Something new and internal to iOS between the user and app seller?
A totally new network to Apple, the user and back to the app server/services?
Make apps buy any trusted certificate they want and then be required use it?
Anyone have any news on the cellular interception side in the wild? Thanks.
Can a desktop computer do better? Has this all been fixed on most desktop OS?
The option of keeping a lot of email on a server for a long time due to the acoustically coupled modem limitations needed legal protection.
In 2017 your ISP email account is as legal protected as your home computer with all its files....
Email kept only at home on a computer, email that stayed on an ISP or server for years or just been networked along day or hours later. Email later found on some server when the server was under investigation with valid court paperwork for the server, accounts.
The other aspect is email on the move along the pipes and tubes of a providers network. Can a police charity public/private partnership scan every email and attachment to see if every file, link was under investigation by law enforcement or might be of interest to law enforcement in real time?
If that file was on a server for days or years or just moving from an account to another internet user?
Now all emails are been scanned at the server level anyway by different agencies globally for a lot of different reasons.
Police charity public/private partnerships will still have the server side real time scans of all files.
An easy FISA warrant or NSL will still get in, then allowing for legal, local domestic legal work.
The FISA warrant or NSL won't be used in a domestic court setting but if every US provider is in some way connected to other nations why not collect it all...
With new raw data sharing rules, domestic agencies will get all that raw bulk data, no more minimisation for domestic US users.
So new domestic privacy laws are great but as many other domestic agencies are now getting raw real time data....???
NSA to share data with other agencies without “minimizing” American information (1/13/2017) https://arstechnica.com/tech-p...
If you are protesting and have your phone on you with a social media app working..
Expect all that networking to be collected by some agency and later passed to law enforcement.
A US social media brand offering services in the USA has to respond when asked by courts in the USA.
If you want to protest having a device that broadcasts unique data about yourself is not going to go unnoticed by a long list of agencies given the day and event.
Know that all and any public comments on social media are been tracked. Friends of friends joining or showing support for local events and will be connected back by 2 or 3 hops of friends.
In the USA you have freedom of speech, freedom after speech. People can peaceably to assemble and petition the Government.
The protection of been compelled to be a witness is well understood. Any device found may not always enjoy the classic unreasonable searches and seizures protection.
Older cell phone would have unique International Mobile Equipment Identity as part of the device and would often be opened and noted by police as part of a battery protection offer. The request to avoid battery leakage would then allow that IMEI number to be matched over vast US wide call logs.
Modern devices might just work when police turn them on and show apps used.
Any account mentioned or found on the "net" to be public facing can be found or a court request made for more information.
Given the long history of tracking protests online in other nations e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... "1986, French university students coordinated a national strike using Minitel, demonstrating an early use of digital communication devices for participatory technopolitical ends" expect the same tracking in 2016/17 globally. Police around the world have been tracking people online for decades. Once something is public on line, expect all connections to that account to be tracked back for many hops.
Lawyers ensure the "US" multinational brands stay just enough in the USA to lobby the US government.
Using cheap foreign workers in the US is part of the wage lowering, profit making aspect of staying within the USA.
The multinational have long supply chains and enjoy a global jet set lifestyle. Low wages in the US support that profit growth.
They have forecasts depending on that cheap US foreign staff to keep profits flowing and generational investors happy.
If a cheap foreign worker costs as much as any US worker in the USA? That upsets the multinational who thought they had the US legal fix in and could just keep US wages low with decades of short term foreign workers.
So the multinationals who see their profits and projections failing are starting all kinds of astroturfing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... to secure their low cost workers.
Yes that border crossings aspect has been used for years to keep the USA safe. This is not some new law or altered law.
History of laws concerning immigration and naturalization in the United States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Legislation is passed by Congress, constitutional separation of powers all still work. Congress has a lot of old and new laws to keep the US safe and such laws can be used per nation. Nations can be listed, the US is then under no obligation to allow random people in from any nation the US selects not to accept people from.
The federal government gets to deny admission. Lots of interesting laws have been passed over many decades to fix select historic citizenship issues.
People can read back over the different laws for citizenship rather than immigration.
i.e. the US federal government has the power over border crossings. Non-citizens had to show the lawfulness of their presence if in the USA to the INS.
The ability to regulate immigration from any nation into the USA is clear.
Later Congress authorized the President to "use all necessary and appropriate..." to keep the United States safe.
If learning go for something like Basic, Ada, Pascal. Learn with books that are all about teaching good habits and have lots of educational support.
Then work hard at understanding the steps needed to get data in, have a computer do something and display the result.
If a person has a hobby and wants to create an app to help with some hobby then find some good books on creating apps in 2017.
Learn programming and then look at what is trending in 2017.
Or build an app around todays hardware and enjoy the results of having a solution to some problem.
What is the next generation of nurses, hairdressers, mechanics, carpenters, teachers, plumbers, electricians going to do with more computing they had to learn?
Their later job is going to give them very unique, often expensive computer related hardware and software products they will learn with their trade or profession.
If they have to know how to write code it will be very unique to that profession and often on closed hardware with very expensive and advanced complex software.
Nations put decades into teaching everyone Pascal, Basic, Ada, C or some other educational or emerging school or enter level university trendy programming language.
Do the office staff, cleaners, carpenters need that for the funding national governments had to find to try and place a computer in front of every student?
