Re 'Like it's something bad and we should just keep mainly sucking up oil."
A lot of generational share holder wealth is trapped in nuclear, oil, gas and grid power. Old money that just expects to keep making a profit.
Solar that feeds back into the grid during the day for cash payments, allows for battery pack to be used or totally removes a paying connection account by going off grid?
Most of that can be stopped and profits sured up by:
Making sure the payments are small for any power thats sold back to the grid. Or some energy credit so the account never gets any cash? Or no credits or cash because government can pass a law in that part of the world or state.
Ensuring the power company always has to be connected to a house that a human can live in.
No grid connection, its not a legal house. Connect the grid and pay for that every year and its legal.
Solar is pushing too much new energy into grid that just expected to sell energy. The accounts have to be paid for that or given some credit. Thats more costs.
As grids get more greedy again to cover costs they have to reverse solar interest in new and creative ways.
Cost is not working as it once was. Getting a big system on the roof and talking points about payback over 10 or 20 years is not preventing people from saying no to solar.
No getting not much money for pushing power into the grid is not slowing solar use.
So the new idea is to make solar look not as attractive for "some" reason.
Anything to save the grid, existing profits, support existing shareholders and grid owners.
The change was Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Before that everything was fair game if some "international" color of law connection could be made.
FISA put collect it all into US law. Staff could be told it was always legal to collect it all on international calls and networks.
Peering cost could be arranged so that everyone domestically had 4 hops of friends of friends of friends who did some networking out side the USA.
Thats a legal collection to an interesting person back into the USA. Why is a domestic call or a domestic connection from the East coast of the USA to the West coast "cheaper" if it connects out into Canada, Ireland or the somewhere in the Caribbean or South America on the way?
Because international peering costs into and out of the USA are more profitable than trying to get two established, greedy domestic US telcos connected?
Collect it all and add that profit connecting international peering to make it all legal.
Want to collect on a US domestic call?
All that collect it all network has to see is that the call came in from some Canada or Ireland network. Or the call went out Canada or Ireland on the way back into the USA.
Legal cover to collect on both sides of that domestic call as they have used "international" networks or a friend of a friend of a friend did last decade.
Some good charts existed in the press about the 3 hop size of investigations.
With 3 'Hops,' NSA Gets Millions Of Phone Records (July 31, 2013) http://www.npr.org/templates/s...
Re 'Well that's the problem, it's a slippery slope.."
Thats the problem for Germany. It has to look after its exports and be nice to so many other nations.
No blasphemy. No cartoons. No art. No jokes about other nations. No comedy.
Dont recall the history of other communist parties in other nations.
The sales of German weapon systems are not to be questioned on social media.
Never repeat funny German jokes online. German SJW are always watching.
Germany has lists of safe jokes that are allowed.
An East German ship was exporting machine parts to Cuba...
Take your great ideas, money and skills to a more business friendly part of the USA. Make the best part of a very poor city in a poor state an offer.
The fastest internet connected to the site. Low cost power. The ability to hire based on skills needed. Offer locals lots of new jobs for landscaping, as guards, as technicians to swap server hardware during the night.
Somewhere in the USA a state and city exist that really needs to do a deal. That has working power supplies, fast internet and a lot of empty office space to fill.
A site on the good side of any city. Not the most expensive parts, but the good safe parts of a city.
Dont get lured into helping with their idea of gentrification in a poor city in a poor state. Its a trap and your company will be used to offer full employment to a lot of people who have been looking for any kind of work for a very, very long time.
Good local advice should help avoid that offer.
A relaxed agricultural state with nice views from the office, hills, fast internet, forests and hydro power? A more central, relaxed part of the USA with a lot of fast internet.
Escape from the growing stress of the elite west coast politics and rediscover Americana https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... Its only a short flight away and is always very welcoming to any level of investment.
A court order can be very creative like that. An area has generations of people doing drug deals.
People in the area are looking to buy drugs. Moving drugs for sale, cars driving after a drug deal. Driving to get more drugs after a sale with drug cash from the last drug sale.
Buyer, seller, resupply, drug cash been moved. The entire area is infested with buyers, sellers and the resulting drug money been moved around.
Every car stopped over the decades have been found with "compartments" that can be used for cash or drugs.
All money confiscated from all drivers in the area has been tested and always has traces of drugs on it.
Track everyone and all their friends, and their friends, go back 4 hops just for been detected in the area.
All the expensive new smart phones confiscated the area also have list of names under "contacts" on them.
