Most smart nations know the US reload rate and amount of stock the US has ready to load with.
Even with a 100% detection and interception just use a much larger count inwards on the same path.
The US has a lot of areas to cover so its systems will be spread out. Each optimal path down will be covered but with only so many missiles at a set reload rate.
The US will be able to track, plot and have the systems to intercept but might have to wait for a reload.
Well placed spies deep in the US gov/mil/contractor complex will be seeking that ready to launch rate, reload rate.
The next step will be heavy space platforms that have kinetic bombardment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... Other nations will just go for the Rods from God to avoid the slow detection at launch, tracking, intercept cycle the USA has perfected.
Re Cite
Project Bullrun, Cheesy Name, Edgehill
"Revealed: how US and UK spy agencies defeat internet privacy and security" (6 September 2013) https://www.theguardian.com/wo...
".. agency has capabilities against widely used online protocols, such as HTTPS, voice-over-IP and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), used to protect online shopping and banking."
Re 'If you get any credible proof you've succeeded"
A nice conversation will be had. That only a small part of the federal network was ever open to the "contest" and that the skilled person got too far in.
A one time offer will be made to work with the government.
When people protested in East Germany, people who risked at lot by using a television camera did not get caught.
Dont use your own equipment. If your wealthy enough to be able to afford to protest all day, buy an older weather sealed dslr camera and lens. No need for in camera wifi. Use the card to get your files to a computer of editing and upload later.
Ensure the serial number in the camera is not linked to your name with every file uploaded or created.
Take some images and video of the protest. Remove any camera serial numbers in the files, edit, add a voice over and your groups logo and branding, compress, then upload it using some existing network and on a computer that won't be used later.
Do not take a "computer" thats "fast" or "sealed against the weather" from protest to protest. Dont use wifi or networking from your computer like device.
Sneaker net your video file to a final separate, cheap device just for fast networking.
All MAC and any other unique details about all networks will be collected on.
Think about what device connects to that final network to send a file to the world. A random strangers offer of a free network, computer help could be an undercover contractor or police wanting to get more direct access to your hardware and software, OS.
Protect your devices and equipment from digital tracking and "new" best friends or "smart" friendly strangers with free offers of help.
Police and contractors can be anyone, thats why they are doing undercover work in protests. Some are past protesters who had to make a deal with the police to stay free. They have to collect it all and work very hard at making new friends.
While a protester might have been taking years of French or arts at some liberal university, police and contractors learned how to become "protesters" over the years.
The undercover officers offers will be for device access to help with "media" or "editing"
Every face at a protest will be stored for facial recognition. Any and all networks or networked devices will be collected on.
Read up on what the NSA, GCHQ, CIA and other 5 eye nations do when they "collect it all".
The same ability is now on the open market at a low cost for a city, state or contractor. Dont trust any hardware, software or OS thats been near a protest after a protest.
Anyone could have added code, altered the device, accessed the OS or collected its network details.
Ensure the only collection a city or federal gov or its contractors can do is facial recognition. Keep your hardware and software way from their networks.
A streaming cell phone is great for recoding an event and not having data erased on site but it comes with the cost of collection and device or OS alteration.
Dont bring malware pushed down a network home after a protest. If your security aware, use dedicated devices as bait and see if any devices are altered. Study bait hardware later under Tempest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... conditions but don't allow your own deices to get altered to test for such gov/police/contractor pushed malware.
The final thing to consider is the new stranger in your group. Get them talking about their past and get their image and see what different free and other image search products find online.
City or state contractors might not have the skills to remove all past images or their story will not mach a few traces found online.
Federal and contractors working undercover have the ability to rewrite online social media so their undercover "story" will mach perfectly to any and all online data sets that can be searched for.
If your protest group has some international funding, take the image to any of the big national private detective groups in the USA.
Their social media databases are long term, static, always updating and do not get altered like the online consumer networks.
They can rewind most accounts to creation and see ho
Just enjoy Microsoft for games.
Let Microsoft track all the hours spent playing games.
Anything of value use a real OS.
Why risk all the malware, CIA, NSA code and other security services?
It really is that silly AC for the executive summary.
A solution that expects a home computer with a modem to be direct downloading a "file" that reports back the ip.
That users computer is then "disrupted".
Re "The UK isn't ranked all that highly in global terms" what is the UK missing out on then?