A year after they learned their trade or profession? They had home computers, cell phones, pagers... technology changed and was all ready for use as sold at a low price.
Moving limited funding to computer and robots for all students will just take away from math, science, language funding for the few students who will go onto to full scholarships or who can afford a loan or have family wealth for a real computer science related university education.
The only winners are the brands selling support for GUI, robots to schools and the big US brands virtue signalling with their brands all over educational material.
Art, languages, what was home economics and shop class all provided a different educational pathway for a lot of very average students to learn something they could pass and really enjoyed. Sitting in front of a robot and moving GUI puzzle parts around to simulate computer code is great for teachers to feel like they are helping all students for the app future... just like Pascal, Basic, Ada, C was... for all the new high tech jobs.
If a big US brand wants skilled workers, support skilled students. Test them all early and often, support the students who can do math and pass tests. Get them into the best universities and then offer them a real wage to attract them to your brand.
Robots and GUI code for all students will not ensure a flow of super cheap, "smart" workers. If a brand wants more smart workers, pay a real wage for that profession and attract the best workers.
The 1980-90's that saw a lot of people not been able to buy a brand new computer often or enjoy a modem, bulletin board system or later broadband in their communities.
Internet was new, expensive and a new computer was just not needed. Work or school had a few computers.
Entire generations only had computers at work or for a few hours to study with education applications.
When computers became cheap more people got a consumer OS at just enjoyed a few games or needed work related applications.
Vast areas with abandoned consumer OS equipment later got flooded later with small downloaded games packed with malware or got malware from ads as the internet became fun.
Computers and broadband, modems did not get used in every part of the USA equally or over the same decade.
Phone systems often only supported modems or voice. Broadband was expensive in areas with few very low cost providers.
Upgrades to phone networks that allowed cheap, fast broadband products was not always in the same decade as a lot of other states or city areas.
Updates and security would have been seen as something that slowed down a computer or that stopped needed games and applications from working again.
Finding a few $1000 every few years or less to swap out all hardware and software was not an option for a lot of people.
Also recall the social pressure to escape from poverty. Become a medical doctor, lawyer. Putting the same effort into computing was not a dream escape for the poor families with the ability to get a full scholarship. Computing was something done at work, school or for games. Working with computers was not the same as the community standing of a doctor or lawyer setting their own hours or moving into a better community and escaping poverty.
A family in poverty buying a lot of new computers, modems for one person to become a computer technician or as a hobby was not an option given 1980's, 1990's wages and hardware costs.
What happens when a nations telco supports the security services and then moves in for some equipment interference?
With 64 bit and better security, encryption and memory an application might just offer a bit more protection.
With very old computers a lot of interesting user details just exist in memory in set places for any security service to gather without much effort.
Computers that will be tracked and will face equipment interference need all the encryption and modern hardware support a developer can offer.
AC think of the way an older OS would access memory and how malware could find interesting details at expected, almost set locations.
Generations of malware could expect an OS and memory to work in a set way and code for information gathering.
With 64 bit that information can be spread over memory in different ways or over a lot more memory beyond the limits of older systems malware.
Protecting is provided by making malware have to hunt for more secure details in more random places in memory every time on newer hardware.
What is it about low cost staff from other nations that big US brands really want in the USA?
Why not just go with what the big US brands really want.
Say a project needs 3 months of computer work done.
Fly in staff from a really low wage nation on a new very short term US visa.
Pay the staff the same wages they get back in their own nation while working in the USA due to the very short term nature of the winning bid.
When the work is done, the low cost staff return home.
All the costs of 3rd world wages with the branding of been made in the USA.
Re "Also, these judges seem and lawyers seem to be scarce and overpaid . . . let's replace them with cheap foreign imports!"
What about expensive and complex role of security cleared US contractors?
Could expert mil staff not be found in Brazil, South Africa, India, Germany or France with the same design and logistics skills?
Think of the savings if a multi national could just hire their own lawyers, mil security experts and then sell the final product direct to the US military?
No US experts, US engineers, vetting, security contractors, lawyers, US testing needed. Other nations could just connect their just in time supply network to the US military and package any needed supplies as selected by the US military. Think of the local port, rail and trucking jobs in the USA if mil supplies just got imported as needed and then got sent on to a US military site.
A US general wants a new set of tanks, a factory in Spain and China supply Germany and the new set of tanks in US spec arrive on budget at a selected US base. Allow the US generals to shop globally and select any new system they want online. Any paint color needed.
Need a new generation of spy satellite? Why have secretive and expensive US staff put it together by hand as a bespoke project? Layers of US gov, mil and over time for contractors keep prices up.
Open that project to a global bidding process and if the US mil has questions just fly in winning teams foreign engineers and designers for a secure meeting in the US. The NDA will be as secure as any US security in the past.
See what staff in South Korea, Japan, India, the UK or France can offer in terms of orbiting optics.
Strange how some parts of the US economy are so protected when others are so open to any random nations very average and low cost staff....
Re " forbidding cities to compete with telcos"
If been a telco is now not that legally special? If net neutrality no longer exists then all the protections of needing to be a telco to protect net neutrality are not as persuasive.
The years when only a big telco could afford to comply with complex, expensive federal net neutrality regulations kept a lot of new entrants out.
The legal cost to define what a network is just got a bit cheaper. Thats the change. As over regulation is allowed to change so is the defined protection.
