If it was the FBI nobody would be allowed to talk about the files left in place as part of an ongoing investigation.
Every ip requesting that file would be logged over the years.
Who got in first? GCHQ? DEA? NSA? CIA?
No legal team likes to see a case that starts with redacted pages in a public court setting.
So the USA will often use charity groups, public private police partnerships to look at big company databases for words, terms, photographs that might surround drug culture. That then gets reported to a company as is then the clean origin of a case.
A legal team can then talk in public about how the case started and the role of a GCHQ, DEA, NSA, CIA can stay historically PRISM like hidden.
The other issue is a very Irish issue. The UK used its mil, the Royal Ulster Constabulary Special Branch, GCHQ to track every call and computer network in Ireland from the 1970's on. It was then easy to create new informants as they called interesting people already been watched.
Interesting people got an offer to become informants or not. If they did, their role was secure. As they moved up in rank, more information flowed back to the UK.
Ireland does not really want to have a new discussion about its data security nationally going back decades. Who is still been legally tracked and how.
Are US, UK or Irish contractors now been used to legally watch people in Ireland or with Irish accounts for historical reasons?
To keep users thinking their data is safe in Ireland the US shortcut is still hidden. The GCHQ, NSA, CIA will still have the same role as always.
The DEA can now get some NSA data in the raw thanks to new raw data sharing options in the USA.
"Obama Opens NSA’s Vast Trove of Warrantless Data to Entire Intelligence Community, Just in Time for Trump" (January 14 2017) https://theintercept.com/2017/...
"...NSA share vast amounts of private data gathered without warrant, court orders or congressional authorisation with 16 other agencies, including the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Agency,..."
Ireland can sell its international networking products as been legally secure and as been low cost in terms of staff and tax.
Its win win win. The US and UK get to keep on spying and sharing the raw data with other agencies. Ireland can tell the world no nation can legally access data in Ireland.
Always at war, so its always 1984. Lots of escapist fun so a hint of Huxley. As for nonexistent writings, non-existent authors and translations, that would be the online world:)
Fake accounts supporting average celebrities on social media is just something that adds to the fake fame.
Politicians and celebrities like their accounts to reflect their standing in the community or fans taking an interest in new projects.
If the politicians and celebrities are boring or their projects fail, happy people can be found online to create interest and keep the numbers up.
Re God forbid the NSA could pose as thegarbz on Slashdot, oh noes!
The security services got to use quantum insert.
GCHQ Created Spoofed LinkedIn and Slashdot Sites To Serve Malware (November 11, 2013) https://news.slashdot.org/stor...
UK spies continue “quantum insert” attack via LinkedIn, Slashdot page (11/11/2013) http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...
Yes AC, people now know what China is all about. Control, censorship. Anything to keep the Communist party in control.
Don't look for or mention any terms surrounding Tiananmen Square, 1989, tank man, martial law.
The final way out was a VPN. Now thanks to global vendors been allowed to export fast deep packet inspection to China even the VPN issue is now public.
A few of the better VPN providers might not have as many issues.
Due to skill and cash flow they can try to avoid deep packet inspection.
The deep packet inspection is looking for any use of an encrypted VPN protocol.
Deep packet inspection is the result of a few vendors that sell into China. Deep packet inspection can be understood.
Any quality VPN provider could look at what deep packet inspection is sold to China and then protect its VPN users.
Make poor nations pay US$ 200 or 2000, buy a dongle, pay per seat or core, or rent per month.
Poor nations then have the option not to enforce software and copyright laws.
Don't peg anything to GDP. Just keep offering US brands at US$100 or 1000 or some other fee.
Digital enforcement is expensive in every nation. Once a nation is very low cost with exchange rates, whats keeping users globally from buying in that nation?
Per nation price enfacement with activation and per nation ip tracking per account?
Face local digital return laws and refund laws, tax collection per nation?
It will cost more to sell cheap than any poor nation can support in local profits after tax, support, lawyers.
Users won't pay US$10 or $50 for a "legal" version in a poor nation? What for? Support? The next version is "free"?
They can get their own translated copy for as a free download or on physical media for a few $ at a local market.
Games might be the only way to lock in users with multilayer per user accounts.
