All drone data flows to another nation, within the USA, UK to a staging server, a front company set up in the USA would be seen by the NSA and GCHQ.
The FBI and MI5 then look at who is been used as a person, front company to fly the drone near sensitive sites and critical infrastructure.
Field interviews, chat downs then follow. Two FBI agents to witness each others questions at the front door ask to be invited in for a chat.
Better just to use human spies. Nothing for the GCHQ and NSA to detect moving around networks
With no networks for the GCHQ and NSA to follow back to someone in the USA, UK local police have to interview everyone with a drone.
Is it a tourist? A local person with a hobby? An anorak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... trying a drone? A first amendment audit using a drone to induce a field interview and the police demand for the drone details and photo ID?
Always fun to see photo ID been demanded by state and city police in a state with no stop and identify statutes. Just having a dslr and drone is the reasonable and articulable suspicion of criminal activity:)
Other nations understand the internet is global collection for the NSA and GCHQ.
They will not risk generations of their well placed spies all over the USA to fly a registered drone and attract a police interview.
Better to put efforts in human spies around all US ports and bases to make friends with lonely contractors and over worked mil officers.
Base workers looking for a friend who really understands the stress of mil life.
Conversation with a new friend that last a long time.
re "Can't have civilians with drones exposing corruption, incompetence, and things the government and those within it are not supposed to do."
That will be great news for the states with ag gag laws. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Civilians will have to pay for helicopters and light aircraft to once again get video of topics of interest to the public.
No more low cost drone that can get viral video everyday.
re c. feeds other nations intel
Think of the epic struggle in the US, 5 eye and the NATO intelligence community over that cyber question.
The NSA, GCHQ, CIA and MI6 are sure they have the cyber skill ready to alter that flow of raw cyber data in real time to any nation.
The US fusion centers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... have reports from critical infrastructure security and local law enforcement about consumer drones flying near their infrastructure.
Ban the drones near US navy, US army sites, near critical infrastructure and US law enforcement?
Who win that one? The cyber ready clandestine services? US law enforcement seeing drones flying above them?
The drone looks down and makes a mockery of the new sally ports and big fences. Designs that can only keep ground level dslr photographers, people doing a First Amendment audit from seeing hidden sensitive things.
The eyes flying a drone that always stays over public property cannot trespass:)
Expect a lot more field interviews and chat downs of anyone found with a drone near critical infrastructure and US law enforcement.
A new generation of first Amendment audit video work to enjoy. Just fly a drone around and wait for the law enforcement chat down.
If huge amounts of new raw cyber data was flowing back to other nations from imported consumer devices all over the USA what are the Western cyber intelligence services doing?
Buy US law enforcement drones that Western intelligence services have faith in?
A short list of drones approved by the USA for use in the USA and NATO?
Think of all this new protection in terms of not seeing third party ads.
Only quality approved ads will be allowed in and not be so easy to block.
Approved ads get to stay, others ads are blocked by advanced new security.
Its what an advertizing company can do to protect their advertising.
When a product helps tell the world about the dangers of malware like Stuxnet, Flame, Equation Group.
Years of detecting malware. Security researchers got to look at the results all over the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The other documents show what the Equation Group was about. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Four hops from any foreign nationals and that US citizens constitutional protections are not going to offer any protection from domestic collect it all.
The domestic collection that was to stop after what the Church Committee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... told the US about got a free pass under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).
Now its all about the color of law under the Section 702.
Decades of color of law domestic collection given legal cover by using the word foreign over a few decades.
As long as law enforcement was contacted any new protections will just go away as cyber investigative secrecy covers the data breaches.
Federal protection if code litter can be found with parts of any foreign language.
Welcome that national security letter and the full protection it offers.
AC re I'm not really sure what the uproar over killer drones are.
Think of it terms of US mil success in Vietnam.
Remove the refugees to camps and try and win the hearts and minds of people kept in camps.
The rest of a nation becomes an autonomous drone patrolled free fire zone.
All the good people are in camps. Only bad people move around outside camps and the autonomous drones will find them all.
A new look Second Boer War idea to sweep a country bare of everything that could give sustenance to bad people using autonomous drones rather than risking troops.