Without the special federal regulation and protection, communities and cities now have more options to set up their own networks.
Whats a network now? Anything a city or state would like to define and invite any company to build. If net neutrality is not an issue, any network a city builds and invites a lot of new providers on is legal.
In wanting to remove net neutrality and profit from caps, shaping, streaming the larger telcos might have just lobbied for the opening of the very networks they hoped to have total control over.
If the US gov selects not build a new network for all providers or allow all providers equal access any existing network?
City, state, community, utilities, what was power cooperatives could then design any telco network they want and inviting any provider on that can offer a service.
In pushing for much less federal regulation, existing telcos might have just opened up network competition. The expected shaping, slowness and data caps will just create the perfect conditions for communities to build their own telcos:)
Short term
Lots of new data caps and slowness, p2p slowness. Streaming providers get made new offers to pay to reach users with unlimited deals.
Over the next few years:
Slowness, profit making, caps and lack of network options will start to trend and users will loot for a better city or community network.
The US can then open its cities to more open telco network builds, open existing telco networks to all other telcos or build a new nation wide optical network open to all and any provider.
re ' Routers of The World"
More community and city networks will face state courts. If a telco is not longer really special under federal law, then any city can build a network to support any provider.
If existing telcos want a free for all on their own networks, then the ability to become a new telco in towns and communities will be more open:)
The NSA can track any user on most networks. Finding a location is often not the issue for the US.
The problem for the USA is the methods have to be hidden and requests to local police just alert criminal groups.
The local police in other nations are corrupt or even members of the same criminal groups, faiths been watched.
Local police also sell information to the press who then alert criminals.
Mil, national or federal police in many other nations just cant do undercover work in closed communities or are totally reliant on generations of NSA like collection methods in their own nations.
Informants tell fictional stories to stay out of the legal system or to get paid. Criminals don't always carry cell phones when planning or doing crime making digital collection less useful. Police in other nations even sell informal lists or witness information in bulk.
Budget cuts, legal issues, political correctness or a lack of skills over decades often slows national police forces.
Criminal groups use this to hide in faith based and inward looking communities. Undercover police are easy to spot, police informants are not invited back in.
The other issue the NSA fears is most nations security forces have been hiring new staff. Security has been replaced by a political demands for diversity.
The entry level and translation services of many nations elite security forces are now been filled up with new staff who are loyal to other nations or faiths, criminals or cults.
Even requesting help from a lot of other nations security services is a huge risk thanks to years security leaks back to gangs, faith groups, criminals and other nations.
The issue then for the US is in finding anyone trust worthy to share the information they gather globally with.
So the NSA, CIA can find most interesting people on computer networks globally. How to use that information in time is getting more difficult for the US.
The long term issues for the NSA is the next generation of staff in once trusted 5 eye nations. Even if select staff in other nations can be trusted, new staff standards in other nations are now a security risk.
Depends on a few files can be added in a long list of files in the one gets the past any software outgoing firewall as it looks like its "part" of the OS?
Download an archive of many, many files. 10 files don't work out of many?
One phones home on OS X, Windows, Linux when clicked on or opened or searched for and a live preview is created with spotlight?
Revert back to an OS that will not live preview your files.
Any file could have a link that gets used on any modern OS trying to help with a search by showing a preview of that file "live" during desktop search results.
Why not just get a list of all this weeks files of interest found on the net. All the files of interest created and shared over a few days.
Give the checksums to all the big US OS brands to add to their new OS AV efforts.
Recored every IP that responds to a checksum as part of anti virus spread tracking if the user "allowed" such self reporting to the OS.
Use the advanced and near instant indexing on most modern OS to report the file when it is opened and have the users OS report that file on the OS brand?
Remove and replace the checksum list for next week so it will not slow any modern computer down.
Any advance user could test the file in any way and find no issue.
A new OS AV update of a few megabytes spread over a few days per week could hold how many new file checksums per week every week?
The OS would do all the reporting on an average user who trusted the OS brand with AV.
Groups have considered that. The staging servers are in safe nations surrounded by layers of real people doing active counter surveillance.
Say the NSA finds a server in Australia, Canada, NZ or the UK? Lots of support over decades so information is passed and kept very secure.
A request is created by another US law enforcement agency to hide the NSA origins of the data found.
Another nation creates a 12 person police team to look at the people using the server. Say 3 person police team on duty, a few shifts per day to watch the area of interest.
The local inward looking, isolated cult like community soon notices the new vans, tracks, cars, new utility workers doing no real work or small groups of new people who just don't fit in that community. A new camera in a box on a utility pole facing a site.
Locals will then surround, chat down and confront the undercover police teams. Once photographed teams of undercover police are not much use in that area. Local police then have to help escort the now photographed "undercover" teams out of the area.
The server is moved only to start up in another safe area once the community works out who is of interest to that police team.
If an attempt was made to remove the servers by using cyber methods a nations internet provider or gov network would be altered and corrupt staff doing the clean up would find traces of new NSA cyber methods in the wild and report them globally as interesting new malware.
Most groups set up bait servers just to see what gov, mil, other groups, firms, contractors come looking and what methods they use.
Groups have layers of counter surveillance options just by selecting a no go part of a city where every police or undercover police action is very easy to spot as it enters that part of a city. The wider local community knows every face, every car, every normal government and city worker expected to be in the area.