The language issue is not that complex. A lot of people in the UK got exposed to rather good language lessons over the decades.
The UK was able to translate most of the German Enigma material in ww2 into English without too much trouble.
The UK used Hong Kong to intercept a lot of material from China and again found it had skilled translators to work on the material collected over decades.
Complex French and East/West German mil/gov/embassy translations did not slow the UK down in the 1950's-80's
The UK was evan able to spare some help for the US with Korean translations in the 1950's.
The UK seemed to always have the ability to find enough arts students to do translation work and still export very advanced products and services to the world.
The examples are before "computers" could help a lot so real skilled humans in the UK would have to be trusted and found to do complex and technical gov/mil grade translations.
If the Uk government could find the staff it needed over many decades with its low wages and working conditions, the UK private sector could too.
When I was young US experts designed computers that other US engineers used to design power projects for the rest of the world.
US factories then worked from US plans and US workers made the hardware from US materials. US engineers then installed the projects in other nations and returned for upgrades and support.
The jobs and profits all stayed in the USA. Investments in US education then ensured better computers and more US jobs.
US experts in the USA did everything from computer design, the needed industrial computer programming, the designs, building and installation.
Thats what US workers should demand. The entire work cycle from computer design and coding at a US university to the worlds best engineering to production and support.
Not looking after another nations profits from a turn key project.
When you build a turn key project in another nation you need some local help to ensure it is complaint, protected and keeps working.
Look at the fence, is the installed hardware working, report any fault numbers if the network fails.
Report any issues with the fence. How to replace or repair the fence to some correct US standard.
Have a number to call for experts to repair any real faults. Having access to report on colored lights or read back error codes locally if a network is not able to report such issues.
How to plug a laptop in, enter a pass word and phone back the list of results.
Think of the fun a well funded third party clandestine service could induce the USA to do.
They find a US beacon effort in the wild and alter its mission just a bit.
Place it in nations they don't get along with and watch as the US reports "hacking" from a list of other nations flood in.
The US has 100% evidence and proof that "other nations" are evil and the special secure beacon code was running in their networks and ip ranges.
Special citations and commendations for that clandestine service as the USA so trusts its beacons results and code.
A person with their own home computer using a modem downloads beacon ready US data to that desktop computer.
That special US data sends out a secure fully encrypted beacon message about the ip and type of computer its has been downloaded to.
The US tracks down that home computer with one hard drive, a consumer OS and a connected modem.
The data then has no value after the US has fully "disrupted" that computer.
The once rare and advanced 1980's dial up network and expensive desktop computer is now a global consumer product in 2017.
Everyone interesting has one desktop computer, a common US brand consumer OS, a modem and one hard drive on that computer in 2017...
Is the beacon path back to the US the ip range of interest?
Automated or will some US gov worker have to click a gui everytime to allow a beacon to be respond to?
Hope that the user is on a desktop computer, has one hard drive that has the OS, has the data, is connected to the net, has the same ip for a while?
How perfect is the "techniques to trace the attack and identify the attacker" going to work in every computer network before someone with skills finds something in the wild?
Or does the beacon encrypt ip changes it gathers deep in the "computer of the attacker"?
Create a fake beacon and place it deep into some other interesting network.
Watch as the US reaches out and injects code deep into some other network.
The owner of that network then states that the US is attempting to alter their vital computer system...
The fake beacon is then found and the US has to do paperwork about the event.
A new beacon is detected deep in another network...
How will the US ensure each and every beacon is a real event? Advanced crypto per beacon and code per event that nobody will ever see in the wild?
Once discovered in the wild and reverse engineered all the altered IoT could send out the same beacon like messages?
The US would be induced to swamping the internet trying to push code down random networks globally.
How is the US going to detect the "computer of the attacker" if the beacon code reports an altered, compromized or faked ip range?
The US will be back to reporting on code litter, ip ranges, time zones and finding language fragments.
The "beacon" reported an evil ip range so it must be that evil nations clandestine services....
A group moving data around the world would use a series of unexpected holding or staging servers with fast networks to mask their final ip.
This will not be a move of data from a company direct to a "home" "desktop" computer with some dial up modem.
Once the "owner" detects their data and sends the code?
That data could be sitting on any random fast network around the world without been noticed.
