It is for the UK gov and mil to track its own staff.
The UK cannot afford to create its own programming language, make its own police OS, code its own apps, have 24/7 support for its own UK OS and have perfect vetting for all its police.
The educational efforts of the 1980's to educate a lot of computer ready workers failed. All the computer hardware used in schools all over the UK did not result in a huge uptake of computer education and create skilled experts.
So the UK has generations of staff who know of a Windows GUI, how to use some Windows productive apps and played computer games on Windows or early consoles.
Any real experts are lost to the private sector, other nations with better wages and conditions, get great work and conditions with the GCHQ/mil/special forces and cannot help the police.
So the police have US OS they know, a network that have to enter data into, can sort and get data from, 24/7 support. A police network that is separated from other mil/gov networks.
That aspect is vital. The UK has to keep its domestic mil/special forces methods secure and well away from gov workers, courts, lawyers, telco workers, staff with faith issues, workers who are loyal to the own nation, very well funded human rights groups, the media and people passing/giving/selling information to anyone.
The other part is in the tracking of how staff use a Windows network. The media, a criminal, faith group asks for a term, name or phone number or project to be searched.
Someone in the UK gov uses a password and searches, reporting the results given the networks they have access too or account used.
A US OS is very good at logs of any and all search terms and who requested that search per machine, per network. The networks are not just for looking up criminals, they watch the gov workers per machine (keyboard logs to counter VPN, any unexpected quality encryption) and then as expected at application, OS, network level.
Great for tracking staff and their interesting search terms. Searching for a project they never had access to? Why are they looking for that?
XP is been used to study the usage habit of all staff. If the skilled staff understand their own networks they would find the logs and collecting software.
Better to just have an XP GUI and keep it all very boring. If a new system of hardware and software, OS is installed, staff might hesitate to enter requested search terms given the old system never reported their searches...
The old hardware and software was not logged and they never got questioned about a search, so they keep on feeling safe and search.
Keeping XP keeps staff trusting the old system that just cant be tracking them...
XP software and hardware is kept for its generational social engineering value to keep staff feeling secure.
Older staff feel they have never been faced questions when using XP for searches. New staff feel XP might not log every search network wide and so enter search terms.
The security services have always understood big changes in the office hardware change generation habits. Why create new trust issues and induce new more secure usage patterns well away from networks, XP and hardware that logs every keystroke.
Malware that flows around the internet and infects random nations?
No security service or nation would allow their own side, nation, interests to be at any risk from random malware.
Malware thats in the wild doing stuff to a lot of nations is not a national cyber event.
Its just malware and a slow news day.
Read up on how nations really consider and use their cyber assets. Nations take care to ensure the system, user or server is the only thing thats accessed.
Lets do some reading
The Inside Story of How British Spies Hacked Belgium’s Largest Telco (December 13 2014) https://theintercept.com/2014/...
Read down to the "The hack would remain undetected for two years, until the spring of 2013" part and consider the quality and effort a nation puts into its code.
To stay in a network, only that network and not get found. No AV or websites or social media talking about that effort in real time.
Notice the difference after discovery too? ""... never got a chance to study the routers."" Nations don't comment much on the efforts of other nations, to experts or the media.
Stuxnet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Equation Group https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Again stay hidden, works really well for the task, great effort to stay with interesting people and efforts not spreading back to creators own nation. Skills to try and avoid random AV detection too. Less AV chatter in real time in the wild.
Nations can try automated cyber efforts but again they are automated to respond to very interesting people and try not to get talked about in real time by AV and experts. The staging servers are not found in real time. Malware do random things to many nations is not a cyber effort.
Its just malware and a news story.
Look at list of how nations do their cyber.
Names and definitions of leaked CIA hacking tools (Mar 9, 2017) https://techcrunch.com/2017/03...
Neat products by server, brand, target. No finding the servers, no finding the nations control GUI. Exploits that work and and can work around most consumer AV and their experts most of the time. Not malware that flows over anything, everything and anyone thats been talked about and studied in real time.
