The risk is that the EU is handing out new clean passports to random people who just wonder into the EU and demand new papers with a fictional life story.
Different nations in the EU have long term travel agreements with the USA, so some random person with a brand "new", clean EU nation passport could just use it to enter the USA.
The US cant trust the EU nations to look back into the original of all its new "citizens" as they are given perfect new documents by EU nations.
The EU is randomly handing out some of the most trusted travel documents to random people after a few years of wondering into the EU and having telling a good "story".
Interesting people are using the EU to create a new clean document trail and then trying to enter the USA on paperwork the US historically trusted.
The EU has no way of looking back over an illegal migrants history and just creates new documents for them.
Unless the interesting persons face or biometrics got picked up at some point in the past their new paper work is EU clean.
Thats the problem for the USA, nations in the EU is offering their own national documents to too many random people without any questions after a few years.
One that just searches. Not history with select US political parties. No US SJW issues. Just search the net and present the results.
Hardware is cheap. Networking is low cost. The experts with the maths and code skills can be found at a few good universities around the world.
Re "Google will be intertwined with government in no time; they practically are now."
Given the PRISM (surveillance program) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... slides its been so for years.
Yes AC it was AV fun on the CIA Vault 7 detection list. Of the few AV brands that could detect US gov malware and all the trusted AV big brands that totally failed.
Russian secrets are safe on paper in vault, in a building, behind a real wall in a very secure science city.
No open computer networks with plain text files, no foreigners or illegal migrants getting security related jobs, no new contractors.
Just real staff working hard all day who are vetted and trusted.
Russia trust paper files and its own gov/mil. The USA always trusts the new team of contractors.
After all the news about gov US plain text documents facing the internet and staff walking out to give documents to the waiting media?
"Russia did it" is about all that can be attempted to cover up for the total lack of domestic crypto and staff vetting over decades.
The CIA Vault 7 efforts would show a good AV company is worth supporting. Some of the better AV brands did find and block a few of the CIA efforts given AV staff skills and long term tracking of advanced malware.
The NSA wants to be the shield and sword of all things cyber.
For that to work the world has to accept junk US crypto, low security OS and US brands helping the clandestine services.
The UK and GCHQ had a much better way. Work with the UK mil and other clandestine services to get things done in secret.
The NSA needs to tell the public about its role, get funding, tell congress to give more funding, support all its contractors, allow contractors to offer ever more staff and services.
Then report back on ever more mission successes.
The US could have fixed all this with good crypto and better staff. No need to have vital US docs in plain text facing the internet. Vetting of internal staff, contractors.
The effort to blame Russia seems to be more of a PR stunt to try and fix decades of no encryption issues, junk encryption standards and internet facing plain text documents.
More of a consultant, contractor, gov worker problem. Buying the wrong OS, wrong hardware and keeping it working for too long. Nice overtime and payments but not secure.
If its too hard to create a block list just for Austria, just block the world.
Wait for every theocracy, monarchy and kingdom try this over cartoon issues.
China has issues with terms like Tiananmen Square, protests,1989.
Oother nations communist parties want to protect their leadership and history too.
Yes AC, its all about the dreams from that Corona (satellite) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... project.
Part of the US thinks that with ever better look down it will never need the services of a CIA or MI6 with humans on site.
No amount of fences, restricted areas, sealed off parts of a nation or secure mil sites can be protected from now random reconnaissance times.
No nation can now track most of the traditional US reconnaissance satellites and take measures not to be doing things under the US satellites.
But with a space plane the US can be over different nations at very unexpected times capturing their complex projects out in the open.
Lots of contractors, support, over time, funding, new hardware.
Might save a user on a wider global network. A Project Bullrun or Edgehill seemed to show some thinking about the HTTPS issue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....
Back in the plain text part at the safe end of the LAN network?
AC the ability is set to find people who have posted a lot to veteran groups, sympathizer groups, "legal" charities, social events to raise funds or other group events, functions, commemorations.
Give a speech, get invited on stage as a long time supporter? Local TV covered the event? In the local news paper? Was on social media?
