Yes the way out is to say a person had four hops of contact with a person who is not a US citizen.
Got a message from outside the USA, sent a message to someone outside the USA.
Was seen near a base, mil site, sensitive site. Walking, driving near any protest.
A persons phone was detected near an anti war protest. The anti war protest had an "international" connection.
Download software. Used a browser to look at computer site that had code with an "international" connection.
Its a bit like the Vietnam war peace protesters. Some "international" connection that made collect it all legal in the USA.
The high turnover is due to a few policy issues:
The constant use of contractors who have more power than actual gov workers. Even getting a promotion just has NSA staff working for contractors. Not with or providing oversight.
Years of been told what to do by random outside private sector staff is not good for gov/mil staff retention.
Pay and the ability to get further technical or university education over decades.
Why pay for NSA staff to get more educated and enjoy promotions when any private sector contractor can be used in the same role?
The new buddy system. No trust, the use of a lot of new contractors to educate the NSA workers on their new security policy.
The internal understanding that collect it all was for the US public domestically and not the Soviet Union or Russia, China.
Domestic spying is not legal.
More trust been placed into generations of new random NATO and EU staff for collection than trusted US staff on site.
The decades of NSA staff getting to see the world on good wages and connect, network and secure global collect it all mission is now just been given to EU and NATO staff.
The NSA when from pure collection to mission creator. That extra budget and power upset a lot to of other gov and mil groups within the USA.
In the past the NSA would support other agency missions, now the NSA has a vote and vast new budget beyond just classic collection.
That new budget and political access was at the expense of many other clandestine US agencies.
That allows a lot of new contractors in, existing staff have to worry their jobs rather than been able to work on internal advancement, get better pay, seek more education and travel the world.
The GCHQ understood all that in the 1970's with good pay, improved working conditions, the ability for staff to be educated, know they could advance and have good support for any new tasks.
The UK went back to a true esprit de corps. The US just lobbied for ever more private sector contractors to get more secure access, work, funding.
The US allowed NATO and EU staff to help with collect it all.
Who wants to stay in the USA, not see the world, not get great pay, not be offered further education, have to work long hours supporting and interacting with private sector contractors and EU staff who get given better or equal security clearances?
EU/NATO staff who my not even be trustworthy and are given political security clearances as their nations hire anyone with "language" skills.
The issues and conditions of the 1930-1960's UK clandestine services are now been recreated in the US gov.
Low pay, too many people with poor quality or political clearances now getting access and better wages. Working in other nations with a low wage that does not cover living costs given the skill levels and 24/7 responsibilities.
The same reason people buy Apple or Google ready hardware. All they need is chat, the internet, social media, email, a webcam, productivity apps.
MS is chasing the people who don't need Office applications.
AC more that the hardware can run Linux as a new install that removes Windows as an OS.
Or is the new MS hardware locked down and will only work with Windows for now.
Think of the new layer of SJW that have to look after who can censor.
A communist government that wants no talk of past Party members, leadership or the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
A theocracy, monarchy or kingdom that pays for ads wants no blasphemy or faith related cartoons.
Germany wants no comment on the numbers of illegal migrants wondering around.
Governments want users reported if they comment on political policy.
New jobs for US graduates. All the topics they banned on campus can now be banned globally. The users get reported too.
The 1980's it was the GUI that was sold in a better way than M$.
In the 1990's it was that music, art, graphics got created on a Mac to be sold to Windows users.
Later it was just about trendy and been seen with an expensive product. Music player, watch, phone, tablet.
In the past it was productivity, quality work been created by the user, now its just about sales to average people who need to be have the latest trend or fashion.
From creating content to selling apps that let people with no skills try and be creative.
The special appeal is the GUI still works and the hardware and software still creates an app that will sell to users.
The appeal to the creative person is that they can sell to the herd.
The appeal to the user is they stand out from the herd when seen using an expensive Apple product.
The problem for Apple is the really creative people have moved to Linux and Windows to get more RAM, CPU, GPU power.
Add more medical related science and things related to animals. Forests, clean water, animal habitat. Good food, good farming.
For the role models try medical doctors, veterinarians, lawyers who help animals and biologists. How a charity online does things that help animals.
The problem is hollywood and authors have projected what "programming tasks" are. Someone gets give a task and its done by an expert.