Strange computers sending to code to and altering a computer to do something to data on that network?
The resulting intrusion and clean up will be very expensive and disruptive to any third party.
Telling schools what employment skills the other nations schools "teach" students so UK students can have the same advantages?
Tell UK universities what they are missing every year that makes some graduate from another nation so vital for a company every decade?
What is the UK lacking that poor nations with no funding can do so well every decade that no school or university in the UK can do?
The UK has had decades of the best teaching staff to educate teachers, the best teachers for its schools and universities, the language skills are equal, good health care, good nutrition, clean water, no national service issues to remove a section of a population from quality education.
UK students would have the same testing averages as most over advance nations ranging from the best in the world to average.
Nothing is really holding back UK education on average every decade. People graduate in the UK at a good rate every decade with merit based course work.
Workers in the UK should graduate from school and university with all the skills to fill any job in the UK. The UK has the ability to support its own people from vocational to very advanced university vocations.
Is the UK lacking in math teaching? Engineering? Computer experts? When does the average person in the UK not gain the needed skills or fail to graduate?
The UK pushed a lot of advanced networked computer hardware and quality educational programming languages into all its schools, giving some computer access per student going back to the 1980's. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Something other nations could not afford to do.
Thats generations of computer and math course work for most UK students other nations could never afford on average.
What did UK education system so lack every decade that very average poor nations workers now have skills to "bring" to the UK?
The next step is to bring any worker in from a low cost, poor nation and pay them a different nation wage in the new nation for a short time.
"Going posted" (Jul 7th 2016) http://www.economist.com/news/...
"While French workers command high wages under the country’s sectoral labour agreements.. "
"... contracted in their home countries to work in another European Union country" .."“posted workers”"..
"need only receive the local minimum, under EU law. "
AC If a company has to fly a person into the UK, look after their family, ensure housing and schooling, then add in that "training" cost something is not adding up.
An exceptional artist or creative person that appears once in a generation in a few nations might be worth all that effort.
To bring in average workers who need a company to slow down, divert their own expert staff to help bring the new staff up to some average skill level and then only have average workers after all that spending and time does not add up.
A lot of average locals could be trained in the same average skills. The UK educational system is not lacking in maths and science on average.
Why spend company funds and expert divert staff to look after people from around the world to take very average jobs any local person could be helped to fill?
The rest of the world has mapped out every US spy and mil communications platform.
They know the hours when the US is looking down.
The US tried to make its spy sats really hard to see but they still get detected by people and nations.
Projects like this allow the US to add a lot more look down hardware if needed. New orbit times that will not allow other nations to predict or hide in time.
The other fear of the US mil is emerging anti-satellite weapon systems removing a few of its very advance systems. That gap will be quickly filled by a lot of new launches.
The US will flood space with its small sats and the enemy will run out of anti-satellite weapon systems.
AC Re 'Why not recruit from among...?
The security services tried that in the 1920-70's in a few different nations. Their secrets and methods walked out as the "recruit" stayed loyal to their own nations, faiths, cults, politics and pretended to be loyal to the nations that trusted them.
Thats why the security services walk the life of their staff, talk to their parents and grand parents. Look at their school work, friends, university. What their parents did, their parents politics. What they read, do on the internet, what their family, friends and extended family did decades ago.
Hiring strangers who lie to get into a nation and they lie to get work with the security services just invites many well understood security issues.
AC re "Why not recruit from..."
People lie to get into a nation, lie to get into the security services. They stay loyal to their faith, their politics and spy on the security services.
No way to talk to their parents, grand parents, friends, teachers, consider university politics, discover reading material, net use over years.
The security services made many mistakes by just trusting people in the 1920-70's.
People stay loyal to their faith and will any lie to get work with the police and security services.
The only "infiltrating" will be of the security services.
Re "into the country." was not easy. A lot of police, undercover police, informants, landlords, tip lines looked over everyone of interest.
Moving into the UK at that time was not a case of anyone just wondering in as it is now.
Landlords did chat downs, police looked at all new faces in their area. Who had a job, what job, if not who was supporting a new person? What did they do all day?
Mixing with other interesting people in locations of interest and not working?
Accents, reports and paperwork was often the start of an investigation. The ability to just sneak, or tell a fake story to get into the UK, hide in the UK was not a viable option.
