The data was given to the US media by a US insider. This was another domestic event with a trusted insider walking out like with the Pentagon Papers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"Julian Assange: 'A lot more material' coming on US elections" (July 27, 2016) http://edition.cnn.com/2016/07...
""Perhaps one day the source or sources will step forward and that might be an interesting moment some people may have egg on their faces."
"... they were handed over to him at a D.C. park by an intermediary for 'disgusted' Democratic whistleblowers" (15 December 2016) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
Staff do not later resign over fake files created by another nation.
Connecting a computer to another computer. A nations security services have had years to think about networking and consumer grade plug and play features that a hotels offer as an advanced smart tv.
Yes that https://theintercept.com/2017/... (March 8 2017)
Why just go for sound and vision. If a user is connecting a computer too, any nation could request to set up all the smart tv devices in their must trusted hotels.
Re "more and more electronics are being made in a sealed form factor, thus there are no removable components like SSDs."
As more new devices are sealed and the laptop might only be needed to send files or display files then the second hand options are wider.
The risk is moving a laptop into a nation or allowing an expensive laptop to be seen in a hotel. Governments get interested in the contacts, files, crypto and can even demand to search the device away from its owner for a while.
Having a computer out of sight with installed "strong encryption, hardware firewalls, and strong VPN" is not a good start.
Thats the risk. Entering a nation with a laptop that hotel staff and airport staff have seen and reported on. Or buying hardware in the nation and using a new OS, new storage.
No much is needed to file a story. A good, fast VPN, a camera, some hardware and software.
Edit the video file, get the images ready, type the text. Send the encrypted story.
Went returning home do not take the laptop as another nations security services might have had time to add some gov malware.
Entering another nation with your own hardware gets other governments interesting in what it has, what it connects to and any crypto or contacts.
So buy hardware just for that nation, edit, report, upload with a VPN and return home with no laptop.
Any provided device waiting at a hotel would usually be altered by the security services. They have a while given the arrival data, reservations to get any devices in the room ready. If the room is changed, they can enter later and activate the same collection.
The security services usually have that smart TV loaded with some extras in most nations. Mic, camera or just looking for the data connection.
That smart TV is the perfect way to see what a guest does, what data they look at, images, movies.. or to turn on a mic/camera if they have guests to talk to their fellow workers on the same trip.
Most nations security services would load that up with their own hardware. Even with a new OS, that service will be logging everything.
Or be waiting for it to show on any of their national networks for later inspection and access.
Fly without a laptop. Arrive in the destination nation. Find a computer shop. Buy new ssd like media. Buy a new laptop that can have its installed ssd replaced.
Remove the factory ssd.
Update, install the productivity apps needed using a very secure VPN.
Use open source OS or a new copy of Windows 10.
Do all work with a VPN thats trusted and tested.
If your company demands you take their special secure "crypto" laptop, its a risk in another nation.
Do not trust any "cloud" brand, product or crypto service as other nations security services will be expecting that and have accessed it many times before.
Do not walk out of your hotel without your laptop. Staff will report that to their nations security services and the time will be used to access the laptop and plant gov malware.
On exit from that nation recycle the hardware after fully removing all data.
Do not return from any nation with any hardware or software. Ensure any uploads went to a secure VPN on an isolated secure network.
Even if the VPN fails the other nation gets nothing extra from your secure network or other projects.
Consider the same for any cell phone. Dont use the cell phone in the other nation for any normal calls or work calls. Buy a local phone only for urgent calls and give your new number via VPN. Expect all numbers called and voice prints to be fully collected by the nations security services.
If you want to take images of the trip, buy a cheap dslr or buy a much better quality cell phone. Use the card to move images to a different laptop, with a different VPN only to send images from.
Dont mix work files and another nations cell phone. Dont take the cell phone back with you. Dont mix the images with any other networks, data later.
Interesting people can move messengers around the world and wait for a week for a message to be delivered in person.
Faith groups working in closed communities don't need to bother with an internet that is been watched. They have their leaders, teachings and have a large protective community around them.
This is not groups in the 1980's getting funds from banks, making phone calls and moving funds around using computers, emails and fax machines.
This is not the Soviet Union where the GCHQ can surround the Soviet Union and listen in on Soviet officials making daily phone calls.
