AC Re "Every single time law enforcement has gone up against strong encryption, they have failed."
All law enforcement has to do is show encryption was used.
A contractor will be happy to scan any storage for the use of encryption.
The person of interest is then asked to decrypt.
No need to "gone up against strong encryption", the person been questioned will be asked to decrypt.
If they say no, demand rights, want a lawyer then some nations pass that person to their law enforcement.
Another more direct and formal request for decryption.
After a while the lack of help with decryption after some time begins to show criminality and that has prison time.
and don't have anything online that can be seen by any other network.
Keep your home and its needed networks away from the open internet.
Use the ISP internet with a VPN.
Find other ways to secure the CCTV so CCTV keeps working.
Encryption can be detected using gov and contractor software. A request for full decryption could be made in some nations.
A "plain jane windows partition with nothing of consequence on it for customs" as the only files would be good.
Add some holiday images of sunsets, food, art, culture, museums to show the computer was in daily use.
Any deeper search for any attempts at encryption would then find nothing.
A person with a holiday computer is just like most other people.
A new OS with no files is different.
The use and discovery of encryption could start the formal and direct request to decrypt in some parts of the world.
Return to the USA with a normal computer, average file system and a few fun holiday images.
Just another normal computer.
That just makes the person more interesting to the CIA, NSA, GCHQ, FBI and local law enforcement.
If most people have a lot of digital files they can show of their holidays, work, kin, fun, hobbies, art, food, culture why do a few feel the need to travel with no files?
Re 'Yeah, this is what I don't get. Anyone who would actually have something to hide would not carry it unencrypted across the border, because they would know that the border security people might decide to search it."
People actually do lie to enter another nation and attempt to say they are not supporting and funding banned groups.
Images, messages, contacts, of the person supporting and funding such banned groups then gets discovered.
Re "who would actually have something to hide"
Some cults and faiths see the support for such banned groups as part of the faith and people carry their faith with them.
The images of meetings, protests, banners, slogans, books, messages of support for past actions.
When entering a nice normal nation they lie and present as not been a supporter. Their digital life shows the truth.
AC Re "I am always wondering why?"
The first step is to track free speech. Then find the origin of people who want to publish and who is visiting the sites.
Once a NSA like database is created of the entire 4 hops of the site then the reports to the FBI, state/federal task forces and city police can be made.
Two law enforcement officials will then do a field interview to ask why a person in the USA expected to have freedom of speech and freedom after speech.
If the need to comment online is not stopped by the chilling chat down then interview the persons work colleagues and friends.
Go full Soviet and a request a state medical review on why a person feels they have the freedom to comment on news, history, art, culture, politics?
If the comments have not stopped go for a formal police interview and stop that freedom of speech.
The USA is going full DDR with its need to watch comments and then track people enjoying their rights. Freedom of speech, freedom to peaceably to assemble, to petition the government for a redress of grievances, freedom of the press and the tools to publish.
Why the internet needs to hold back any and all such rights in the USA is getting interesting.
Most people can understand how the DDR used Zersetzung https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... to stop people asking questions, publishing, protesting.
Large teams of security service workers, contractors will watch the web from the USA, UK, France and other time zones to totally ban press freedom in France 24/7.
The EU, CIA, GCHQ, NGO's, NATO and others will give France real time list of new sites, comments, accounts, forums, video clips, cartoons, music, art, history to ban.
By web site, ip and any other method of easy networking. No just trying the news site ip.
Such a real time ban list will then be placed between the French ISP user and all ISP in France.
Any attempt to connect to a banned site will be reported and the user given a real time warning about the fact they are now under investigation.
Expect a police interview that will show how guilty the ISP user is and what must be done to become not guilty again.
Repeated attempts to read the news will result in formal interviews, fines, interviews with friends, work colleagues to find out why banned site are been accessed.
A medical expert will be consulted to help the investigation as such a repeated need for press freedom is not normal in the wider population.
Such investigations will be chilling and force users to consider an encrypted VPN product.
The next question will be full encrypted VPN service sold in France from other nations that still have press freedom.
The NSA and GCHQ can help French law enforcement find the original ip's of users trying to use a VPN to read the news.
The discovered user will be more guilty as they are trying to hide their reading of the news by using a VPN. The extra step needed to uncover the original ip will be considered by a special VPN investigation.
