re It makes absolutely no sense whatsoever..
Western brands trying to sell into China are always happy to report users for short term market share.
China wants its staff to be Party members, in the mil or doing great things for China and be seen to get top rankings vs other nations.
Study, self improvement, supporting the Party is been side tracked and eroded by outside influences.
Say a mil officer from China gets sent to the West to study and bring back another nations emerging academic concepts.
They see students and staff exchanging ideas, enjoying media, books, movies, musics, online culture without been reported.
No restrictive uniforms, the freedom to say what you want in a staff meeting about funding, gov cut backs or needed new equipment or waste, incompetence or party political interference.
Back in China they remember that freedom, the internet, the friends who did not report people, helpful staff, the freedom to find housing, the lack of a uniform everyday, the creativity, the ability to buy a book, any book. To go see any movie.
The fear of China is that material will flood in from Japan, the West that will attractive to its workers and its best Party members.
Ideas that support individuality, freedom, freedom of speech, freedom to advance without needing the Party. Not having to denounce or report your friends, neighbours, colleagues or been asked why your not reporting more people.
MI6, the CIA and Japan see an opening with faith based material, science fiction, anime, music, movies, art, cults to flood China. Easy to consume addictive material with distractions that weaken China's educational systems and wider Party control. The individual drifts away from the mil, Party to their own freedoms, hobbies, cult, faith, anime, music. Distracted, solitary, sedentary, addicted and lazy or finds dedication in helping cults, separatist movements, NGO's or democratic politics.
China knows a free person can escape Communism totally and has to do everything it can to stop that. So it follows the best practice of censorship and control.
Welcome to China or some monarchy or theocracy.
Any gov can offer users the ability to be censored, reported for blasphemy and banned back in their own nations for free.
No freedom of speech, freedom after speech. Teams of SJW looking over your comments and links with the need to be a hero.
Time to support new US sites that allow freedom of speech, after speech and allows the free flow of information without SWJ teams.
What will main stream social media look like? Media releases by gov's, technocrats, bureaucrats, think tanks, political parties, their staff, celebrities, cults and faiths? Safe and very boring.
All patrolled by SJW teams who get points for banning accounts and users? The best and brightest will seek out better sites and tell all their fun friends to follow them.
The harder SJW work to ban links and users the more people will have fun and enjoy the freedoms of competing US sites.
Anyone can get censored and banned globally by a gov or faith. Been censored and banned does not trend well.
The freedom to comment, think, enjoy, have fun will sell. The USA has something unique, support and sell freedom to the world.
What happened?
1. For the first time in a few decades a NSA staging server was left open?
A gov/mil worker made an error? A contractor made a mistake? The buddy system failed and two contractors together did not spot the error?
That happened for the first time in decades of the NSA having total mastery of the internet and not been tracked in real time.
2. Another friendly nation finally educated some of its own staff to near NSA skill levels and they found a live in use staging server and had a look, for the first time ever?
All other nations have been really under skilled/had no funds for so many years and this is the first time they have ever seen the NSA live on the net.
3. The NSA and GCHQ expected their skills to hold against all nations and all internet users for ever. No staging server had ever been discovered and the risk was so low a front company server would ever be randomly discovered.
4. Some EU/NATO staff gave their own gov/mil a copy. A third part nation's "trusted" staff used US tools in a NSA related operation and a copy just made it out. Thanks to politics, cult, faith, lack of funds the code got used and noticed by few other nations mil, gov... special police units... and what was once secure is now a copy of a copy thats been discovered in the wild.
Some other nation was so desperate and used what they had "copied" from the US and made some huge mistakes due to been rushed or a trap the NSA adds to any bespoke altered export grade code it shares with its friends.
Your company will buy an account with your ISP. A card with the company brand in the back of your "modem" will make the network part of your bands office network.
A very secure link from a home to the office. Set bandwidth, 24/7 support but for work only.
If the better VPN's can get around everything China can buy, code and build, the efforts of the Australia gov should not be much of an issue for most good VPN brands experts.
Just an added cost for people in Australia, internet costs and now a VPN to keep the internet working.
Steganography https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... is what would work. The ability to display a lot of normal images in RAW and with jpegs that hide a few RAW images hidden over slightly larger file sizes. It would need a lot of normal images to provide the extra file size for a few real images.
With cheap media and a lot of sets of HDR images https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... , a number of real images could be hidden.
Anyone looking at a few 100 images would see art and allowed sites. Within that would be a ratio of hidden images.
Encryption would be discovered. A camera card with 100 images that don't display would be seen as data.
100 sunset images would be passed.
AC as a few people have mentioned, steganography would solve that issue. A lot of happy images hide the next Tank Man https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....
Re "Take lots of photo of parades and landscape. There should be ample extra bits to save the photo/video that you wish to hide amongst the bland photos. "
Add an extra 5-10 % of data onto each larger RAW file size depending on the brands average RAW file size?