The UK needs to fund MI5 overtime and get its expert surveillance teams out into UK cities.
Fund the army, MI5 and let them do their work in every UK city. Watch groups, who they meet, who they talk to, who they listen to.
Map the networks of people.
Keep all results away from any groups or people in the UK gov who talk to the media.
Learn for Ireland in the 1980's. Trust only the GCHQ, MI5, the elite UK mil units and any version of Special Branch that is as secure and dedicated as the Royal Ulster Constabulary Special Branch was. That will ensure no information gets to groups/workers/contractors who will sell/talk/give UK policy information to the UK press/media/their company.
Learn from the 1920-70's issues when the UK had to hire a lot of experts on trust. Just as Communists filled the UK clandestine services for decades expect interesting groups to try and fill the ranks of the UK security services with needed new staff. Only hire on merit and after deep vetting of all new UK staff.
Look at the US educational products that let users do things with a gui and even a robot kit.
They often have a very simple gui system of getting input and presenting an output.
I am not sure how much of the US educational product would allow for options other than following a set course structure.
Often used so the whole class in a US educational setting can feel they are been educated about computers.
A slow pace of education, not much maths, all about the gui and getting something done in a short time.
Of historical interest might be some aspects of a card in Hypercard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... from Apple.
Most people who are smart find some programming language they can use e.g. Basic, Ada, Pascal or something Apple, todays apps or Windows supports.
People who are not smart then just use what other people create for them.
If a person needs C, take the time to learn C. If a person can present a flow chart, work with a smart person to turn that into C.
If this is a marketing test to see what exists and what is needed, consider the many marketing lessons of Hypercard. What it did, what was done with it and why people now just use the maths and code for their Apple, MS or app needs.
Circuit board design tools might be a starting point to replace the circuit board part with more of a gui, chart feel.
People who have talked their way into a secure part of a remote office or site with some device to connect direct into a very secure regional or national network.
A usb stick is connected, the secure remote network then uploads a file to the main office or building a city away on trust.
Physical security was more trusted than any firewall.
AC the CIA understands humans and computers. That is what makes the CIA so great. Seeing a GUI try and pump a computer or network full of unexpected files from a slow device like early generations of USB might make staff and workers wonder what is been done.
Questions like who are you and why is this the first large patch done in this way.
Getting access to push a few files might be accepted. A slow GUI and a strange conversation about work while a totally unexpected task is been conducted might make some people who would have been ok with the event, report the unexpected time needed.
The CIA might use US staff in another nation or US connected contractors, language difference might help or slow a task down. Finally getting access for a short time might be just be ok. Waiting around for a longer time in a secure area with a slow device will just allow more questions and unexpected conversations to start.
CIA teams are not like the NSA who have the time and unlimited freedom to use and alter networks. Often they have to gain access to a site with a good cover story and use an on site method to get deep into a very secure network.
Staff and workers might be watching the use of a USB stick and if an allowed task takes too long the "20 files max" and set sizes would be a good limit.
The working cover story of why some person connected to the CIA is on site is protected by not having a computer/network slow down as a huge amount of unexpected files are pushed onto a network.
The CIA might want more files to collect on all possible network conditions but using fewer files can ensure a mission works without workers and staff thinking why a simple on site computer task took so long.
The CIA can then collect results later in person and no firewall or network log noticed any external changes.
The USA offers freedom of speech and freedom after speech.
In the USA a person can comment on the politics and policy of illegal immigration.
People in the USA can link to news about the results of illegal immigration in their local communities.
About the costs, funding and political groups supporting illegal immigration.
People in the USA can also draw cartoons about religion and faith. They even have the freedom to create animations with music about religions, religions leaders and what people do in the name of their faith.
In the USA people can comment on Communist party policy, its leaders and history.
Thats why different people all over the world like, support and enjoy the freedoms the USA offers and protects.
In the USA people are creative, smart, productive, they have the imagination and the freedom to talk, to read books, to review books, create, study and publish.
In other parts of the world SJW and police watch accounts and report people for their comments.
Nations are free to police and enforce blasphemy laws and protect the Communist leadership in their own nations but trying to project that onto the rest of the world? Or trying to alter network use outside their own nation?
If nations in Europe have an issue with a site or online product then ban it for all people in that nation.