If that fails to stop the use of new VPN products France can use its own global telco skills to list the top VPN providers been used to read the news in France.
CC payments from French bank accounts can be stopped to VPN services. VPN services found to be located in the EU can have EU wide investigations started given they are helping French users access banned news sites.
Got a VPN outside the EU and get found to be letting French users read the news? France could apply legal diplomatic pressure in the VPN host nation to stop all such VPN activity.
Get your French workers ready for a huge French advertising opportunity.
Get ready to find out how France will ban the news and have your VPN ready to support the freedom to read the news in France again.
Want to read the news French and EU bureaucrats have banned? Use a VPN.
Try a VPN service that will allow you to read all the news without French censorship.
A nice French GUI for the VPN that supports the needs of local users wanting to pay to escape EU censorship.
Surf the real internet like a free American not a blocked EU citizen only on a list of approved web sites.
No EU and French blocks on reading the news thanks to your VPN experts.
Reintroduce the French to the wisdom of a new Alexis de Tocqueville and show France the wonders of press freedom.
The NSA and GCHQ went for the network, servers, OS, networks at the place the OS was been created, hardware been exported, every network in and out of nations. Global and domestic collect it all.
NSA ANT catalog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
PRISM (surveillance program) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Room 641A https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Most of what was released talks to malware, OS support, hardware additions.
What is missing is the Equation Group https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... effort for the big brand US CPU as shipped.
No GODSURGE, FLUXBABBIT hardware implant and more just using the standard production line CPU?
Was the CPU side of the whistleblowing held back as its still in use and would show a hardware PRISM slide of when other US brands became part of the security services collect it all efforts?
Did the NSA and GCHQ ask the top MI5 and CIA anthropologist about what people do to study the CPU and that the CPU was just too risky to go for directly?
The Equation Group work was well hidden from most researchers. Malware and hardware altered during shipping just for one user was not going to be found during an average mission.
Get found on the normal CPU and a lot of skilled people globally start to look?
The CPU was under too much study to risk?
The CPU is a vital part of NSA and GCHQ collection efforts and security researchers who publish their work have just not found code litter of the security services doing consumer CPU things in the wild yet.
Buy a computer and have the CPU swapped during shipping might be what the NSA and GCHQ attempted. A risk worth it for one mission.
Mess with every standard CPU from security service staging servers and risk getting seen by someone smarter? Not normal malware that gets everyones attention?
The anthropologist said no, too many people are looking at the consumer CPU all the time?
Wait for more whistleblowing?
The consumer CPU was not worth the risk of discovery?
Think of the problem as a Venn diagram and the two CPU "vulnerabilities" as lists of CPU's within the diagram.
Some cpu generations will have both issues. Some one issue. Very few will not have any problem.
So the color in an image or video workflow looks good when worked on over a few different apps and within the OS.
its not even the quality of the display, just that the apps and OS are able to support the same color over all apps and the OS.
Thats about the last part of an OS that Apple can still offer that Widnows and its GPU workflows still need to offer.
Its not for the ram, cpu, gpu, apps anymore. Windows and Linux have most of that now and support cpu and ram to much better levels.
Re but one should at least entertain the possibility that it was.
A hardware version of PRISM? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Room 641A Inside https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... most computers?
It was interesting how much of the NSA ANT catalog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... connected to a computer rather than was able to work internally on a CPU as shipped?
Is the world missing the other part of the CPU catalog thats still doing collect it all missions?
"“Meltdown” and “Spectre”: Every modern processor has unfixable security flaws" (1/4/2018) https://arstechnica.com/gadget...
has the Spectre news re "with proof-of-concept attacks being successful on AMD, ARM, and Intel systems"
The past NN rules kept a few regional monopoly brands in total power as only they could legally and federally prove they could support new federal NN "rules".
NN was cost of entry legal cover for protecting a network monopoly using a term the average person would think was a consumer protection.
With the federal power of demanding NN compliance reduced new competitive ISP finally have the ability to expand all over the USA.
Expect to see monopoly telco brands fight back with epic astroturfing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and the funding of fake community, faith and computer user front groups.
The articulate, photogenic faces and many different protesters all been so supportive of their one paper insulated wire line NN telco.
That the poor won't get a free POTS, that people will have freedom to use a different ISP and that totally evil.