The accent issue could not be solved with acting skills or months of intensive language immersion.
The solution to not been able to move interesting people in from Ireland was to wait a generation. People would move to the UK, establish a normal life for decades.
The second generation would become active with local UK accents and have normal paperwork. Such people could not be detected using existing methods and would not show on any database.
That was the next emerging issue into the 1980's. The issue was solved.
The UK faced that with the Irish question before the wide use of the Internet. The UK solved that by collecting all phone calls into and out of Ireland, the UK.
The very smart thing the UK did was never to mention collection to lawyers, the media, human rights groups or its own police.
Very interesting people in Ireland and the US, UK kept on talking, funding, making calls, arranging meetings, moving hardware thinking phone calls and voice prints could only be used in the Soviet Union for a select few Soviet mil sites and officials.
The very interesting people in the UK do not need the internet. They can use their holidays to move information in person.
The UK solved the "This could include face to face" meeting issue down to two people meeting in isolated areas.
Get the voice prints, the faces and follow a person all over Ireland, the UK with vans, trucks, cars, helicopters, early satalite tracking. Find out who they meet, record the talk or exchange and then offer both sides a "deal" to work for the UK intelligence services.
The deal on offer was usually accepted.
As people who got turned early on moved up to more trusted Irish networks, more interesting people got exposed and got offered the same deal.
The UK police, media, lawyers, human rights groups never really worked that aspect out.
The other aspect was support from the USA. The US was not interested in UK/Irish issues so the UK had to act in the USA without US knowledge.
The same methods got used in the US and support and funding from the US to Ireland was tracked and later "found" with a good cover story.
Face to face meeting provide not much of the expected cover if one or both people are known or the meeting place is been watched
The UK is stuck watching a lot of interesting people who entered the UK.
The UK also has to watch the next generations of very interesting people.
3 people per shift over 24 hours per interesting person. Thats 9 to 12 people to watch over one interesting person.
The UK has to hire more police with expert undercover skills to watch so many very interesting people.
The UK had the correct idea during the Irish decades. Act on any and all reports with no comment or questions.
Slashdot Mirror
Most smart nations know the US reload rate and amount of stock the US has ready to load with.
Even with a 100% detection and interception just use a much larger count inwards on the same path.
The US has a lot of areas to cover so its systems will be spread out. Each optimal path down will be covered but with only so many missiles at a set reload rate.
The US will be able to track, plot and have the systems to intercept but might have to wait for a reload.
Well placed spies deep in the US gov/mil/contractor complex will be seeking that ready to launch rate, reload rate.
The next step will be heavy space platforms that have kinetic bombardment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... Other nations will just go for the Rods from God to avoid the slow detection at launch, tracking, intercept cycle the USA has perfected.
In the USA?
Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act (2016)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Re Cite
Project Bullrun, Cheesy Name, Edgehill
"Revealed: how US and UK spy agencies defeat internet privacy and security" (6 September 2013)
https://www.theguardian.com/wo...
".. agency has capabilities against widely used online protocols, such as HTTPS, voice-over-IP and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), used to protect online shopping and banking."
Re 'If you get any credible proof you've succeeded"
A nice conversation will be had. That only a small part of the federal network was ever open to the "contest" and that the skilled person got too far in.
A one time offer will be made to work with the government.
When people protested in East Germany, people who risked at lot by using a television camera did not get caught.
Dont use your own equipment. If your wealthy enough to be able to afford to protest all day, buy an older weather sealed dslr camera and lens. No need for in camera wifi. Use the card to get your files to a computer of editing and upload later.
Ensure the serial number in the camera is not linked to your name with every file uploaded or created.
Take some images and video of the protest. Remove any camera serial numbers in the files, edit, add a voice over and your groups logo and branding, compress, then upload it using some existing network and on a computer that won't be used later.
Do not take a "computer" thats "fast" or "sealed against the weather" from protest to protest. Dont use wifi or networking from your computer like device.
Sneaker net your video file to a final separate, cheap device just for fast networking.
All MAC and any other unique details about all networks will be collected on.
Think about what device connects to that final network to send a file to the world. A random strangers offer of a free network, computer help could be an undercover contractor or police wanting to get more direct access to your hardware and software, OS.
Protect your devices and equipment from digital tracking and "new" best friends or "smart" friendly strangers with free offers of help.