Telco and local gov workers are also loyal to cult like criminal groups over generations of staff and warn of any changes to ISP, telephone networks when normal gov/police logging is requested on local phone numbers or ISP accounts.
Bribes, infiltration gives days or hours of any local police action. More secure federal police units on the move are spotted in most nations with enough warning to escape. Hardware is lost but teams regroup with funds to set up new servers.
The only way around such methods is satellite collection, mil grade surveillance aircraft looking at all wireless networks, or unexpected national telco upgrades that totally bypass all local staff. Teams of criminal informants recruited by federal law enforcement to try and renter their old communities hoping their stories and cover holds. Informants are a huge risk as criminal groups know their methods and hire as needed internally, not from people seeking to join.
Staff members with insights into no go communities are a huge risk too, are they loyal or can they ever be trusted? Law enforcement and the security services in most nations are been filled with many new "translators" and "experts" many of who will report back to their own faiths, cults, criminal groups or other nations.
Just finding a server is easy. Getting any more details is hard work. Even the new hiring practices of the police and security services now allow for surveillance to be discovered.
Re "Can't we just keep this about "
Thats the problem with censorship and a lack of free speech on sites.
Teams of SJW will soon find new topics to ban and report.
Blasphemy? Cartoons? Animated video clips about a faith or cult? Support for monarchies, Communist parties, investors, faiths, political leaders, dictatorships that request safe branding?
Study the limits of todays average cpu, gpu, ram, open and closed OS's and what bandwidth will support.
Project the trend of more cores, more ram, better OS code, more 64 bit users, more bandwidth, VR and social media.
Protect users from ads, malware, code that allows ads to push malware, governments breaking encryption. Or malware that hides as ads.
Ensure encryption is understood by a larger team and is updated a lot as governments and other groups break all existing encryption standards.
When web cams, mic use, social media, VR becomes interesting be ready with quality optional plug in support.
If a trend fails, the plug in exists but did not break the browser.
Given more open standards work with CPU, GPU makers to really get the most out of hardware and any OS.
Even most GPU brands are starting to be a bit more open in what they will support.
Also have a good marketing team that can help users understand what using other brands browser will do to their searches, privacy and data.
Once a site starts to ban its own users, many other users will have to try self-censorship to keep their accounts.
That gets boring and feels like work. Why stay on an interactive social media site if you have no free speech or freedom after speech?
As a site becomes more safe, more regulated by teams of SJW, more boring users will seek fun, interaction and content on other better sites that support freedom of speech.
The fun, desire for and enjoyment of real free speech does not go away when teams of SJW ban users and accounts on one site.
The site that had the SJW censorship will just be used as a safe space for brands, governments, faiths, cults and celebrities.
A bland safe space for marketing, brands, advertising and big government does not attract fun new users.
What will the teams of SJW like to ban next? Cartoons that would be considered blasphemy? Politics? No mention of Tiananmen Square and 1989?
Do SJW have a long list of words, terms they want banned? Protect all celebrity marketing by ensuring only positive movie reviews can be found?
It really depends on how interesting the person the security services find.
If you did not or are not working for the US gov/mil or as a US contractor or mercenary and are not talking to the media a person is not that interesting.
If your not a member of the press looking for gov/mil contacts or showing former gov/mil workers documents that are still secret via whistleblowers.
Most of the main US systems are looking for financial, political, legal, technical terms or terms that should not be out in public.
Other projects like Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group do show another side to information ops. https://theintercept.com/2014/... (February 25 2014).
The main part will always be the classic COINTELPRO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... as it moved from collection to disruption.
All the press and media can do is take a few basic steps. Never have a cell phone when meeting a contact. Make sure the contact does not have a cell phone.
If material is passed, use paper and a typewriter, pen to make notes later. Do not enter any terms, numbers, dates, names into any computer even if its not networked or at home hours after getting new material.
CCTV is kept for many, many months thanks to well funded public private partnerships. Terms entered will find the origin of the searches and then daily moments can be recreated locally until a meeting is discovered.
Expect any work and home computer, cell phone to be accessed and tracked by default just for been a member of the press.
Note the use of honey traps or fake stories too. The photocopied documents that prove some wonderful story thats all fake. Document experts can help with that as a story is been worked on.
The other interesting part is now that city and state governments can look for local issues with new much lower cost federal tracking systems.
Even a member of the press focused on state and city topics, expect the same nation state methods when looking into local issues.
AC my guess that was mostly done back in the day to prevent UK telco workers from finding new software to hardware on their networks and asking questions again.
The UK was not going to have a Room 641A https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... or Greek wiretapping case 2004–05 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...–05
Any telco worker could have gone to the press about strange hardware. Vetted UK telco staff with deep links back to their own nations, embassies, faiths, cults, press/police contacts would have also noted the upgrades and could have passed on details. So it was better to keep network collection well away from everyone and just collect 24/7.
The other good part about controlling the collection is less possibility for a SISMI-Telecom scandal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... event with the networks been used for other missions by "other" random security/agency teams and then getting discovered.
Also the kit would have been provided per aircraft and not too many would ask questions about normal flights. So the UK had a few reasons to use or keep using that method until the legal system and telcos had to accept collection.
With new UK law changes, expect all the same methods to be part of every UK/Irish telco network.
