Most Windows 10 users got their OS for games, GPU support and directx 12.
Interesting to the CIA and NSA as a way in to record interesting people in that home.
The need for a Linux and Mac GUI is the ability to test and see results as they might get a change in their computer via the Automated Implant Branch (AIB).
That could automate gov malware been pushed down into Linux or Mac OS to avoid any software firewall or other unexpected security settings.
Standardized testing and exams should have filtered most by merit before university over the past decades.
The problem is educators keep wanting to make results fit policy and share good grades with very average students so they all get into university.
To some spending on books, computers, having smaller class sizes, using educational robot kits, buying more computers will make very average students very smart.
A good educational environment can only make even the most below average students smarter. Any other result would show entire sections of the community are just well below average and thats not the correct finding.
If only more funding could be found, more robot kits added to every class. Then very average students would also get result like in the best private schools that can select their students.
When that expensive educational enrichment fails to bring very average students up to international standards, educators just stop testing to show the whole class is good.
That removes all the ability to find the very top students and only give a very select few full scholarships.
Sorting always existed its just that the past few decades saw attempts to offer more university places to a lot more people without considering their ability to pass exams. Access to a wealthy university would fix what years of normal education lacked.
The result is a flow on of low quality students with paperwork saying they passed university but they have no skills entering the work force.
Most of the smart nations mix in a bit of an IQ test with their standardized testing and just never have to face such issues.
That test result curve keeps smart nations smart so they only have to focus on the top students who can study.
Their university students are work ready every generation as only the best of the best get to take any university entrance exam.
Why test DNA when an IQ test has worked so well for decades? Invest in your best and enjoy the results for generations.
Rank your job interviews by merit as always.
But what to do with all the failed average applicants who still demand full employment?
The genetic test result can then sort all applicants who have no skill but still have to be considered.
Finally a way to not have to consider a lot of applicants for a reason other than saying they are lack skills and further education at a top university has not helped.
A work force thats smart and healthy can be hired without the need to explain why all average applicants never got hired.
Their health results are private and all the smart, healthy applicants got to the interview.
It could depend on what the Automated Implant Branch (AIB) can get to even after the MAC address has been altered.
The hardware responds to a request for its hardware MAC address.
Create your message on a one time pad using paper away from any device. Never re use the one time pad. That will return privacy for the message from the junk hardware and software.
Send the created message using the US brand hardware. No anonymity from the NSA, GCHQ, CIA but its easy, instant two way communications.
If you need anonymity use a cult, faith group and have someone going on trip for holiday, work, education pass on the message.
The idea is to get the user onto a cell network for their CCTV.
The first step is to understand that the internet is not secure.
The user has to work out that more secure options exist.
Malware has a list of all the common default usernames passwords like admin and password.
Beyond that is the unprotected IoT waiting to be networked.
A router company would have to print a random code per product sold if it wanted out of the box security.
Users would never find the unique code on the paperwork deep in the box and return the product a faulty.
Download some AV like Avast.
Run the Home network security https://www.avast.com/f-home-n...
If you need your CCTV network sending out images use cell networks to send the alert images.
Re insert car analogy here
You have to pack your data up, place it into a track and drive it to a factory for further processing.
A middleman takes a lot of your cash and returns a processed product to be collected.
You drive your data back to your cottage and sell the result.
Time to build a local super computer coop and remove that profit loss to the big computer factory owner.
Re What happens when the government realizes that no one burns pirated moves to CD/DVD anymore since large HDD's are affordable now?
As long as a bureaucrat can walk out into a city and return with any CD/DVD R media it should be fine.
Never have your city/state staff meet in any government building.
Be aware of your staff been followed digitally and in person near government buildings.
Set up any groups of staff away from government buildings, parts of the city with other government workers using a front company near lots of other private sector workers.
Ensure no contact between staff and other government workers. Undercover gov staff sitting down with their gov colleagues over lunch can be mapped out digitally.
Run your staff like an Embassy in a nation that has a lot of digital systems and workers for counter surveillance.
Ensure gov staff stay off all social media. If they have past social media with a photo that lists any gov work, don't use them for such tasks.
Facial recognition will detect any and all gov workers accounts.
Never talk of ongoing government work on any digital network or with other government workers.
Do not request any support or provide any ongoing comment on any city, state, federal or private digital network, phone or random government worker.
No gossip, no support calls, no funding, no meetings, no updates, no emails, no calls into a government building from any type of phone.
Use private cars. Do not drive around government buildings with the same cars.
Use paper, a filing cabinet until the gov work is done.