Watch over every user trying to connect to that banned site and log their ip. If they try to connect too often after an official online warning, send some official to their home to conduct a formal interview.
No problems, no questions, instant results and no more news about conditions in that EU nation been talked about online.
No news, no links to the media out side that EU nation. No comments about local conditions, about local politics.
The rest of the world can get on with been free and enjoying freedom. The EU can revert back to questions of faith and interviewing people who say bad things about Communist party policy.
US products and services that support freedom of speech will grow, other nations government approved sites will be used by government workers.
The Communist party has a few fears. That MI6, the CIA, NSA, GCHQ have set up secure communications networks with dissident groups in China.
The only way China can be sure is to test every connection into and out of China from both directions. The network activity often seen is just the seeking of a network origin. Is it a VPN, encrypted, how does the server respond. Its the only way China can really understand what someone connected to from China. A constant real time mapping of the internet to find encryption efforts to/from China.
Need a fast CPU, a fast network card, need fast storage, need more fast RAM and a new GPU.
Pushing VR is all about pushing a new CPU and the needed upgrades.
4K ready and VR ready.
Re 'You just have to account for some people too slow to adapt. On the other hand, VR needs to evolve."
Different airforces tried that idea with the people who wanted to become pilots. They would educated for a while them only to find out later they could not cope with what was expected of them.
Smarter nations just tested people first entering and would never accepted people who could not cope. No course work was wasted on people who would fail.
VR is great for some people. For others it just will not work.
Re 'What about keeping all their terrorist social media activity on a different account, one without their real name?"
Facial recognition helps with that. Social media, IP and ISP details do too in many nations that support the USA.
Re "100's of data centers away from being able to store all historical social media information."
Collect it all is not keep it all. The USA does have the ability to collect all globally. Then it sorts and indexes in real time. Interesting people, sites and their friends, friends of friends, politics, funding, support details get stored for a very long term.
The USA is not just keeping the "internet" for decades. The USA is collecting all information in real time and then selecting what to keep long term.
Data size kept going back years is never an issue.
"How do you distinguish an innocent mistake from an intentional lie?
A normal person would have a normal life story thats supported by their government or the governments they have lived under. The years would match, the recall over decades would fit. No support of banned groups, no funding of banned groups, no movement to war zones, no social media images supporting banned groups. Most normal people would get their US related visit, education, work or trip as expected.
The US wants the ability to ask for "social media" to induce a lie so an interesting person cannot enter the USA. A normal person with no issues will not need to worry about the "miss one by accident". The US would have done their search for on an interesting person and will know what to keep asking for or for more details.
Most interesting people have made a lot of mistakes AC.
They pose for images at political events and upload images. They pose for images in nations at war.
Their bank accounts show payments to "charity" groups that are the political side of a banned group.
They like or share or fund or support a banned group online.
Such information was usually collected in real time and can now be used to match a face to a passport been used.
Normal people with "correct travel document" have a bank account thats normal, a face thats not on image supporting banned groups, do not have sets of images online from war zones of interest to the USA.
Re "Anything on social media can be forged"
Given US interest in banned groups the US would have the upload of an image in real time, a few more images over the history of the social media use, any comments, likes, support, all other hops or linked accounts.
The image would exist as uploaded, the account use and face would match.
An interesting person can try to lie or take an image down in 2017 after years of account usage. Its a bit late to clean up in 2017 as such sudden clean up efforts would also be interestring.
Banned groups would kind of notice image changes and wonder why a person has been added to some event on social media. Other accounts would have the same original images under a flag, at a protest or meeting..
Trying a forged clean account does not alter all the other images floating around that the US has collected over the years in real time.
That would really depend on the level of US security clearance.
Are two people walking a life interviewing extended family, friends, employers and all teachers?
The US gov used to go back generations and down to the city and town level in person. No teacher or city or state paper file escaped been found.
The number of years would fit the average use of image uploads on social media. A person might have uploaded an interesting image at an event under a flag, or have been seen at an event and that image was collected by the USA or sent to the US clandestine services.
If a person fails to tell the truth when asked their past accounts will be telling. An average person will not belong to or support a banned group so they will have no issues.
