads with a car, enjoy the online comments and news about the car with ads to avoid.
The more a company tries to sell a car with ads the more the internet will inform people considering that brand and year of car.
Your brands good engineering reputation cultivated over decades of safe design and style excellence vs the year of the ad.
Was it worth it?
Show the ads and people will reconsider what your band is really worth.
Your brand becomes a warning sign, a joke not a trusted brand of car.
A car joke shared by generations of people who would have once considered your brand. They now stop, point and LOL at your car with ads.
They could have been your loyal customers who would have told their friends about your car design, low costs and good price.
Want to risk people creating images of the ads in your car with your brand as a funny meme that never gets boring for decades?
Every new ad in your car, your brand shared as a new joke in real time?
What did your car brand try to sell its captive audience today? Shampoo? Dog food? Lipstick? A big boat? Heath insurance? A coat? A message from a charity? NGO? The political policy of another nation? That last one gets interesting.
Will a car brands upper management really want to face the US government about spreading "fake news" in their brands cars that millions of US drivers/passengers had to watch everyday all over the USA?
Did upper management know about the fake news in their ads? Did they report the attempts at fake news to the US gov as required? When did they stop the fake news in their cars ads? Did they accept another nations direct funding to keep the fake news in their cars?
Have they ever visited the nation that spreads fake news? Do they have a factory in the nation that spreads fake news? Is their brand selling new cars in the nation that spreads fake news?
If upper management thought questions over catalytic converters, software, crash reports was fun for the brand over the decades, wait for the party political questions about the politics of the ads their once trusted brand showed.
Your brands upper management, another nations fake news ads displaying in every car sold? Even the security services might take an interest in that ad sale.
AC re "foiled" or "caught"
Why would any nation tell the world of their new methods and years of law enforcement parallel construction.
Let the wider world keep guessing as to US security and its new methods? No trial, no methods have to be given to human rights lawyers to tell faith groups and cults about changes to US investigative methods.
The methods just keep working and the media can keep guessing at US security.
An airport is a digital and an investigative trap. Chat downs, questions, searches and investigations before been allowed to enter the USA.
Images of every face, voice prints, chats about needing a rental car, chats at hotels, motels, taxi/car services with camera/mic? Free wifi at different locations. Cell phones been linked to voice prints, faces and what phone service.
Images and digital collection on all the people with people arriving/leaving the USA. Their voice prints, faces, licence plates.
Why tell people about what is done by informing their lawyers after been "caught"?
Nobody would have to know about what was done in the USA or before getting to the USA. Let the interesting people keep asking their human rights lawyers and keep reading the media for hints of US methods AC.
Nothing will be in court or published about how US security really works. Anything mentioned will be fake/bait/a trap/part of an investigation to see who repeats/shares/links the "released" news on US security methods.
0. Find skilled people. The best of their generation. Hire only on merit not on social advancement.
1. Consider the CPU design needed and that existing hardware around a new CPU design can support.
2. Find yourself this generations Berkeley RISC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
3. Find some fab to help design and make the CPU, collect related parts.
4. Bring the software and hardware together so people can code with your CPU and for your CPU using your free dev tools.
Study everything thats needed and don't forget the support that people expect from any CPU. Software later cannot always undo what was not done during CPU design.
5. Learn from the past. Study past CPU efforts and their software offered. What was needed, what was supported, what attracted developers. What should have been done, what was not done, what could have been done to better support developers.
The funding, gov support, how complex software was just expected to support a CPU. Limitations that could have been worked on before using a CPU design.
Zilog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Dragon 32/64 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Cyrix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Eagle Computer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Acorn Computers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and Acorn Archimedes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Have a programming language that works and is supported. A good CPU needs a good set of free tools to create applications.
Do not encumber your project trying to tell developers what to do on their own projects. Let them code in anyway they want.
Let your project be the platform that does not try and micromanage other peoples code. Attract the fun, smart projects away from the more restrictive OS, repository services by not "telling" them how to use your tools, code, CPU. What other people do with your CPU, tools is their project to support.
An open CPU with the freedom to get on with creating great code.
Find people to tell the world about your project from an average users perspective and that of creating very complex applications.
Cover a few languages used globally by very smart nations and have 24/7 support. Be ready to do blog, talk radio, TV, online, magazine interviews 24/7 as needed by a news cycle. Never attempt to reschedule an interview because its 4 am for you. Always thank the interviewer and be ready do any interview at any time at any skill level. That trade publication or a game, music, art blog. Win hearts and minds away from other projects.