Discovering a Hive, or SparrowHawk would not be an option for a nation's cyber contractors or gov/mil staff.
White list for the rest of the world? Black list just for a nation? For every result in real time?
Get banned from the consumers in that nation?
If a per nation list fails in any way and a nations court has to revisit the issue?
What could other courts start to demand?
Wait for the blasphemy rulings. No cartoons, no images of a religion, no putting any aspect of a faith to music or making animations about a faith.
No comments on any communist party history, party members.
No comments on other nations history or politics.
No negative comments on a movie or music, the plot.
No product reviews?
Nations, cults, faiths, well funded NGO's will all try to push their legal views.
Other nations domestic politics can now spread globally with a good legal team.
Usually two people are sent for friendly chat down interview request. One is talking and gets person to talk, other is witness to all comments made.
Finally business card offered. Create informant.
Depends on the navy, the security the person has and if the buddy system can be staffed for that rank, clearance, every mission.
After a while someone gets to be along and needs power for their USB device. They have hours and days to go looking and the need to find any USB power builds.
Yes one person is often turned due to faith, cult, politics, weakness or poverty and might just be give a rather safe long term task.
To watch and make a list of all the bad people at their base.
Parties, who went out off base and did what. Contractors and mil staff then got approached as they had a lot of negative issues.
The other change is party political suggestions to change the mil. Just let more people in and not worry so much about traditional issues like vetting or standards.
The desperate need for skills and just keeping staff. Very average staff start to push some of the rules. They bring entertainment electronics with them. That then needs power after a while. Anything USB is discovered and made to supply power over the long hours on duty.
re "physical access prevention"
"Margaret Thatcher ordered troops to shoot intruders on sight after protesters boarded nuclear-armed Navy sub
The PM was livid when three demonstrators broke into the control room of vessel carrying Polaris missiles, newly released files show" http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/u...
Lets consider some real nation backed code found in the wild over the years and read about what the reaction was? By experts, the security services and AV vendors.
The Inside Story of How British Spies Hacked Belgium’s Largest Telco (December 13 2014) https://theintercept.com/2014/...
".. The hack would remain undetected for two years, until the spring of 2013."
When a nation does it the method works, stay in place and is undetected. Not an in the wild, random malware effort thats detected by AV.
What happens when something really interesting is detected? All over the news? Global experts?
Lets keep reading to find out what happened later. Same wide in public discussion like now?
"... never got a chance to study the routers."
The story of Stuxnet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ?
The story of Equation Group https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
'been active since at least 2001, with more than 60 actors"
Some history of Longhorn https://www.symantec.com/conne...
When nations do their cyber things, they do it to a good standard, the really code works and not many people get to read about it in the news in real time.
Nations also really, really try not to risk their own domestic systems.
Nations don't talk much about what they find or let their staff talk about results in real time.
Very different to the average gov reaction to malware that spreads randomly and does malware things. People talk, the news is told details. Sites talk about the news. AV vendors talk.
AC that should have all been ok.
The UK did not expect anyone to work out how to use that French systems in the time allowed.
It was an export grade weapons system and was expected to stay on an internal surrender setting.
Crews worked very hard and very quickly to discover full French access to the very complex system.
Most nations now know that have to fully trust who they buy from or what systems they use.
All the people at the port are trusted and totally and fully vetted. The crew is totally trusted by default.
The buddy system always ensures nobody can use their own computer from home they took with them.
What could another nation or faith group do?
Sign up an unexpected person to go for ship education, become a sailor and then rise up the ranks for years?
One spy on a ship? The buddy system would totally prevent that. Two spies on average would not get to work alone together given the crew size so that would not happen. The buddy system always works.
Hope someone walks a very special XP computer virus into the port as part of their day job or takes a computer thats infected from home onto a ship with them?
Thats not allowed.
Think of it from a UK mil perspective.