Re monitoring
Are clandestine services staging servers pushing very direct requests over 16992-16995 to an ip that get detected time to time?
Huge malware scans up and down ip ranges in a random attempt to find the hardware that responds as cover?
Ty.
The drive and the Time Machine backup disk can be encrypted.
When selected the existing backups are erased and a new encrypted backup is ready.
"macOS Sierra: Keep your Time Machine backup disk secure" https://support.apple.com/kb/P...
Wait till it gets to no one could internet or social media unless he had the mark that showed their picture had been uploaded.
From Fedbook to Photo Book.
Wait till that image is used to track a user's internet and media use beyond just their social media account.
If a SJW working for social media finds a users face near a topic they don't like? Ban the user.
Think in terms of the FBI and federal, state, city internal affairs investigations.
If all the secret data was secure how can cleared gov workers be watched and tracked 24/7?
The gov systems in the USA are set up to watch for internal criminals, whistleblower, media investigations and corruption 24/7.
If everything was encrypted how could investigators see data moving around networks to gov staff who then walk out, sell secrets?
One good example is the data use of once trusted staff tempted to become a whistleblower.
They collect information network wide and then walk out with the data sets to give to the waiting media.
How is that going to be tracked before publication?
With plain text all that can be seen in real time as a worker starts to get ready to become a whistleblower.
Security can move in before a member of the media of contacted and constitutional media freedoms provide legal cover for publication.
If the worker did manage to get the data out, at least the US gov/mil has some warning that data walked out and a counter/cover story can be ready for publication.
Plain text is security bait for US workers and is an easy way to sort the loyal gov workers who will obey any orders from the people who become whistleblowers.
Its great for criminal, media and spy investigations too as US/UK collect it all methods can find that plain text all over global networks in real time.
Bigger than 8K so 8K can be seen and worked on. Then the 8K content is ready for consumers.
Displays are often different in size to the content size they finally produce for consumers to enjoy.
Re Like electricity or tap water.
People who express different politics should not get banned from a water, gas, electricity connection because some company worker saw a political slogan in a front yard they did not like.
Re What makes a search engine? A very good one?
Finding results without party politics pushing news sites and content out of results expected to be seen?
A return to a new look, fully encrypted IRC, Usenet and E-Mail GUI might be the only way to get the internet back from the control of social media politics.
In the past it was all about OS and brand market share. What a person in the USA did on that network was protected by generations of expected US freedoms.
As the new SJW backed social media becomes global every other nations laws and traditions, faiths get considered by the SJW.
The freedom of speech and after speech was replaced by SJW demanding to ban accounts, users and then report people to their governments.
Just for speech.
Dont mention a new movie in a negative way or accounts banned.
Search terms and news sites get removed from search results and placed at the end of each results due to politics and the demands of SJW.
At least in the past, freedom of speech and the freedom to use the internet was one thing that was a given. Walled gardens, pay to access, OS lock out, DRM was the issue.
Freedom of speech and ability to find, share information online was just expected as that had been part of the USA and a tradition of freedom.
The only easy way out of this is to abandon social media to a role of been a way to talk to governments, big brands and the SJW who like supporting big brands and big gov.
Move the rest of the fun internet to better encrypted services. Search will work again nd find results, not just what SJW allows to be found.
User supported if needed and well away from social media ads, tracking, big gov, SJW efforts to contain, report, ban and control speech.
Wireline went from an account as a direct wire to the exchange line building or hardware (a very simple way of considering how a POTS worked before digital changes)
The cell phone was a later invention and the police and security services had more advanced tracking ready.
Different providers, networks, telcos all passing a cell phone from network to network all over there USA.
That was the legal opening needed. The user had signed away their rights when moving from telco to telco, service to service.
Every service and telco was allowed to collect data needed for billing, tracking, account details and that was on their network, not an account with one provider.
Voice prints had to be gathered too. Just enough protection to keep out random strangers making recordings of calls, real time access for the security services and police.
Color of law got access on legality of how the users have to allow different networks to hand over the cell phone data when on the move.
They know what the MI6, NSA, CIA, GCHQ can do to computer networks that have to get imported.
They don't use network computer in the same way for mil projects.
A super computer can do calculations for mil systems.
Dont put your entire mil system on an internet facing network for the NSA, CIA, GCHQ to read from in real time.