Slashdot Mirror
The data was given to the US media by a US insider. This was another domestic event with a trusted insider walking out like with the Pentagon Papers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"Julian Assange: 'A lot more material' coming on US elections" (July 27, 2016)
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/07...
""Perhaps one day the source or sources will step forward and that might be an interesting moment some people may have egg on their faces."
"... they were handed over to him at a D.C. park by an intermediary for 'disgusted' Democratic whistleblowers" (15 December 2016)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
Staff do not later resign over fake files created by another nation.
Connecting a computer to another computer. A nations security services have had years to think about networking and consumer grade plug and play features that a hotels offer as an advanced smart tv.
Yes that https://theintercept.com/2017/... (March 8 2017)
Why just go for sound and vision. If a user is connecting a computer too, any nation could request to set up all the smart tv devices in their must trusted hotels.
Re "more and more electronics are being made in a sealed form factor, thus there are no removable components like SSDs."
As more new devices are sealed and the laptop might only be needed to send files or display files then the second hand options are wider.
The risk is moving a laptop into a nation or allowing an expensive laptop to be seen in a hotel. Governments get interested in the contacts, files, crypto and can even demand to search the device away from its owner for a while.
Having a computer out of sight with installed "strong encryption, hardware firewalls, and strong VPN" is not a good start.
Thats the risk. Entering a nation with a laptop that hotel staff and airport staff have seen and reported on. Or buying hardware in the nation and using a new OS, new storage.
No much is needed to file a story. A good, fast VPN, a camera, some hardware and software.
Edit the video file, get the images ready, type the text. Send the encrypted story.
Went returning home do not take the laptop as another nations security services might have had time to add some gov malware.
Entering another nation with your own hardware gets other governments interesting in what it has, what it connects to and any crypto or contacts.
So buy hardware just for that nation, edit, report, upload with a VPN and return home with no laptop.
Any provided device waiting at a hotel would usually be altered by the security services. They have a while given the arrival data, reservations to get any devices in the room ready. If the room is changed, they can enter later and activate the same collection.
The security services usually have that smart TV loaded with some extras in most nations. Mic, camera or just looking for the data connection.
That smart TV is the perfect way to see what a guest does, what data they look at, images, movies.. or to turn on a mic/camera if they have guests to talk to their fellow workers on the same trip.
Most nations security services would load that up with their own hardware. Even with a new OS, that service will be logging everything.
Or be waiting for it to show on any of their national networks for later inspection and access.
Fly without a laptop. Arrive in the destination nation. Find a computer shop. Buy new ssd like media. Buy a new laptop that can have its installed ssd replaced.
Remove the factory ssd.
Update, install the productivity apps needed using a very secure VPN.
Use open source OS or a new copy of Windows 10.
Do all work with a VPN thats trusted and tested.
If your company demands you take their special secure "crypto" laptop, its a risk in another nation.
Do not trust any "cloud" brand, product or crypto service as other nations security services will be expecting that and have accessed it many times before.
Do not walk out of your hotel without your laptop. Staff will report that to their nations security services and the time will be used to access the laptop and plant gov malware.
On exit from that nation recycle the hardware after fully removing all data.
Do not return from any nation with any hardware or software. Ensure any uploads went to a secure VPN on an isolated secure network.
Even if the VPN fails the other nation gets nothing extra from your secure network or other projects.
Consider the same for any cell phone. Dont use the cell phone in the other nation for any normal calls or work calls. Buy a local phone only for urgent calls and give your new number via VPN. Expect all numbers called and voice prints to be fully collected by the nations security services.
If you want to take images of the trip, buy a cheap dslr or buy a much better quality cell phone. Use the card to move images to a different laptop, with a different VPN only to send images from.
Dont mix work files and another nations cell phone. Dont take the cell phone back with you. Dont mix the images with any other networks, data later.
Interesting people can move messengers around the world and wait for a week for a message to be delivered in person.
Faith groups working in closed communities don't need to bother with an internet that is been watched. They have their leaders, teachings and have a large protective community around them.
This is not groups in the 1980's getting funds from banks, making phone calls and moving funds around using computers, emails and fax machines.
This is not the Soviet Union where the GCHQ can surround the Soviet Union and listen in on Soviet officials making daily phone calls.
The UK needs to fund MI5 overtime and get its expert surveillance teams out into UK cities.
