Its some US story about cyber.
Documents get taken home from work and existed on some home network computer.
Some outside network discovers the documents that have never been in the wild before. The bad people have all the "checksums" for random US gov documents and scan the world for them?
Data gets sent back up the network nobody has noticed on any other version of the product range...
Russia.
More cyber fiction.
It just has to be more expensive than its worth to create an entire city, state and federal ID collection.
That a life story has to match from birth, to school, to education, to renting, to home ownership, driving a car and full time work. In the same name and with dates that seem real with real sounding decades.
Lots of retroactive digital database alterations get messy and expensive decades later. Depending on the decade some locations still have actual paperwork for the past generation too. Once one or two generations back don't fit the later alterations then the digital fake ID starts to fail.
Good enough for an illegal to get schooling? To keep good grades at university? To get a good paying job?
Their fake or created ID numbers have to pass more in depth requests.
To get that kind of city, town, state and federal digital cover starts to get more expensive than 1970's -1980's ID creation efforts.
Was the illegal given an offer years ago? To use an existing number with some risk if caught? Did they create numbers thinking fiction was safer than been found as a 2nd person on one ID?
At some point it becomes nation state expensive to fake an ID. Possible to forge for a price but the systems is good enough to keep out illegal migrants just creating some random ID numbers and enjoying full citizenship with no risk of detection over decades.
AC the US has issues with reused and fictional social security number use. That takes a lot more care to discover as people have built entire educational and work related life stories around stolen or created social security numbers.
Other nations would not allow fictional numbers to stay and get used over many years in their systems.
Start with a US birth certificate.
The start to request banks, building societies show the same person exists. Driver licence? Education institution?
Got a mortgage? Credit card? Utility bill? Who is renting a home?
The best way to work out who is illegal, using fake ID or just treaded a social security number is to request layers of other photo ID.
City, state, federal and private sector documents have to start to match going back years.
Does the life story go back to a lot of other valid US id? Does the trail stop with a fictional number?
Using another persons social security number or creating a fictional social security number should start to show over different federal, city and state databases.
The problem with a reused or fictional social security number is that it should not safe from in depth city and federal level scrutiny.
What worked in the past to get a resume in and cover an illegal persons US university education will not stand to deeper investigation.
Fictional numbers should not be accepted. Reused numbers should be detected.
Start to match birth dates with names, education, work and other ID. Most illegals would have expected their one number to carry them.
Trying to use a social security number as few times as possible with ID built on a cover story should be different from average citizens.
Re "This is the top of a very, very slippery slope"
The UK legal system has often faced such questions of law with bank robbery or around the Irish question.
Cant catch people during or after an act due to a lot of reasons? Costs, methods, informants would get exposed.
So make the preparation or possession equal to the act.
That protects informants and how information was gathered.
The UK never wants methods to be talked about in court. No mention of voice prints, sat tracking, domestic use of drones, helicopters, vans, cars with surveillance teams, gov malware in a phone.
No member of the media, human rights lawyer, legal team, police with a story to sell, cult, faith member, telco worker is going to get the ability to sell or give away police/mil methods.
So everything is pushed out to some person making a mistake on line "searching".
The person who searched can then face as much time in jail as of they did the act.
Time to do a deal? Become an informant?
Police and mil methods never get mentioned in court. What "Content" is can be altered to capture any group or faith as needed years later.
Old methods are new again. Old laws get a cyber spin.
Re "This question becomes infinitely more complex if you consider cases of reading about divisive figures from history."
A file of interest with methods would have a checksum. Any download of any tracked file to the UK, buying that book from the USA or movement of that file over any network would result in the destination ip in the UK been tracked.
Searching and then requesting a file from p2p, web or other networks results in the destination ip in the UK been looked at by the security services.
The implementing part is easy. Track the files as they get requested. The hard part for the UK is then what to do about all the people looking for the same words and then downloading tracked books and files.
What is the next step? Interview? Caution? Arrest? Watch the person with a 9 to 12 person mil/gov team 24/7 for a year?
The UK would run out of soldiers and police trying to staff such teams given the number of file downloads.
Learn on the job? Better to have someone stay on the job and learn. The computers are just so good and fast now....
Its about getting staff and keeping staff. The need for skills or teaching navy related skills is not seen as a must do.
The USA will protect free speech. Free to give a speech. Stay free after a speech. Freedom to read, freedom to comment.
No EU like reports, fines, questions, interviews.
The question for a US brand then becomes how to keep their paying EU consumers but not have any interaction with any part of the EU bureaucracy?