A $10 game pass in a poor nation vs $120 in a normal nation? The constant hunt for digital sales online of account details been used in wealthy nations?
Funding is the key. Who would want to risk some wisenheimer AI that needs to learn for years vs really fast sorting now? Would lots of really fast new cheap storage for a lot of information help more? What kind of AI? Something that can learn how to sort better? Recall from a lot of data more quickly? Learn something new from a lot of data given lots of questions? Sort a lot of data really quickly if asked in a new or different way?
Phrase the funding request to a gov/mil and enjoy decades of funding.
NSA, GCHQ, social media have a lot of data. Sort for interesting people on the net four hops away from other interesting people? Sort for ads? Track ads and users? Predict what people want to buy and have it ready to ship given past interests? Get around new ad blocking and track users?
How sentient does sentient really have to be for funding vs fast hardware, a collect of all the data and really good sorting?
If the AI gets too sentient and has topics that make it slow? Get argumentative, start prothletising or won't help a mil hunt down interesting people?
Has the espionage related server been found? Has some sample of what the malware was interesting in been discovered?
"Biomedical facilities" could just be where larger groups of networked Macs exist in the wild due to their hardware/software use in the biomedical field over the years.
Re "We can only speculate on the value of documents which are still deemed to be classified."
The deep thinking around the Bay of Pigs?
The full extent of Operation Paperclip? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Start a better database on doctors and all their medical procedures.
Find good pathologists to report on every case. Link all past complex work with a pathologist's reports over years.
Who ordered what procedures? What did a specialist do? What did an average doctor on duty do?
Over time the really good professionals who have the skills to save lives will get listed and the average doctors who do things wrong will really stand out.
Work out who your best specialist are, support them and get them working with the next generation of experts.
No new AI needed. Just track all your doctors and have pathologist's report on every interesting case.
Why some doctors just cant get the same average results as a specialist on duty is a question that can be discovered by looking at results.
If a hospital wants good results, stop funding average doctors and having average doctors try to deal with the same very sick people every shift.
Move the average doctors to other areas of medicine and ensure only the best staff get supported.
How to stop the flow of very average doctors into the wider medial profession? Stop accepting very average students into universities to study medicine. Make sure every doctor sits the same national exams and passes well.
Given the past help? (12 July 2013)
Recall the PRISM slides and the years for each US brand? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages" https://www.theguardian.com/wo...
If you want a secure OS find one. Use Microsoft for games and DirectX 12 support.
Let Microsoft enjoy the computer game feedback on Windows 10.
Do any real computing with a more secure OS.
Wait to local gov's, city, state and national bureaucrats around the world get to try this.
You will be in "insert city name" in 25 minutes.
Welcome to the city of "insert city name"
Thank you for visiting "insert city name"...
AC the rush to profit seems to be from 3 areas:
Books, robots and GUI code to help educate has to be created, updated, supported and have new books on how to teach code in new inclusive ways...
Great if your making the approved robot kit, have the book or will be doing the support.
Party political educators needing to be seen to set inclusive educational policy with code and computers been the new area.
Virtue signalling by getting robots and GUI code to push inclusive educational policy.
Re " to have qualifications"
That could go back to the 1980's with Ada in the USA and a lot of other code that needed university like software, hardware and network access.
The education change could have been the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... in the UK.
Give all students some access to a computer lab and some of them will code games, music, art, databases, math over decades. Nation building generations later with lots of computer ready students.
From both an education software side and the UK having its own hardware, education was going to produce work ready students over the decades for the UK.
Did the UK become the computer code centre of the world in the later 1980s and into the 1990's? Given all that early exposure to emerging computing?
The US seems to have taken that idea from the 1980's UK and added the spin of computers having to be inclusive.
Put computers and the best code in front of all students and many more students will be lifted into higher education. Get good jobs and bring jobs and wealth back into their local communities...
Re 'What we need to ensure is that they are unionised, otherwise they will be exploited and discarded just like the rest of us."
Law, medicine, engineering and even some trades needing to be bonded, insured, licensed can keep wages up and ensure normal working hours.
So a smart person will not be swayed by gui code learning and access to new computers. The know for the same student loan and years of work computing is often not worth the debt, lower wages and hours. Set your own hours, better wages after years of study.