When meeting workers who are undercover, don't have a phone with you and beware that private detectives been used to track senior gov staff.
Sitting next to any other person with a phone will get them added to a tracking database.
Use trendy phones and call in pattern that match normal private sector hours. If most people work 9 to 5, call as a normal person would be expected to.
Never over use a phone too many times or call at strange hours using different staff with the same cheap phone.
Pattern matching will show all errors made when using phones. Be a normal user, using a trendy phone in expected hours a few times a week, blend in with all the other users.
Some basic ideas would have prevented all this. Any police force in the world could have offered such simple tips to gov staff.
Re 'Also, what happened to your radars if/when the island's power failed?"
Japan takes advantage and expands it Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.
Most advance nations have worked out local weather patterns and build diesel storage to cover all expected events.
Ship needs repairs, second ship needs unexpected repairs, a storm slows the second ship.
Diesel tank farms work well and are sized to a nations needs.
Thats why the smarter people use couriers, trusted face to face meetings. A world wide faith or cult is great cover too. Trusted, on the move and in every community.
Re ' somebody using the same security hole still accesses your stuff. Better safe than sorry"
The Soviet Union had that issue. By the 1950's they had the final proof that the US and UK had broken many of its codes, one time pad re use.
The option was to stop all chatter on all networks and only use one time pads. That totally locked the NSA and GCHQ out but it was a slow network that needed a lot more new codes to be ready every day.
It also made the Soviet Union unable to advance it communications. Finally new encoded networks allowed vast amounts of communications data to flow all over the Soviet Union. The NSA and GCHQ collected it all.
Did the Soviet Union know it would lose control of its crypto again? Soviet spies in the West reported the results in real time but the need for any communications was greater.
With ever more advanced communications networks, the NSA and GCHQ learned more about the Soviet Union.
Chatter, gossip, voice prints all added to a vast database of once hidden command and control structures.
Lots of nations and the private sector face the same CIA question. Safe with the slow privacy of a bulky one time pad system? A week for a message with a human on holiday? The number station is fast but one way https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....
Or risk it all and expand with the CIA/NSA/GCHQ in on every communication.
Cheap deep packet inspection cant find everything due to costs and the needed speed at the ISP end.
So a good fast VPN can work out what an ISP is using and alter its network use.
Think of how the average VPN gets around all of the advanced networking efforts in Communist China.
A VPN can end up in some other nation as an exit. Might be a VPN server or some network the VPN will share with a lot of other networks.
If your still seeing ads in 2017, try firefox with a few add ons.
The crypto held as so many smart people around the world use it and international conferences have faith in quality crypto.
Re "The OS-level issues really were unknowns for a long enough time that the CIA and other agencies could develop and deploy a playbook for hacking high value targets? What about the other elephant in the room... firmware?"
The trendy device is the "elephant in the room". Interesting people want to carry and be seen with a US designed device. A powered device with a mic, camera, gps, video and text to collect with.
The way in is the OS, software and hardware. The user creates a message, the CIA gets a copy. The user gets a message, the CIA gets a copy.
The crypto protected the message but the end points fail due to hardware and OS design?
Why would any brand be that sloppy and allow an OS to copy and send out data acting as such malware given all the past malware efforts?
Over time different groups found the same issues in the wild and over the years everything got more secure.
Yet the CIA stays in? Would the CIA risk ever losing an interesting person given random OS upgrades and what internal and external efforts might have found?
The next question is why was the CIA was not seen in the hardware, software extracting copies of data and having that data sent out.
Thats a lot of new data usage and some extra code to find. Why is no "app" or the OS or telco looking for such changes in closed hardware and software?
How is that been hidden?
The telco gets a police setting and fails to report the extra data usage?
A police setting helps hide such code for law enforcement globally and the CIA gets to stay in deep with the same methods?
Big US brands don't have a complex production line for every nation, so police access has to be granted globally or devices won't get sold in a lot of nations under their national telco laws.
Depends on the network to log. Would a clandestine service use an existing internet connection or wifi in from another wifi network they control in the area?
Whats the risk that a user is running a network protocol analyzer on their own network? Or finds an outside wifi connection connecting to their smart TV?
A random outside wifi connection or risk entering a users own wired and wireless network that might be logged?
Bring an ethernet computer to your HDMI display and watch protected streaming services on that.
When done, disconnect the TV.
No need to have a powered, networked computer with a cam and mic on 24/7 as a "display" when work is been talked about.
Slashdot Mirror
Could this get a ip from a user expecting onion routing to work via new code?
Most Windows 10 users got their OS for games, GPU support and directx 12.
Interesting to the CIA and NSA as a way in to record interesting people in that home.