As the EU builds a new digital Berlin wall to keep free speech out how can EU users still enjoy US products and services?
Ship to collection locations just outside the EU so EU citizens can collect product and services without risking EU investigations?
Use a third safe nation to repackage a shipment? So the origin is no longer a nation with strong freedom of speech protections?
Some sort of low cost per site VPN that offers the user full US freedoms to any user of the US site?
With a bit of ingenuity US freedom of speech and freedom after speech will be on offer world wide.
As other nations move to a bureaucracy of legal boredom, US products and services will grow. Fun sells.
The EU will be left to ban sites and then try and ban using VPN services.
The NSL is more a chilling cover for parallel construction.
Most people are expected to have no working bank accounts (frozen assets), no access to more lawyers and no access to expert witnesses.
The NSL helps when a rare person can still fund a working defence. Their real experts can afford archaic legal terms like discovery.
A NSL just ensures nobody ever has to help in any way with later questions.
Methods stay secret and lawyers can keep asking all they want.
AC if people have control then the security services have to work harder.
"New WikiLeaks dump: The CIA built Thunderbolt exploit, implants to target Macs" (3/24/2017) https://arstechnica.com/inform...
DarkSeaSkies, DarkMatter (EFI injection), SeaPea (kernel access), NightSkies (key logging).
Think of all the computers that got the security services package that might still exist.
Going back and having users globally create reports and publish their strange and unexpected results.
Best just to have later hardware looked at that is all clean and no unexpected reports will surface.
One time pad by hand. Dont reuse. Take photo of code as part of a much larger image. That removes the encoding and decoding risk from any OS or product.
Re "me 3 cents and I'll let you use my stuff for a year"
Not everyone wants to log into some payment system and type in their details per site.
Enter their details, CC number.
Confirm the payment and then do that again for the next site and next site.
A third option to just directly connect to a site and use their mining option removes the payment system, CC layer.
Why pay for a third party payment gateway too?
Just as people who wanted freedom in other decades and nations ways around central telco and print censorship will be found.
In 1950-80's Eastern Europe people printed their own newspapers, flyers and pamphlets.
Today the world has bluetooth, wifi for short-range ad-hoc networks, low cost usb sticks and ways if moving larger amounts of local data around without needing a national internet.
The more a government attempts to ban independence the more a local community will embrace anything that supports and spreads material thats pro independence.
A new generation of local and short distance network services could be developed under such draconian national telco censorship.
As Montenegro got independence so did Slovenia, Croatia. So will other parts of Europe. People want freedom. Trying to remove parts of the internet just shows the desperation of governments. Communities just create and embrace their own local and fun data flows.
+1 for " If your data are valuable, encrypt your disk. If your computer is valuable, insure it." AC.
Install some theft recovery software to get a webcam image and new ip.
Run a billing system on a consumer OS. Have support calls in another nation.
If its just a consumer network and service it can fail often and for a long time.
The coded talk is for the rest of the contractors and vital infrastructure. Say a power company lost its billing system and call centre? The lights stay on as the grid networks and OS are very different and not connected.
Thats the coded warning.
A gov will forgive and forget any consumer network, product or service been down for a long time.
Dont spend the time to protect, secure and harden vital national infrastructure after been given directions to do so? Fail to help when asked by the security services?
Then a government will have to think about how it deals with businesses who did not do what was suggested.
If it was a fictional movie script what would 1 to 5 look like AC?
1. An artist cant log into the cloud to get their online only art software to work. The consumer internet is no longer useful.
2. The company buying the artists work for a larger project cant use their internet. The dedicated telco networks are having problems.
3. Non vital infrastructure fails. Lights, billing, banking systems, power to towns, cities.
4. Vital infrastructure fails. Contractor grade networks on dual use networks fail.
5. Mil communications, mil networks fail. Special forces per city cant be tasked on existing mil networks. Surveillance of interesting people in real time stops. Voice print tracking fails and really interesting people in the community are no longer been tracked in real time.
The most secure mil/gov/industrial sites can no longer report in on standard gov/mil networks in real time.
Re "Who would even run Safari in the first place?"
People using Keychain Access to look after the passwords.
Safari fills them in so a user can log in to many different web sites and forums. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Depends on the country. Some can "ask" a court (not the person) for DNA, a blood test, other medical tests.
Why not ask for a court to request that "look" to unlock?
If no later security was enabled after the needed face thats how police will try to get in.
Another neat law change makes just keeping encryption the crime.