Given the area and the reason a person has to be driving in that area to buy or sell drugs the contacts should be considered part of an ongoing investigations.
Think of it in terms of 3 or 4 hops of connections from one really well presented court request. Friends of friends of friends of the internet account across the street.
That maths gets big even with a few family, kin and average number of work, educational, friends been connected in the first 2 hops. 3rd and 4th hop gets bigger still as they all get collected on as a new hop.
4 hops of connections to any US/international communications over decades and generations gets a lot of people all around the USA.
Everything that can be sold or can connect to the the US telco network is wiretap friendly. Voice, ip, number call, text, files, logs, images, remote turn mic on, remote turn camera on, gps.
A German might go to another part of the EU or the world. If that German gets an internet connection that still supports free speech and see comments banned in Germany?
Or attempts to add to banned comments with an ip and a provider outside Germany using the German language?
Best to ban any attempts at free speech globally once reported so the world is safe for Germans using the internet in other parts of the world.
Germany is a democracy. So the party in power at that time can define what comments are going to weaken democracy and what has to be banned.
The powers in place after 1945 in West Germany and now Germany can direct powerful laws created to stop communism or fascism from ever entering German politics.
Comment on a ruling party and its policy, the results of policy or suggest changes to policy?
A rise in local crime? What people are doing in the German community?
Get reported by social media SJW staff, or by SJW social media users, police or gov workers looking over social media?
Face a chat down, interview or the full power of a court. Add in time away from work, legal costs? Having to find a lawyer.
No freedom of speech. No freedom after speech.
People can buy a lot of battery power. Have it installed. Heat with gas or wood, cook with gas, gas hot water.
The problem is then A/C, the washing machine, dryer.
That battery system in the home has to cover the electrical draw as the dryer, washing machine, the A/C turns on.
Get new appliances that start up in a different way that will not cause any battery problems? Consider a gas dryer?
Move to a state with no AC cooling needed in summer?
New big battery pack, covered for power all year, no more appliance issues. Use gas and wood.
The utility has one final method of keeping its grid power connected and been paid for.
Government.
A house is not considered ready for humans until its grid connected.
A limited hang out to see who finds what, comments on what, who has skills?
Most other security services learned from that in the 1920-60's and now know to question why interesting things that just appear.
The problem is the automated side of a lot of the gov backed malware.
Visit a site get gov malware. Have wifi on at a location, get gov malware.
"A reachable known target can be implanted with a non-replicating tool."
That was seen with "The Inside Story of How British Spies Hacked Belgium’s Largest Telco" https://theintercept.com/2014/...
"The hack would remain undetected for two years, until the spring of 2013."
Re "This is also a double edged sword as putting in limitations to spreading also gives away the fact it's not a random infection."
The US is back to the sword and shield problem. Contractors want to sell the gov products and earn over time. The gov needs to go on missions, have good news to tell and request more budget growth. The US also has to be protected from all such efforts in the wild. AV brands must also not discover any tools in the wild.
AV brands must blame other nations thanks to code litter, lungs, servers, ip found, private sector experts talking to the media.
It all works if its just the mil, gov and special forces doing the work around the world. The UK showed what could be done in the 1950-90's with much less funding and less staff.
Too many contractors, too many new staff having to get results to keep funding. The politics, faith, interests, contacts of so many new staff.
Vetting slows or is just transferred from some past employment and interesting people get very interesting jobs.
Tools walk, are sold, get lost, given to other nations due to their need or to charm other govs and make friends, get found in use in the wild, kept for later and sold, tested from home. So many well understood issues due to so many missions and rapid expansion. Security should have kept up.
AC consider the methods used to track bad people, the science, the ability to find bad people before the "internet".
How the UK set up the CIB, DIB, the use of a Home Office Warrant, IPI, JIC, LIC, SLO and was able to move information in from all over the Empire.
How to get around most other nations embassy encryption methods.
How people or groups of people doing interesting things had to be found in the UK or trying to enter the UK.
Long term a lot of good methods and very new science got perfected.
The support for and advancement of early DNA testing?
Re doing some good old police work?
Politics is now reducing vetting and wants to see contractors and the private sector rewarded.
The problem is the "common people" are getting deeper access in the gov and secrets are walking out due to poor or no vetting.
Interning people are getting more gov jobs and for some reason get police clearances.
Staff keep on giving or selling information due to politics, faith, another nation they are more loyal to or the need for cash.