Thought the USA would never keep a database of each and every face? Thought the UK would never have teams in place to share such details with other nations and police globally? Quality CCTV in every hotel, elevator capturing every face and sharing the results with police globally.
On average in todays social media world a face will be captured. By a hotel, been in another nation, as a passenger and driver down an interesting road. A years later they try to enter the USA as a "good" average person.
Or a friend of a friend has commented on their support for some group, political party, faith, cult or historical event.
So a person will have their online profile all over groups and support sites, forums, comments.
Later when trying to enter the USA they have to create a "new" clean account and risk facial recognition of all their past online support and promotion.
Thats a lie.
Or offer their real account and hope it has not been understood by US gov/mil or any other government.
Hope another nations has not fully translated every word and passed on all link profiles
This is for average people in average nations who click and support whatever their family, friends, kin, community supports, cult or faith.
Most people might have a clean profile for "international" work, but have flooded other social media with their faces and support.
So the US can now ask for online accounts, hold back and its a lie. One lie and its back to the nation of origin.
The US has often asked for party political details so that is not new or unexpected. Just that a persons own use of social media is now much more easy to find and track. Dont lie on entry to the USA and any person of good character will be allowed in.
Having pages of support for other groups, faiths, nations, cults and hiding that online support is not the way to enter the USA.
Re "I never understood this kind of.... happening in the UK."
The UK got really addicted to mass collection during ww1 with the Defence of the Realm Act 1914 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
After that its was all about getting the plain text of every other embassy globally. The Soviet Union was always of interest.
WW2 it was all about Enigma, then the Soviet Union. After WW2 the UK and USA got into all French communications. France finally worked out that its networks leaked plain text and corrected the issues.
Ireland had every communication in and out tracked, every domestic call logged.
What set the UK apart from the USA is the UK never wanted to go to court or tell the press about good news stories. The UK mil, GCHQ, RUC Special Branch shared raw collection. The UK courts, police, press, legal system, lawyers, activists never understood the ability to "collect it all".
The pubic was told the systems faced the Soviet Union and Ireland had a human informant issue.
The UK was able to track Irish funding and support deep back into the USA. Without the US gov or mil really understanding how the UK stopped the flow of funds and support from the US to Ireland.
The UK mil would act on any collection trail globally. That set the UK mil apart for the USA and its many private sector contractors.
Finally US contractors saw money that was been lost to UK gov and its closed spending on its own gov/mil experts.
So the UK is now going to follow the US methods and UK will get a lot more contractors. Open courts, logs, experts to read logs back in open court, ever more spending and upgrades, support, staff support. New hardware thats court ready.
It was really a long term question between the UK and USA. The UK wanted to stay hidden, letting the world wide web stay as the world wide wiretap. People their lawyers, peace activists, the press would never really know they had been collect on.
The US idea was to make people understand that every network was been watched and no network was safe, that collect it all was court ready.
As all digital communications could be collected by the USA why not use it as a good news story to get more funding and support.
To stay hidden as a real clandestine service or read logs in open courts as a police service.
The UK tried to keep a lot hidden with efforts like the Government Technical Assistance Centre, National Technical Assistance Centre so consumer grade crypto could be broken and presented in court by experts connected to the police.
But that has now changed to a US idea of collect it all, present it all.
Have all new movies streamed on a network to a secure consumer box that can be updated as needed.
No more disk issues. No internet, no movie. Order the movie overnight for next day playback on slow networks.
Recall the disks and release the disk released movies on streaming services only.
Move to much cheaper workers Laos, Indonesia, Cambodia.
Hire token workers in the USA to accept the product lines in a shipping box from Asia.
Workers in the USA unbox the bulk imported products. Assemble high tech part A with part B.
Place into a really pretty box with Made in the USA on it for each consumer.
Profit and PR win.
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The risk is that the EU is handing out new clean passports to random people who just wonder into the EU and demand new papers with a fictional life story.
Different nations in the EU have long term travel agreements with the USA, so some random person with a brand "new", clean EU nation passport could just use it to enter the USA.
The US cant trust the EU nations to look back into the original of all its new "citizens" as they are given perfect new documents by EU nations.
The EU is randomly handing out some of the most trusted travel documents to random people after a few years of wondering into the EU and having telling a good "story".