Split the hidden files so the RAW files can hold part of another hidden RAW or a few hidden jpegs.
Over the many 10's of gb on average consumer storage cards that could spread an extra percentage of of images in the parades and landscapes.
Some hidden gui that shows for a count of images as a ratio of hidden file space that is then ready to hide more images in. Realtime CPU work and real images are then hidden and spread over the parades and landscapes after a very short time. If stopped in the street later, only safe parades and landscape are seen on the display, saved on media, or can be copied.
Quality could then be captured but would need a high count of ready parades and landscapes to hide in.
Or go for jpeg thats not so useful later but a much higher count could be secured in less parades and landscapes RAW images.
Once a gov and mil starts spying on their own people legally the dynamic changes.
A gov has to find people with the tested intellectual disposition who really enjoy spying domestically with no court oversight.
To hand them the keys to junk cryptography and then collect it all.
Most governments who try that then face data walking out as staff contact the press or have to have massive internal oversight to try and prevent staff misuse of access. Staff cults, faiths, politics then surface deep within trusted areas.
Good staff who know they are not trusted don't preform that well and walk out. The ranks become filled with staff who hide their true interests to advance.
Foreign governments move in with offers of friendship, support, cash, understanding in a frenzy of recruitment. Digital tracking is sold as perfection but the more skilled humans spies always get in.
Even the contractor buddy system starts to break down as the teams influence each other and total corruption sets in.
The classic East German issue has not been solved. How to have informants and undercover officers working on groups of 5-10 protesters, spying and reporting on each other, creating vast amounts of files on other deep cover informants. Given the US love of agencies reporting only to to mil, police and different sections of the US gov domestic collection becomes vast with a lot of duplication. Great for contractors and overtime but not much use for what govs crave.
The more domestic data thats created, the more informants that are needed and have to keep their cover and so create more data to collect.
Feed the NSA and GCHQ just what they expect to see.
All the West has is data collection. Junk encryption supported by the big US and UK brands was the way in so offer keywords to the collectors.
So the NSA and GCHQ gets everything thanks to the support of US and UK brands.
Give the security services everything they could every want with digital collection.
Lots of online meetings, conversations, chats, forums, faith, cults, politics in every daily internet log kept by the ISP.
Make it interesting, get the contractor or gov worker addicted to the next days amazing fictional instalment. Add some story arcs over the years.
If your a journalist create a few dozen amazing whistelblowers and informants deep in gov or retired. People who have found a conscience after decades in gov and now just want to talk. Create a hint of their decades of documents and add future meetings to the cloud OS. Create a code that they can use.
Don't get fancy, just that material has been sorted and further clarification is needed.
Walk around with your cell phone in city areas, cafes full of "contacts" i.e. government workers and contractors.
Stop for 5 or 10 minutes during for a file hand over. It will show up nice on a map of cell phone movements.
A journalist cell phone stopping for a "meeting" can result in the questioning of 10's of security clearances in minutes. Ensure the contractors have to consider every phone thats next to a journalist everyday for weeks, months, years. Thats 100's of government workers and contractors who had trackable contact with a journalist known to have cultivated a lot of informants. Turn digital tracking into a script and a total work of fiction. Make sure 100's of fictional files exist packed with keywords any gov would find interesting. Ensure all networked computers running everyone fav US consumer junk OS's.
Slowly a gov worker or contractor will slowly understand that its all fictional junk.
That is the real the problem with tracking your own citizens digitally. The ability for creativity outpaces digital collection that can only focus on keywords and can only afford to task so many contractors to read vast amounts of fictional material and make a determination.
Long term the security services will then have consider the option to task teams of 9 people in shifts per interesting person. Thats East German numbers of gov workers and informants to track one person who can use a consumer OS...
If the US and UK govs want the "normalisation” of government surveillance give them something to read. Support the junk US bands, their developers, big brand cryptographers who only have the skills to help govs and fill your devices with fictional fun.
If your onto a real story, use your brain and paper notes, avoid CCTV, give your tracked phone to a friend for the day.
China has it own university students who then go on to create things and teach the next generation.
If they want they can learn in the West and bring back ideas and concepts as they are been created in Western universities and think tanks, research labs.
The Communist Party and mil does not need some foreigner wondering around for years asking questions, looking at things, learning about local issues.
Not many people in the West have anything that China needs. If China sees a product or service it wants it has a few options:
Buy the lab in the West and staff it with trusted staff in the West to extract the needed information.
Surround the West's best academics with students who will bring the emerging skills back to China in real time.
Invite the company into China and get a good understanding of the product, prototype and then produce it locally. Export the product to the world under a local brand.
All that can be done in China with people the Communist party can trust.