They have to find people to use the computer GUI. Make a bespoke UK OS? Thats a lot of new computer tasks to learn and teach to average people new to the navy.
Trying to keep people in the navy is not helped by some strange, new, expensive, complex new UK mil OS.
No need to teach the users how to write code in something like a new Ada to do GUI things.
That keeps teaching costs lower and makes teaching methods for new crews more easy. Just like a really big home computer but at sea.
The gov and mil security thinking works like this:
The port, repair areas are totally secure as all the contractors and mil staff are allowed to be on site and are 100% trusted.
When the ships need service or get towed back to port again contractors get all systems working again.
No cult, person who is loyal to their religion or another nation or is political motivated can get to the XP computers that are secure thanks to a big, high, strong fence around the port.
No person is allowed to bring any different electronic device with them from home. Thats a really strict rule and no personal equipment is allowed on any UK ship or near a ship in port.
So nothing can go wrong. The fence around the port is huge. When the ship is at sea its totally protected from random people walking onto the ship.
Staff, contractors and people at sea would never ever use or bring any other digital devices. From home to the port or for their own use for the long time spent at sea or under the sea.
People at sea are sleeping, learning about the GUI, eating or taking tests and are not alone. They have no time to use their own computers they would never have with them as they have been searched for such devices.
So the selection of the OS saves the gov money when teaching very new users, GUI applications look like what average people are used to, its easy for contractors to work with a lot and get overtime to fix when in port. Its win, win, win if everyone is vetted, the fence is big and nobody ever brings files or computer devices from home to the port or on the ship.
The term is air gap.
AC most skilled nations don't just lose control of a well defined cyber operation. Or get detected in the wild
Thats why they have experts to do cyber things.
They have skills so their own interests are fully protected and any cyber effort is totally undetected.
Random malware just spreads around lots of random nations as expected and that anyone in the private sector can track in the wild.
If the malware has a name, the private sector is/can track it, its spreading like malware in really random nations?
Its just malware and a slow news day.
SJW will just ban anything they have to.
Blasphemy to keep to international investors.
Communist leadership and history due to communist party investors.
Comment on books or authors that some SJW wants banned?
A celebrity wants negative reviews and comments about their project, movie or music removed.
Comment on German politics and get reported?
More that UK special forces, mil and GCHQ had a low cost collect it all system that worked and went after interesting people.
No media, no human rights courts, no police taking to the media. Just real results nobody ever found out about.
The US method spreads a lot of new funding around for contractors, their political support, good news in open courts, city/state/federal police and lawyers.
Two very different ideas that had to be considered. The US funding method finally won.
Cash is flowing. Upgrades, services, support, rent seeking to help with crypto, courts, police, mil, staff. Everyone is getting more funds and new hardware.
Crypto and methods will get walked out with ex staff, former staff, police, the media, private sector, telco staff.
Governments are really good at tracking short flash messages on any devices that never show up again. Its not a normal usage pattern. Lots of private, gov and mil software looks for just that attempt in real time.
To connect to a network one or both accounts might need to pass a 100 point check https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... out of habit or just to seem like a normal chat.
If one or both sides of that connection have real accounts tracking will be more easy.
If not both One Time iPad used would be of interest to the network and be collected on as they are not registered.
That would get hardware location details and allows for CCTV collection. Busy street? Park in a car? Walk? Look up?
Online shopping for that iPad? Paid in cash months ago at some store? CCTV will still exist. Second hand, paid for cash? Who was the last or first real owner?
New or second hand that first network connection will give up hardware information.
The next time two new devices with no legal status on the network try to connect? Gov malware will be ready.
Are both people creating their code in real time by entering a plain message in on the iPad? Thats plain text to collect on. Activate the camera or mic. GPS.
Get both faces and GPS.
Or swapping photographing preprepared encrypted text? Sloppy trade craft and decide to type in a longer message just one time?
Use the device more often to hide the traffic in more normal usage pattern for a short time? Just more unique data created to find the users.