Fund the army, MI5 and let them do their work in every UK city. Watch groups, who they meet, who they talk to, who they listen to.
Map the networks of people.
Keep all results away from any groups or people in the UK gov who talk to the media.
Learn for Ireland in the 1980's. Trust only the GCHQ, MI5, the elite UK mil units and any version of Special Branch that is as secure and dedicated as the Royal Ulster Constabulary Special Branch was. That will ensure no information gets to groups/workers/contractors who will sell/talk/give UK policy information to the UK press/media/their company.
Learn from the 1920-70's issues when the UK had to hire a lot of experts on trust. Just as Communists filled the UK clandestine services for decades expect interesting groups to try and fill the ranks of the UK security services with needed new staff. Only hire on merit and after deep vetting of all new UK staff.
Look at the US educational products that let users do things with a gui and even a robot kit.
They often have a very simple gui system of getting input and presenting an output.
I am not sure how much of the US educational product would allow for options other than following a set course structure.
Often used so the whole class in a US educational setting can feel they are been educated about computers.
A slow pace of education, not much maths, all about the gui and getting something done in a short time.
Of historical interest might be some aspects of a card in Hypercard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... from Apple.
Most people who are smart find some programming language they can use e.g. Basic, Ada, Pascal or something Apple, todays apps or Windows supports.
People who are not smart then just use what other people create for them.
If a person needs C, take the time to learn C. If a person can present a flow chart, work with a smart person to turn that into C.
If this is a marketing test to see what exists and what is needed, consider the many marketing lessons of Hypercard. What it did, what was done with it and why people now just use the maths and code for their Apple, MS or app needs.
Circuit board design tools might be a starting point to replace the circuit board part with more of a gui, chart feel.
People who have talked their way into a secure part of a remote office or site with some device to connect direct into a very secure regional or national network.
A usb stick is connected, the secure remote network then uploads a file to the main office or building a city away on trust.
Physical security was more trusted than any firewall.
AC the CIA understands humans and computers. That is what makes the CIA so great. Seeing a GUI try and pump a computer or network full of unexpected files from a slow device like early generations of USB might make staff and workers wonder what is been done.
Questions like who are you and why is this the first large patch done in this way.
Getting access to push a few files might be accepted. A slow GUI and a strange conversation about work while a totally unexpected task is been conducted might make some people who would have been ok with the event, report the unexpected time needed.
The CIA might use US staff in another nation or US connected contractors, language difference might help or slow a task down. Finally getting access for a short time might be just be ok. Waiting around for a longer time in a secure area with a slow device will just allow more questions and unexpected conversations to start.
CIA teams are not like the NSA who have the time and unlimited freedom to use and alter networks. Often they have to gain access to a site with a good cover story and use an on site method to get deep into a very secure network.
Staff and workers might be watching the use of a USB stick and if an allowed task takes too long the "20 files max" and set sizes would be a good limit.
The working cover story of why some person connected to the CIA is on site is protected by not having a computer/network slow down as a huge amount of unexpected files are pushed onto a network.
The CIA might want more files to collect on all possible network conditions but using fewer files can ensure a mission works without workers and staff thinking why a simple on site computer task took so long.
The CIA can then collect results later in person and no firewall or network log noticed any external changes.
The USA offers freedom of speech and freedom after speech.
In the USA a person can comment on the politics and policy of illegal immigration.
People in the USA can link to news about the results of illegal immigration in their local communities.
About the costs, funding and political groups supporting illegal immigration.
People in the USA can also draw cartoons about religion and faith. They even have the freedom to create animations with music about religions, religions leaders and what people do in the name of their faith.
In the USA people can comment on Communist party policy, its leaders and history.
Thats why different people all over the world like, support and enjoy the freedoms the USA offers and protects.
In the USA people are creative, smart, productive, they have the imagination and the freedom to talk, to read books, to review books, create, study and publish.
In other parts of the world SJW and police watch accounts and report people for their comments.
Nations are free to police and enforce blasphemy laws and protect the Communist leadership in their own nations but trying to project that onto the rest of the world? Or trying to alter network use outside their own nation?
If nations in Europe have an issue with a site or online product then ban it for all people in that nation.