Have a media kit ready with translations, lots of different usable images that are publication ready. The history of your design, the design now and future directions. Have your own translator if needed who knows your CPU design ready at 4 am if needed. Let every interview spread the message of your project and CPU design.
Make sure people talking about your project are articulate, charming, charismatic, photogenic and have the skills to present complex issues to any audience.
Set up an online community thats not linked to your CPU work to support later code, projects, art work, music, games, FAQ, OS, bug reporting, security.
So it can be responsive, dynamic and ready for changes in the free code and market place. Something to keep your CPU supported for users without having to get official approval for every normal support question.
That keeps your CPU team working on the next CPU and not getting bored doing end user support work.
Be aware for what offers of gov and mil funding will do to your production line and staff. With huge tax b
The "private entity" only keeps working if no actual gov is accepted.
Once a gov starts using a service as a gov in an official role... then its a "private entity" that has to consider the needs of a gov.
Re "True, but this is about passing the cursory inspection without raising the kinds of flags that a fully deleted computer would raise."
A brand new computer with hidden encryption would be discovered.
An old computer will not hide the use of hidden encryption.
A new OS on an old computer with no user files is also too different from average users.
Have something very normal to inspect. Work files that are allowed to be worked on during a holiday. Holiday images and video clips. Just remember to remove all camera data from the "edited" photography. Software can be set to remove all such dat when saving a new file. GPS and camera data in any file is always collected and considered. The nation/s a person said they visited might not be the same as what the image GPS showed.
Interesting people often forget just how much location data is in some modern image files when they claim to have only been to a few very boring nations.
AC re "The worst case is that they seize it"
Then the use of encryption is discovered by contractors later.
Why is a person returning to the USA with an encrypted fie system? What is in the files?
What kind of encryption is been used? Consumer grade that is junk? Can another agency decrypt?
That starts a lot of questions that might not just stop when "paperwork to get it back or a refund".
That person who feels the need for so much good encryption is now interesting. What are they doing in the USA? What did they do in another part of the world that needed encryption? What did they do over the years?
The need for encryption is a nice way to find out someone is interesting even if they get a "refund" or their "stuff" back later.
The next holiday, business trip? US law enforcement might suggest another nation interview that interesting person. They are watched and "randomly" selected for a search and a few questions. Law enforcement cooperation is great like that in the modern world. That nation might have a law that required decryption when asked.
The "Use of encryption is not a crime in the US." is then not such a problem as it might be a crime in that nation.
AC the really neat thing about US customs is that demand for "constitution" has been tested over many decades by many generations of very different people and their teams of skilled lawyers thinking they could prevent a search, not be searched, not be asked questions, block a US court from looking at what was found.
That they could lie to US customs...
The "constitution" is not diplomatic immunity when returning to the USA.
People still get searched after decades of trying to demand that they cannot be searched because "constitution" when returning to the USA.
Become a diplomat for another nation and then enjoy some protection.
Re "those don't use local storage, or at least they are all about 'the cloud'."
Some nations will just demand access and start to copy out all files, search for contacts of any account they find.
If the "data is in the cloud" "book" is the first account that shows up during a search then that will have to be ready for inspection.
Enter the pass word and the inspection/interview/chatdown can go looking into all files.
Some nations take their time with comments like "rights", "lawyer" "embassy" during a longer interview and just want to get back to that request for a password.
Re "mess with your cloud data."
Depends who also has the right to look into that "cloud" product for images and files. It might not just be the "trusted" cloud provider in some nations.
Law enforcement could be all over the cloud in some nations as part of ongoing image matching database support.
Domestic law enfacement already has every file on some cloud systems referenced in some nations.
Police network searches of the cloud as part of getting a "free" cloud. Every file on the cloud cross referenced to any file that turns up during that nations police work.
Slashdot Mirror
Hows that wireline paper insulated monopoly network been under the years of NN rules?
With rule changes some of the better funded states, cities, towns might just have a chance to build a network, community broadband if they so want.
No more NN rules to keep giving the protected monopoly court wins to block any new networks.
Some parts of the USA might just get better networks. Gated communities can find a new, better quality ISP.
Resorts, hotels, small business that employ local people might just attract more business and offer better internet to their guests with NN rule changes as they can expand their own new networks.
Some areas will stay the same due to local politics, tax rates, funding, taxes been spent on welfare. Not much can be done in such areas and they will stay on their paper insulated wireline.
Other sates, cities will see the new freedoms that have and invite in innovative and new telco, ISP products and services. Now they have they freedom to build their networks without federal NN monopoly rules blocking new network investment and growth.