The result is then useful for the real task. The "programming task" is of no interest as smart people can be found to do that as needed.
The fun of dollhouse furniture is that its is antique or buying a nice brand.
The "play rehearsals" is a real area that had computer interest in the past. Entire US education game empires got made on software that allowed a "play" to be created and scripted within a computer setting. When done it would be acted out using the supplied computer settings. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Teach the students to code apps using more teachers, GUI code examples and toy robot parts.
Consider jobs of existing workers like robot removal technician. A human sitting at a desk watching robots remove and pack up other robots that have stopped working on CCTV. Cheaper to replace a robot than fix it on site?
Watch and sign over other robots installing the replacement robot.
The people who will never be trainable will just go on to means tested https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... benefits as they move from education to decades of job seeking to retirement. Some sort of card to swipe for food payments for decades.
A lot of people will need hours of new entreatment all day, so tv series, movie, VR and computer game related jobs might be a growth area for a select creative few.
Once people become disgruntled more local jail, prison and court jobs would be created too. The compliance robots will always need fixing and upgrades.
But really it will just be like now with a few more of the very best students creating new code and robots.
Lawyers ensuing they can be used all over the USA. US legal teams will find work ensuing US gov standards are lowered to allow fully imported robots in from the robot factories of China, Laos, Cambodia, Indonesia.
Every file, image, video clip gets a checksum to help find virus like activity and block it at the ISP level.
If a file shows up many months later in some investigation, most ISP accounts that downloaded the same file can be listed.
Time to get a good VPN.
To heard interesting people to all kinds of other waiting networks that are security service fronts.
A fancy new app everyone is talking about, that nice GUI, local language support, readable fonts, lawyers and statements about protecting all users rights. Vast funding that never stops.
It's like buying crypto for an embassy or company in the 1950-80's. So many private sector options for a nation, gov or company to select from. Go with US, UK, NATO quality to keep the Soviet Union out?. Something from a more "neutral" nation with good banking security that just works as installed? It has a great reputation and is so trusted globally. NSA and GCHQ had it all covered.
The Falklands war was the public testing of many mil grade systems sold globally. The GCHQ had the plain text to almost all of the UK, US, NATO export grade systems in real time. South Africa was the only nation that provided any real mil spec design quality that slowed the UK down a bit.
Staff skills and outsourcing that saw and opening. The US needed networks quickly and smart new contractors saw an opening to make decades of profit. The US could move from secure networks to "desktop" computers at a low new cost thanks to the skills only found in the "private" sector. Tax payers would get savings. Funding could flow to new mil projects rather than 1970's networks and very expensive existing contractors.
The words private sector, budget issues and easy ongoing staff training got the US leadership interested and very complex support deals got done.
The US is now flooded with networks and systems from that decade that still have to be looked after.
The contractors understood what they had sold the US gov. The US gov has to keep paying for support as expected.
The contractors knew they had support deals for decades. The US gov got sold on the savings when buying desktop computers.
The selling point was cheap new CPU's and that new staff using US gov and mil networks understood the same computers from home and educational use.
No need for Ada skills or the security of Unix on a very secure base that would never be networked with the outside world.
Every user was security cleared and the base had a big strong fence around it. New desktop computers for deep inside the secure base. Support deals ensured long term profits for contractors.
Staff could get working rather than need months of support to try and learn complex old systems.
Contractors could offer an endless upgrade supply of cheap "tested" and "supported" hardware as needed. No wait for a bespoke computer network to be designed and installed per base.
The Governments would demand no "internet", all kinds of limits on what could be said, what kind of data could be networked and who would have to fill in official paperwork for the network.
Once all that is done its POE to the roof and getting a dish network ready.
When the arts gets some thing wrong, a bad review is written.
People expect more from their vital network staff. Networks that run their apps, lets then connect and communicate.
Better to hire on merit than hope for a good performance at work.
How about some nice energy jobs in the USA.
Why keep on funding kingdoms, monarchies and theocracies that want to enforce their blasphemy laws in the USA?
Support freedom and US energy independence.
A member of the press builds a large Faraday cage vault and walks in with the file on the media given to them.
Some Faraday textile structure if they are in a hotel? A secure tent is always packed to protect a special computer.