Other nations have finally understood what the NSA and GCHQ did to their security in the 1950-1990's.
Other nations spend millions on human spies entering the USA, UK over generations. Two generations later they have the cleared, totally trusted US/UK staff to enter the US and UK security services.
The US and UK spend billions spying on digital network spying globally. Other nations know just not to have mil connected networks to spy on.
Other nations are very careful who they hire to join their spy agencies/mil too. They hire only people they can trust politically and have some understating of who will stay loyal to their nation. Staff get tested so they do not walk out secrets for cash/pleasure at the first offer by CIA/MI6.
Less of that risky contractor problem with spending problems, gambling, addictions, in need of a new friend.
The US and UK virtue signal that their spy agencies are open to all applications and will totally trust and welcome anyone. Security considerations are now a distant second to been seen attracting all kinds of new staff.
Very different ways of finding staff, keeping computers secure.
The other issue was importing US and UK mil equipment and trusting it to work.
Early 1980's Argentina found out too late that most of their new US/UK/NATO quality secure communications equipment was open to the GCHQ in real time.
The only system that slowed the GCHQ down was a South African designed communications system. Why? It had been used in a real war by South Africa and had to actually work to keep South African troops safe from other nations very advance mil collection in Africa.
Lesson most smart nations took away from that was to spread their human spies out globally and that Western export grade mil equipment is clandestine service back door junk.
Other nations have had decades of been spied on totally to finally understand how digital collection works and just don't use networks open to spying.
France lost all its embassy communications to the NSA and GCHQ during the 1950's. Was it human spies? Embassy not doing crypto to a good standard? Someone trusted back in the gov in France? Why was France not able to secure some big trade deal? Finally investigations found nothing was wrong with the human side of the gov, workers, staff. It was just the way the communications network was set up and not shielded that leaked plain text in real time.
Another lesson learned that its not always staff, sometimes its the crypto and networks that is junk.
Think like the US gov, contractors and mil.
Its the 1950-70's. Vast amounts of data is been collected in real time globally. Total encryption would slow down translation and searching.
What to do with all that data been kept on a secure base? Keep it in plain text so everyone with the correct clearance could read, search the globally collected material. From any other base or agency in the USA. While the UK was still sorting paper work and index cards the USA had real time, networked digital searching on powerful new computers.
A lack of translators and skilled people to work on so much collected data became an issue.
All any one person wanting to spy could do was walk out with paper, photographs, printed documents over time. Photocopy an entire aircraft design for another nation for cash page by page? Photocopy the US Vietnam war reports page by page?
That secure network per site security worked well but it was not a really great system for the CIA. The CIA needed the databases on US mil/gov/workers/staff/private sector who could help with support complex long term missions for freedom that could never be mentioned to Congress or anyone.
Unencrypted plain text access with no logs, no questions over all the networked US databases. To find a person who could fly to anywhere in the world, at night and resupply some CIA funded group in another nation doing lots for "freedom".
So why not use contractors to keep the data? Bring in the private sector? No risk of an Iran–Contra affair computer discovery on always backed up gov networks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
That allowed the private sector in and once very secure data sets to spread all over the USA on huge private networks. Why let the US gov work on their computer network when the politically connected private sector could do the same work for billions in funding? No more logs, questions about projects, missions.
The results long term are what is been seen now.
US gov networks kept the plain text past because it was easy to sort and collect.
The private sector got given all that data that anyone can read, sort, understand to translate, index, add to other data from the private sector.
Nobody really wants to think about security. That blocks different parts of the US gov, mil from access and paying the private sector for that project. Per project security slows down complex searching by the rest of the US gov/mil/other contractors.
So data floats around unencrypted, on internet facing contractor networks with not much logging and not much security.
Why no security? The private sector could install some really good systems to lock that data down, secure networks, track and block most malware intrusion attempts?
Nobody wants to lock out other agency requests for the same data sets. Looking for that dream team of US mil and contractors to support freedom in another nation? Complex security might log the funding, names of the pilots, the front company aircraft used, contractors needed to load the aircraft in other nations, find the way very advanced weapons systems got supplied to the "rebels"...
What if Congress requests a copy of that log of another Iran–Contra to support freedom using different nations?