Groups with professional printed t shirts, signs, stickers. Their on message demands for NN, funded for the daily protest by the big monopoly telcos who want their federal NN rules back to totally shut out competition and stop all capitalism.
All the gov is doing is clearing an equal path for capitalism.
A local network ends with a wide selection of very different private sector ISP.
Want an ISP for a hobby? Select one with the services needed.
Want a new POTS? A digital network has that covered.
Want a fast service thats not consumer junk? A few ISP can support that within a new price range.
The big pipe just brings more ISP to more of the city.
Stop the monopoly of one private company as the provider and network and let in many new ISP over a pipe thats open to all ISP.
Build the pipe and collect ISP product offers from all over the USA. Let the consumer have a connection and then use an ISP that has the services for them.
But for that the work the local monopoly network has to be changed. A new equal pipe allows all ISP to try for that consumer account.
The city can attract new services due to a big new pipe. The user gets a wide range of ISP products and services to select.
The private sector can innovate and offer many very different products to each and every user. The new pipe allows the private sector equal access for the first time.
Think of it as a new paved road and a bridge. A private sector truck, car, van, SUV, motorbike, advance self driving pod car can now legally be used. No more just accepting a monopoly dirt road and monopoly bus at a set time of the day. Freedom needs the road and for others to be able to use the road.
Look at how other nations do healthcare, insurance and citizenship.
Dont accept non citizens into any national health care system. Non citizens have to take out full private cover during their stay.
Give a national health care card to all citizens after proving the are a citizen.
Take a percentage of every persons wage to cover that cost.
For that citizens get medical care and access to a rationed range of low cost medications. Generic, older medications that a nation can do a bulk deal for.
Place all weather, day night helicopter crews as needed to ensure all citizens have an equal fast pathway into the best emergency care when needed.
Only hire the very best emergency care doctors that have passed your nations difficult exams and who can prove they can perform. Do not hire another nations below average doctors.
Educate your own doctors to the very best standards and set exams to only pass the very best. That keeps the doctors wages up, stops the creation of average skills sets from entering the medical profession. No social advancement and not passing no merit. Just enough really good experts who all get top wages.
Let them enjoy their private practice too. Good wages and conditions for medical staff.
Tourists, foreign students, guest workers have to take out full private cover during their stay. Cant afford private cover during the stay ? No entry to that nation. When their study is over, their work ends, guest workers and students return to their own nations. No decades of free care for non citizens.
That would reduce costs and keep citizens cared for most of the time. Citizens are covered for most accidents, long term lifestyle issues. They get low cost medical care and fast 24/7 access to the best emergency care.
What more? Go private.
Make sure private cover that offers cover for full hospital care in a private hospital and any hours of private emergency care actually covers such services. No junk cover.
What to do about the new medical advances and a fully rationed tax payer funded medial system?
The private sector can cover people who can pay extra.
Slowly accept new medications for consideration for free cover every decade. That 30 or 50 year old medication can finally be covered and offered.
Fund university research for new medications that can be sold to the world. Use the global profit to cover rationed medical care domestically and to fund more domestic university research.
The system can be make to work. Never pay for any non citizens as they all have private cover, make everyone pay into the system and keep a fully functional private system.
Have the best emergency care and all weather, day night helicopter crews. Any normal, advance nation can educate the needed rescue helicopter crews to fly to a good standard at night.
Get citizens to hospital quickly in all conditions and start the care expert needed. All non citizens are covered by their private insurance.
People like FF for the ability to install support like No script.
The browser and its brand is just a way of getting the real tools needed working.
User privacy comes from what a user then has to install to make a browser great.
Re "So employees of a government run organization are not seeing similar pay increases (cost of living, experience, etc) as the free market employees see? "
The GCHQ did a lot of work on that issue in the 1950-70's. What insight did the Soviet Union have about once loyal staff that had offers to spy accepted?
Staff got blackmailed? Political? Cash? Long working hours globally? Poor working conditions at US and US sites around the world for very low pay?
After much funding, review and study the results got presented.
Good working conditions, actual background investigations to ensure loyalty, really good wages, a good location to work in the UK kept well educated vetted staff loyal. Once that was understood the Soviet Union had less to offer most impoverished staff and the need to spy for cash/lifestyle was reduced generationally.
Political and lifestyle issues could be found out with a good investigation before been given a job.
So all that worked well for decades. The perfect spy agency got great results in Ireland, countering the USA funding of Ireland, with global collection.