Using the power of Linux and quality open source software they soon see the links in the MS document to staging servers.
They copy the document in full onto paper and then send a scan of their own new paper version to a document expert asking for a report.
The expert asks for the original file.
The file is driven out hours later to the expert who then clicks on the original file on their Windows computer...
A competing publisher just double clicks on the file, passes it to their experts and then publishes.
An air gap is good if time to publication is not an issue.
Also a nice way out without a software or hardware outgoing firewall to note a strange and unexpected new connection by something new to the OS.
An existing user trusted application might have been given more freedom to connect to the internet.
Think of a fictional book or movie script about a person wanting to enter a company. For party political reasons or part of an undercover media investigation.
What tools would a fictional work place have to try and prevent such issues?
Hire only on merit. Interview every person considered. Can they talk, think, can they think and respond to different questions expected in the work place. Read their resume. Look at what education they have. What they did when not having to study. Did they study in their free time? Take other subjects? Did they join groups? Protest?
Hobbies? Interests? Travel? Try social media and the internet to look back over the resume.
Once a fictional company in a movie has some cash flow, would an investigator to walk the story an applicant told?
Did the person study well? Get good grades? Study alone? Pass exams well? Or did they always need support from their fellow students and have issues getting work in on time or to a good standard? Did they need the support of others just to get good grades?
Did the person learn to study and pass well or learn how to get lots of help and pass?
Did the person attend protests? Political? Did they want a good job and good grades or talk a lot about working conditions?
Understand who they where friends with over the years. Lawyers? Artists? People into workers rights? Journalists? People into political issues?
What happens in a plot when a poor person is just given a "good" free education and then expects the same feelings of good to flow over into the fictional work place?
Like in a fictional book or movie with a plot complex issues are interesting to think about.
The understanding that some member of the press will take the document back to work or networked home desktop computer and double click on the icon.
As they read the document the network makes a connection.
Its about the idea of the average reader in an average network location given the origin of the documents and their daily habits and the expectation of software they are provided with.
If a document is ever found the in the wild, it looks like malware with a good cover story to read while the code reports the user.
Add in OS X, Windows and Linux OS detection, complex ip reporting that works and a lot of different security researchers get interested and that adds interest to the document.
A "CIA" document with MS malware, thats just malware with better than average bait to get the user to open it.
A CIA document with unique phone home code that spans different OS's in very interesting ways would add to the CIA part.
Sometimes simple is better given the tools the reader is expected to use daily. The reader could be expected to us MS software to see all the document and uncover other details in the document.
A member of the press will want to look for any details in the document. Dates, notes, draft, corrections, history. Names, locations, officials that can be tracked to their job descriptions. If such simple facts hold, it can be passed on to document experts for further consideration.
A member of the press does not know who else has the document and could be expected to want to read and understand and then get published.
A security consultant looking over the document first could see rivals publishing first or finding details in the hours the security consultant was working.
A person who understood security issues could take the document to a special computer and fake network and see how the document responds in a MS Windows and MS application setting.
Does it phone home, what and how much data does it risk when it phones home.
Same document, very different first approaches. The understanding of set time to publish and the need to publish will push back decades of expected document security advice.
The US press does not care if they are tracked to their office as they have freedom to publish and freedom after publication. Read first, have the document looked over, get the story out.
A CIA version of FIRSTFRUIT. "The Most Intriguing Spy Stories From 166 Internal NSA Reports" (2016-05-16) https://theintercept.com/2016/...
"scanned 350 press items daily for “cryptologic insecurities” and maintained a database called FIRSTFRUIT with “over 5,000 insecurity-related records” ranging from “espionage damage assessments” to “liaison exchanges.”"
If your app needs a big commercial grade internet pipe to get it tested, pay for it.
Dont just use a collection of consumer grade accounts.
Stop with the juice machines, company cars, fancy chairs and wasting investors cash on renting in CA.
Move to a cheaper state with low cost power, low cost local workers, low taxes and spend the savings on bandwidth and testing.
Put all the effort into the app, test it with real bandwidth and get it to market.
Happy investors, happy local workers and the internet provider gets paid for the bandwidth too.
No need for dictation, short hand and smart staff with the skills to spell engineering, legal or medical terms.
Professionals do their own work with their own powerful computers.