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Something new and internal to iOS between the user and app seller?
A totally new network to Apple, the user and back to the app server/services?
Make apps buy any trusted certificate they want and then be required use it?
Anyone have any news on the cellular interception side in the wild? Thanks.
Can a desktop computer do better? Has this all been fixed on most desktop OS?
The option of keeping a lot of email on a server for a long time due to the acoustically coupled modem limitations needed legal protection.
....???
In 2017 your ISP email account is as legal protected as your home computer with all its files....
Email kept only at home on a computer, email that stayed on an ISP or server for years or just been networked along day or hours later. Email later found on some server when the server was under investigation with valid court paperwork for the server, accounts.
The other aspect is email on the move along the pipes and tubes of a providers network. Can a police charity public/private partnership scan every email and attachment to see if every file, link was under investigation by law enforcement or might be of interest to law enforcement in real time?
If that file was on a server for days or years or just moving from an account to another internet user?
Now all emails are been scanned at the server level anyway by different agencies globally for a lot of different reasons.
Police charity public/private partnerships will still have the server side real time scans of all files.
An easy FISA warrant or NSL will still get in, then allowing for legal, local domestic legal work.
The FISA warrant or NSL won't be used in a domestic court setting but if every US provider is in some way connected to other nations why not collect it all...
With new raw data sharing rules, domestic agencies will get all that raw bulk data, no more minimisation for domestic US users.
So new domestic privacy laws are great but as many other domestic agencies are now getting raw real time data
NSA to share data with other agencies without “minimizing” American information (1/13/2017)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-p...
If you are protesting and have your phone on you with a social media app working..
Expect all that networking to be collected by some agency and later passed to law enforcement.
A US social media brand offering services in the USA has to respond when asked by courts in the USA.
If you want to protest having a device that broadcasts unique data about yourself is not going to go unnoticed by a long list of agencies given the day and event.
Know that all and any public comments on social media are been tracked. Friends of friends joining or showing support for local events and will be connected back by 2 or 3 hops of friends.
In the USA you have freedom of speech, freedom after speech. People can peaceably to assemble and petition the Government.
The protection of been compelled to be a witness is well understood. Any device found may not always enjoy the classic unreasonable searches and seizures protection.
Older cell phone would have unique International Mobile Equipment Identity as part of the device and would often be opened and noted by police as part of a battery protection offer. The request to avoid battery leakage would then allow that IMEI number to be matched over vast US wide call logs.
Modern devices might just work when police turn them on and show apps used.
Any account mentioned or found on the "net" to be public facing can be found or a court request made for more information.
Given the long history of tracking protests online in other nations e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... "1986, French university students coordinated a national strike using Minitel, demonstrating an early use of digital communication devices for participatory technopolitical ends" expect the same tracking in 2016/17 globally. Police around the world have been tracking people online for decades. Once something is public on line, expect all connections to that account to be tracked back for many hops.
Lawyers ensure the "US" multinational brands stay just enough in the USA to lobby the US government.
Using cheap foreign workers in the US is part of the wage lowering, profit making aspect of staying within the USA.
The multinational have long supply chains and enjoy a global jet set lifestyle. Low wages in the US support that profit growth.
They have forecasts depending on that cheap US foreign staff to keep profits flowing and generational investors happy.
If a cheap foreign worker costs as much as any US worker in the USA? That upsets the multinational who thought they had the US legal fix in and could just keep US wages low with decades of short term foreign workers.
So the multinationals who see their profits and projections failing are starting all kinds of astroturfing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... to secure their low cost workers.
Yes that border crossings aspect has been used for years to keep the USA safe. This is not some new law or altered law. ..." to keep the United States safe.
History of laws concerning immigration and naturalization in the United States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Legislation is passed by Congress, constitutional separation of powers all still work. Congress has a lot of old and new laws to keep the US safe and such laws can be used per nation.
Nations can be listed, the US is then under no obligation to allow random people in from any nation the US selects not to accept people from. The federal government gets to deny admission. Lots of interesting laws have been passed over many decades to fix select historic citizenship issues.
People can read back over the different laws for citizenship rather than immigration.
i.e. the US federal government has the power over border crossings. Non-citizens had to show the lawfulness of their presence if in the USA to the INS.
The ability to regulate immigration from any nation into the USA is clear.
Later Congress authorized the President to "use all necessary and appropriate
If learning go for something like Basic, Ada, Pascal. Learn with books that are all about teaching good habits and have lots of educational support.
Then work hard at understanding the steps needed to get data in, have a computer do something and display the result.
If a person has a hobby and wants to create an app to help with some hobby then find some good books on creating apps in 2017.
Learn programming and then look at what is trending in 2017.
Or build an app around todays hardware and enjoy the results of having a solution to some problem.
What is the next generation of nurses, hairdressers, mechanics, carpenters, teachers, plumbers, electricians going to do with more computing they had to learn?
Their later job is going to give them very unique, often expensive computer related hardware and software products they will learn with their trade or profession.
If they have to know how to write code it will be very unique to that profession and often on closed hardware with very expensive and advanced complex software.
Nations put decades into teaching everyone Pascal, Basic, Ada, C or some other educational or emerging school or enter level university trendy programming language.
Do the office staff, cleaners, carpenters need that for the funding national governments had to find to try and place a computer in front of every student?