Better just to have the data sets with no security, no logs, no questions, nothing anyone in Congress can demand a decade later.
The US clandestine services cannot trust any oversight by the US political system. So no data is logged, nothing kept, no complex logs on backup. Plain text exists as is for years and is searchable. Security is just a bad word for political oversight and questions later about missions that never officially existed and had no funding.
Thats how the US gov.mil systems got to how they are now. Once the best in the 1960's for searching and data collection is now just a way of hiding missions from political oversight. Its worth more
Re "government to compete with enterprise"
A group of people in a walled community or a more wealthy city want to build their own new network.
Build a local network to a well connected network location.
Then open that network to any ISP, telco that they can attract. Pay the ISP's to connect and to keep the network connected.
Local people build a network than pay the private sector for the "internet".
Not really seeing the hidden hand of big government other than to ban such locally funded networks waiting to be created all over the USA.
If the SJW can get this working, they will push for an AI to track a lot of other content too.
Connect a diagnosis handbook up with an AI, let it wonder the social media internet and report users, comments.
Dont like a movie? Should any negative movie review be searchable? Why is the movie review so negative? Ban the account.
The SJW could code up a technique for the psychological reporting for any sets of comments they don't like.
Comment on the teachings, politics and history of a faith? Could an AI be requested to find all such comments and remove the accounts?
Journalists investigate the politics of other journalists and post video clips of the political thoughts from their paper, newsroom. Ban the video's and the any comments about the results investigative journalism?
Comment on illegal immigration? Ban and report the account to their respective gov?
Start to offer blasphemy law options to other nations? Report users who questions their faith or want to escape from their faith?
Whistleblowing about the NSA, GCHQ? Stop all related links and report all comments?
State got some powerful Ag-gag laws https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ? Report users in that state who comment to their local gov?
It can be make to work, just who wants a social media account that collects ip and all other details for any requesting state and federal government for any reason globally?
Slashdot Mirror
All drone data flows to another nation, within the USA, UK to a staging server, a front company set up in the USA would be seen by the NSA and GCHQ.
:)
The FBI and MI5 then look at who is been used as a person, front company to fly the drone near sensitive sites and critical infrastructure.
Field interviews, chat downs then follow. Two FBI agents to witness each others questions at the front door ask to be invited in for a chat.
Better just to use human spies. Nothing for the GCHQ and NSA to detect moving around networks
With no networks for the GCHQ and NSA to follow back to someone in the USA, UK local police have to interview everyone with a drone.
Is it a tourist? A local person with a hobby? An anorak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... trying a drone?
A first amendment audit using a drone to induce a field interview and the police demand for the drone details and photo ID?
Always fun to see photo ID been demanded by state and city police in a state with no stop and identify statutes.
Just having a dslr and drone is the reasonable and articulable suspicion of criminal activity
Other nations understand the internet is global collection for the NSA and GCHQ.
They will not risk generations of their well placed spies all over the USA to fly a registered drone and attract a police interview.
Better to put efforts in human spies around all US ports and bases to make friends with lonely contractors and over worked mil officers.
Base workers looking for a friend who really understands the stress of mil life.
Conversation with a new friend that last a long time.
re "Can't have civilians with drones exposing corruption, incompetence, and things the government and those within it are not supposed to do."
That will be great news for the states with ag gag laws. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Civilians will have to pay for helicopters and light aircraft to once again get video of topics of interest to the public.
No more low cost drone that can get viral video everyday.
re c. feeds other nations intel
:)
Think of the epic struggle in the US, 5 eye and the NATO intelligence community over that cyber question.
The NSA, GCHQ, CIA and MI6 are sure they have the cyber skill ready to alter that flow of raw cyber data in real time to any nation.
The US fusion centers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... have reports from critical infrastructure security and local law enforcement about consumer drones flying near their infrastructure.
Ban the drones near US navy, US army sites, near critical infrastructure and US law enforcement?
Who win that one? The cyber ready clandestine services? US law enforcement seeing drones flying above them?
The drone looks down and makes a mockery of the new sally ports and big fences. Designs that can only keep ground level dslr photographers, people doing a First Amendment audit from seeing hidden sensitive things.