Printer, fax machine, punch cards still need support per department? Accounting paperwork? Staff going to the bank during working hours?
Computers or outside contractors have taken many of the roles that normal working class staff could expect in the 1970's.
Legal is now a lawyer not a vast in house legal department with all its own support staff.
A real coffee machine has replaced a canteen full of staff to push a trolly around with coffee.
The phone system that needed a human to take a call, direct a call and keep messages is now a professionals own smart phone.
The role of poor people with no or few skills is not needed in vast numbers to support a few professionals or experts all day.
Working for a computer company in the past was doing maths by hand to get the work ready for computer programming, programming a computer by creating punch cards, ensuring the printer had paper. Waiting for the computer to print out why it failed, looking at the math by hand again and trying to work the complex math with on the computer again. Low paid staff had to help with getting the computer ready again.
Ordering more paper and punch cards, ensuring the supply of paper and punch cards was always ready for a larger project.
Keeping accounts on paper. Entering paper accounts in to computers, then paying bills on time and ensuring the generated paper work matched the computer records.
Connecting calls, taking messages, making coffee, greeting visitors and guiding them past departments full of support staff to meet the expert staff.
So a lot of people could claim they worked with "computers" or "programmed" a computer as a "job".
Doing the same "math" on "paper" all day to help a computer expert was not programming or a job with much internal advancement or good pay.
A few experts back then did all the real work like in 2017. Many other people with much fewer skills and low pay just ensured everything was ready for the complex tasks.
Tax rates and political import controls also helped. A company had to do all the complex computer work within their own nation or factor in complex import tax issues or for security reasons. Now a gov, mil contractor, the private sector can buy much cheap support globally.
The CRT allowed one expert to see and correct their all their computer work without staff having to prepare and load up the computer again.
So lots of low wage staff got to work on vast projects that only ever really needed a few smart people and better computers.
Slashdot Mirror
The budget to break US brand encryption is really low in Germany or the NSA is spending a lot more for its contractors every year.
I guess it is really a list of brands spying on the user. Who will a user feel like sharing with from the hardware up.
Yes the way out is to say a person had four hops of contact with a person who is not a US citizen.
Got a message from outside the USA, sent a message to someone outside the USA.
Was seen near a base, mil site, sensitive site. Walking, driving near any protest.
A persons phone was detected near an anti war protest. The anti war protest had an "international" connection.
Download software. Used a browser to look at computer site that had code with an "international" connection.
Its a bit like the Vietnam war peace protesters. Some "international" connection that made collect it all legal in the USA.
The high turnover is due to a few policy issues:
The constant use of contractors who have more power than actual gov workers. Even getting a promotion just has NSA staff working for contractors. Not with or providing oversight.
Years of been told what to do by random outside private sector staff is not good for gov/mil staff retention.
Pay and the ability to get further technical or university education over decades.
Why pay for NSA staff to get more educated and enjoy promotions when any private sector contractor can be used in the same role?
The new buddy system. No trust, the use of a lot of new contractors to educate the NSA workers on their new security policy.
The internal understanding that collect it all was for the US public domestically and not the Soviet Union or Russia, China.
Domestic spying is not legal.
More trust been placed into generations of new random NATO and EU staff for collection than trusted US staff on site.
The decades of NSA staff getting to see the world on good wages and connect, network and secure global collect it all mission is now just been given to EU and NATO staff.
The NSA when from pure collection to mission creator. That extra budget and power upset a lot to of other gov and mil groups within the USA.
In the past the NSA would support other agency missions, now the NSA has a vote and vast new budget beyond just classic collection.
That new budget and political access was at the expense of many other clandestine US agencies.
That allows a lot of new contractors in, existing staff have to worry their jobs rather than been able to work on internal advancement, get better pay, seek more education and travel the world.
The GCHQ understood all that in the 1970's with good pay, improved working conditions, the ability for staff to be educated, know they could advance and have good support for any new tasks.
The UK went back to a true esprit de corps. The US just lobbied for ever more private sector contractors to get more secure access, work, funding.
The US allowed NATO and EU staff to help with collect it all.
Who wants to stay in the USA, not see the world, not get great pay, not be offered further education, have to work long hours supporting and interacting with private sector contractors and EU staff who get given better or equal security clearances?