Interesting people are using the EU to create a new clean document trail and then trying to enter the USA on paperwork the US historically trusted.
The EU has no way of looking back over an illegal migrants history and just creates new documents for them.
Unless the interesting persons face or biometrics got picked up at some point in the past their new paper work is EU clean.
Thats the problem for the USA, nations in the EU is offering their own national documents to too many random people without any questions after a few years.
They are the few brands than make things that work. Placing ads and OS can be replaced.
One that just searches. Not history with select US political parties. No US SJW issues. Just search the net and present the results.
Hardware is cheap. Networking is low cost. The experts with the maths and code skills can be found at a few good universities around the world.
Search results and political parties can have issues given the party political patronage in the USA.
1956 was a year of change for Bell too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Re "Google will be intertwined with government in no time; they practically are now."
Given the PRISM (surveillance program) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... slides its been so for years.
Yes AC it was AV fun on the CIA Vault 7 detection list. Of the few AV brands that could detect US gov malware and all the trusted AV big brands that totally failed.
Russian secrets are safe on paper in vault, in a building, behind a real wall in a very secure science city.
No open computer networks with plain text files, no foreigners or illegal migrants getting security related jobs, no new contractors.
Just real staff working hard all day who are vetted and trusted.
Russia trust paper files and its own gov/mil. The USA always trusts the new team of contractors.
After all the news about gov US plain text documents facing the internet and staff walking out to give documents to the waiting media?
"Russia did it" is about all that can be attempted to cover up for the total lack of domestic crypto and staff vetting over decades.
The CIA Vault 7 efforts would show a good AV company is worth supporting. Some of the better AV brands did find and block a few of the CIA efforts given AV staff skills and long term tracking of advanced malware.
Tailored Access Operations (5/15/2014)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-p...
+1 for using AV products that work and that have the skills to track groups like the Equation Group https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....
Why risk a US antivirus vendor cooperation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... in any US product or OS?
The PRISM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... list showed what US brands and OS makers would do or "allow" to happen.
The NSA wants to be the shield and sword of all things cyber.
For that to work the world has to accept junk US crypto, low security OS and US brands helping the clandestine services.
The UK and GCHQ had a much better way. Work with the UK mil and other clandestine services to get things done in secret.
The NSA needs to tell the public about its role, get funding, tell congress to give more funding, support all its contractors, allow contractors to offer ever more staff and services.
Then report back on ever more mission successes.
The US could have fixed all this with good crypto and better staff. No need to have vital US docs in plain text facing the internet. Vetting of internal staff, contractors.
The effort to blame Russia seems to be more of a PR stunt to try and fix decades of no encryption issues, junk encryption standards and internet facing plain text documents.
More of a consultant, contractor, gov worker problem. Buying the wrong OS, wrong hardware and keeping it working for too long. Nice overtime and payments but not secure.
AC recall the Magic Lantern (software) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and the efforts to get AV company support for a US gov keylogger.
Its more a US version of the Kyshtym disaster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Thats whats set the USA apart. Freedom of speech and freedom after speech.
If its too hard to create a block list just for Austria, just block the world.
Wait for every theocracy, monarchy and kingdom try this over cartoon issues.
China has issues with terms like Tiananmen Square, protests,1989.
Oother nations communist parties want to protect their leadership and history too.
Soon if the file is unencrypted sections will be looked at in real time. Does the music, actors face, content match something thats protected?
The "service provider storage systems" is the cloud for now. How soon before the desktop computer gets a free scan too?
Yes AC, its all about the dreams from that Corona (satellite) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... project.
Part of the US thinks that with ever better look down it will never need the services of a CIA or MI6 with humans on site.
No amount of fences, restricted areas, sealed off parts of a nation or secure mil sites can be protected from now random reconnaissance times.
No nation can now track most of the traditional US reconnaissance satellites and take measures not to be doing things under the US satellites.
But with a space plane the US can be over different nations at very unexpected times capturing their complex projects out in the open.
Lots of contractors, support, over time, funding, new hardware.
Might save a user on a wider global network. A Project Bullrun or Edgehill seemed to show some thinking about the HTTPS issue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....