Watch over every user trying to connect to that banned site and log their ip. If they try to connect too often after an official online warning, send some official to their home to conduct a formal interview.
No problems, no questions, instant results and no more news about conditions in that EU nation been talked about online.
No news, no links to the media out side that EU nation. No comments about local conditions, about local politics.
The rest of the world can get on with been free and enjoying freedom.
The EU can revert back to questions of faith and interviewing people who say bad things about Communist party policy.
US products and services that support freedom of speech will grow, other nations government approved sites will be used by government workers.
The Communist party has a few fears. That MI6, the CIA, NSA, GCHQ have set up secure communications networks with dissident groups in China.
The only way China can be sure is to test every connection into and out of China from both directions. The network activity often seen is just the seeking of a network origin. Is it a VPN, encrypted, how does the server respond. Its the only way China can really understand what someone connected to from China. A constant real time mapping of the internet to find encryption efforts to/from China.
Need a fast CPU, a fast network card, need fast storage, need more fast RAM and a new GPU.
Pushing VR is all about pushing a new CPU and the needed upgrades.
4K ready and VR ready.
Re 'You just have to account for some people too slow to adapt. On the other hand, VR needs to evolve."
Different airforces tried that idea with the people who wanted to become pilots. They would educated for a while them only to find out later they could not cope with what was expected of them.
Smarter nations just tested people first entering and would never accepted people who could not cope. No course work was wasted on people who would fail.
VR is great for some people. For others it just will not work.
Malwarebytes. If on Mac or Windows its aways good to have some AV.
Re 'What about keeping all their terrorist social media activity on a different account, one without their real name?"
Facial recognition helps with that. Social media, IP and ISP details do too in many nations that support the USA.
Re "100's of data centers away from being able to store all historical social media information."
Collect it all is not keep it all. The USA does have the ability to collect all globally. Then it sorts and indexes in real time. Interesting people, sites and their friends, friends of friends, politics, funding, support details get stored for a very long term.
The USA is not just keeping the "internet" for decades. The USA is collecting all information in real time and then selecting what to keep long term.
Data size kept going back years is never an issue.
"How do you distinguish an innocent mistake from an intentional lie?
A normal person would have a normal life story thats supported by their government or the governments they have lived under. The years would match, the recall over decades would fit. No support of banned groups, no funding of banned groups, no movement to war zones, no social media images supporting banned groups. Most normal people would get their US related visit, education, work or trip as expected.
The US wants the ability to ask for "social media" to induce a lie so an interesting person cannot enter the USA. A normal person with no issues will not need to worry about the "miss one by accident". The US would have done their search for on an interesting person and will know what to keep asking for or for more details.
That has to cover the investors, the monarchies and kingdoms with blasphemy laws.
Most interesting people have made a lot of mistakes AC.
They pose for images at political events and upload images. They pose for images in nations at war.
Their bank accounts show payments to "charity" groups that are the political side of a banned group.
They like or share or fund or support a banned group online.
Such information was usually collected in real time and can now be used to match a face to a passport been used.
Normal people with "correct travel document" have a bank account thats normal, a face thats not on image supporting banned groups, do not have sets of images online from war zones of interest to the USA.
Re "Anything on social media can be forged"
Given US interest in banned groups the US would have the upload of an image in real time, a few more images over the history of the social media use, any comments, likes, support, all other hops or linked accounts.
The image would exist as uploaded, the account use and face would match.
An interesting person can try to lie or take an image down in 2017 after years of account usage. Its a bit late to clean up in 2017 as such sudden clean up efforts would also be interestring.
Banned groups would kind of notice image changes and wonder why a person has been added to some event on social media. Other accounts would have the same original images under a flag, at a protest or meeting..
Trying a forged clean account does not alter all the other images floating around that the US has collected over the years in real time.
That would really depend on the level of US security clearance.
Are two people walking a life interviewing extended family, friends, employers and all teachers?
The US gov used to go back generations and down to the city and town level in person. No teacher or city or state paper file escaped been found.
The number of years would fit the average use of image uploads on social media. A person might have uploaded an interesting image at an event under a flag, or have been seen at an event and that image was collected by the USA or sent to the US clandestine services.
If a person fails to tell the truth when asked their past accounts will be telling. An average person will not belong to or support a banned group so they will have no issues.