Police and contractors can be anyone, thats why they are doing undercover work in protests. Some are past protesters who had to make a deal with the police to stay free. They have to collect it all and work very hard at making new friends.
While a protester might have been taking years of French or arts at some liberal university, police and contractors learned how to become "protesters" over the years.
The undercover officers offers will be for device access to help with "media" or "editing"
Every face at a protest will be stored for facial recognition. Any and all networks or networked devices will be collected on.
Read up on what the NSA, GCHQ, CIA and other 5 eye nations do when they "collect it all".
The same ability is now on the open market at a low cost for a city, state or contractor. Dont trust any hardware, software or OS thats been near a protest after a protest.
Anyone could have added code, altered the device, accessed the OS or collected its network details.
Ensure the only collection a city or federal gov or its contractors can do is facial recognition. Keep your hardware and software way from their networks.
A streaming cell phone is great for recoding an event and not having data erased on site but it comes with the cost of collection and device or OS alteration.
Dont bring malware pushed down a network home after a protest. If your security aware, use dedicated devices as bait and see if any devices are altered. Study bait hardware later under Tempest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... conditions but don't allow your own deices to get altered to test for such gov/police/contractor pushed malware.
The final thing to consider is the new stranger in your group. Get them talking about their past and get their image and see what different free and other image search products find online.
City or state contractors might not have the skills to remove all past images or their story will not mach a few traces found online.
Federal and contractors working undercover have the ability to rewrite online social media so their undercover "story" will mach perfectly to any and all online data sets that can be searched for.
If your protest group has some international funding, take the image to any of the big national private detective groups in the USA.
Their social media databases are long term, static, always updating and do not get altered like the online consumer networks.
They can rewind most accounts to creation and see ho
Just enjoy Microsoft for games.
Let Microsoft track all the hours spent playing games.
Anything of value use a real OS.
Why risk all the malware, CIA, NSA code and other security services?
It really is that silly AC for the executive summary.
A solution that expects a home computer with a modem to be direct downloading a "file" that reports back the ip.
That users computer is then "disrupted".
Re "The UK isn't ranked all that highly in global terms" what is the UK missing out on then?
The language issue is not that complex. A lot of people in the UK got exposed to rather good language lessons over the decades.
The UK was able to translate most of the German Enigma material in ww2 into English without too much trouble.
The UK used Hong Kong to intercept a lot of material from China and again found it had skilled translators to work on the material collected over decades.
Complex French and East/West German mil/gov/embassy translations did not slow the UK down in the 1950's-80's
The UK was evan able to spare some help for the US with Korean translations in the 1950's.
The UK seemed to always have the ability to find enough arts students to do translation work and still export very advanced products and services to the world.
The examples are before "computers" could help a lot so real skilled humans in the UK would have to be trusted and found to do complex and technical gov/mil grade translations.
If the Uk government could find the staff it needed over many decades with its low wages and working conditions, the UK private sector could too.
Time for the USA to start winning AC.
When I was young US experts designed computers that other US engineers used to design power projects for the rest of the world.
US factories then worked from US plans and US workers made the hardware from US materials. US engineers then installed the projects in other nations and returned for upgrades and support.
The jobs and profits all stayed in the USA. Investments in US education then ensured better computers and more US jobs.
US experts in the USA did everything from computer design, the needed industrial computer programming, the designs, building and installation.
Thats what US workers should demand. The entire work cycle from computer design and coding at a US university to the worlds best engineering to production and support.
Not looking after another nations profits from a turn key project.
When you build a turn key project in another nation you need some local help to ensure it is complaint, protected and keeps working.
Look at the fence, is the installed hardware working, report any fault numbers if the network fails.
Report any issues with the fence. How to replace or repair the fence to some correct US standard.
Have a number to call for experts to repair any real faults. Having access to report on colored lights or read back error codes locally if a network is not able to report such issues.
How to plug a laptop in, enter a pass word and phone back the list of results.
Think of the fun a well funded third party clandestine service could induce the USA to do.
They find a US beacon effort in the wild and alter its mission just a bit.
Place it in nations they don't get along with and watch as the US reports "hacking" from a list of other nations flood in.
The US has 100% evidence and proof that "other nations" are evil and the special secure beacon code was running in their networks and ip ranges.