All would have been good but domestic US/UK politics was about to change the security services in an unexpected way. US and UK politics has now placed political demands the US and UK spy agency hiring practices.
Virtue signalling political leaders now want to fill the security services with new "citizens" with no background investigations. The people who have no loyalty to the UK/USA but have to be given government jobs as they are now "citizens". Criminal groups, other nations spies, cults, faith groups are now entering the US and UK security services via affirmative action and political correctness in vast numbers. Soon many new low and mid ranking staff will have no background investigations will be walking out with all secrets all day, every day.
Good pay solved all the problems until the 1990's but now political considerations about who to hire have now set the security services back to the 1910-40's levels of internal security. Anyone wanting a job has to be given equal consideration to be accepted into the security services. The openings to accept new staff are now filling up with people with no skills and no loyalty to their country. A failed or no background investigation is not a reason not to hire someone.
So the security services will soon look and function like any other government run organization. Below average staff with their own interests, faiths, community. People who want to spy will have to be caught spying rather than not been accepted as a security risk. Until then they are now a trusted part of the "government". Background investigations are been ignored on political guidelines of acceptance rather than any security considerations. Everyone loyal in the security services will be watching their own new staff for spying rather than doing real work. Criminals, cults, faith groups, other nations are presenting as many applicants as they can as they have to be accepted.
Many spies will have to be accepted due to affirmative action and will rise up the ranks until caught.
Decades of new work for the FBI and MI5.
The traditional mil work done by the US army and navy was just too good. They know what they are doing when they look at other nations mil and the reports did not allow for political spin.
The CIA can do the international spy work. The FBI can fully protect the USA.
The why of the NSA is a historical issue that goes back to the end of WW2 and not wanting to trust the Navy, Army code breakers, domestic reports by the FBI.
A new agency with new methods, trusted new staff and global collection.
The Army would try and out smart the Navy, The Navy was competitive with the US army about who could get and present the same results. Duplication of results set in. The US wanted to be first with new results, not too late with duplicated Army/Navy results.
The FBI and what would be the CIA had their own internal politics, leadership and power. So the NSA was seen as a new political tool to ensure less duplication and would be totally politically loyal. A new agency for global and domestic collection. Beholden and controlled by its budget.
Re 'Could they employ much younger people"
Younger people have not been tested to see how they respond to illegal domestic collection. Different people respond to illegal domestic spying in different ways.
Thats why illegal domestic collection is not a problem internally and any comments on that topic are not accepted.
Everyone who advances is tested to see how they react to domestic collection. If they accept the color of law that domestic collection is allowed they are advanced. If they attempt to report domestic collection as been illegal they are giving other work that will only be the result of international collection.
That testing and introduction to domestic collection takes time and so "younger people" have to wait until they can be trusted to work on illegal domestic projects.
Once inducted into domestic spying and proven loyal they are finally accepted and trusted internally. That takes time and is a slow process of tasks, projects, color of law and everyone responds in different ways. Once people with a strong legal objection to domestic collection are discovered and guided to safe busy work the rest of the staff who will work on collection get promoted. That growth in staff every generation is an indication of the feeling to the legality of domestic spying.
The Vietnam, late 1970's mid 1980's spy hunts, 1990's, finding all domestic protesters.
The GCHQ solved all that by just hiring loyal people with skills and giving staff a really good wage after the 1970's with a clear domestic and international mandate.
With no stress about spying staff enjoyed the tasks and a better esprit de corps that was sustained over the decades. A good wage, nice area of the UK to work in, support and further educational options. 9 to 5 GMT.
The NSA did not have that ability given the easy to understand wording of the US constitution and had to use color of law to try and let staff understand domestic spying was ok.
Re "I still don't see how one can call themselves a patriot when they violate the 4th amendment around the clock."
People are told it was always against the Soviet Union, Russia, other nations mils, bad people in other nations.
That legal generational group think within an agency flows to forums, chat sites, popular culture, movies.
When the 4 hops of illegal domestic spying is questioned the usual decades of talking points get rolled out.
Slashdot Mirror
AC Re "Every single time law enforcement has gone up against strong encryption, they have failed."
All law enforcement has to do is show encryption was used.
A contractor will be happy to scan any storage for the use of encryption.
The person of interest is then asked to decrypt.
No need to "gone up against strong encryption", the person been questioned will be asked to decrypt.