Lawyers and activist human rights groups demand total access to security service methods in open courts via police reports.
Interesting people then change their methods thanks to their lawyers, legal teams. Better just to hint it was an informant in court.
An old system that cannot be searched in an easy way is great to fully comply with a very legal request to search and to find no results due to the type of old systems.
To provide a new UK only computer system is not going to help keep secrets, be easy to teach, be easy to support as a GUI or track staff.
Lawyers will want to be able to search that new police system to find issues of faith/politics/evidence that could be used in open court.
Only the GCHQ and other trusted mil/special forces/clandestine services get their own trusted, bespoke OS, secure computer networks.
The good new, fast computer systems exist but for very different reasons.
A good reason exists to why a set of old software and hardware is keep in some gov services and not others.
Entire networks/systems have to be logged by the security services due to staff issues. The existing keystroke recording system is in place and works very well.
The security services get the upgrades. The police trust XP for generations. Lawyers/political reformers cant request a national search on older isolated networks after whistleblowers leak projects/operations..
Lawyers and human rights groups cant shape the creation of a new police database for their own access and have to work within the limits of a much older isolated system.
The wonders of total compartmentalization and full staff tracking can be supported for decades.
A laptop/device still with an interesting user is of more value for device/OS alternation given "random" plausible reasons for physical access or questions.
The ability to get access to all images, video, accounts, request passwords, the chat down is more interesting than having people know they have to travel without any devices.
Getting a person to lie when questioned about any or some aspect of the device use, history.
More questions can asked, help requested. No gov methods or gov intelligence has to be mentioned in questions.
The person just lied about some aspect of the laptop, a password, account. That lie is all that is needed and some aspect of having a laptop induced that lie when questioned.
Staff would not then search for a term suggested by the press, criminals, their faith, cult on such an advanced new system.
They would fear it and all the logs it keeps.
Tracking of gov staff would become more difficult as gov staff stopped using interesting search terms that the security services could watch for.
Staff could just search on XP and never faced any issues about results. New staff who might be loyal to other nations, be politically active, have to do tasks for their faith, be criminal or who just wanted to sell information would see the that trust change in their colleagues, superiors and peers.
The work place has a trust of XP software and hardware. The key logger (software and hardware) has worked for generations of staff and the security services are always waiting for something interesting.
The use of police database searches and culture in the UK was shaped by the Irish issues of the 1970's and early computer databases. Every police offerer was expect to listen for accents, look for cars that are new to the area, people that have just moved to an area reported by land lords. A lot of data was entered and results kept, files created. That freedom and ability to search, create a file, add to file, request more information is what made the UK police the best.
It also allowed the security services to kept their secrets well away for the media, police, criminals, lawyers wanting to find methods.
A new complex system slows searches as staff wonder about been questioned over computer use, makes very interesting people on the staff cautious and curious. They go back to their faith group, criminal group, media contact and ask all about the new system in person, face to face.
Experts get consulted face to face, the interesting person is told face to face to stop all interesting searches on the new networks. The security services lose their easy flow of generations of logs, names, phone numbers, license plates and keywords criminals, faith groups, the media have a constant and unexpected interest in.
Low level spies might also search their own names a lot, for any new counter spy operations, events in the media or try to push their clearance level to limits no other loyal staff on average attempts. An old computer system/network helps with such feelings given years and decades of trust and never been questioned.
Changes to once totally trusted hardware, work areas, software can induce or create thoughts of hardware key loggers, cameras, software logs and interesting staff totally alter/stop their methods.
The security services then have to wonder why a person of interest has gone dark that their daily flashes of interesting searches have totally stopped.
Has that interesting person of faith on the staff just been warned to be more careful about the new computer or something more interesting?
Staff vetting is now reduced to trying to track interesting gov staff. In the past people who are a risk would have never been cleared for any police work but party politics has totally altered security clearances away for any aspect of security vetting in the past decade. So an old computer system is the only way to try and understand every new police officer. The granted freedom to search for anything usually finds the interesting people.
Slashdot Mirror
Or BSD?
Or Haiku Project https://www.haiku-os.org/
Re 'Like it's something bad and we should just keep mainly sucking up oil."
A lot of generational share holder wealth is trapped in nuclear, oil, gas and grid power. Old money that just expects to keep making a profit.
Solar that feeds back into the grid during the day for cash payments, allows for battery pack to be used or totally removes a paying connection account by going off grid?