US education was about funding and profit. Some schools got computers. Some states got text books and a brand of calculator that had supported related questions.
New computers would have been disruptive to that selling of textbooks and calculators.
The BBC Micro https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... showed what a nation could do with computers and networks for more students.
Did the UK then become a global computer super power with an early decade of computer education?
A lot of US schools now spend a lot per student in very poor areas. Are people doing any better on average after all that spending, new computers and more teachers?
Its a change in thinking from the UK to US methods, hardware, software, contractors.
The UK was all about spying and later action that was never in public, in any courts, or that police or the media could see or comment on.
The USA has the need for funding, spending on contractors, political support and using courts.
Encryption will exist just that it will be gov junk and big brands will have to share keys.
The government, ex staff, former staff, contractors, other trusted nations staff will have the keys and get to listen in.
Re "when it comes to this subject?"
Its just about the funding, contractors and all the new support services needed to collect it all.
Interesting people will use the cover of their faith and be fully protected by their inward looking communities.
Face to face meetings, people on holidays in other nations taking a face to face message returning with a message a week later.
The UK methods worked but they only totally trusted UK mil, GCHQ and Ulster Constabulary Special Branch understood who was been collected on and how.
Thats kept collection secret and any later mil action totally secret. No courts, lawyers, human rights groups, media, police, court staff to expose methods, collection or results.
The new collection methods bring in lawyers, governments, police, court staff, telcos. A lot more people with crypto keys or now know who is been collected on.
Great new work and funding for the lawyers, courts, contractors, police, governments, telcos, private sector.
Slashdot Mirror
It is for the UK gov and mil to track its own staff.
The UK cannot afford to create its own programming language, make its own police OS, code its own apps, have 24/7 support for its own UK OS and have perfect vetting for all its police.
The educational efforts of the 1980's to educate a lot of computer ready workers failed. All the computer hardware used in schools all over the UK did not result in a huge uptake of computer education and create skilled experts.
So the UK has generations of staff who know of a Windows GUI, how to use some Windows productive apps and played computer games on Windows or early consoles.
Any real experts are lost to the private sector, other nations with better wages and conditions, get great work and conditions with the GCHQ/mil/special forces and cannot help the police.
So the police have US OS they know, a network that have to enter data into, can sort and get data from, 24/7 support. A police network that is separated from other mil/gov networks.
That aspect is vital. The UK has to keep its domestic mil/special forces methods secure and well away from gov workers, courts, lawyers, telco workers, staff with faith issues, workers who are loyal to the own nation, very well funded human rights groups, the media and people passing/giving/selling information to anyone.
The other part is in the tracking of how staff use a Windows network. The media, a criminal, faith group asks for a term, name or phone number or project to be searched.
Someone in the UK gov uses a password and searches, reporting the results given the networks they have access too or account used.
A US OS is very good at logs of any and all search terms and who requested that search per machine, per network. The networks are not just for looking up criminals, they watch the gov workers per machine (keyboard logs to counter VPN, any unexpected quality encryption) and then as expected at application, OS, network level.
Great for tracking staff and their interesting search terms. Searching for a project they never had access to? Why are they looking for that?
XP is been used to study the usage habit of all staff. If the skilled staff understand their own networks they would find the logs and collecting software.
Better to just have an XP GUI and keep it all very boring. If a new system of hardware and software, OS is installed, staff might hesitate to enter requested search terms given the old system never reported their searches...
The old hardware and software was not logged and they never got questioned about a search, so they keep on feeling safe and search.
Keeping XP keeps staff trusting the old system that just cant be tracking them...
XP software and hardware is kept for its generational social engineering value to keep staff feeling secure.
Older staff feel they have never been faced questions when using XP for searches. New staff feel XP might not log every search network wide and so enter search terms.
The security services have always understood big changes in the office hardware change generation habits.
Why create new trust issues and induce new more secure usage patterns well away from networks, XP and hardware that logs every keystroke.