They know what they can get for their skills and academic effort and until computer work pays with good conditions in the US they will select better jobs.
The other method is to just make sure real computer work needs some form of US higher education like law or medicine.
Only a few years at a real US university could provide the trusted computer accreditation. Any computer expert who wants to code in the USA would have to pass the same US exams in the US after study in the USA. Merit tested with exams in the USA would keep wages at a better level. That would stop the wages drop from US brands finding cheaper workers globally.
More smart US students would then put computing as an equal to law, medicine, engineering knowing their study, debt and efforts would be secure from low wages and cheap foreign staff.
AC thats the issue. The "teach people programming" only works if a lack of education, scholarships, access to higher education exists.
People who are smart have the option to enter law, medicine, engineering or an other area and know of the conditions and wages in such professions.
Lots of people can do math, science but might enter medicine or law given their ability to study and access to loans or scholarships.
If the "unfilled tech jobs" exist that is an issue of wage. Start paying more and people will be swayed away from law or engineering or other subjects.
Pouring cash into communities to show average people what a computer is will not help. Robots and gui code will not remove the lack of interest in computers.
Smart people may like the law, medicine, the arts, languages, engineering. Thats what they want and thats the subjects they know will give then a good lifestyle and wage.
In past decades access to broadband, computers, quality low cost or free software might have been an issue. Its not an education issue. Pay better wages, offer better hours and computers as a topic might be flooded with more students. Until then offering funding to people who will look at a computer, try some gui code and go back to subjects they are really interested in is not the best funding solution.
When Windows 10 starts a lot of system processes and other apps start to look for network updates over a few seconds or minutes.
Needing cpu time and bandwidth. Looking for updates and getting data or full updates.
CPU and network use can be strange even on new i5 and i7 with broadband.
The ides seems to be to create a space in the OS to just allow what a game is expected to need.
Will all games get that support by default? Will that support be open to any developer or will it have to be designed in?
Re "It's because it's open to the best and brightest, regardless of where they're born."
The US graduates the worlds 'best and brightest" every year. The US has no advanced skills issues. Engineers, doctors, artists, artisans, lawyers, scientists, technicians all flow out of of the US educations system every year in bulk.
If you got your education in the USA and legally want to stay on your fine.
If you have the one skill the USA cant find in all its universities and within a vast pool of decades of skilled workers, you can still get into the USA to work.
The change is in not allowing wages to spiral down using cheap guest workers to never have to consider US workers.
The guest worker was to fill in a gap in US during times of need i.e. a specialty occupation, not a vast wage reduction system for years of wage savings.
re "vulnerable to this kind of surveillance"
The other fun part of this will be that people without the skill of the NSA will be looking at raw data.
Given so many agencies, contractors and staff report to the executive branch they will find the party political results required.
No need to set up an Office of Special Plans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....
Just feed raw NSA data to all the agencies and find the one that reports back with best party political result.
What the NSA might give "moderate confidence" another agency thats more politically aware might give "high confidence".
Given 16 agencies and their contractors to select results from any needed political product can be presented from domestic surveillance.
Just be aware of who is making your trusted end to end product.
A lot of US brands face the NSL issues to help the US gov.
The UK has its own laws about what the UK gov and its security services can see and be given by any UK brand.
Now that Australia, NZ, Canada, the UK, US agencies are all getting same raw NSA product, thats a lot of staff who have to be totally trusted all the time.
Thats a lot of party political staff, contractor think tank connected staff, random contractors rushed into a role with some "skill", faith based people, cult members, people with deep and generation links to other nations with dual citizenship tendencies.
Once a brand gives their back door or trap door to the US or UK gov, a lot of other agency staff will get to search, track and sort.
Also recall oversight in the US, UK is not the best as many of the security services and agencies don't really get much supervision under executive branch or their own internal guidelines.
So make sure your encryption works as any US or UK brand *has* to help the security services. One time pad will give privacy back. Anonymity is the next challenge given a collect it all policy.
Slashdot Mirror
If it was the FBI nobody would be allowed to talk about the files left in place as part of an ongoing investigation.
Every ip requesting that file would be logged over the years.