The better, smarter, more imaginative, more industrious parts of the USA have just got the ability to plan new networks. They with do great with the new network building freedoms. Cities, states, towns, communities, business and the private sector with the ability, skills and people to build networks can now invest and grow without federal rules blocking them.
China has a few limited areas of direct internet interest.
People using a VPN the Communist party in China has not been given a backdoor to in China.
If the VPN works well all over China, some deal to report users is in place.
CIA, MI6 funded and supported protesters in China.
Wealthy people who have escaped China and who are now supporting protesters in China.
The creation of new network to try and support protesters in China.
To probe dual use mil/gov/comsumer telco networks that collect to on mil. air force, navy, army, special forces bases globally.
Was a nation foolish and trusted another nations consumer telco products expect them to probe your secret mil infrastructure thats on the wide open "internet".
Connect your most sensitive sites to the open "web" and other nations will take a look.
The rest of the spying is done by humans loyal to the Communist party all over the world in academia, business, civil society. No internet is risked as the FBI, MI5, GCHA, NSA can discover entire spy networks who chat too much on the "net"
vs. the NSA and GCHQ 5 hops of global collect it all efforts.
The West collects it all online. Other nations use their own trusted humans to spy globally for generations. The West has Prism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
China has human spies. From the average US consumer, the junk NSA encryption sold in tame US OS, hardware, software is a real problem.
That has reduced the protection of working encryption and replaced it with backdoors, trapdoors, no encryption.
How did that "trust" the consumer had work out over the years and years of PRISM?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
That was US and UK backed collect it all on networks and OS. The product line was the collection method.
AC re "without the internet where we plan to put government and private interests"
So no running water into public lands?
No electricity?
No paved roads?
Public lands are just left to become wild? Some sates in the USA have a lot of "public land" between other parts of their state, towns and cities.
Kind of a great idea to build a paved road, bridges, connect electricity, have working phones, fast internet as needed all over the USA? Some of the networks will have to pass "public land" to connect real people and their new business, homes, places of work, hospitals and schools. People live all over the USA and thanks to new ISP rules will be getting good quality, new internet services.
On public land, near public land, around public land. Working, fast internet to connect more people and their growing business.
Makes a change from years of NN rules, paper insulated wireline, modems and been told to accept one or two existing monopoly network services.
Time to see what the private sector can do for ISP all over the USA rather than federal NN rules protecting a few monopoly telcos.
The rules in the past set who could be a NN ready monopoly telco.
With NN rules changes expected, more innovative and new telcos can connect the USA again.
No more federal NN rules to hold back US ISP building new networks with federal NN compliance rules.
The ability to enter the US telco market is now not protected for just a few NN monopolies.
AC C was great for fast fun computer games for the post Basic generation.
Nobody expects perfection. Just some quality control for the amount paid.
Just not shipping junk encryption, OS and generations of CPU would be a great start.
Good software by good people can then be designed and tested over good hardware.
The funding for a new search engine?
The funding examine how an existing search engine does its human guided and automated deranking?
Reverse engineer and correct for the political search results? What result deranked back to page 1000 is back in the top 10 results?
Look at how search results got done in the past when the brand was growing and had to be still be accurate to gain marketshare.
What happened when the deranking pushed results back.
Re "... with an identical socket that is unaffected by the problem."
All we can do is wait for the next CPU and see if better testing was done.
Then upgrade.
The global buying cycle of CPU upgrading has a few options:
For people who play computer games and need a fast CPU:
Trust the same brand to get a new CPU thats works next time.
Try another existing brand that has a different, new CPU that is tested and reward them.
Want security and know to walk away form the brands that fail?
Find, create a better CPU and get a fab to make that for CPU use that has to be secure.
Re 'It might help with the next generation but it won't prevent bugs from appearing in the first place."
All we can do is fix the next generation. Bugs can be prevented with much better questions, people doing things with new CPU's and sharing their test results.
The big brands have failed. The OS have failed.
Re "Open hardware is always free of faults."
We have seen what the best names in some sectors of the computing community did for security for years.
PRISM (surveillance program) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Open software and open hardware is a good start at having a few people have a look at computer security.
The big brands keep failing.
Generations of failed hardware, junk encryption, CPU's, OS and networking. Backdoors, trapdoors.
Thats is great for privacy angel'o'sphere.
The political deranking from the original search engine is still not avoided. The same selected results are just much more private.
The world needs a real, new search engine again.
What is at the end of the network?
Hotline? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The use of a tracker to find your fav servers new ip?
A network of wifi hardware around a city that anyone can join but never has any connection to the internet.
A server that is found and has information, files on it?