Most of that can be stopped and profits sured up by:
Making sure the payments are small for any power thats sold back to the grid. Or some energy credit so the account never gets any cash? Or no credits or cash because government can pass a law in that part of the world or state.
Ensuring the power company always has to be connected to a house that a human can live in.
No grid connection, its not a legal house. Connect the grid and pay for that every year and its legal.
Solar is pushing too much new energy into grid that just expected to sell energy. The accounts have to be paid for that or given some credit. Thats more costs.
As grids get more greedy again to cover costs they have to reverse solar interest in new and creative ways.
Cost is not working as it once was. Getting a big system on the roof and talking points about payback over 10 or 20 years is not preventing people from saying no to solar.
No getting not much money for pushing power into the grid is not slowing solar use.
So the new idea is to make solar look not as attractive for "some" reason.
Anything to save the grid, existing profits, support existing shareholders and grid owners.
The change was Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Before that everything was fair game if some "international" color of law connection could be made.
FISA put collect it all into US law. Staff could be told it was always legal to collect it all on international calls and networks.
Peering cost could be arranged so that everyone domestically had 4 hops of friends of friends of friends who did some networking out side the USA.
Thats a legal collection to an interesting person back into the USA. Why is a domestic call or a domestic connection from the East coast of the USA to the West coast "cheaper" if it connects out into Canada, Ireland or the somewhere in the Caribbean or South America on the way?
Because international peering costs into and out of the USA are more profitable than trying to get two established, greedy domestic US telcos connected?
Collect it all and add that profit connecting international peering to make it all legal.
Want to collect on a US domestic call?
All that collect it all network has to see is that the call came in from some Canada or Ireland network. Or the call went out Canada or Ireland on the way back into the USA.
Legal cover to collect on both sides of that domestic call as they have used "international" networks or a friend of a friend of a friend did last decade.
Its cheaper to ban the internet in Germany than Germany from the internet.
Sooner or later the big new money will need to escape the taxes and laws of a CA.
Some good charts existed in the press about the 3 hop size of investigations.
With 3 'Hops,' NSA Gets Millions Of Phone Records (July 31, 2013)
http://www.npr.org/templates/s...
Re 'Well that's the problem, it's a slippery slope.."
Thats the problem for Germany. It has to look after its exports and be nice to so many other nations.
No blasphemy. No cartoons. No art. No jokes about other nations. No comedy.
Dont recall the history of other communist parties in other nations.
The sales of German weapon systems are not to be questioned on social media.
Never repeat funny German jokes online. German SJW are always watching.
Germany has lists of safe jokes that are allowed.
An East German ship was exporting machine parts to Cuba...
Take your great ideas, money and skills to a more business friendly part of the USA. Make the best part of a very poor city in a poor state an offer.
The fastest internet connected to the site. Low cost power. The ability to hire based on skills needed. Offer locals lots of new jobs for landscaping, as guards, as technicians to swap server hardware during the night.
Somewhere in the USA a state and city exist that really needs to do a deal. That has working power supplies, fast internet and a lot of empty office space to fill.
A site on the good side of any city. Not the most expensive parts, but the good safe parts of a city.
Dont get lured into helping with their idea of gentrification in a poor city in a poor state. Its a trap and your company will be used to offer full employment to a lot of people who have been looking for any kind of work for a very, very long time.
Good local advice should help avoid that offer.
A relaxed agricultural state with nice views from the office, hills, fast internet, forests and hydro power? A more central, relaxed part of the USA with a lot of fast internet.
Escape from the growing stress of the elite west coast politics and rediscover Americana https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....
Its only a short flight away and is always very welcoming to any level of investment.
A court order can be very creative like that. An area has generations of people doing drug deals.
People in the area are looking to buy drugs. Moving drugs for sale, cars driving after a drug deal. Driving to get more drugs after a sale with drug cash from the last drug sale.
Buyer, seller, resupply, drug cash been moved. The entire area is infested with buyers, sellers and the resulting drug money been moved around.
Every car stopped over the decades have been found with "compartments" that can be used for cash or drugs.
All money confiscated from all drivers in the area has been tested and always has traces of drugs on it.
Track everyone and all their friends, and their friends, go back 4 hops just for been detected in the area.
All the expensive new smart phones confiscated the area also have list of names under "contacts" on them.
Given the area and the reason a person has to be driving in that area to buy or sell drugs the contacts should be considered part of an ongoing investigations.
Think of it in terms of 3 or 4 hops of connections from one really well presented court request. Friends of friends of friends of the internet account across the street.