If they say no, demand rights, want a lawyer then some nations pass that person to their law enforcement.
Another more direct and formal request for decryption.
After a while the lack of help with decryption after some time begins to show criminality and that has prison time.
AC recall "Forensics Tool Finds Headerless Encrypted Files" (May 01, 2009)
https://hardware.slashdot.org/...
Its not how little bandwidth a thermostat needs, its how much the speed can be further reduced.
and don't have anything online that can be seen by any other network.
Keep your home and its needed networks away from the open internet.
Use the ISP internet with a VPN.
Find other ways to secure the CCTV so CCTV keeps working.
Encryption can be detected using gov and contractor software. A request for full decryption could be made in some nations.
A "plain jane windows partition with nothing of consequence on it for customs" as the only files would be good.
Add some holiday images of sunsets, food, art, culture, museums to show the computer was in daily use.
Any deeper search for any attempts at encryption would then find nothing.
A person with a holiday computer is just like most other people.
A new OS with no files is different.
The use and discovery of encryption could start the formal and direct request to decrypt in some parts of the world.
Return to the USA with a normal computer, average file system and a few fun holiday images.
Just another normal computer.
That just makes the person more interesting to the CIA, NSA, GCHQ, FBI and local law enforcement.
If most people have a lot of digital files they can show of their holidays, work, kin, fun, hobbies, art, food, culture why do a few feel the need to travel with no files?
Re 'Yeah, this is what I don't get. Anyone who would actually have something to hide would not carry it unencrypted across the border, because they would know that the border security people might decide to search it."
People actually do lie to enter another nation and attempt to say they are not supporting and funding banned groups.
Images, messages, contacts, of the person supporting and funding such banned groups then gets discovered.
Re "who would actually have something to hide"
Some cults and faiths see the support for such banned groups as part of the faith and people carry their faith with them.
The images of meetings, protests, banners, slogans, books, messages of support for past actions.
When entering a nice normal nation they lie and present as not been a supporter. Their digital life shows the truth.
Now frog related publications, comments are banned and tracked in the USA too?
What next songs about satellites?
AC Re "I am always wondering why?"
The first step is to track free speech. Then find the origin of people who want to publish and who is visiting the sites.
Once a NSA like database is created of the entire 4 hops of the site then the reports to the FBI, state/federal task forces and city police can be made.
Two law enforcement officials will then do a field interview to ask why a person in the USA expected to have freedom of speech and freedom after speech.
If the need to comment online is not stopped by the chilling chat down then interview the persons work colleagues and friends.
Go full Soviet and a request a state medical review on why a person feels they have the freedom to comment on news, history, art, culture, politics?
If the comments have not stopped go for a formal police interview and stop that freedom of speech.
The USA is going full DDR with its need to watch comments and then track people enjoying their rights. Freedom of speech, freedom to peaceably to assemble, to petition the government for a redress of grievances, freedom of the press and the tools to publish.
Why the internet needs to hold back any and all such rights in the USA is getting interesting.
Most people can understand how the DDR used Zersetzung https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... to stop people asking questions, publishing, protesting.
With what the NSA collected on Communist nations a deeper understanding of what Communism is should have been understood.
Large teams of security service workers, contractors will watch the web from the USA, UK, France and other time zones to totally ban press freedom in France 24/7.
The EU, CIA, GCHQ, NGO's, NATO and others will give France real time list of new sites, comments, accounts, forums, video clips, cartoons, music, art, history to ban.
By web site, ip and any other method of easy networking. No just trying the news site ip.
Such a real time ban list will then be placed between the French ISP user and all ISP in France.
Any attempt to connect to a banned site will be reported and the user given a real time warning about the fact they are now under investigation.
Expect a police interview that will show how guilty the ISP user is and what must be done to become not guilty again.
Repeated attempts to read the news will result in formal interviews, fines, interviews with friends, work colleagues to find out why banned site are been accessed.
A medical expert will be consulted to help the investigation as such a repeated need for press freedom is not normal in the wider population.
Such investigations will be chilling and force users to consider an encrypted VPN product.
The next question will be full encrypted VPN service sold in France from other nations that still have press freedom.
The NSA and GCHQ can help French law enforcement find the original ip's of users trying to use a VPN to read the news.