EU/NATO staff who my not even be trustworthy and are given political security clearances as their nations hire anyone with "language" skills.
The issues and conditions of the 1930-1960's UK clandestine services are now been recreated in the US gov.
Low pay, too many people with poor quality or political clearances now getting access and better wages. Working in other nations with a low wage that does not cover living costs given the skill levels and 24/7 responsibilities.
A nice new Linux install will solve all the MS Windows phone home issues. Some nice new hardware with an almost classic Thinkpad like screen ratio.
The same reason people buy Apple or Google ready hardware. All they need is chat, the internet, social media, email, a webcam, productivity apps.
MS is chasing the people who don't need Office applications.
AC more that the hardware can run Linux as a new install that removes Windows as an OS.
Or is the new MS hardware locked down and will only work with Windows for now.
Think of the new layer of SJW that have to look after who can censor.
A communist government that wants no talk of past Party members, leadership or the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
A theocracy, monarchy or kingdom that pays for ads wants no blasphemy or faith related cartoons.
Germany wants no comment on the numbers of illegal migrants wondering around.
Governments want users reported if they comment on political policy.
New jobs for US graduates. All the topics they banned on campus can now be banned globally. The users get reported too.
Germany is going for its ANISKI project to study non standardized communication.
Both links are in German but translation services should help.
http://www.zeit.de/digital/dat...
https://netzpolitik.org/2016/p...
The 1980's it was the GUI that was sold in a better way than M$.
In the 1990's it was that music, art, graphics got created on a Mac to be sold to Windows users.
Later it was just about trendy and been seen with an expensive product. Music player, watch, phone, tablet.
In the past it was productivity, quality work been created by the user, now its just about sales to average people who need to be have the latest trend or fashion.
From creating content to selling apps that let people with no skills try and be creative.
The special appeal is the GUI still works and the hardware and software still creates an app that will sell to users.
The appeal to the creative person is that they can sell to the herd.
The appeal to the user is they stand out from the herd when seen using an expensive Apple product.
The problem for Apple is the really creative people have moved to Linux and Windows to get more RAM, CPU, GPU power.
Add more medical related science and things related to animals. Forests, clean water, animal habitat. Good food, good farming.
For the role models try medical doctors, veterinarians, lawyers who help animals and biologists. How a charity online does things that help animals.
The problem is hollywood and authors have projected what "programming tasks" are. Someone gets give a task and its done by an expert.
The result is then useful for the real task. The "programming task" is of no interest as smart people can be found to do that as needed.
The fun of dollhouse furniture is that its is antique or buying a nice brand.
The "play rehearsals" is a real area that had computer interest in the past. Entire US education game empires got made on software that allowed a "play" to be created and scripted within a computer setting. When done it would be acted out using the supplied computer settings.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Teach the students to code apps using more teachers, GUI code examples and toy robot parts.
Consider jobs of existing workers like robot removal technician. A human sitting at a desk watching robots remove and pack up other robots that have stopped working on CCTV. Cheaper to replace a robot than fix it on site?
Watch and sign over other robots installing the replacement robot.
The people who will never be trainable will just go on to means tested https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... benefits as they move from education to decades of job seeking to retirement. Some sort of card to swipe for food payments for decades.
A lot of people will need hours of new entreatment all day, so tv series, movie, VR and computer game related jobs might be a growth area for a select creative few.
Once people become disgruntled more local jail, prison and court jobs would be created too. The compliance robots will always need fixing and upgrades.
But really it will just be like now with a few more of the very best students creating new code and robots.
Lawyers ensuing they can be used all over the USA. US legal teams will find work ensuing US gov standards are lowered to allow fully imported robots in from the robot factories of China, Laos, Cambodia, Indonesia.
Every file, image, video clip gets a checksum to help find virus like activity and block it at the ISP level.
If a file shows up many months later in some investigation, most ISP accounts that downloaded the same file can be listed.
Time to get a good VPN.
To heard interesting people to all kinds of other waiting networks that are security service fronts.
A fancy new app everyone is talking about, that nice GUI, local language support, readable fonts, lawyers and statements about protecting all users rights. Vast funding that never stops.
It's like buying crypto for an embassy or company in the 1950-80's. So many private sector options for a nation, gov or company to select from. Go with US, UK, NATO quality to keep the Soviet Union out?. Something from a more "neutral" nation with good banking security that just works as installed? It has a great reputation and is so trusted globally.