The eyes flying a drone that always stays over public property cannot trespass
Expect a lot more field interviews and chat downs of anyone found with a drone near critical infrastructure and US law enforcement.
A new generation of first Amendment audit video work to enjoy. Just fly a drone around and wait for the law enforcement chat down.
If huge amounts of new raw cyber data was flowing back to other nations from imported consumer devices all over the USA what are the Western cyber intelligence services doing?
Buy US law enforcement drones that Western intelligence services have faith in?
A short list of drones approved by the USA for use in the USA and NATO?
Think of all this new protection in terms of not seeing third party ads.
Only quality approved ads will be allowed in and not be so easy to block.
Approved ads get to stay, others ads are blocked by advanced new security.
Its what an advertizing company can do to protect their advertising.
When a product helps tell the world about the dangers of malware like Stuxnet, Flame, Equation Group.
Years of detecting malware. Security researchers got to look at the results all over the world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The other documents show what the Equation Group was about. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Thus you will recognize them by their results.
Four hops from any foreign nationals and that US citizens constitutional protections are not going to offer any protection from domestic collect it all.
The domestic collection that was to stop after what the Church Committee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... told the US about got a free pass under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).
Now its all about the color of law under the Section 702.
Decades of color of law domestic collection given legal cover by using the word foreign over a few decades.
As long as law enforcement was contacted any new protections will just go away as cyber investigative secrecy covers the data breaches.
Federal protection if code litter can be found with parts of any foreign language.
Welcome that national security letter and the full protection it offers.
AC re I'm not really sure what the uproar over killer drones are.
Think of it terms of US mil success in Vietnam.
Remove the refugees to camps and try and win the hearts and minds of people kept in camps.
The rest of a nation becomes an autonomous drone patrolled free fire zone.
All the good people are in camps. Only bad people move around outside camps and the autonomous drones will find them all.
A new look Second Boer War idea to sweep a country bare of everything that could give sustenance to bad people using autonomous drones rather than risking troops.
US directive 3000.09 has some of the thinking from the US about autonomous weapon systems https://cryptome.org/dodi/dodd...
Re monitoring
Are clandestine services staging servers pushing very direct requests over 16992-16995 to an ip that get detected time to time?
Huge malware scans up and down ip ranges in a random attempt to find the hardware that responds as cover? Ty.
The drive and the Time Machine backup disk can be encrypted.
When selected the existing backups are erased and a new encrypted backup is ready.
"macOS Sierra: Keep your Time Machine backup disk secure"
https://support.apple.com/kb/P...
Your nations tax officials are going to find that amount and start asking questions.
Re "soooooo, why wasn't this"
So many cyber investigation that the investigations and interviews cant keep up?
Wait till it gets to no one could internet or social media unless he had the mark that showed their picture had been uploaded.
From Fedbook to Photo Book.
Wait till that image is used to track a user's internet and media use beyond just their social media account.
If a SJW working for social media finds a users face near a topic they don't like? Ban the user.
Think in terms of the FBI and federal, state, city internal affairs investigations.
If all the secret data was secure how can cleared gov workers be watched and tracked 24/7?
The gov systems in the USA are set up to watch for internal criminals, whistleblower, media investigations and corruption 24/7.
If everything was encrypted how could investigators see data moving around networks to gov staff who then walk out, sell secrets?
One good example is the data use of once trusted staff tempted to become a whistleblower.
They collect information network wide and then walk out with the data sets to give to the waiting media.
How is that going to be tracked before publication?
With plain text all that can be seen in real time as a worker starts to get ready to become a whistleblower.
Security can move in before a member of the media of contacted and constitutional media freedoms provide legal cover for publication.
If the worker did manage to get the data out, at least the US gov/mil has some warning that data walked out and a counter/cover story can be ready for publication.
Plain text is security bait for US workers and is an easy way to sort the loyal gov workers who will obey any orders from the people who become whistleblowers.
Its great for criminal, media and spy investigations too as US/UK collect it all methods can find that plain text all over global networks in real time.
Bigger than 8K so 8K can be seen and worked on. Then the 8K content is ready for consumers.
Displays are often different in size to the content size they finally produce for consumers to enjoy.
Re Like electricity or tap water.