That maths gets big even with a few family, kin and average number of work, educational, friends been connected in the first 2 hops. 3rd and 4th hop gets bigger still as they all get collected on as a new hop.
4 hops of connections to any US/international communications over decades and generations gets a lot of people all around the USA.
Everything that can be sold or can connect to the the US telco network is wiretap friendly. Voice, ip, number call, text, files, logs, images, remote turn mic on, remote turn camera on, gps.
A German might go to another part of the EU or the world. If that German gets an internet connection that still supports free speech and see comments banned in Germany?
Or attempts to add to banned comments with an ip and a provider outside Germany using the German language?
Best to ban any attempts at free speech globally once reported so the world is safe for Germans using the internet in other parts of the world.
Germany is a democracy. So the party in power at that time can define what comments are going to weaken democracy and what has to be banned.
The powers in place after 1945 in West Germany and now Germany can direct powerful laws created to stop communism or fascism from ever entering German politics.
Comment on a ruling party and its policy, the results of policy or suggest changes to policy?
A rise in local crime? What people are doing in the German community?
Get reported by social media SJW staff, or by SJW social media users, police or gov workers looking over social media?
Face a chat down, interview or the full power of a court. Add in time away from work, legal costs? Having to find a lawyer.
No freedom of speech. No freedom after speech.
People can buy a lot of battery power. Have it installed. Heat with gas or wood, cook with gas, gas hot water.
The problem is then A/C, the washing machine, dryer.
That battery system in the home has to cover the electrical draw as the dryer, washing machine, the A/C turns on.
Get new appliances that start up in a different way that will not cause any battery problems? Consider a gas dryer?
Move to a state with no AC cooling needed in summer?
New big battery pack, covered for power all year, no more appliance issues. Use gas and wood.
The utility has one final method of keeping its grid power connected and been paid for.
Government.
A house is not considered ready for humans until its grid connected.
Another Linux effort is Outlaw Country.
A limited hang out to see who finds what, comments on what, who has skills?
Most other security services learned from that in the 1920-60's and now know to question why interesting things that just appear.
The problem is the automated side of a lot of the gov backed malware.
Visit a site get gov malware. Have wifi on at a location, get gov malware.
"A reachable known target can be implanted with a non-replicating tool."
That was seen with "The Inside Story of How British Spies Hacked Belgium’s Largest Telco"
https://theintercept.com/2014/...
"The hack would remain undetected for two years, until the spring of 2013."
Re "This is also a double edged sword as putting in limitations to spreading also gives away the fact it's not a random infection."
The US is back to the sword and shield problem. Contractors want to sell the gov products and earn over time. The gov needs to go on missions, have good news to tell and request more budget growth. The US also has to be protected from all such efforts in the wild. AV brands must also not discover any tools in the wild.
AV brands must blame other nations thanks to code litter, lungs, servers, ip found, private sector experts talking to the media.
It all works if its just the mil, gov and special forces doing the work around the world. The UK showed what could be done in the 1950-90's with much less funding and less staff.
Too many contractors, too many new staff having to get results to keep funding. The politics, faith, interests, contacts of so many new staff.
Vetting slows or is just transferred from some past employment and interesting people get very interesting jobs.
Tools walk, are sold, get lost, given to other nations due to their need or to charm other govs and make friends, get found in use in the wild, kept for later and sold, tested from home.
So many well understood issues due to so many missions and rapid expansion. Security should have kept up.
Re "tracking criminals"
Other tools mentioned in the past are automated i.e. the Automated Implant Branch (AIB) with names like Medusa, Swindle, HIVE.
Improvise, Aquaman with Dancefloor that are OS ready. The automated multi-platform malware like Hive, Cutthroat and Swindle.
AC consider the methods used to track bad people, the science, the ability to find bad people before the "internet".
How the UK set up the CIB, DIB, the use of a Home Office Warrant, IPI, JIC, LIC, SLO and was able to move information in from all over the Empire.
How to get around most other nations embassy encryption methods.
How people or groups of people doing interesting things had to be found in the UK or trying to enter the UK.
Long term a lot of good methods and very new science got perfected.
The support for and advancement of early DNA testing?
Re doing some good old police work? Politics is now reducing vetting and wants to see contractors and the private sector rewarded.
that just indexes the internet been respectful of any robots.txt like settings..
Freedom to search.
Freedom to read any results.
Start using US legal protections as a unique selling point and sell freedoms to the world.