NSA and GCHQ had it all covered.
The Falklands war was the public testing of many mil grade systems sold globally. The GCHQ had the plain text to almost all of the UK, US, NATO export grade systems in real time. South Africa was the only nation that provided any real mil spec design quality that slowed the UK down a bit.
Staff skills and outsourcing that saw and opening. The US needed networks quickly and smart new contractors saw an opening to make decades of profit. The US could move from secure networks to "desktop" computers at a low new cost thanks to the skills only found in the "private" sector. Tax payers would get savings. Funding could flow to new mil projects rather than 1970's networks and very expensive existing contractors.
The words private sector, budget issues and easy ongoing staff training got the US leadership interested and very complex support deals got done.
The US is now flooded with networks and systems from that decade that still have to be looked after.
The contractors understood what they had sold the US gov. The US gov has to keep paying for support as expected.
The contractors knew they had support deals for decades. The US gov got sold on the savings when buying desktop computers.
The selling point was cheap new CPU's and that new staff using US gov and mil networks understood the same computers from home and educational use.
No need for Ada skills or the security of Unix on a very secure base that would never be networked with the outside world.
Every user was security cleared and the base had a big strong fence around it. New desktop computers for deep inside the secure base. Support deals ensured long term profits for contractors.
Staff could get working rather than need months of support to try and learn complex old systems.
Contractors could offer an endless upgrade supply of cheap "tested" and "supported" hardware as needed. No wait for a bespoke computer network to be designed and installed per base.
The Governments would demand no "internet", all kinds of limits on what could be said, what kind of data could be networked and who would have to fill in official paperwork for the network.
Once all that is done its POE to the roof and getting a dish network ready.
When the arts gets some thing wrong, a bad review is written.
People expect more from their vital network staff. Networks that run their apps, lets then connect and communicate.
Better to hire on merit than hope for a good performance at work.
How about some nice energy jobs in the USA.
Why keep on funding kingdoms, monarchies and theocracies that want to enforce their blasphemy laws in the USA?
Support freedom and US energy independence.
A member of the press builds a large Faraday cage vault and walks in with the file on the media given to them.
Some Faraday textile structure if they are in a hotel? A secure tent is always packed to protect a special computer.
Using the power of Linux and quality open source software they soon see the links in the MS document to staging servers.
They copy the document in full onto paper and then send a scan of their own new paper version to a document expert asking for a report.
The expert asks for the original file.
The file is driven out hours later to the expert who then clicks on the original file on their Windows computer...
A competing publisher just double clicks on the file, passes it to their experts and then publishes.
An air gap is good if time to publication is not an issue.
Also a nice way out without a software or hardware outgoing firewall to note a strange and unexpected new connection by something new to the OS.
An existing user trusted application might have been given more freedom to connect to the internet.
Think of a fictional book or movie script about a person wanting to enter a company. For party political reasons or part of an undercover media investigation.
What tools would a fictional work place have to try and prevent such issues?
Hire only on merit. Interview every person considered. Can they talk, think, can they think and respond to different questions expected in the work place. Read their resume. Look at what education they have. What they did when not having to study. Did they study in their free time? Take other subjects? Did they join groups? Protest?
Hobbies? Interests? Travel? Try social media and the internet to look back over the resume.
Once a fictional company in a movie has some cash flow, would an investigator to walk the story an applicant told?
Did the person study well? Get good grades? Study alone? Pass exams well? Or did they always need support from their fellow students and have issues getting work in on time or to a good standard?
Did they need the support of others just to get good grades?
Did the person learn to study and pass well or learn how to get lots of help and pass?
Did the person attend protests? Political? Did they want a good job and good grades or talk a lot about working conditions?
Understand who they where friends with over the years. Lawyers? Artists? People into workers rights? Journalists? People into political issues?
What happens in a plot when a poor person is just given a "good" free education and then expects the same feelings of good to flow over into the fictional work place?
Like in a fictional book or movie with a plot complex issues are interesting to think about.
The understanding that some member of the press will take the document back to work or networked home desktop computer and double click on the icon.
As they read the document the network makes a connection.
Its about the idea of the average reader in an average network location given the origin of the documents and their daily habits and the expectation of software they are provided with.