China is also aware of the skill sets of the CIA and MI6, well funded western NGO's backing protesters and dissidents.
Why even risk a CIA or MI6, NGO front just to bring in a Western student or engineer with a great cover story who could then "travel" all over China and be a constant risk to China.
No Western academic or staff has any skill that is worth that long term risk to China. Buy or get their tech in the West and if they really have to enter China then on very short term contracts, tours, visits.
China was surrounded by the NSA and GCHQ (Demos-4, Little Sai Wan, Chum Hom Kok). Letting in Western teams will just allow ever more CIA and MI6 in to wonder around China making contacts, spying and collecting information. The spread of Western propaganda, support and funding for protesters, more spying is the only result. Any student or academic in the West can have their skills bought or accessed in the West and China can then access the same advancements as needed. No risk, no issues, no foreigners wondering around spying and making contacts for years.
The "identify the particular offender" is going to get more interesting AC.
With the amount of SJW hero groups now been allowed powers on different media and social media sites what will be the next net ban?
As more monarchies, theocracies and cults fund US social media sites what other users could be removed?
Blasphemy? Drawing or spreading a cartoon that is a gateway to atheism? Upsetting a monarch or cult? News about Communist party leaders wealth?
Comment about illegal immigration? Pollution? A hospital that won't clean its wards or equipment? A state political leader wants revenge over comments?
Social media staff who support certain political parties who lost an election but cant face reality who then want users removed from the net, not just their comments?
Once one group, industry or section of the US gets banning powers, every US SWJ will want the same to make the net a safe space.
Giving any group that kind of power will just make other SJW demand the same color of law account access.
In the past it was RAM, CPU. Just getting a computer to run on consumer grade OS was not easy.
Now its the staff needed to work around complex OS and try and secure parts.
The downside is you need a great OS and really skilled developers.
Some US OS brands like to allow data collection and only make computer games easy to code for.
Other OS are just complex and have teams who have helped the security services in the past.
Finding a good secure OS to build on is not easy.
Yes, everyone who wants or needs to be seen with some Apple product has one.
Then reality sets in. Apple is not been so supportive of their older must have product.
The next gen of Apple products just extends the lock in, gets slow, must upgrade hardware over another cycle.
People start looking at a real laptop or Surface to be supported and productive.
More ram, better cpu, gpu, real software options.
Once censorship is allowed who really wants to stay on a managed site?
Once topics people have put a lot of work into get banned, edited or removed?
Other really good US sites offer freedom of speech, freedom after speech and the freedom to read a comment later.
They trust their users, their users ideas, thoughts, words, comments and topics.
If a site does not like or trust its users to comment maybe the site should just publish the news, topics it likes?
Re 'picked up by police, secret or not, and then disappear to prison, or simply disappear?"
The SAS solution was tried in Ireland. It works very well but needs huge support teams and has to be fully hidden from any outside comment.
The UK gov/mil cant work its way into the closed, isolated, inward looking faith based communities that it now has in so many of its cities the way it could in move around Ireland.
Mil/undercover police teams would get noticed, confronted in the public street in no go areas. Surrounded, asked who they are, photographed, what they are doing and informed that they are not welcome as that are not local. The classic no go area of layers of look outs and a closed faith based community.
So the UK changed policy and made domestic collection legal. The hope is all the interesting people will always keep on using their junk computers, be so addicted to their cell phones and be trackable nationally. Voice prints was great for that. A policy around the idea that people always use computers and cell phones and always will.
The people of interest can then be tracked outside the protection of a no go area and be tracked, interviewed, arrested, face court as needed.
The part the UK has not considered is the lack of a home computer or cell phone or other easy to track, decrypt device or that any interesting data would be allowed to be found or sent. Or that a phone would be given to a friend to wonder around with for normal work, study...
Time to buy a lot of contractors and informants to track interesting people?
The UK mil could not trust its own police, court workers, the media or university experts.
The UK gov wanted to keep the GCHQ's decryption ability away from academics, the media, police/courts who sold information to interesting people.
Few details about the ability to track Irish groups of interest down to one person, breaking up any value in a cell structure was going to be make it to court.
The use of teams of cars, trucks, vans, helicopters, satellite, total access to every part of Irelands telco system was not going to get out to the wider public.
So news about turned "informants" got spread. The idea was to only trust the SAS, GCHQ, Royal Ulster Constabulary Special Branch, MI5 and army teams who had to work on telco networks.
Experts, courts, police, lawyers, the media knew nothing and got very few details in normal court documents. Just that a case existed and an informant or some other found evidence was ready.
Re 'They are not allowed to lie about what the evidence is, only how it was obtained."
That kind of expert skill sets between GCHQ, army, Special Branch is now replaced by UK political experts telling the world the UK is spying on everyone legally and that all UK hardware is UK gov spy ready.. and that UK brand crypto is junk.