People who express different politics should not get banned from a water, gas, electricity connection because some company worker saw a political slogan in a front yard they did not like.
Re What makes a search engine? A very good one?
Finding results without party politics pushing news sites and content out of results expected to be seen?
A return to a new look, fully encrypted IRC, Usenet and E-Mail GUI might be the only way to get the internet back from the control of social media politics.
In the past it was all about OS and brand market share. What a person in the USA did on that network was protected by generations of expected US freedoms.
As the new SJW backed social media becomes global every other nations laws and traditions, faiths get considered by the SJW.
The freedom of speech and after speech was replaced by SJW demanding to ban accounts, users and then report people to their governments.
Just for speech.
Dont mention a new movie in a negative way or accounts banned.
Search terms and news sites get removed from search results and placed at the end of each results due to politics and the demands of SJW.
At least in the past, freedom of speech and the freedom to use the internet was one thing that was a given. Walled gardens, pay to access, OS lock out, DRM was the issue.
Freedom of speech and ability to find, share information online was just expected as that had been part of the USA and a tradition of freedom.
The only easy way out of this is to abandon social media to a role of been a way to talk to governments, big brands and the SJW who like supporting big brands and big gov.
Move the rest of the fun internet to better encrypted services. Search will work again nd find results, not just what SJW allows to be found.
User supported if needed and well away from social media ads, tracking, big gov, SJW efforts to contain, report, ban and control speech.
Wireline went from an account as a direct wire to the exchange line building or hardware (a very simple way of considering how a POTS worked before digital changes)
The cell phone was a later invention and the police and security services had more advanced tracking ready.
Different providers, networks, telcos all passing a cell phone from network to network all over there USA.
That was the legal opening needed. The user had signed away their rights when moving from telco to telco, service to service.
Every service and telco was allowed to collect data needed for billing, tracking, account details and that was on their network, not an account with one provider.
Voice prints had to be gathered too. Just enough protection to keep out random strangers making recordings of calls, real time access for the security services and police.
Color of law got access on legality of how the users have to allow different networks to hand over the cell phone data when on the move.
Its like PRISM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... found new ways in.
They know what the MI6, NSA, CIA, GCHQ can do to computer networks that have to get imported.
They don't use network computer in the same way for mil projects.
A super computer can do calculations for mil systems.
Dont put your entire mil system on an internet facing network for the NSA, CIA, GCHQ to read from in real time.
Other nations have finally understood what the NSA and GCHQ did to their security in the 1950-1990's.
Other nations spend millions on human spies entering the USA, UK over generations. Two generations later they have the cleared, totally trusted US/UK staff to enter the US and UK security services.
The US and UK spend billions spying on digital network spying globally. Other nations know just not to have mil connected networks to spy on.
Other nations are very careful who they hire to join their spy agencies/mil too. They hire only people they can trust politically and have some understating of who will stay loyal to their nation. Staff get tested so they do not walk out secrets for cash/pleasure at the first offer by CIA/MI6.
Less of that risky contractor problem with spending problems, gambling, addictions, in need of a new friend.
The US and UK virtue signal that their spy agencies are open to all applications and will totally trust and welcome anyone. Security considerations are now a distant second to been seen attracting all kinds of new staff.
Very different ways of finding staff, keeping computers secure.
The other issue was importing US and UK mil equipment and trusting it to work.
Early 1980's Argentina found out too late that most of their new US/UK/NATO quality secure communications equipment was open to the GCHQ in real time.
The only system that slowed the GCHQ down was a South African designed communications system. Why? It had been used in a real war by South Africa and had to actually work to keep South African troops safe from other nations very advance mil collection in Africa.
Lesson most smart nations took away from that was to spread their human spies out globally and that Western export grade mil equipment is clandestine service back door junk.
Other nations have had decades of been spied on totally to finally understand how digital collection works and just don't use networks open to spying.
France lost all its embassy communications to the NSA and GCHQ during the 1950's. Was it human spies? Embassy not doing crypto to a good standard? Someone trusted back in the gov in France? Why was France not able to secure some big trade deal? Finally investigations found nothing was wrong with the human side of the gov, workers, staff. It was just the way the communications network was set up and not shielded that leaked plain text in real time.
Another lesson learned that its not always staff, sometimes its the crypto and networks that is junk.