The problem is the "common people" are getting deeper access in the gov and secrets are walking out due to poor or no vetting.
Interning people are getting more gov jobs and for some reason get police clearances.
Staff keep on giving or selling information due to politics, faith, another nation they are more loyal to or the need for cash.
Lawyers and activist human rights groups demand total access to security service methods in open courts via police reports.
Interesting people then change their methods thanks to their lawyers, legal teams. Better just to hint it was an informant in court.
An old system that cannot be searched in an easy way is great to fully comply with a very legal request to search and to find no results due to the type of old systems.
To provide a new UK only computer system is not going to help keep secrets, be easy to teach, be easy to support as a GUI or track staff.
Lawyers will want to be able to search that new police system to find issues of faith/politics/evidence that could be used in open court.
Only the GCHQ and other trusted mil/special forces/clandestine services get their own trusted, bespoke OS, secure computer networks.
The good new, fast computer systems exist but for very different reasons.
A good reason exists to why a set of old software and hardware is keep in some gov services and not others.
Entire networks/systems have to be logged by the security services due to staff issues. The existing keystroke recording system is in place and works very well.
The security services get the upgrades. The police trust XP for generations. Lawyers/political reformers cant request a national search on older isolated networks after whistleblowers leak projects/operations..
Lawyers and human rights groups cant shape the creation of a new police database for their own access and have to work within the limits of a much older isolated system.
The wonders of total compartmentalization and full staff tracking can be supported for decades.
AC "How the CIA infects air-gapped networks" (6/23/2017)
https://arstechnica.com/securi...
Shattered Assurance, Emotional Simian, Brutal Kangaroo, EZCheese, Lachesis.
A laptop/device still with an interesting user is of more value for device/OS alternation given "random" plausible reasons for physical access or questions.
The ability to get access to all images, video, accounts, request passwords, the chat down is more interesting than having people know they have to travel without any devices.
Getting a person to lie when questioned about any or some aspect of the device use, history.
More questions can asked, help requested. No gov methods or gov intelligence has to be mentioned in questions.
The person just lied about some aspect of the laptop, a password, account. That lie is all that is needed and some aspect of having a laptop induced that lie when questioned.
Staff would not then search for a term suggested by the press, criminals, their faith, cult on such an advanced new system.
They would fear it and all the logs it keeps.
Tracking of gov staff would become more difficult as gov staff stopped using interesting search terms that the security services could watch for.
Staff could just search on XP and never faced any issues about results. New staff who might be loyal to other nations, be politically active, have to do tasks for their faith, be criminal or who just wanted to sell information would see the that trust change in their colleagues, superiors and peers.
The work place has a trust of XP software and hardware. The key logger (software and hardware) has worked for generations of staff and the security services are always waiting for something interesting.
The use of police database searches and culture in the UK was shaped by the Irish issues of the 1970's and early computer databases. Every police offerer was expect to listen for accents, look for cars that are new to the area, people that have just moved to an area reported by land lords. A lot of data was entered and results kept, files created. That freedom and ability to search, create a file, add to file, request more information is what made the UK police the best.
It also allowed the security services to kept their secrets well away for the media, police, criminals, lawyers wanting to find methods.
A new complex system slows searches as staff wonder about been questioned over computer use, makes very interesting people on the staff cautious and curious. They go back to their faith group, criminal group, media contact and ask all about the new system in person, face to face.
Experts get consulted face to face, the interesting person is told face to face to stop all interesting searches on the new networks. The security services lose their easy flow of generations of logs, names, phone numbers, license plates and keywords criminals, faith groups, the media have a constant and unexpected interest in.
Low level spies might also search their own names a lot, for any new counter spy operations, events in the media or try to push their clearance level to limits no other loyal staff on average attempts. An old computer system/network helps with such feelings given years and decades of trust and never been questioned.
Changes to once totally trusted hardware, work areas, software can induce or create thoughts of hardware key loggers, cameras, software logs and interesting staff totally alter/stop their methods.
The security services then have to wonder why a person of interest has gone dark that their daily flashes of interesting searches have totally stopped.
Has that interesting person of faith on the staff just been warned to be more careful about the new computer or something more interesting?
Staff vetting is now reduced to trying to track interesting gov staff. In the past people who are a risk would have never been cleared for any police work but party politics has totally altered security clearances away for any aspect of security vetting in the past decade. So an old computer system is the only way to try and understand every new police officer. The granted freedom to search for anything usually finds the interesting people.