Malware that flows around the internet and infects random nations?
... never got a chance to study the routers."" Nations don't comment much on the efforts of other nations, to experts or the media.
No security service or nation would allow their own side, nation, interests to be at any risk from random malware.
Malware thats in the wild doing stuff to a lot of nations is not a national cyber event.
Its just malware and a slow news day.
Read up on how nations really consider and use their cyber assets. Nations take care to ensure the system, user or server is the only thing thats accessed.
Lets do some reading
The Inside Story of How British Spies Hacked Belgium’s Largest Telco (December 13 2014)
https://theintercept.com/2014/...
Read down to the "The hack would remain undetected for two years, until the spring of 2013" part and consider the quality and effort a nation puts into its code.
To stay in a network, only that network and not get found. No AV or websites or social media talking about that effort in real time.
Notice the difference after discovery too? ""
Stuxnet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Equation Group https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Again stay hidden, works really well for the task, great effort to stay with interesting people and efforts not spreading back to creators own nation. Skills to try and avoid random AV detection too. Less AV chatter in real time in the wild.
Nations can try automated cyber efforts but again they are automated to respond to very interesting people and try not to get talked about in real time by AV and experts. The staging servers are not found in real time. Malware do random things to many nations is not a cyber effort.
Its just malware and a news story.
Look at list of how nations do their cyber.
Names and definitions of leaked CIA hacking tools (Mar 9, 2017)
https://techcrunch.com/2017/03...
Neat products by server, brand, target. No finding the servers, no finding the nations control GUI. Exploits that work and and can work around most consumer AV and their experts most of the time. Not malware that flows over anything, everything and anyone thats been talked about and studied in real time.
Discovering a Hive, or SparrowHawk would not be an option for a nation's cyber contractors or gov/mil staff.
White list for the rest of the world? Black list just for a nation? For every result in real time?
Get banned from the consumers in that nation?
If a per nation list fails in any way and a nations court has to revisit the issue?
What could other courts start to demand?
Wait for the blasphemy rulings. No cartoons, no images of a religion, no putting any aspect of a faith to music or making animations about a faith.
No comments on any communist party history, party members.
No comments on other nations history or politics.
No negative comments on a movie or music, the plot.
No product reviews?
Nations, cults, faiths, well funded NGO's will all try to push their legal views.
Other nations domestic politics can now spread globally with a good legal team.
Usually two people are sent for friendly chat down interview request. One is talking and gets person to talk, other is witness to all comments made.
Finally business card offered. Create informant.
Depends on the navy, the security the person has and if the buddy system can be staffed for that rank, clearance, every mission.
After a while someone gets to be along and needs power for their USB device. They have hours and days to go looking and the need to find any USB power builds.
Yes one person is often turned due to faith, cult, politics, weakness or poverty and might just be give a rather safe long term task.
To watch and make a list of all the bad people at their base.
Parties, who went out off base and did what. Contractors and mil staff then got approached as they had a lot of negative issues.
The other change is party political suggestions to change the mil. Just let more people in and not worry so much about traditional issues like vetting or standards.
The desperate need for skills and just keeping staff. Very average staff start to push some of the rules. They bring entertainment electronics with them. That then needs power after a while. Anything USB is discovered and made to supply power over the long hours on duty.
Telcos upgrade their networks due to more people using network :)
re "physical access prevention"
"Margaret Thatcher ordered troops to shoot intruders on sight after protesters boarded nuclear-armed Navy sub
The PM was livid when three demonstrators broke into the control room of vessel carrying Polaris missiles, newly released files show"
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/u...
Lets consider some real nation backed code found in the wild over the years and read about what the reaction was? By experts, the security services and AV vendors. ... never got a chance to study the routers."
The Inside Story of How British Spies Hacked Belgium’s Largest Telco (December 13 2014)
https://theintercept.com/2014/...
".. The hack would remain undetected for two years, until the spring of 2013."