Back in the plain text part at the safe end of the LAN network?
AC the ability is set to find people who have posted a lot to veteran groups, sympathizer groups, "legal" charities, social events to raise funds or other group events, functions, commemorations.
Give a speech, get invited on stage as a long time supporter? Local TV covered the event? In the local news paper? Was on social media?
Thought the USA would never keep a database of each and every face? Thought the UK would never have teams in place to share such details with other nations and police globally?
Quality CCTV in every hotel, elevator capturing every face and sharing the results with police globally.
On average in todays social media world a face will be captured. By a hotel, been in another nation, as a passenger and driver down an interesting road. A years later they try to enter the USA as a "good" average person.
Or a friend of a friend has commented on their support for some group, political party, faith, cult or historical event.
So a person will have their online profile all over groups and support sites, forums, comments.
Later when trying to enter the USA they have to create a "new" clean account and risk facial recognition of all their past online support and promotion.
Thats a lie.
Or offer their real account and hope it has not been understood by US gov/mil or any other government.
Hope another nations has not fully translated every word and passed on all link profiles This is for average people in average nations who click and support whatever their family, friends, kin, community supports, cult or faith.
Most people might have a clean profile for "international" work, but have flooded other social media with their faces and support.
So the US can now ask for online accounts, hold back and its a lie. One lie and its back to the nation of origin.
The US has often asked for party political details so that is not new or unexpected. Just that a persons own use of social media is now much more easy to find and track. Dont lie on entry to the USA and any person of good character will be allowed in.
Having pages of support for other groups, faiths, nations, cults and hiding that online support is not the way to enter the USA.
Re "I never understood this kind of .... happening in the UK."
The UK got really addicted to mass collection during ww1 with the Defence of the Realm Act 1914 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
After that its was all about getting the plain text of every other embassy globally. The Soviet Union was always of interest.
WW2 it was all about Enigma, then the Soviet Union. After WW2 the UK and USA got into all French communications. France finally worked out that its networks leaked plain text and corrected the issues.
Ireland had every communication in and out tracked, every domestic call logged.
What set the UK apart from the USA is the UK never wanted to go to court or tell the press about good news stories. The UK mil, GCHQ, RUC Special Branch shared raw collection. The UK courts, police, press, legal system, lawyers, activists never understood the ability to "collect it all".
The pubic was told the systems faced the Soviet Union and Ireland had a human informant issue.
The UK was able to track Irish funding and support deep back into the USA. Without the US gov or mil really understanding how the UK stopped the flow of funds and support from the US to Ireland.
The UK mil would act on any collection trail globally. That set the UK mil apart for the USA and its many private sector contractors.
Finally US contractors saw money that was been lost to UK gov and its closed spending on its own gov/mil experts.
So the UK is now going to follow the US methods and UK will get a lot more contractors. Open courts, logs, experts to read logs back in open court, ever more spending and upgrades, support, staff support. New hardware thats court ready.
It was really a long term question between the UK and USA.
The UK wanted to stay hidden, letting the world wide web stay as the world wide wiretap. People their lawyers, peace activists, the press would never really know they had been collect on.
The US idea was to make people understand that every network was been watched and no network was safe, that collect it all was court ready.
As all digital communications could be collected by the USA why not use it as a good news story to get more funding and support.
To stay hidden as a real clandestine service or read logs in open courts as a police service.
The UK tried to keep a lot hidden with efforts like the Government Technical Assistance Centre, National Technical Assistance Centre so consumer grade crypto could be broken and presented in court by experts connected to the police.
But that has now changed to a US idea of collect it all, present it all.
Have all new movies streamed on a network to a secure consumer box that can be updated as needed.
No more disk issues. No internet, no movie. Order the movie overnight for next day playback on slow networks.
Recall the disks and release the disk released movies on streaming services only.
Move to much cheaper workers Laos, Indonesia, Cambodia.
Hire token workers in the USA to accept the product lines in a shipping box from Asia.
Workers in the USA unbox the bulk imported products. Assemble high tech part A with part B.
Place into a really pretty box with Made in the USA on it for each consumer.
Profit and PR win.