Special citations and commendations for that clandestine service as the USA so trusts its beacons results and code.
A person with their own home computer using a modem downloads beacon ready US data to that desktop computer.
That special US data sends out a secure fully encrypted beacon message about the ip and type of computer its has been downloaded to.
The US tracks down that home computer with one hard drive, a consumer OS and a connected modem.
The data then has no value after the US has fully "disrupted" that computer.
The once rare and advanced 1980's dial up network and expensive desktop computer is now a global consumer product in 2017.
Everyone interesting has one desktop computer, a common US brand consumer OS, a modem and one hard drive on that computer in 2017...
Is the beacon path back to the US the ip range of interest? ... ...
Automated or will some US gov worker have to click a gui everytime to allow a beacon to be respond to?
Hope that the user is on a desktop computer, has one hard drive that has the OS, has the data, is connected to the net, has the same ip for a while?
How perfect is the "techniques to trace the attack and identify the attacker" going to work in every computer network before someone with skills finds something in the wild?
Or does the beacon encrypt ip changes it gathers deep in the "computer of the attacker"?
Create a fake beacon and place it deep into some other interesting network.
Watch as the US reaches out and injects code deep into some other network.
The owner of that network then states that the US is attempting to alter their vital computer system...
The fake beacon is then found and the US has to do paperwork about the event.
A new beacon is detected deep in another network
How will the US ensure each and every beacon is a real event? Advanced crypto per beacon and code per event that nobody will ever see in the wild?
Once discovered in the wild and reverse engineered all the altered IoT could send out the same beacon like messages?
The US would be induced to swamping the internet trying to push code down random networks globally.
How is the US going to detect the "computer of the attacker" if the beacon code reports an altered, compromized or faked ip range?
The US will be back to reporting on code litter, ip ranges, time zones and finding language fragments.
The "beacon" reported an evil ip range so it must be that evil nations clandestine services.
A group moving data around the world would use a series of unexpected holding or staging servers with fast networks to mask their final ip.
This will not be a move of data from a company direct to a "home" "desktop" computer with some dial up modem.
Once the "owner" detects their data and sends the code?
That data could be sitting on any random fast network around the world without been noticed. Strange computers sending to code to and altering a computer to do something to data on that network?
The resulting intrusion and clean up will be very expensive and disruptive to any third party.
Telling schools what employment skills the other nations schools "teach" students so UK students can have the same advantages?
Tell UK universities what they are missing every year that makes some graduate from another nation so vital for a company every decade?
What is the UK lacking that poor nations with no funding can do so well every decade that no school or university in the UK can do?
The UK has had decades of the best teaching staff to educate teachers, the best teachers for its schools and universities, the language skills are equal, good health care, good nutrition, clean water, no national service issues to remove a section of a population from quality education.
UK students would have the same testing averages as most over advance nations ranging from the best in the world to average.
Nothing is really holding back UK education on average every decade. People graduate in the UK at a good rate every decade with merit based course work.
Workers in the UK should graduate from school and university with all the skills to fill any job in the UK. The UK has the ability to support its own people from vocational to very advanced university vocations.
Is the UK lacking in math teaching? Engineering? Computer experts? When does the average person in the UK not gain the needed skills or fail to graduate?
The UK pushed a lot of advanced networked computer hardware and quality educational programming languages into all its schools, giving some computer access per student going back to the 1980's. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Something other nations could not afford to do.
Thats generations of computer and math course work for most UK students other nations could never afford on average.
What did UK education system so lack every decade that very average poor nations workers now have skills to "bring" to the UK?
The next step is to bring any worker in from a low cost, poor nation and pay them a different nation wage in the new nation for a short time.
.."“posted workers”"..
"Going posted" (Jul 7th 2016)
http://www.economist.com/news/...
"While French workers command high wages under the country’s sectoral labour agreements.. "
"... contracted in their home countries to work in another European Union country"
"need only receive the local minimum, under EU law. "
AC If a company has to fly a person into the UK, look after their family, ensure housing and schooling, then add in that "training" cost something is not adding up.
An exceptional artist or creative person that appears once in a generation in a few nations might be worth all that effort.
To bring in average workers who need a company to slow down, divert their own expert staff to help bring the new staff up to some average skill level and then only have average workers after all that spending and time does not add up.