If a document is ever found the in the wild, it looks like malware with a good cover story to read while the code reports the user.
Add in OS X, Windows and Linux OS detection, complex ip reporting that works and a lot of different security researchers get interested and that adds interest to the document.
A "CIA" document with MS malware, thats just malware with better than average bait to get the user to open it.
A CIA document with unique phone home code that spans different OS's in very interesting ways would add to the CIA part.
Sometimes simple is better given the tools the reader is expected to use daily. The reader could be expected to us MS software to see all the document and uncover other details in the document.
A member of the press will want to look for any details in the document. Dates, notes, draft, corrections, history. Names, locations, officials that can be tracked to their job descriptions. If such simple facts hold, it can be passed on to document experts for further consideration.
A member of the press does not know who else has the document and could be expected to want to read and understand and then get published.
A security consultant looking over the document first could see rivals publishing first or finding details in the hours the security consultant was working.
A person who understood security issues could take the document to a special computer and fake network and see how the document responds in a MS Windows and MS application setting.
Does it phone home, what and how much data does it risk when it phones home.
Same document, very different first approaches. The understanding of set time to publish and the need to publish will push back decades of expected document security advice.
The US press does not care if they are tracked to their office as they have freedom to publish and freedom after publication. Read first, have the document looked over, get the story out.
A CIA version of FIRSTFRUIT. "The Most Intriguing Spy Stories From 166 Internal NSA Reports" (2016-05-16) https://theintercept.com/2016/...
"scanned 350 press items daily for “cryptologic insecurities” and maintained a database called FIRSTFRUIT with “over 5,000 insecurity-related records” ranging from “espionage damage assessments” to “liaison exchanges.”"
If your app needs a big commercial grade internet pipe to get it tested, pay for it.
Dont just use a collection of consumer grade accounts.
Stop with the juice machines, company cars, fancy chairs and wasting investors cash on renting in CA.
Move to a cheaper state with low cost power, low cost local workers, low taxes and spend the savings on bandwidth and testing.
Put all the effort into the app, test it with real bandwidth and get it to market.
Happy investors, happy local workers and the internet provider gets paid for the bandwidth too.
With less of the Smith–Mundt Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...–Mundt_Act US propaganda is legal in the domestic setting.
No need for dictation, short hand and smart staff with the skills to spell engineering, legal or medical terms.
Professionals do their own work with their own powerful computers.
Printer, fax machine, punch cards still need support per department? Accounting paperwork? Staff going to the bank during working hours?
Computers or outside contractors have taken many of the roles that normal working class staff could expect in the 1970's.
Legal is now a lawyer not a vast in house legal department with all its own support staff.
A real coffee machine has replaced a canteen full of staff to push a trolly around with coffee.
The phone system that needed a human to take a call, direct a call and keep messages is now a professionals own smart phone.
The role of poor people with no or few skills is not needed in vast numbers to support a few professionals or experts all day.
Working for a computer company in the past was doing maths by hand to get the work ready for computer programming, programming a computer by creating punch cards, ensuring the printer had paper. Waiting for the computer to print out why it failed, looking at the math by hand again and trying to work the complex math with on the computer again. Low paid staff had to help with getting the computer ready again.
Ordering more paper and punch cards, ensuring the supply of paper and punch cards was always ready for a larger project.
Keeping accounts on paper. Entering paper accounts in to computers, then paying bills on time and ensuring the generated paper work matched the computer records.
Connecting calls, taking messages, making coffee, greeting visitors and guiding them past departments full of support staff to meet the expert staff.
So a lot of people could claim they worked with "computers" or "programmed" a computer as a "job".
Doing the same "math" on "paper" all day to help a computer expert was not programming or a job with much internal advancement or good pay.
A few experts back then did all the real work like in 2017. Many other people with much fewer skills and low pay just ensured everything was ready for the complex tasks.
Tax rates and political import controls also helped. A company had to do all the complex computer work within their own nation or factor in complex import tax issues or for security reasons. Now a gov, mil contractor, the private sector can buy much cheap support globally.
The CRT allowed one expert to see and correct their all their computer work without staff having to prepare and load up the computer again.
So lots of low wage staff got to work on vast projects that only ever really needed a few smart people and better computers.