The security services have voice prints if a person is within 4 hops of anyone of interest to any security service.
Use a pay phone, VOIP, cell phone, new cell phone, that older cell phone that can still connect...
The security services don't care as long as the interesting person is still using a service that offers collect it all access.
The PRISM surveillance program https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... showed what could be done.
New or old hardware, the trick is keeping the wider population talking. Any network, any device is part of collect it all.
Re carrier
A lot of the trusted telco staff with access to law enforcement request logs might not even be in the USA.
Such workers are open to their own faith, cults, other questions of their own nations national security or suggestions by outside groups.
Working with a telco that works in the USA but could be a security risk is not an option for US law enforcement.
US law enforcement will also not risk access by US court workers as court papers and warrants take time to get approved.
More secure to just have a small team of federal, private contractors and city/state police doing collect it all in an area.
No warrant details, no lawyers, no courts, no telcos to have to share sensitive law enforcement methods and data with.
In the past a new powerful mil grade network would become the new local cell network for an area. Every phone in the area would connect to the new more powerful cell network.
That worked well for law enforcement for a while. Most people did not notice the unexpected extra service quality they got with no carrier investment.
Over time app maps got created of cell networks that would show any strange new service that was not part of ongoing carrier upgrades.
Apps started mapping the powerful law enforcement cell networks been activated in areas served by very average cell towers.
The next gen try hard to look like real cell towers, like any other telco in the area. Less of that new network quality and jump in power but still able to take over all cell connections in the area.
Voice prints is the real fun part. What was once used for nations to collect on other nations most interesting people is now been offered to any state or city with ongoing federal/state/city police funding levels.
Have something to say that will get US citizens out to vote for your candidate.
Give speeches in more of the fly over states.
Dont just give the same boring, short speeches in select parts of the elite east and west coasts.
Visit and talk to real people in the fly over states. Take time to listen to real US citizens and talk to them.
A few very simple steps win US elections.
A political party has to find a candidate that has the energy to give a charismatic speech anywhere in the USA on topics people can relate to in their own states.
Find a real candidate who can win in more of the very different parts of the USA.
Slashdot Mirror
Shows great wellbeing to the financial survival of big pharma.
Like its 09 again :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Its some US story about cyber.
Documents get taken home from work and existed on some home network computer.
Some outside network discovers the documents that have never been in the wild before. The bad people have all the "checksums" for random US gov documents and scan the world for them?
Data gets sent back up the network nobody has noticed on any other version of the product range...
Russia.
More cyber fiction.
It just has to be more expensive than its worth to create an entire city, state and federal ID collection.
That a life story has to match from birth, to school, to education, to renting, to home ownership, driving a car and full time work. In the same name and with dates that seem real with real sounding decades.
Lots of retroactive digital database alterations get messy and expensive decades later. Depending on the decade some locations still have actual paperwork for the past generation too. Once one or two generations back don't fit the later alterations then the digital fake ID starts to fail.
Good enough for an illegal to get schooling? To keep good grades at university? To get a good paying job?
Their fake or created ID numbers have to pass more in depth requests.
To get that kind of city, town, state and federal digital cover starts to get more expensive than 1970's -1980's ID creation efforts.
Was the illegal given an offer years ago? To use an existing number with some risk if caught? Did they create numbers thinking fiction was safer than been found as a 2nd person on one ID?
At some point it becomes nation state expensive to fake an ID. Possible to forge for a price but the systems is good enough to keep out illegal migrants just creating some random ID numbers and enjoying full citizenship with no risk of detection over decades.
AC the US has issues with reused and fictional social security number use. That takes a lot more care to discover as people have built entire educational and work related life stories around stolen or created social security numbers.
Other nations would not allow fictional numbers to stay and get used over many years in their systems.
Start with a US birth certificate.
The start to request banks, building societies show the same person exists. Driver licence? Education institution?
Got a mortgage? Credit card? Utility bill? Who is renting a home?
The best way to work out who is illegal, using fake ID or just treaded a social security number is to request layers of other photo ID.
City, state, federal and private sector documents have to start to match going back years.
Does the life story go back to a lot of other valid US id? Does the trail stop with a fictional number?
Using another persons social security number or creating a fictional social security number should start to show over different federal, city and state databases.
The problem with a reused or fictional social security number is that it should not safe from in depth city and federal level scrutiny.
What worked in the past to get a resume in and cover an illegal persons US university education will not stand to deeper investigation.
Fictional numbers should not be accepted. Reused numbers should be detected.