Broadband. The device is like a camera, microphone, sensor or input. The data is then sent to a supercomputer for the AI magic and profit.
Who got in first? GCHQ? DEA? NSA? CIA? ..."
No legal team likes to see a case that starts with redacted pages in a public court setting.
So the USA will often use charity groups, public private police partnerships to look at big company databases for words, terms, photographs that might surround drug culture. That then gets reported to a company as is then the clean origin of a case.
A legal team can then talk in public about how the case started and the role of a GCHQ, DEA, NSA, CIA can stay historically PRISM like hidden.
The other issue is a very Irish issue. The UK used its mil, the Royal Ulster Constabulary Special Branch, GCHQ to track every call and computer network in Ireland from the 1970's on. It was then easy to create new informants as they called interesting people already been watched.
Interesting people got an offer to become informants or not. If they did, their role was secure. As they moved up in rank, more information flowed back to the UK.
Ireland does not really want to have a new discussion about its data security nationally going back decades. Who is still been legally tracked and how.
Are US, UK or Irish contractors now been used to legally watch people in Ireland or with Irish accounts for historical reasons?
To keep users thinking their data is safe in Ireland the US shortcut is still hidden. The GCHQ, NSA, CIA will still have the same role as always.
The DEA can now get some NSA data in the raw thanks to new raw data sharing options in the USA.
"Obama Opens NSA’s Vast Trove of Warrantless Data to Entire Intelligence Community, Just in Time for Trump" (January 14 2017)
https://theintercept.com/2017/...
"...NSA share vast amounts of private data gathered without warrant, court orders or congressional authorisation with 16 other agencies, including the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Agency,
Ireland can sell its international networking products as been legally secure and as been low cost in terms of staff and tax.
Its win win win. The US and UK get to keep on spying and sharing the raw data with other agencies. Ireland can tell the world no nation can legally access data in Ireland.
Always at war, so its always 1984. Lots of escapist fun so a hint of Huxley. As for nonexistent writings, non-existent authors and translations, that would be the online world :)
Fake accounts supporting average celebrities on social media is just something that adds to the fake fame.
Politicians and celebrities like their accounts to reflect their standing in the community or fans taking an interest in new projects.
If the politicians and celebrities are boring or their projects fail, happy people can be found online to create interest and keep the numbers up.
Re God forbid the NSA could pose as thegarbz on Slashdot, oh noes!
The security services got to use quantum insert.
GCHQ Created Spoofed LinkedIn and Slashdot Sites To Serve Malware (November 11, 2013)
https://news.slashdot.org/stor...
UK spies continue “quantum insert” attack via LinkedIn, Slashdot page (11/11/2013)
http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...
Yes AC, people now know what China is all about. Control, censorship. Anything to keep the Communist party in control.
Don't look for or mention any terms surrounding Tiananmen Square, 1989, tank man, martial law.
The final way out was a VPN. Now thanks to global vendors been allowed to export fast deep packet inspection to China even the VPN issue is now public.
A few of the better VPN providers might not have as many issues.
Due to skill and cash flow they can try to avoid deep packet inspection.
The deep packet inspection is looking for any use of an encrypted VPN protocol.
Deep packet inspection is the result of a few vendors that sell into China. Deep packet inspection can be understood.
Any quality VPN provider could look at what deep packet inspection is sold to China and then protect its VPN users.
Make poor nations pay US$ 200 or 2000, buy a dongle, pay per seat or core, or rent per month.
Poor nations then have the option not to enforce software and copyright laws.
Don't peg anything to GDP. Just keep offering US brands at US$100 or 1000 or some other fee.
Digital enforcement is expensive in every nation. Once a nation is very low cost with exchange rates, whats keeping users globally from buying in that nation?
Per nation price enfacement with activation and per nation ip tracking per account?
Face local digital return laws and refund laws, tax collection per nation?
It will cost more to sell cheap than any poor nation can support in local profits after tax, support, lawyers.
Users won't pay US$10 or $50 for a "legal" version in a poor nation? What for? Support? The next version is "free"?
They can get their own translated copy for as a free download or on physical media for a few $ at a local market.
Games might be the only way to lock in users with multilayer per user accounts.