A lot of average locals could be trained in the same average skills. The UK educational system is not lacking in maths and science on average.
Why spend company funds and expert divert staff to look after people from around the world to take very average jobs any local person could be helped to fill?
The rest of the world has mapped out every US spy and mil communications platform.
They know the hours when the US is looking down.
The US tried to make its spy sats really hard to see but they still get detected by people and nations.
Projects like this allow the US to add a lot more look down hardware if needed. New orbit times that will not allow other nations to predict or hide in time.
The other fear of the US mil is emerging anti-satellite weapon systems removing a few of its very advance systems. That gap will be quickly filled by a lot of new launches.
The US will flood space with its small sats and the enemy will run out of anti-satellite weapon systems.
Access to a database. Get into a few databases and the images add up.
AC Re 'Why not recruit from among ...?
The security services tried that in the 1920-70's in a few different nations.
Their secrets and methods walked out as the "recruit" stayed loyal to their own nations, faiths, cults, politics and pretended to be loyal to the nations that trusted them.
Thats why the security services walk the life of their staff, talk to their parents and grand parents. Look at their school work, friends, university. What their parents did, their parents politics. What they read, do on the internet, what their family, friends and extended family did decades ago.
Hiring strangers who lie to get into a nation and they lie to get work with the security services just invites many well understood security issues.
AC re "Why not recruit from ..."
People lie to get into a nation, lie to get into the security services. They stay loyal to their faith, their politics and spy on the security services.
No way to talk to their parents, grand parents, friends, teachers, consider university politics, discover reading material, net use over years.
The security services made many mistakes by just trusting people in the 1920-70's.
People stay loyal to their faith and will any lie to get work with the police and security services.
The only "infiltrating" will be of the security services.
Re "into the country." was not easy. A lot of police, undercover police, informants, landlords, tip lines looked over everyone of interest.
Moving into the UK at that time was not a case of anyone just wondering in as it is now.
Landlords did chat downs, police looked at all new faces in their area. Who had a job, what job, if not who was supporting a new person? What did they do all day?
Mixing with other interesting people in locations of interest and not working?
Accents, reports and paperwork was often the start of an investigation. The ability to just sneak, or tell a fake story to get into the UK, hide in the UK was not a viable option.
The accent issue could not be solved with acting skills or months of intensive language immersion.
The solution to not been able to move interesting people in from Ireland was to wait a generation. People would move to the UK, establish a normal life for decades.
The second generation would become active with local UK accents and have normal paperwork. Such people could not be detected using existing methods and would not show on any database.
That was the next emerging issue into the 1980's. The issue was solved.
The UK faced that with the Irish question before the wide use of the Internet. The UK solved that by collecting all phone calls into and out of Ireland, the UK.
The very smart thing the UK did was never to mention collection to lawyers, the media, human rights groups or its own police.
Very interesting people in Ireland and the US, UK kept on talking, funding, making calls, arranging meetings, moving hardware thinking phone calls and voice prints could only be used in the Soviet Union for a select few Soviet mil sites and officials.
The very interesting people in the UK do not need the internet. They can use their holidays to move information in person.
The UK solved the "This could include face to face" meeting issue down to two people meeting in isolated areas.
Get the voice prints, the faces and follow a person all over Ireland, the UK with vans, trucks, cars, helicopters, early satalite tracking. Find out who they meet, record the talk or exchange and then offer both sides a "deal" to work for the UK intelligence services.
The deal on offer was usually accepted.
As people who got turned early on moved up to more trusted Irish networks, more interesting people got exposed and got offered the same deal.
The UK police, media, lawyers, human rights groups never really worked that aspect out.
The other aspect was support from the USA. The US was not interested in UK/Irish issues so the UK had to act in the USA without US knowledge.
The same methods got used in the US and support and funding from the US to Ireland was tracked and later "found" with a good cover story.
Face to face meeting provide not much of the expected cover if one or both people are known or the meeting place is been watched
The UK is stuck watching a lot of interesting people who entered the UK.
The UK also has to watch the next generations of very interesting people.
3 people per shift over 24 hours per interesting person. Thats 9 to 12 people to watch over one interesting person.
The UK has to hire more police with expert undercover skills to watch so many very interesting people.
The UK had the correct idea during the Irish decades. Act on any and all reports with no comment or questions.