Start to match birth dates with names, education, work and other ID. Most illegals would have expected their one number to carry them.
Trying to use a social security number as few times as possible with ID built on a cover story should be different from average citizens.
Re "This is the top of a very, very slippery slope"
The UK legal system has often faced such questions of law with bank robbery or around the Irish question.
Cant catch people during or after an act due to a lot of reasons? Costs, methods, informants would get exposed.
So make the preparation or possession equal to the act.
That protects informants and how information was gathered.
The UK never wants methods to be talked about in court. No mention of voice prints, sat tracking, domestic use of drones, helicopters, vans, cars with surveillance teams, gov malware in a phone.
No member of the media, human rights lawyer, legal team, police with a story to sell, cult, faith member, telco worker is going to get the ability to sell or give away police/mil methods.
So everything is pushed out to some person making a mistake on line "searching".
The person who searched can then face as much time in jail as of they did the act.
Time to do a deal? Become an informant?
Police and mil methods never get mentioned in court. What "Content" is can be altered to capture any group or faith as needed years later.
Old methods are new again. Old laws get a cyber spin.
Re "This question becomes infinitely more complex if you consider cases of reading about divisive figures from history."
A file of interest with methods would have a checksum. Any download of any tracked file to the UK, buying that book from the USA or movement of that file over any network would result in the destination ip in the UK been tracked.
Searching and then requesting a file from p2p, web or other networks results in the destination ip in the UK been looked at by the security services.
The implementing part is easy. Track the files as they get requested. The hard part for the UK is then what to do about all the people looking for the same words and then downloading tracked books and files.
What is the next step? Interview? Caution? Arrest? Watch the person with a 9 to 12 person mil/gov team 24/7 for a year?
The UK would run out of soldiers and police trying to staff such teams given the number of file downloads.
Contractors overtime to fix all the unexpected issues in port.
New look weapons systems get funding.
Learn on the job? Better to have someone stay on the job and learn. The computers are just so good and fast now....
Its about getting staff and keeping staff. The need for skills or teaching navy related skills is not seen as a must do.
The USA will protect free speech. Free to give a speech. Stay free after a speech. Freedom to read, freedom to comment.
No EU like reports, fines, questions, interviews.
The question for a US brand then becomes how to keep their paying EU consumers but not have any interaction with any part of the EU bureaucracy?
As the EU builds a new digital Berlin wall to keep free speech out how can EU users still enjoy US products and services?
Ship to collection locations just outside the EU so EU citizens can collect product and services without risking EU investigations?
Use a third safe nation to repackage a shipment? So the origin is no longer a nation with strong freedom of speech protections?
Some sort of low cost per site VPN that offers the user full US freedoms to any user of the US site?
With a bit of ingenuity US freedom of speech and freedom after speech will be on offer world wide.
As other nations move to a bureaucracy of legal boredom, US products and services will grow. Fun sells.
The EU will be left to ban sites and then try and ban using VPN services.
The NSL is more a chilling cover for parallel construction.
Most people are expected to have no working bank accounts (frozen assets), no access to more lawyers and no access to expert witnesses.
The NSL helps when a rare person can still fund a working defence. Their real experts can afford archaic legal terms like discovery.
A NSL just ensures nobody ever has to help in any way with later questions.
Methods stay secret and lawyers can keep asking all they want.
AC if people have control then the security services have to work harder.
"New WikiLeaks dump: The CIA built Thunderbolt exploit, implants to target Macs" (3/24/2017)
https://arstechnica.com/inform...
DarkSeaSkies, DarkMatter (EFI injection), SeaPea (kernel access), NightSkies (key logging).
Think of all the computers that got the security services package that might still exist.
Going back and having users globally create reports and publish their strange and unexpected results.
Best just to have later hardware looked at that is all clean and no unexpected reports will surface.
One time pad by hand. Dont reuse. Take photo of code as part of a much larger image. That removes the encoding and decoding risk from any OS or product.
Re "me 3 cents and I'll let you use my stuff for a year"
Not everyone wants to log into some payment system and type in their details per site. Enter their details, CC number.
Confirm the payment and then do that again for the next site and next site.
A third option to just directly connect to a site and use their mining option removes the payment system, CC layer.
Why pay for a third party payment gateway too?
Just as people who wanted freedom in other decades and nations ways around central telco and print censorship will be found.
In 1950-80's Eastern Europe people printed their own newspapers, flyers and pamphlets.