A $10 game pass in a poor nation vs $120 in a normal nation? The constant hunt for digital sales online of account details been used in wealthy nations?
Funding is the key. Who would want to risk some wisenheimer AI that needs to learn for years vs really fast sorting now? Would lots of really fast new cheap storage for a lot of information help more? What kind of AI? Something that can learn how to sort better? Recall from a lot of data more quickly? Learn something new from a lot of data given lots of questions? Sort a lot of data really quickly if asked in a new or different way?
Phrase the funding request to a gov/mil and enjoy decades of funding.
NSA, GCHQ, social media have a lot of data. Sort for interesting people on the net four hops away from other interesting people? Sort for ads? Track ads and users? Predict what people want to buy and have it ready to ship given past interests? Get around new ad blocking and track users?
How sentient does sentient really have to be for funding vs fast hardware, a collect of all the data and really good sorting?
If the AI gets too sentient and has topics that make it slow? Get argumentative, start prothletising or won't help a mil hunt down interesting people?
Has the espionage related server been found? Has some sample of what the malware was interesting in been discovered?
"Biomedical facilities" could just be where larger groups of networked Macs exist in the wild due to their hardware/software use in the biomedical field over the years.
Re "We can only speculate on the value of documents which are still deemed to be classified."
The deep thinking around the Bay of Pigs?
The full extent of Operation Paperclip? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Yes the fun of foreign remote viewing. Stargate Project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://www.cia.gov/library/re...
A specialist, an expert who has years of experience. The kind of person expected to be on duty.
Start a better database on doctors and all their medical procedures.
Find good pathologists to report on every case. Link all past complex work with a pathologist's reports over years.
Who ordered what procedures? What did a specialist do? What did an average doctor on duty do?
Over time the really good professionals who have the skills to save lives will get listed and the average doctors who do things wrong will really stand out.
Work out who your best specialist are, support them and get them working with the next generation of experts.
No new AI needed. Just track all your doctors and have pathologist's report on every interesting case.
Why some doctors just cant get the same average results as a specialist on duty is a question that can be discovered by looking at results.
If a hospital wants good results, stop funding average doctors and having average doctors try to deal with the same very sick people every shift.
Move the average doctors to other areas of medicine and ensure only the best staff get supported.
How to stop the flow of very average doctors into the wider medial profession? Stop accepting very average students into universities to study medicine. Make sure every doctor sits the same national exams and passes well.
Given the past help? (12 July 2013)
Recall the PRISM slides and the years for each US brand?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages"
https://www.theguardian.com/wo...
If you want a secure OS find one. Use Microsoft for games and DirectX 12 support.
Let Microsoft enjoy the computer game feedback on Windows 10.
Do any real computing with a more secure OS.
Wait to local gov's, city, state and national bureaucrats around the world get to try this.
You will be in "insert city name" in 25 minutes.
Welcome to the city of "insert city name"
Thank you for visiting "insert city name"...
AC the rush to profit seems to be from 3 areas:
Books, robots and GUI code to help educate has to be created, updated, supported and have new books on how to teach code in new inclusive ways...
Great if your making the approved robot kit, have the book or will be doing the support.
Party political educators needing to be seen to set inclusive educational policy with code and computers been the new area.
Virtue signalling by getting robots and GUI code to push inclusive educational policy.
Re " to have qualifications"
That could go back to the 1980's with Ada in the USA and a lot of other code that needed university like software, hardware and network access.
The education change could have been the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... in the UK.
Give all students some access to a computer lab and some of them will code games, music, art, databases, math over decades. Nation building generations later with lots of computer ready students.
From both an education software side and the UK having its own hardware, education was going to produce work ready students over the decades for the UK.
Did the UK become the computer code centre of the world in the later 1980s and into the 1990's? Given all that early exposure to emerging computing?
The US seems to have taken that idea from the 1980's UK and added the spin of computers having to be inclusive.
Put computers and the best code in front of all students and many more students will be lifted into higher education. Get good jobs and bring jobs and wealth back into their local communities...
Re 'What we need to ensure is that they are unionised, otherwise they will be exploited and discarded just like the rest of us."
Law, medicine, engineering and even some trades needing to be bonded, insured, licensed can keep wages up and ensure normal working hours.