The dark web ? Something that can be part of the internet but is more secure to political censorship? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The megaocorps now control search. They can derank any result for any party political reason they want.
We need a new search engine that actually gets real results rather than filters the internet politically.
Get their internet censorship proof and encrypted.
Too many gov, mil, NGO, people, brand owners want to censor and totally stop free speech, search results.
Create an internet that works again that does not get blocked.
Links can be shared without losing an account, been banned, reported.
Something that is resilient to the US party politics of a few computer brand and social media owners.
Just have more upright three-wheel bikes. A nice basket in the back for stuff.
The PAE wall that stops people going back too far into computer history.
The people who work with Ada.
List the news cars that do this and rank them below the most defective decades of car designs.
Ensure customers looking for a new car online find the warning about ads in cars before they consider that new car.
Defective by design and to avoid will be the results found, not your brands good reviews.
Sell ads with a car, enjoy the online comments and news about the car with ads to avoid.
The more a company tries to sell a car with ads the more the internet will inform people considering that brand and year of car.
Your brands good engineering reputation cultivated over decades of safe design and style excellence vs the year of the ad.
Was it worth it?
Show the ads and people will reconsider what your band is really worth.
Your brand becomes a warning sign, a joke not a trusted brand of car.
A car joke shared by generations of people who would have once considered your brand. They now stop, point and LOL at your car with ads.
They could have been your loyal customers who would have told their friends about your car design, low costs and good price.
Want to risk people creating images of the ads in your car with your brand as a funny meme that never gets boring for decades?
Every new ad in your car, your brand shared as a new joke in real time?
What did your car brand try to sell its captive audience today? Shampoo? Dog food? Lipstick? A big boat? Heath insurance? A coat? A message from a charity? NGO? The political policy of another nation? That last one gets interesting.
Will a car brands upper management really want to face the US government about spreading "fake news" in their brands cars that millions of US drivers/passengers had to watch everyday all over the USA?
Did upper management know about the fake news in their ads? Did they report the attempts at fake news to the US gov as required? When did they stop the fake news in their cars ads? Did they accept another nations direct funding to keep the fake news in their cars?
Have they ever visited the nation that spreads fake news? Do they have a factory in the nation that spreads fake news? Is their brand selling new cars in the nation that spreads fake news?
If upper management thought questions over catalytic converters, software, crash reports was fun for the brand over the decades, wait for the party political questions about the politics of the ads their once trusted brand showed.
Your brands upper management, another nations fake news ads displaying in every car sold? Even the security services might take an interest in that ad sale.
AC re "foiled" or "caught"
Why would any nation tell the world of their new methods and years of law enforcement parallel construction.
Let the wider world keep guessing as to US security and its new methods? No trial, no methods have to be given to human rights lawyers to tell faith groups and cults about changes to US investigative methods.
The methods just keep working and the media can keep guessing at US security.
An airport is a digital and an investigative trap. Chat downs, questions, searches and investigations before been allowed to enter the USA.
Images of every face, voice prints, chats about needing a rental car, chats at hotels, motels, taxi/car services with camera/mic? Free wifi at different locations. Cell phones been linked to voice prints, faces and what phone service.
Images and digital collection on all the people with people arriving/leaving the USA. Their voice prints, faces, licence plates.
Why tell people about what is done by informing their lawyers after been "caught"?
Nobody would have to know about what was done in the USA or before getting to the USA. Let the interesting people keep asking their human rights lawyers and keep reading the media for hints of US methods AC.
Nothing will be in court or published about how US security really works. Anything mentioned will be fake/bait/a trap/part of an investigation to see who repeats/shares/links the "released" news on US security methods.
0. Find skilled people. The best of their generation. Hire only on merit not on social advancement.
1. Consider the CPU design needed and that existing hardware around a new CPU design can support.
2. Find yourself this generations Berkeley RISC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
3. Find some fab to help design and make the CPU, collect related parts.
4. Bring the software and hardware together so people can code with your CPU and for your CPU using your free dev tools.
Study everything thats needed and don't forget the support that people expect from any CPU. Software later cannot always undo what was not done during CPU design.
5. Learn from the past. Study past CPU efforts and their software offered. What was needed, what was supported, what attracted developers. What should have been done, what was not done, what could have been done to better support developers.
The funding, gov support, how complex software was just expected to support a CPU. Limitations that could have been worked on before using a CPU design.
Zilog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Dragon 32/64 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Cyrix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Eagle Computer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Acorn Computers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and Acorn Archimedes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Have a programming language that works and is supported. A good CPU needs a good set of free tools to create applications.