The need for a Linux and Mac GUI is the ability to test and see results as they might get a change in their computer via the Automated Implant Branch (AIB).
That could automate gov malware been pushed down into Linux or Mac OS to avoid any software firewall or other unexpected security settings.
Standardized testing and exams should have filtered most by merit before university over the past decades.
The problem is educators keep wanting to make results fit policy and share good grades with very average students so they all get into university.
To some spending on books, computers, having smaller class sizes, using educational robot kits, buying more computers will make very average students very smart.
A good educational environment can only make even the most below average students smarter. Any other result would show entire sections of the community are just well below average and thats not the correct finding.
If only more funding could be found, more robot kits added to every class. Then very average students would also get result like in the best private schools that can select their students.
When that expensive educational enrichment fails to bring very average students up to international standards, educators just stop testing to show the whole class is good.
That removes all the ability to find the very top students and only give a very select few full scholarships.
Sorting always existed its just that the past few decades saw attempts to offer more university places to a lot more people without considering their ability to pass exams. Access to a wealthy university would fix what years of normal education lacked.
The result is a flow on of low quality students with paperwork saying they passed university but they have no skills entering the work force.
Most of the smart nations mix in a bit of an IQ test with their standardized testing and just never have to face such issues.
That test result curve keeps smart nations smart so they only have to focus on the top students who can study.
Their university students are work ready every generation as only the best of the best get to take any university entrance exam.
Why test DNA when an IQ test has worked so well for decades? Invest in your best and enjoy the results for generations.
Rank your job interviews by merit as always.
But what to do with all the failed average applicants who still demand full employment?
The genetic test result can then sort all applicants who have no skill but still have to be considered.
Finally a way to not have to consider a lot of applicants for a reason other than saying they are lack skills and further education at a top university has not helped.
A work force thats smart and healthy can be hired without the need to explain why all average applicants never got hired.
Their health results are private and all the smart, healthy applicants got to the interview.
We need a nice GUI version for Mac and Linux users.
It could depend on what the Automated Implant Branch (AIB) can get to even after the MAC address has been altered.
The hardware responds to a request for its hardware MAC address.
Create your message on a one time pad using paper away from any device. Never re use the one time pad. That will return privacy for the message from the junk hardware and software.
Send the created message using the US brand hardware. No anonymity from the NSA, GCHQ, CIA but its easy, instant two way communications.
If you need anonymity use a cult, faith group and have someone going on trip for holiday, work, education pass on the message.
The idea is to get the user onto a cell network for their CCTV.
The first step is to understand that the internet is not secure.
The user has to work out that more secure options exist.
Malware has a list of all the common default usernames passwords like admin and password.
Beyond that is the unprotected IoT waiting to be networked.
A router company would have to print a random code per product sold if it wanted out of the box security.
Users would never find the unique code on the paperwork deep in the box and return the product a faulty.
Download some AV like Avast.
Run the Home network security
https://www.avast.com/f-home-n...
If you need your CCTV network sending out images use cell networks to send the alert images.
Re insert car analogy here
You have to pack your data up, place it into a track and drive it to a factory for further processing.
A middleman takes a lot of your cash and returns a processed product to be collected.
You drive your data back to your cottage and sell the result.
Time to build a local super computer coop and remove that profit loss to the big computer factory owner.
Re What happens when the government realizes that no one burns pirated moves to CD/DVD anymore since large HDD's are affordable now?
As long as a bureaucrat can walk out into a city and return with any CD/DVD R media it should be fine.
Never have your city/state staff meet in any government building.
Be aware of your staff been followed digitally and in person near government buildings.
Set up any groups of staff away from government buildings, parts of the city with other government workers using a front company near lots of other private sector workers.
Ensure no contact between staff and other government workers. Undercover gov staff sitting down with their gov colleagues over lunch can be mapped out digitally.
Run your staff like an Embassy in a nation that has a lot of digital systems and workers for counter surveillance.
Ensure gov staff stay off all social media. If they have past social media with a photo that lists any gov work, don't use them for such tasks.
Facial recognition will detect any and all gov workers accounts.
Never talk of ongoing government work on any digital network or with other government workers.
Do not request any support or provide any ongoing comment on any city, state, federal or private digital network, phone or random government worker.
No gossip, no support calls, no funding, no meetings, no updates, no emails, no calls into a government building from any type of phone.
Use private cars. Do not drive around government buildings with the same cars.
Use paper, a filing cabinet until the gov work is done.
When meeting workers who are undercover, don't have a phone with you and beware that private detectives been used to track senior gov staff.