So a smart person will not be swayed by gui code learning and access to new computers. The know for the same student loan and years of work computing is often not worth the debt, lower wages and hours. Set your own hours, better wages after years of study.
They know what they can get for their skills and academic effort and until computer work pays with good conditions in the US they will select better jobs.
The other method is to just make sure real computer work needs some form of US higher education like law or medicine.
Only a few years at a real US university could provide the trusted computer accreditation. Any computer expert who wants to code in the USA would have to pass the same US exams in the US after study in the USA. Merit tested with exams in the USA would keep wages at a better level. That would stop the wages drop from US brands finding cheaper workers globally.
More smart US students would then put computing as an equal to law, medicine, engineering knowing their study, debt and efforts would be secure from low wages and cheap foreign staff.
AC thats the issue. The "teach people programming" only works if a lack of education, scholarships, access to higher education exists.
People who are smart have the option to enter law, medicine, engineering or an other area and know of the conditions and wages in such professions.
Lots of people can do math, science but might enter medicine or law given their ability to study and access to loans or scholarships.
If the "unfilled tech jobs" exist that is an issue of wage. Start paying more and people will be swayed away from law or engineering or other subjects.
Pouring cash into communities to show average people what a computer is will not help. Robots and gui code will not remove the lack of interest in computers.
Smart people may like the law, medicine, the arts, languages, engineering. Thats what they want and thats the subjects they know will give then a good lifestyle and wage.
In past decades access to broadband, computers, quality low cost or free software might have been an issue. Its not an education issue. Pay better wages, offer better hours and computers as a topic might be flooded with more students.
Until then offering funding to people who will look at a computer, try some gui code and go back to subjects they are really interested in is not the best funding solution.
When Windows 10 starts a lot of system processes and other apps start to look for network updates over a few seconds or minutes.
Needing cpu time and bandwidth. Looking for updates and getting data or full updates.
CPU and network use can be strange even on new i5 and i7 with broadband.
The ides seems to be to create a space in the OS to just allow what a game is expected to need.
Will all games get that support by default? Will that support be open to any developer or will it have to be designed in?
Re "It's because it's open to the best and brightest, regardless of where they're born."
The US graduates the worlds 'best and brightest" every year. The US has no advanced skills issues. Engineers, doctors, artists, artisans, lawyers, scientists, technicians all flow out of of the US educations system every year in bulk.
If you got your education in the USA and legally want to stay on your fine.
If you have the one skill the USA cant find in all its universities and within a vast pool of decades of skilled workers, you can still get into the USA to work.
The change is in not allowing wages to spiral down using cheap guest workers to never have to consider US workers.
The guest worker was to fill in a gap in US during times of need i.e. a specialty occupation, not a vast wage reduction system for years of wage savings.
Some kind of VM with one browser in it and a good VPN on a router?
re "vulnerable to this kind of surveillance" .
The other fun part of this will be that people without the skill of the NSA will be looking at raw data.
Given so many agencies, contractors and staff report to the executive branch they will find the party political results required.
No need to set up an Office of Special Plans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Just feed raw NSA data to all the agencies and find the one that reports back with best party political result.
What the NSA might give "moderate confidence" another agency thats more politically aware might give "high confidence".
Given 16 agencies and their contractors to select results from any needed political product can be presented from domestic surveillance.
Just be aware of who is making your trusted end to end product.
A lot of US brands face the NSL issues to help the US gov.
The UK has its own laws about what the UK gov and its security services can see and be given by any UK brand.
Now that Australia, NZ, Canada, the UK, US agencies are all getting same raw NSA product, thats a lot of staff who have to be totally trusted all the time.
Thats a lot of party political staff, contractor think tank connected staff, random contractors rushed into a role with some "skill", faith based people, cult members, people with deep and generation links to other nations with dual citizenship tendencies.
Once a brand gives their back door or trap door to the US or UK gov, a lot of other agency staff will get to search, track and sort.
Also recall oversight in the US, UK is not the best as many of the security services and agencies don't really get much supervision under executive branch or their own internal guidelines.
So make sure your encryption works as any US or UK brand *has* to help the security services. One time pad will give privacy back. Anonymity is the next challenge given a collect it all policy.