Think like the US gov, contractors and mil.
Its the 1950-70's. Vast amounts of data is been collected in real time globally. Total encryption would slow down translation and searching.
What to do with all that data been kept on a secure base? Keep it in plain text so everyone with the correct clearance could read, search the globally collected material. From any other base or agency in the USA. While the UK was still sorting paper work and index cards the USA had real time, networked digital searching on powerful new computers.
A lack of translators and skilled people to work on so much collected data became an issue.
All any one person wanting to spy could do was walk out with paper, photographs, printed documents over time. Photocopy an entire aircraft design for another nation for cash page by page? Photocopy the US Vietnam war reports page by page?
That secure network per site security worked well but it was not a really great system for the CIA. The CIA needed the databases on US mil/gov/workers/staff/private sector who could help with support complex long term missions for freedom that could never be mentioned to Congress or anyone.
Unencrypted plain text access with no logs, no questions over all the networked US databases.
To find a person who could fly to anywhere in the world, at night and resupply some CIA funded group in another nation doing lots for "freedom".
So why not use contractors to keep the data? Bring in the private sector? No risk of an Iran–Contra affair computer discovery on always backed up gov networks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
That allowed the private sector in and once very secure data sets to spread all over the USA on huge private networks. Why let the US gov work on their computer network when the politically connected private sector could do the same work for billions in funding? No more logs, questions about projects, missions.
The results long term are what is been seen now.
US gov networks kept the plain text past because it was easy to sort and collect.
The private sector got given all that data that anyone can read, sort, understand to translate, index, add to other data from the private sector.
Nobody really wants to think about security. That blocks different parts of the US gov, mil from access and paying the private sector for that project. Per project security slows down complex searching by the rest of the US gov/mil/other contractors.
So data floats around unencrypted, on internet facing contractor networks with not much logging and not much security.
Why no security? The private sector could install some really good systems to lock that data down, secure networks, track and block most malware intrusion attempts?
Nobody wants to lock out other agency requests for the same data sets. Looking for that dream team of US mil and contractors to support freedom in another nation? Complex security might log the funding, names of the pilots, the front company aircraft used, contractors needed to load the aircraft in other nations, find the way very advanced weapons systems got supplied to the "rebels"...
What if Congress requests a copy of that log of another Iran–Contra to support freedom using different nations?
Better just to have the data sets with no security, no logs, no questions, nothing anyone in Congress can demand a decade later.
The US clandestine services cannot trust any oversight by the US political system. So no data is logged, nothing kept, no complex logs on backup. Plain text exists as is for years and is searchable.
Security is just a bad word for political oversight and questions later about missions that never officially existed and had no funding.
Thats how the US gov.mil systems got to how they are now. Once the best in the 1960's for searching and data collection is now just a way of hiding missions from political oversight.
Its worth more
Re "government to compete with enterprise"
A group of people in a walled community or a more wealthy city want to build their own new network.
Build a local network to a well connected network location.
Then open that network to any ISP, telco that they can attract. Pay the ISP's to connect and to keep the network connected.
Local people build a network than pay the private sector for the "internet".
Not really seeing the hidden hand of big government other than to ban such locally funded networks waiting to be created all over the USA.
If the SJW can get this working, they will push for an AI to track a lot of other content too.
Connect a diagnosis handbook up with an AI, let it wonder the social media internet and report users, comments.
Dont like a movie? Should any negative movie review be searchable? Why is the movie review so negative? Ban the account.
The SJW could code up a technique for the psychological reporting for any sets of comments they don't like.
Comment on the teachings, politics and history of a faith? Could an AI be requested to find all such comments and remove the accounts?
Journalists investigate the politics of other journalists and post video clips of the political thoughts from their paper, newsroom. Ban the video's and the any comments about the results investigative journalism?
Comment on illegal immigration? Ban and report the account to their respective gov?
Start to offer blasphemy law options to other nations? Report users who questions their faith or want to escape from their faith?
Whistleblowing about the NSA, GCHQ? Stop all related links and report all comments?
State got some powerful Ag-gag laws https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ? Report users in that state who comment to their local gov?
It can be make to work, just who wants a social media account that collects ip and all other details for any requesting state and federal government for any reason globally?