Do not encumber your project trying to tell developers what to do on their own projects. Let them code in anyway they want.
Let your project be the platform that does not try and micromanage other peoples code. Attract the fun, smart projects away from the more restrictive OS, repository services by not "telling" them how to use your tools, code, CPU. What other people do with your CPU, tools is their project to support.
An open CPU with the freedom to get on with creating great code.
Find people to tell the world about your project from an average users perspective and that of creating very complex applications.
Cover a few languages used globally by very smart nations and have 24/7 support. Be ready to do blog, talk radio, TV, online, magazine interviews 24/7 as needed by a news cycle. Never attempt to reschedule an interview because its 4 am for you. Always thank the interviewer and be ready do any interview at any time at any skill level. That trade publication or a game, music, art blog. Win hearts and minds away from other projects.
Have a media kit ready with translations, lots of different usable images that are publication ready. The history of your design, the design now and future directions.
Have your own translator if needed who knows your CPU design ready at 4 am if needed. Let every interview spread the message of your project and CPU design.
Make sure people talking about your project are articulate, charming, charismatic, photogenic and have the skills to present complex issues to any audience.
Set up an online community thats not linked to your CPU work to support later code, projects, art work, music, games, FAQ, OS, bug reporting, security.
So it can be responsive, dynamic and ready for changes in the free code and market place. Something to keep your CPU supported for users without having to get official approval for every normal support question.
That keeps your CPU team working on the next CPU and not getting bored doing end user support work.
Be aware for what offers of gov and mil funding will do to your production line and staff. With huge tax b
The "private entity" only keeps working if no actual gov is accepted.
Once a gov starts using a service as a gov in an official role... then its a "private entity" that has to consider the needs of a gov.
Re "True, but this is about passing the cursory inspection without raising the kinds of flags that a fully deleted computer would raise."
A brand new computer with hidden encryption would be discovered.
An old computer will not hide the use of hidden encryption.
A new OS on an old computer with no user files is also too different from average users.
Have something very normal to inspect. Work files that are allowed to be worked on during a holiday. Holiday images and video clips. Just remember to remove all camera data from the "edited" photography. Software can be set to remove all such dat when saving a new file. GPS and camera data in any file is always collected and considered. The nation/s a person said they visited might not be the same as what the image GPS showed.
Interesting people often forget just how much location data is in some modern image files when they claim to have only been to a few very boring nations.
AC re "The worst case is that they seize it"
Then the use of encryption is discovered by contractors later.
Why is a person returning to the USA with an encrypted fie system? What is in the files?
What kind of encryption is been used? Consumer grade that is junk? Can another agency decrypt?
That starts a lot of questions that might not just stop when "paperwork to get it back or a refund".
That person who feels the need for so much good encryption is now interesting. What are they doing in the USA? What did they do in another part of the world that needed encryption? What did they do over the years?
The need for encryption is a nice way to find out someone is interesting even if they get a "refund" or their "stuff" back later.
The next holiday, business trip? US law enforcement might suggest another nation interview that interesting person. They are watched and "randomly" selected for a search and a few questions. Law enforcement cooperation is great like that in the modern world. That nation might have a law that required decryption when asked.
The "Use of encryption is not a crime in the US." is then not such a problem as it might be a crime in that nation.
AC the really neat thing about US customs is that demand for "constitution" has been tested over many decades by many generations of very different people and their teams of skilled lawyers thinking they could prevent a search, not be searched, not be asked questions, block a US court from looking at what was found.
That they could lie to US customs...
The "constitution" is not diplomatic immunity when returning to the USA.
People still get searched after decades of trying to demand that they cannot be searched because "constitution" when returning to the USA.
Become a diplomat for another nation and then enjoy some protection.
Re "those don't use local storage, or at least they are all about 'the cloud'."
Some nations will just demand access and start to copy out all files, search for contacts of any account they find.
If the "data is in the cloud" "book" is the first account that shows up during a search then that will have to be ready for inspection.
Enter the pass word and the inspection/interview/chatdown can go looking into all files.
Some nations take their time with comments like "rights", "lawyer" "embassy" during a longer interview and just want to get back to that request for a password.
Re "mess with your cloud data."
Depends who also has the right to look into that "cloud" product for images and files. It might not just be the "trusted" cloud provider in some nations.
Law enforcement could be all over the cloud in some nations as part of ongoing image matching database support.
Domestic law enfacement already has every file on some cloud systems referenced in some nations.
Police network searches of the cloud as part of getting a "free" cloud. Every file on the cloud cross referenced to any file that turns up during that nations police work.