When a nation does it the method works, stay in place and is undetected. Not an in the wild, random malware effort thats detected by AV.
What happens when something really interesting is detected? All over the news? Global experts?
Lets keep reading to find out what happened later. Same wide in public discussion like now?
"
The story of Stuxnet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ?
The story of Equation Group https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
'been active since at least 2001, with more than 60 actors"
Some history of Longhorn https://www.symantec.com/conne...
When nations do their cyber things, they do it to a good standard, the really code works and not many people get to read about it in the news in real time.
Nations also really, really try not to risk their own domestic systems.
Nations don't talk much about what they find or let their staff talk about results in real time.
Very different to the average gov reaction to malware that spreads randomly and does malware things. People talk, the news is told details. Sites talk about the news. AV vendors talk.
Except for the cost of putting turbines out at sea...
Move to areas with better wind if the wind gets to fast, stops or gets too slow?
AC that should have all been ok.
The UK did not expect anyone to work out how to use that French systems in the time allowed.
It was an export grade weapons system and was expected to stay on an internal surrender setting.
Crews worked very hard and very quickly to discover full French access to the very complex system.
Most nations now know that have to fully trust who they buy from or what systems they use.
So new staff feel ok using the GUI.
All the people at the port are trusted and totally and fully vetted. The crew is totally trusted by default.
The buddy system always ensures nobody can use their own computer from home they took with them.
What could another nation or faith group do?
Sign up an unexpected person to go for ship education, become a sailor and then rise up the ranks for years?
One spy on a ship? The buddy system would totally prevent that. Two spies on average would not get to work alone together given the crew size so that would not happen. The buddy system always works.
Hope someone walks a very special XP computer virus into the port as part of their day job or takes a computer thats infected from home onto a ship with them?
Thats not allowed.
Think of it from a UK mil perspective.
They have to find people to use the computer GUI. Make a bespoke UK OS? Thats a lot of new computer tasks to learn and teach to average people new to the navy.
Trying to keep people in the navy is not helped by some strange, new, expensive, complex new UK mil OS.
No need to teach the users how to write code in something like a new Ada to do GUI things.
That keeps teaching costs lower and makes teaching methods for new crews more easy. Just like a really big home computer but at sea.
The gov and mil security thinking works like this:
The port, repair areas are totally secure as all the contractors and mil staff are allowed to be on site and are 100% trusted.
When the ships need service or get towed back to port again contractors get all systems working again.
No cult, person who is loyal to their religion or another nation or is political motivated can get to the XP computers that are secure thanks to a big, high, strong fence around the port.
No person is allowed to bring any different electronic device with them from home. Thats a really strict rule and no personal equipment is allowed on any UK ship or near a ship in port.
So nothing can go wrong. The fence around the port is huge. When the ship is at sea its totally protected from random people walking onto the ship.
Staff, contractors and people at sea would never ever use or bring any other digital devices. From home to the port or for their own use for the long time spent at sea or under the sea.
People at sea are sleeping, learning about the GUI, eating or taking tests and are not alone. They have no time to use their own computers they would never have with them as they have been searched for such devices.
So the selection of the OS saves the gov money when teaching very new users, GUI applications look like what average people are used to, its easy for contractors to work with a lot and get overtime to fix when in port. Its win, win, win if everyone is vetted, the fence is big and nobody ever brings files or computer devices from home to the port or on the ship.
The term is air gap.
AC most skilled nations don't just lose control of a well defined cyber operation. Or get detected in the wild
Thats why they have experts to do cyber things.
They have skills so their own interests are fully protected and any cyber effort is totally undetected.
Random malware just spreads around lots of random nations as expected and that anyone in the private sector can track in the wild.
If the malware has a name, the private sector is/can track it, its spreading like malware in really random nations?
Its just malware and a slow news day.
How people wanted something more interesting to comment on?
https://it.slashdot.org/story/...
Its just ransomware, not some national cyber drama.