The discovered user will be more guilty as they are trying to hide their reading of the news by using a VPN. The extra step needed to uncover the original ip will be considered by a special VPN investigation.
If that fails to stop the use of new VPN products France can use its own global telco skills to list the top VPN providers been used to read the news in France.
CC payments from French bank accounts can be stopped to VPN services. VPN services found to be located in the EU can have EU wide investigations started given they are helping French users access banned news sites.
Got a VPN outside the EU and get found to be letting French users read the news? France could apply legal diplomatic pressure in the VPN host nation to stop all such VPN activity.
Get your French workers ready for a huge French advertising opportunity.
Get ready to find out how France will ban the news and have your VPN ready to support the freedom to read the news in France again.
Want to read the news French and EU bureaucrats have banned? Use a VPN.
Try a VPN service that will allow you to read all the news without French censorship.
A nice French GUI for the VPN that supports the needs of local users wanting to pay to escape EU censorship.
Surf the real internet like a free American not a blocked EU citizen only on a list of approved web sites.
No EU and French blocks on reading the news thanks to your VPN experts.
Reintroduce the French to the wisdom of a new Alexis de Tocqueville and show France the wonders of press freedom.
The NSA and GCHQ went for the network, servers, OS, networks at the place the OS was been created, hardware been exported, every network in and out of nations. Global and domestic collect it all.
NSA ANT catalog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
PRISM (surveillance program) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Room 641A https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Most of what was released talks to malware, OS support, hardware additions.
What is missing is the Equation Group https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... effort for the big brand US CPU as shipped.
No GODSURGE, FLUXBABBIT hardware implant and more just using the standard production line CPU?
Was the CPU side of the whistleblowing held back as its still in use and would show a hardware PRISM slide of when other US brands became part of the security services collect it all efforts?
Did the NSA and GCHQ ask the top MI5 and CIA anthropologist about what people do to study the CPU and that the CPU was just too risky to go for directly?
The Equation Group work was well hidden from most researchers. Malware and hardware altered during shipping just for one user was not going to be found during an average mission.
Get found on the normal CPU and a lot of skilled people globally start to look?
The CPU was under too much study to risk?
The CPU is a vital part of NSA and GCHQ collection efforts and security researchers who publish their work have just not found code litter of the security services doing consumer CPU things in the wild yet.
Buy a computer and have the CPU swapped during shipping might be what the NSA and GCHQ attempted. A risk worth it for one mission.
Mess with every standard CPU from security service staging servers and risk getting seen by someone smarter? Not normal malware that gets everyones attention?
The anthropologist said no, too many people are looking at the consumer CPU all the time?
Wait for more whistleblowing?
The consumer CPU was not worth the risk of discovery?
Find a fast, modern OS for that CPU?
Think of the problem as a Venn diagram and the two CPU "vulnerabilities" as lists of CPU's within the diagram.
Some cpu generations will have both issues. Some one issue. Very few will not have any problem.
So the color in an image or video workflow looks good when worked on over a few different apps and within the OS.
its not even the quality of the display, just that the apps and OS are able to support the same color over all apps and the OS.
Thats about the last part of an OS that Apple can still offer that Widnows and its GPU workflows still need to offer.
Its not for the ram, cpu, gpu, apps anymore. Windows and Linux have most of that now and support cpu and ram to much better levels.
Re but one should at least entertain the possibility that it was.
A hardware version of PRISM? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Room 641A Inside https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... most computers?
It was interesting how much of the NSA ANT catalog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... connected to a computer rather than was able to work internally on a CPU as shipped?
Is the world missing the other part of the CPU catalog thats still doing collect it all missions?
"“Meltdown” and “Spectre”: Every modern processor has unfixable security flaws"
https://arstechnica.com/gadget...
"“Meltdown” and “Spectre”: Every modern processor has unfixable security flaws" (1/4/2018)
https://arstechnica.com/gadget...
has the Spectre news re "with proof-of-concept attacks being successful on AMD, ARM, and Intel systems"
The past NN rules kept a few regional monopoly brands in total power as only they could legally and federally prove they could support new federal NN "rules".
NN was cost of entry legal cover for protecting a network monopoly using a term the average person would think was a consumer protection.
With the federal power of demanding NN compliance reduced new competitive ISP finally have the ability to expand all over the USA.
Expect to see monopoly telco brands fight back with epic astroturfing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and the funding of fake community, faith and computer user front groups.