A year after they learned their trade or profession? They had home computers, cell phones, pagers... technology changed and was all ready for use as sold at a low price.
Moving limited funding to computer and robots for all students will just take away from math, science, language funding for the few students who will go onto to full scholarships or who can afford a loan or have family wealth for a real computer science related university education.
The only winners are the brands selling support for GUI, robots to schools and the big US brands virtue signalling with their brands all over educational material.
Art, languages, what was home economics and shop class all provided a different educational pathway for a lot of very average students to learn something they could pass and really enjoyed. Sitting in front of a robot and moving GUI puzzle parts around to simulate computer code is great for teachers to feel like they are helping all students for the app future... just like Pascal, Basic, Ada, C was... for all the new high tech jobs.
If a big US brand wants skilled workers, support skilled students. Test them all early and often, support the students who can do math and pass tests. Get them into the best universities and then offer them a real wage to attract them to your brand.
Robots and GUI code for all students will not ensure a flow of super cheap, "smart" workers. If a brand wants more smart workers, pay a real wage for that profession and attract the best workers.
The 1980-90's that saw a lot of people not been able to buy a brand new computer often or enjoy a modem, bulletin board system or later broadband in their communities.
Internet was new, expensive and a new computer was just not needed. Work or school had a few computers.
Entire generations only had computers at work or for a few hours to study with education applications.
When computers became cheap more people got a consumer OS at just enjoyed a few games or needed work related applications.
Vast areas with abandoned consumer OS equipment later got flooded later with small downloaded games packed with malware or got malware from ads as the internet became fun.
Computers and broadband, modems did not get used in every part of the USA equally or over the same decade.
Phone systems often only supported modems or voice. Broadband was expensive in areas with few very low cost providers.
Upgrades to phone networks that allowed cheap, fast broadband products was not always in the same decade as a lot of other states or city areas.
Updates and security would have been seen as something that slowed down a computer or that stopped needed games and applications from working again.
Finding a few $1000 every few years or less to swap out all hardware and software was not an option for a lot of people.
Also recall the social pressure to escape from poverty. Become a medical doctor, lawyer. Putting the same effort into computing was not a dream escape for the poor families with the ability to get a full scholarship.
Computing was something done at work, school or for games. Working with computers was not the same as the community standing of a doctor or lawyer setting their own hours or moving into a better community and escaping poverty.
A family in poverty buying a lot of new computers, modems for one person to become a computer technician or as a hobby was not an option given 1980's, 1990's wages and hardware costs.
What happens when a nations telco supports the security services and then moves in for some equipment interference?
With 64 bit and better security, encryption and memory an application might just offer a bit more protection.
With very old computers a lot of interesting user details just exist in memory in set places for any security service to gather without much effort.
Computers that will be tracked and will face equipment interference need all the encryption and modern hardware support a developer can offer.
AC think of the way an older OS would access memory and how malware could find interesting details at expected, almost set locations.
Generations of malware could expect an OS and memory to work in a set way and code for information gathering.
With 64 bit that information can be spread over memory in different ways or over a lot more memory beyond the limits of older systems malware.
Protecting is provided by making malware have to hunt for more secure details in more random places in memory every time on newer hardware.
What is it about low cost staff from other nations that big US brands really want in the USA?
Why not just go with what the big US brands really want.
Say a project needs 3 months of computer work done.
Fly in staff from a really low wage nation on a new very short term US visa.
Pay the staff the same wages they get back in their own nation while working in the USA due to the very short term nature of the winning bid.
When the work is done, the low cost staff return home.
All the costs of 3rd world wages with the branding of been made in the USA.
Re "Also, these judges seem and lawyers seem to be scarce and overpaid . . . let's replace them with cheap foreign imports!" ....
What about expensive and complex role of security cleared US contractors?
Could expert mil staff not be found in Brazil, South Africa, India, Germany or France with the same design and logistics skills?
Think of the savings if a multi national could just hire their own lawyers, mil security experts and then sell the final product direct to the US military?
No US experts, US engineers, vetting, security contractors, lawyers, US testing needed. Other nations could just connect their just in time supply network to the US military and package any needed supplies as selected by the US military. Think of the local port, rail and trucking jobs in the USA if mil supplies just got imported as needed and then got sent on to a US military site.
A US general wants a new set of tanks, a factory in Spain and China supply Germany and the new set of tanks in US spec arrive on budget at a selected US base. Allow the US generals to shop globally and select any new system they want online. Any paint color needed.
Need a new generation of spy satellite? Why have secretive and expensive US staff put it together by hand as a bespoke project? Layers of US gov, mil and over time for contractors keep prices up.
Open that project to a global bidding process and if the US mil has questions just fly in winning teams foreign engineers and designers for a secure meeting in the US. The NDA will be as secure as any US security in the past.
See what staff in South Korea, Japan, India, the UK or France can offer in terms of orbiting optics.
Strange how some parts of the US economy are so protected when others are so open to any random nations very average and low cost staff
Re " forbidding cities to compete with telcos" :)
If been a telco is now not that legally special? If net neutrality no longer exists then all the protections of needing to be a telco to protect net neutrality are not as persuasive.
The years when only a big telco could afford to comply with complex, expensive federal net neutrality regulations kept a lot of new entrants out.
The legal cost to define what a network is just got a bit cheaper. Thats the change. As over regulation is allowed to change so is the defined protection.