Re did I miss something?
"Germany Cracks Down On Illegal Speech On Social Media" (June 25, 2017)
https://yro.slashdot.org/story...
China law would outlaw insults to Communist heroes, martyrs (March 13, 2017)
http://www.seattletimes.com/na...
SJW will just ban anything they have to.
Blasphemy to keep to international investors.
Communist leadership and history due to communist party investors.
Comment on books or authors that some SJW wants banned?
A celebrity wants negative reviews and comments about their project, movie or music removed.
Comment on German politics and get reported?
More that UK special forces, mil and GCHQ had a low cost collect it all system that worked and went after interesting people.
No media, no human rights courts, no police taking to the media. Just real results nobody ever found out about.
The US method spreads a lot of new funding around for contractors, their political support, good news in open courts, city/state/federal police and lawyers.
Two very different ideas that had to be considered. The US funding method finally won.
Cash is flowing. Upgrades, services, support, rent seeking to help with crypto, courts, police, mil, staff. Everyone is getting more funds and new hardware.
Crypto and methods will get walked out with ex staff, former staff, police, the media, private sector, telco staff.
Governments are really good at tracking short flash messages on any devices that never show up again. Its not a normal usage pattern. Lots of private, gov and mil software looks for just that attempt in real time.
To connect to a network one or both accounts might need to pass a 100 point check https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... out of habit or just to seem like a normal chat.
If one or both sides of that connection have real accounts tracking will be more easy.
If not both One Time iPad used would be of interest to the network and be collected on as they are not registered.
That would get hardware location details and allows for CCTV collection. Busy street? Park in a car? Walk? Look up?
Online shopping for that iPad? Paid in cash months ago at some store? CCTV will still exist. Second hand, paid for cash? Who was the last or first real owner?
New or second hand that first network connection will give up hardware information.
The next time two new devices with no legal status on the network try to connect? Gov malware will be ready.
Are both people creating their code in real time by entering a plain message in on the iPad? Thats plain text to collect on. Activate the camera or mic. GPS.
Get both faces and GPS.
Or swapping photographing preprepared encrypted text? Sloppy trade craft and decide to type in a longer message just one time?
Use the device more often to hide the traffic in more normal usage pattern for a short time? Just more unique data created to find the users.
US education was about funding and profit. Some schools got computers. Some states got text books and a brand of calculator that had supported related questions.
New computers would have been disruptive to that selling of textbooks and calculators.
The BBC Micro https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... showed what a nation could do with computers and networks for more students.
Did the UK then become a global computer super power with an early decade of computer education?
A lot of US schools now spend a lot per student in very poor areas. Are people doing any better on average after all that spending, new computers and more teachers?
Re "all with hopes of making tons of cash"
In Russia you study to become veterinarian.
In Capitalist West cartoon about horse doctor entertains you.
Its a change in thinking from the UK to US methods, hardware, software, contractors.
The UK was all about spying and later action that was never in public, in any courts, or that police or the media could see or comment on.
The USA has the need for funding, spending on contractors, political support and using courts.
Encryption will exist just that it will be gov junk and big brands will have to share keys.
The government, ex staff, former staff, contractors, other trusted nations staff will have the keys and get to listen in.
Re "when it comes to this subject?"
Its just about the funding, contractors and all the new support services needed to collect it all.
Interesting people will use the cover of their faith and be fully protected by their inward looking communities.
Face to face meetings, people on holidays in other nations taking a face to face message returning with a message a week later.
The UK methods worked but they only totally trusted UK mil, GCHQ and Ulster Constabulary Special Branch understood who was been collected on and how.
Thats kept collection secret and any later mil action totally secret. No courts, lawyers, human rights groups, media, police, court staff to expose methods, collection or results.
The new collection methods bring in lawyers, governments, police, court staff, telcos. A lot more people with crypto keys or now know who is been collected on.
Great new work and funding for the lawyers, courts, contractors, police, governments, telcos, private sector.