Sitting next to any other person with a phone will get them added to a tracking database.
Use trendy phones and call in pattern that match normal private sector hours. If most people work 9 to 5, call as a normal person would be expected to.
Never over use a phone too many times or call at strange hours using different staff with the same cheap phone.
Pattern matching will show all errors made when using phones. Be a normal user, using a trendy phone in expected hours a few times a week, blend in with all the other users.
Some basic ideas would have prevented all this. Any police force in the world could have offered such simple tips to gov staff.
Another one was 14 mins in
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Re 'Also, what happened to your radars if/when the island's power failed?"
Japan takes advantage and expands it Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.
The US has the skills, engineers and workers given the years on sites like The Geysers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Most advance nations have worked out local weather patterns and build diesel storage to cover all expected events.
Ship needs repairs, second ship needs unexpected repairs, a storm slows the second ship.
Diesel tank farms work well and are sized to a nations needs.
Thats why the smarter people use couriers, trusted face to face meetings. A world wide faith or cult is great cover too. Trusted, on the move and in every community.
Re ' somebody using the same security hole still accesses your stuff. Better safe than sorry"
The Soviet Union had that issue. By the 1950's they had the final proof that the US and UK had broken many of its codes, one time pad re use.
The option was to stop all chatter on all networks and only use one time pads. That totally locked the NSA and GCHQ out but it was a slow network that needed a lot more new codes to be ready every day.
It also made the Soviet Union unable to advance it communications. Finally new encoded networks allowed vast amounts of communications data to flow all over the Soviet Union. The NSA and GCHQ collected it all.
Did the Soviet Union know it would lose control of its crypto again? Soviet spies in the West reported the results in real time but the need for any communications was greater.
With ever more advanced communications networks, the NSA and GCHQ learned more about the Soviet Union.
Chatter, gossip, voice prints all added to a vast database of once hidden command and control structures.
Lots of nations and the private sector face the same CIA question. Safe with the slow privacy of a bulky one time pad system? A week for a message with a human on holiday? The number station is fast but one way https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....
Or risk it all and expand with the CIA/NSA/GCHQ in on every communication.
Cheap deep packet inspection cant find everything due to costs and the needed speed at the ISP end.
So a good fast VPN can work out what an ISP is using and alter its network use.
Think of how the average VPN gets around all of the advanced networking efforts in Communist China.
Finding any tv channel logo in the frame.
A VPN can end up in some other nation as an exit. Might be a VPN server or some network the VPN will share with a lot of other networks.
If your still seeing ads in 2017, try firefox with a few add ons.
Just buy a good, fast VPN and your ISP gets nothing.
All an ISP can then see is that a consumer is enjoying their privacy again.
The crypto held as so many smart people around the world use it and international conferences have faith in quality crypto.
Re "The OS-level issues really were unknowns for a long enough time that the CIA and other agencies could develop and deploy a playbook for hacking high value targets? What about the other elephant in the room... firmware?"
The trendy device is the "elephant in the room". Interesting people want to carry and be seen with a US designed device. A powered device with a mic, camera, gps, video and text to collect with.
The way in is the OS, software and hardware. The user creates a message, the CIA gets a copy. The user gets a message, the CIA gets a copy.
The crypto protected the message but the end points fail due to hardware and OS design?
Why would any brand be that sloppy and allow an OS to copy and send out data acting as such malware given all the past malware efforts?
Over time different groups found the same issues in the wild and over the years everything got more secure.
Yet the CIA stays in? Would the CIA risk ever losing an interesting person given random OS upgrades and what internal and external efforts might have found?
The next question is why was the CIA was not seen in the hardware, software extracting copies of data and having that data sent out.
Thats a lot of new data usage and some extra code to find. Why is no "app" or the OS or telco looking for such changes in closed hardware and software?
How is that been hidden?
The telco gets a police setting and fails to report the extra data usage?
A police setting helps hide such code for law enforcement globally and the CIA gets to stay in deep with the same methods?
Big US brands don't have a complex production line for every nation, so police access has to be granted globally or devices won't get sold in a lot of nations under their national telco laws.
Depends on the network to log. Would a clandestine service use an existing internet connection or wifi in from another wifi network they control in the area?
Whats the risk that a user is running a network protocol analyzer on their own network? Or finds an outside wifi connection connecting to their smart TV?
A random outside wifi connection or risk entering a users own wired and wireless network that might be logged?
Bring an ethernet computer to your HDMI display and watch protected streaming services on that.
When done, disconnect the TV.
No need to have a powered, networked computer with a cam and mic on 24/7 as a "display" when work is been talked about.