Without the special federal regulation and protection, communities and cities now have more options to set up their own networks.
Whats a network now? Anything a city or state would like to define and invite any company to build. If net neutrality is not an issue, any network a city builds and invites a lot of new providers on is legal.
In wanting to remove net neutrality and profit from caps, shaping, streaming the larger telcos might have just lobbied for the opening of the very networks they hoped to have total control over.
If the US gov selects not build a new network for all providers or allow all providers equal access any existing network?
City, state, community, utilities, what was power cooperatives could then design any telco network they want and inviting any provider on that can offer a service.
In pushing for much less federal regulation, existing telcos might have just opened up network competition. The expected shaping, slowness and data caps will just create the perfect conditions for communities to build their own telcos
Short term :)
Lots of new data caps and slowness, p2p slowness. Streaming providers get made new offers to pay to reach users with unlimited deals.
Over the next few years:
Slowness, profit making, caps and lack of network options will start to trend and users will loot for a better city or community network.
The US can then open its cities to more open telco network builds, open existing telco networks to all other telcos or build a new nation wide optical network open to all and any provider.
re ' Routers of The World"
More community and city networks will face state courts. If a telco is not longer really special under federal law, then any city can build a network to support any provider.
If existing telcos want a free for all on their own networks, then the ability to become a new telco in towns and communities will be more open
Its 5K with room for a GUI when making 4K movies.
The NSA can track any user on most networks. Finding a location is often not the issue for the US.
The problem for the USA is the methods have to be hidden and requests to local police just alert criminal groups.
The local police in other nations are corrupt or even members of the same criminal groups, faiths been watched.
Local police also sell information to the press who then alert criminals.
Mil, national or federal police in many other nations just cant do undercover work in closed communities or are totally reliant on generations of NSA like collection methods in their own nations.
Informants tell fictional stories to stay out of the legal system or to get paid. Criminals don't always carry cell phones when planning or doing crime making digital collection less useful. Police in other nations even sell informal lists or witness information in bulk.
Budget cuts, legal issues, political correctness or a lack of skills over decades often slows national police forces.
Criminal groups use this to hide in faith based and inward looking communities. Undercover police are easy to spot, police informants are not invited back in.
The other issue the NSA fears is most nations security forces have been hiring new staff. Security has been replaced by a political demands for diversity.
The entry level and translation services of many nations elite security forces are now been filled up with new staff who are loyal to other nations or faiths, criminals or cults.
Even requesting help from a lot of other nations security services is a huge risk thanks to years security leaks back to gangs, faith groups, criminals and other nations.
The issue then for the US is in finding anyone trust worthy to share the information they gather globally with.
So the NSA, CIA can find most interesting people on computer networks globally. How to use that information in time is getting more difficult for the US.
The long term issues for the NSA is the next generation of staff in once trusted 5 eye nations. Even if select staff in other nations can be trusted, new staff standards in other nations are now a security risk.
Depends on a few files can be added in a long list of files in the one gets the past any software outgoing firewall as it looks like its "part" of the OS?
Download an archive of many, many files. 10 files don't work out of many?
One phones home on OS X, Windows, Linux when clicked on or opened or searched for and a live preview is created with spotlight?
Revert back to an OS that will not live preview your files.
Any file could have a link that gets used on any modern OS trying to help with a search by showing a preview of that file "live" during desktop search results.
Why not just get a list of all this weeks files of interest found on the net. All the files of interest created and shared over a few days.
Give the checksums to all the big US OS brands to add to their new OS AV efforts.
Recored every IP that responds to a checksum as part of anti virus spread tracking if the user "allowed" such self reporting to the OS.
Use the advanced and near instant indexing on most modern OS to report the file when it is opened and have the users OS report that file on the OS brand?
Remove and replace the checksum list for next week so it will not slow any modern computer down.
Any advance user could test the file in any way and find no issue.
A new OS AV update of a few megabytes spread over a few days per week could hold how many new file checksums per week every week?
The OS would do all the reporting on an average user who trusted the OS brand with AV.
Groups have considered that. The staging servers are in safe nations surrounded by layers of real people doing active counter surveillance.
Say the NSA finds a server in Australia, Canada, NZ or the UK? Lots of support over decades so information is passed and kept very secure.
A request is created by another US law enforcement agency to hide the NSA origins of the data found.
Another nation creates a 12 person police team to look at the people using the server. Say 3 person police team on duty, a few shifts per day to watch the area of interest.
The local inward looking, isolated cult like community soon notices the new vans, tracks, cars, new utility workers doing no real work or small groups of new people who just don't fit in that community. A new camera in a box on a utility pole facing a site.
Locals will then surround, chat down and confront the undercover police teams. Once photographed teams of undercover police are not much use in that area. Local police then have to help escort the now photographed "undercover" teams out of the area.
The server is moved only to start up in another safe area once the community works out who is of interest to that police team.
If an attempt was made to remove the servers by using cyber methods a nations internet provider or gov network would be altered and corrupt staff doing the clean up would find traces of new NSA cyber methods in the wild and report them globally as interesting new malware.
Most groups set up bait servers just to see what gov, mil, other groups, firms, contractors come looking and what methods they use.
Groups have layers of counter surveillance options just by selecting a no go part of a city where every police or undercover police action is very easy to spot as it enters that part of a city. The wider local community knows every face, every car, every normal government and city worker expected to be in the area.