The articulate, photogenic faces and many different protesters all been so supportive of their one paper insulated wire line NN telco.
That the poor won't get a free POTS, that people will have freedom to use a different ISP and that totally evil.
Groups with professional printed t shirts, signs, stickers. Their on message demands for NN, funded for the daily protest by the big monopoly telcos who want their federal NN rules back to totally shut out competition and stop all capitalism.
All the gov is doing is clearing an equal path for capitalism.
A local network ends with a wide selection of very different private sector ISP.
Want an ISP for a hobby? Select one with the services needed.
Want a new POTS? A digital network has that covered.
Want a fast service thats not consumer junk? A few ISP can support that within a new price range.
The big pipe just brings more ISP to more of the city.
Stop the monopoly of one private company as the provider and network and let in many new ISP over a pipe thats open to all ISP.
Build the pipe and collect ISP product offers from all over the USA. Let the consumer have a connection and then use an ISP that has the services for them.
But for that the work the local monopoly network has to be changed. A new equal pipe allows all ISP to try for that consumer account.
The city can attract new services due to a big new pipe. The user gets a wide range of ISP products and services to select.
The private sector can innovate and offer many very different products to each and every user. The new pipe allows the private sector equal access for the first time.
Think of it as a new paved road and a bridge. A private sector truck, car, van, SUV, motorbike, advance self driving pod car can now legally be used.
No more just accepting a monopoly dirt road and monopoly bus at a set time of the day. Freedom needs the road and for others to be able to use the road.
Look at how other nations do healthcare, insurance and citizenship.
Dont accept non citizens into any national health care system. Non citizens have to take out full private cover during their stay.
Give a national health care card to all citizens after proving the are a citizen.
Take a percentage of every persons wage to cover that cost.
For that citizens get medical care and access to a rationed range of low cost medications. Generic, older medications that a nation can do a bulk deal for.
Place all weather, day night helicopter crews as needed to ensure all citizens have an equal fast pathway into the best emergency care when needed.
Only hire the very best emergency care doctors that have passed your nations difficult exams and who can prove they can perform. Do not hire another nations below average doctors.
Educate your own doctors to the very best standards and set exams to only pass the very best. That keeps the doctors wages up, stops the creation of average skills sets from entering the medical profession. No social advancement and not passing no merit. Just enough really good experts who all get top wages.
Let them enjoy their private practice too. Good wages and conditions for medical staff.
Tourists, foreign students, guest workers have to take out full private cover during their stay. Cant afford private cover during the stay ? No entry to that nation.
When their study is over, their work ends, guest workers and students return to their own nations. No decades of free care for non citizens.
That would reduce costs and keep citizens cared for most of the time. Citizens are covered for most accidents, long term lifestyle issues. They get low cost medical care and fast 24/7 access to the best emergency care.
What more? Go private.
Make sure private cover that offers cover for full hospital care in a private hospital and any hours of private emergency care actually covers such services. No junk cover.
What to do about the new medical advances and a fully rationed tax payer funded medial system?
The private sector can cover people who can pay extra.
Slowly accept new medications for consideration for free cover every decade. That 30 or 50 year old medication can finally be covered and offered.
Fund university research for new medications that can be sold to the world. Use the global profit to cover rationed medical care domestically and to fund more domestic university research.
The system can be make to work. Never pay for any non citizens as they all have private cover, make everyone pay into the system and keep a fully functional private system.
Have the best emergency care and all weather, day night helicopter crews. Any normal, advance nation can educate the needed rescue helicopter crews to fly to a good standard at night.
Get citizens to hospital quickly in all conditions and start the care expert needed. All non citizens are covered by their private insurance.
People like FF for the ability to install support like No script.
The browser and its brand is just a way of getting the real tools needed working.
User privacy comes from what a user then has to install to make a browser great.
Re "So employees of a government run organization are not seeing similar pay increases (cost of living, experience, etc) as the free market employees see? "
The GCHQ did a lot of work on that issue in the 1950-70's. What insight did the Soviet Union have about once loyal staff that had offers to spy accepted?
Staff got blackmailed? Political? Cash? Long working hours globally? Poor working conditions at US and US sites around the world for very low pay?
After much funding, review and study the results got presented.
Good working conditions, actual background investigations to ensure loyalty, really good wages, a good location to work in the UK kept well educated vetted staff loyal.