Today the world has bluetooth, wifi for short-range ad-hoc networks, low cost usb sticks and ways if moving larger amounts of local data around without needing a national internet.
The more a government attempts to ban independence the more a local community will embrace anything that supports and spreads material thats pro independence.
A new generation of local and short distance network services could be developed under such draconian national telco censorship.
As Montenegro got independence so did Slovenia, Croatia. So will other parts of Europe. People want freedom. Trying to remove parts of the internet just shows the desperation of governments. Communities just create and embrace their own local and fun data flows.
+1 for " If your data are valuable, encrypt your disk. If your computer is valuable, insure it." AC.
Install some theft recovery software to get a webcam image and new ip.
Run a billing system on a consumer OS. Have support calls in another nation.
If its just a consumer network and service it can fail often and for a long time.
The coded talk is for the rest of the contractors and vital infrastructure. Say a power company lost its billing system and call centre? The lights stay on as the grid networks and OS are very different and not connected.
Thats the coded warning.
A gov will forgive and forget any consumer network, product or service been down for a long time.
Dont spend the time to protect, secure and harden vital national infrastructure after been given directions to do so? Fail to help when asked by the security services?
Then a government will have to think about how it deals with businesses who did not do what was suggested.
If it was a fictional movie script what would 1 to 5 look like AC?
1. An artist cant log into the cloud to get their online only art software to work. The consumer internet is no longer useful.
2. The company buying the artists work for a larger project cant use their internet. The dedicated telco networks are having problems.
3. Non vital infrastructure fails. Lights, billing, banking systems, power to towns, cities.
4. Vital infrastructure fails. Contractor grade networks on dual use networks fail.
5. Mil communications, mil networks fail. Special forces per city cant be tasked on existing mil networks. Surveillance of interesting people in real time stops. Voice print tracking fails and really interesting people in the community are no longer been tracked in real time.
The most secure mil/gov/industrial sites can no longer report in on standard gov/mil networks in real time.
Re "Who would even run Safari in the first place?"
People using Keychain Access to look after the passwords.
Safari fills them in so a user can log in to many different web sites and forums.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Depends on the country. Some can "ask" a court (not the person) for DNA, a blood test, other medical tests.
Why not ask for a court to request that "look" to unlock?
If no later security was enabled after the needed face thats how police will try to get in.
Another neat law change makes just keeping encryption the crime.
The security services have voice prints if a person is within 4 hops of anyone of interest to any security service.
Use a pay phone, VOIP, cell phone, new cell phone, that older cell phone that can still connect...
The security services don't care as long as the interesting person is still using a service that offers collect it all access.
The PRISM surveillance program https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... showed what could be done.
New or old hardware, the trick is keeping the wider population talking. Any network, any device is part of collect it all.
Re carrier
A lot of the trusted telco staff with access to law enforcement request logs might not even be in the USA.
Such workers are open to their own faith, cults, other questions of their own nations national security or suggestions by outside groups.
Working with a telco that works in the USA but could be a security risk is not an option for US law enforcement.
US law enforcement will also not risk access by US court workers as court papers and warrants take time to get approved.
More secure to just have a small team of federal, private contractors and city/state police doing collect it all in an area.
No warrant details, no lawyers, no courts, no telcos to have to share sensitive law enforcement methods and data with.
In the past a new powerful mil grade network would become the new local cell network for an area. Every phone in the area would connect to the new more powerful cell network.
That worked well for law enforcement for a while. Most people did not notice the unexpected extra service quality they got with no carrier investment.
Over time app maps got created of cell networks that would show any strange new service that was not part of ongoing carrier upgrades.
Apps started mapping the powerful law enforcement cell networks been activated in areas served by very average cell towers.
The next gen try hard to look like real cell towers, like any other telco in the area. Less of that new network quality and jump in power but still able to take over all cell connections in the area.
Voice prints is the real fun part. What was once used for nations to collect on other nations most interesting people is now been offered to any state or city with ongoing federal/state/city police funding levels.
Expect a lot of good faith exception, exigent circumstances terms getting more use soon.
Have something to say that will get US citizens out to vote for your candidate.
Give speeches in more of the fly over states.
Dont just give the same boring, short speeches in select parts of the elite east and west coasts.
Visit and talk to real people in the fly over states. Take time to listen to real US citizens and talk to them.
A few very simple steps win US elections.
A political party has to find a candidate that has the energy to give a charismatic speech anywhere in the USA on topics people can relate to in their own states.
Find a real candidate who can win in more of the very different parts of the USA.