Telco and local gov workers are also loyal to cult like criminal groups over generations of staff and warn of any changes to ISP, telephone networks when normal gov/police logging is requested on local phone numbers or ISP accounts.
Bribes, infiltration gives days or hours of any local police action. More secure federal police units on the move are spotted in most nations with enough warning to escape. Hardware is lost but teams regroup with funds to set up new servers.
The only way around such methods is satellite collection, mil grade surveillance aircraft looking at all wireless networks, or unexpected national telco upgrades that totally bypass all local staff. Teams of criminal informants recruited by federal law enforcement to try and renter their old communities hoping their stories and cover holds. Informants are a huge risk as criminal groups know their methods and hire as needed internally, not from people seeking to join.
Staff members with insights into no go communities are a huge risk too, are they loyal or can they ever be trusted? Law enforcement and the security services in most nations are been filled with many new "translators" and "experts" many of who will report back to their own faiths, cults, criminal groups or other nations.
Just finding a server is easy. Getting any more details is hard work. Even the new hiring practices of the police and security services now allow for surveillance to be discovered.
Re "Can't we just keep this about "
Thats the problem with censorship and a lack of free speech on sites.
Teams of SJW will soon find new topics to ban and report.
Blasphemy? Cartoons? Animated video clips about a faith or cult? Support for monarchies, Communist parties, investors, faiths, political leaders, dictatorships that request safe branding?
Study the limits of todays average cpu, gpu, ram, open and closed OS's and what bandwidth will support.
Project the trend of more cores, more ram, better OS code, more 64 bit users, more bandwidth, VR and social media.
Protect users from ads, malware, code that allows ads to push malware, governments breaking encryption. Or malware that hides as ads.
Ensure encryption is understood by a larger team and is updated a lot as governments and other groups break all existing encryption standards.
When web cams, mic use, social media, VR becomes interesting be ready with quality optional plug in support.
If a trend fails, the plug in exists but did not break the browser.
Given more open standards work with CPU, GPU makers to really get the most out of hardware and any OS.
Even most GPU brands are starting to be a bit more open in what they will support.
Also have a good marketing team that can help users understand what using other brands browser will do to their searches, privacy and data.
Once a site starts to ban its own users, many other users will have to try self-censorship to keep their accounts.
That gets boring and feels like work. Why stay on an interactive social media site if you have no free speech or freedom after speech?
As a site becomes more safe, more regulated by teams of SJW, more boring users will seek fun, interaction and content on other better sites that support freedom of speech.
The fun, desire for and enjoyment of real free speech does not go away when teams of SJW ban users and accounts on one site.
The site that had the SJW censorship will just be used as a safe space for brands, governments, faiths, cults and celebrities.
A bland safe space for marketing, brands, advertising and big government does not attract fun new users.
What will the teams of SJW like to ban next? Cartoons that would be considered blasphemy? Politics? No mention of Tiananmen Square and 1989?
Do SJW have a long list of words, terms they want banned? Protect all celebrity marketing by ensuring only positive movie reviews can be found?
It really depends on how interesting the person the security services find.
If you did not or are not working for the US gov/mil or as a US contractor or mercenary and are not talking to the media a person is not that interesting.
If your not a member of the press looking for gov/mil contacts or showing former gov/mil workers documents that are still secret via whistleblowers.
Most of the main US systems are looking for financial, political, legal, technical terms or terms that should not be out in public.
Other projects like Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group do show another side to information ops.
https://theintercept.com/2014/... (February 25 2014).
The main part will always be the classic COINTELPRO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... as it moved from collection to disruption.
All the press and media can do is take a few basic steps. Never have a cell phone when meeting a contact. Make sure the contact does not have a cell phone.
If material is passed, use paper and a typewriter, pen to make notes later. Do not enter any terms, numbers, dates, names into any computer even if its not networked or at home hours after getting new material.
CCTV is kept for many, many months thanks to well funded public private partnerships. Terms entered will find the origin of the searches and then daily moments can be recreated locally until a meeting is discovered.
Expect any work and home computer, cell phone to be accessed and tracked by default just for been a member of the press.
Note the use of honey traps or fake stories too. The photocopied documents that prove some wonderful story thats all fake. Document experts can help with that as a story is been worked on. The other interesting part is now that city and state governments can look for local issues with new much lower cost federal tracking systems.
Even a member of the press focused on state and city topics, expect the same nation state methods when looking into local issues.
AC my guess that was mostly done back in the day to prevent UK telco workers from finding new software to hardware on their networks and asking questions again.
The UK was not going to have a Room 641A https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... or Greek wiretapping case 2004–05 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...–05
Any telco worker could have gone to the press about strange hardware. Vetted UK telco staff with deep links back to their own nations, embassies, faiths, cults, press/police contacts would have also noted the upgrades and could have passed on details. So it was better to keep network collection well away from everyone and just collect 24/7.
The other good part about controlling the collection is less possibility for a SISMI-Telecom scandal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... event with the networks been used for other missions by "other" random security/agency teams and then getting discovered.
Also the kit would have been provided per aircraft and not too many would ask questions about normal flights. So the UK had a few reasons to use or keep using that method until the legal system and telcos had to accept collection.
With new UK law changes, expect all the same methods to be part of every UK/Irish telco network.