Once that was understood the Soviet Union had less to offer most impoverished staff and the need to spy for cash/lifestyle was reduced generationally.
Political and lifestyle issues could be found out with a good investigation before been given a job.
So all that worked well for decades. The perfect spy agency got great results in Ireland, countering the USA funding of Ireland, with global collection.
All would have been good but domestic US/UK politics was about to change the security services in an unexpected way. US and UK politics has now placed political demands the US and UK spy agency hiring practices.
Virtue signalling political leaders now want to fill the security services with new "citizens" with no background investigations. The people who have no loyalty to the UK/USA but have to be given government jobs as they are now "citizens". Criminal groups, other nations spies, cults, faith groups are now entering the US and UK security services via affirmative action and political correctness in vast numbers.
Soon many new low and mid ranking staff will have no background investigations will be walking out with all secrets all day, every day.
Good pay solved all the problems until the 1990's but now political considerations about who to hire have now set the security services back to the 1910-40's levels of internal security. Anyone wanting a job has to be given equal consideration to be accepted into the security services. The openings to accept new staff are now filling up with people with no skills and no loyalty to their country. A failed or no background investigation is not a reason not to hire someone.
So the security services will soon look and function like any other government run organization. Below average staff with their own interests, faiths, community.
People who want to spy will have to be caught spying rather than not been accepted as a security risk.
Until then they are now a trusted part of the "government".
Background investigations are been ignored on political guidelines of acceptance rather than any security considerations. Everyone loyal in the security services will be watching their own new staff for spying rather than doing real work. Criminals, cults, faith groups, other nations are presenting as many applicants as they can as they have to be accepted.
Many spies will have to be accepted due to affirmative action and will rise up the ranks until caught.
Decades of new work for the FBI and MI5.
The traditional mil work done by the US army and navy was just too good. They know what they are doing when they look at other nations mil and the reports did not allow for political spin.
The CIA can do the international spy work. The FBI can fully protect the USA.
The why of the NSA is a historical issue that goes back to the end of WW2 and not wanting to trust the Navy, Army code breakers, domestic reports by the FBI.
A new agency with new methods, trusted new staff and global collection.
The Army would try and out smart the Navy, The Navy was competitive with the US army about who could get and present the same results. Duplication of results set in. The US wanted to be first with new results, not too late with duplicated Army/Navy results.
The FBI and what would be the CIA had their own internal politics, leadership and power. So the NSA was seen as a new political tool to ensure less duplication and would be totally politically loyal. A new agency for global and domestic collection. Beholden and controlled by its budget.
Re 'Could they employ much younger people"
Younger people have not been tested to see how they respond to illegal domestic collection. Different people respond to illegal domestic spying in different ways.
Thats why illegal domestic collection is not a problem internally and any comments on that topic are not accepted.
Everyone who advances is tested to see how they react to domestic collection. If they accept the color of law that domestic collection is allowed they are advanced. If they attempt to report domestic collection as been illegal they are giving other work that will only be the result of international collection.
That testing and introduction to domestic collection takes time and so "younger people" have to wait until they can be trusted to work on illegal domestic projects.
Once inducted into domestic spying and proven loyal they are finally accepted and trusted internally. That takes time and is a slow process of tasks, projects, color of law and everyone responds in different ways. Once people with a strong legal objection to domestic collection are discovered and guided to safe busy work the rest of the staff who will work on collection get promoted. That growth in staff every generation is an indication of the feeling to the legality of domestic spying.
The Vietnam, late 1970's mid 1980's spy hunts, 1990's, finding all domestic protesters.
The GCHQ solved all that by just hiring loyal people with skills and giving staff a really good wage after the 1970's with a clear domestic and international mandate.
With no stress about spying staff enjoyed the tasks and a better esprit de corps that was sustained over the decades. A good wage, nice area of the UK to work in, support and further educational options. 9 to 5 GMT.
The NSA did not have that ability given the easy to understand wording of the US constitution and had to use color of law to try and let staff understand domestic spying was ok.
Re "I still don't see how one can call themselves a patriot when they violate the 4th amendment around the clock."
People are told it was always against the Soviet Union, Russia, other nations mils, bad people in other nations.
That legal generational group think within an agency flows to forums, chat sites, popular culture, movies.
When the 4 hops of illegal domestic spying is questioned the usual decades of talking points get rolled out.