Everyone interesting just uses the net for fun and reverts to secure meeting under the cover of cults, faith groups, holidays, study groups. National logging and decryption just shows data on video games, sport, celebrity gossip and educational use.
Re "state the truth"
The UK fixed all that in the past with the National Technical Assistance Centre, Government Technical Assistance Centre.
The GCHQ/NSA would trapdoor backdoor crypto and the police would then get the result via court ready "Centre" staff in open or closed court.
The staff would then be the experts in court and show normal court sanctioned police methods got access to a device, network and a password was logged at some stage.
Any crypto then failed due to passwords been recorded as past of ongoing police investigations.
The other aspect was early cell phone tracking and recording. That had to be presented as not to give away too much about device access, telco support, quality of mapping.
The NSA saw a huge growth in staff, mission creep and mission design in the past decade.
From just supporting other real agencies with background data in the past, the NSA then wanted to design mission, to follow the missions and get the resulting political/mil budget growth.
A huge growth in budget, outside staff allowed in with poor vetting, computer use, decryption expected to track an enemy who would always be connected. Decades of interesting people always using a phone, fax, computer, cell phone, the internet, sat phone, pager, have a bank account, order services online... was just expected to grow.
A system designed to track domestic users with all junk big US/UK brand crypto and all foreign mil who's encrypted command and control was export grade and also junk.
The NSA projected endless growth in domestic spying and that every other nation would advance into export grade junk encrypted gov, banking, command and control networks.
Now the collection issues that MI5,6, CIA, GCHQ hinted at is reality. Once the world knows its been spied on domestically and globally the interesting people can just change their behaviour. Human spies, covert teams need really great support, mass domestic collection has taken their budgets away for decades.
The decades of easy domestic decryption becomes less easy when interesting people stop using junk brand devices, systems and networks.
They meet face to face, in faith groups, cults, on holiday, sabbaticals and are part of an endless jet set. No phone, fax, junk backdoor and trapdoor US brand crypto network needed. Number stations are one way.
Parallel construction in domestic courts does not work. For a few easy years it looks good and budgets grow. Decades of access is lost once interesting networks go dark once court staff and security cleared lawyers work out what happened to their clients.
Too many outside contractors, the core mission of helping others in the US mil replaced with a rush for budget growth.
The GCHQ faced the same issues in the 1970-80's. They returned to their actual core mission and supported their own staff with merit advancement and better pay, further education.
Looking after workers is a start, vetting needed contractors and then replace the contractors with real staff. Decades of good internal advancement support for staff also helps. Been replaced by or having to work under a contractor is not great. The buddy system now shows how deep and far low quality contractor vetting has reached.
A vast domestic and global spying network can be run by contractors but quality and vetting will slip as any clandestine service knows or later finds out.
AC that gets kind of hard to fund. Most nations that tried to focus on everyone really had to build up huge mil troop and police numbers.
The French in Algeria and what was Vietnam, France now, 1970-80's South Africa.
Where to get a vast number of experts to start search everyone? Use the mil as a wider example?
Searching the majority of a population all the time gets really expensive and allows criminal groups to quickly adjust easy weaknesses given the huge spread of police.
Real papers and nothing to find will always allow interesting people to pass most fixed mil checkpoints given rush hour traffic flows. Try searching many random cars, vans, trucks for a hidden compartment or cash? Road transport would stop for hours each morning and night.
Troops out of uniform from all over the nation don't make good local undercover cops who need very local accents and ever evolving criminal jargon and slang.
Most get thanked for their service as they are so easy to spot with hair cuts and mannerisms. A gym lifestyle trying to blend in with a move average inner city sedentary look is hard to work with.
The SAS did well in small expert teams in 1970-80's Ireland given expert support in local clothing, with local hair cuts, in local vans and cars, as long as accents could stay hidden. But that was for very unique tasks.
Troops in uniform are easy to avoid once set patrol areas are mapped.
Better to map the city areas with huge issues and flood the streets with smart, local police who can then focus all their efforts on criminals and the areas that shelter them.
Decades of really great intelligence can quickly be mapped down to the street level and allow local police experts to find vast areas of local crime.
Wages and over time won't find much on average in traditional low crime areas. Tracking a person who often enters a high crime area from a low crime area might.
Focus funds on criminals and crime goes down. Spend funds on low crime areas and thats needed funding lost to areas with very high crime rates.
The US is much smarter in its city policing and has not allowed the vast formation of the EU's epic failed no go areas.
No-go area https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
People can now understand the risk of having no anonymity or security on any device globally.
So to take back privacy use a one time pad not created on the same device.
Getting any from of anonymity is more tricky but at least privacy can be attempted.
This is also important for journalists, members of the press. Phoning in a story, update or talking to a colleague or office after meeting a whistleblower, bureaucrat, politician or other contact might not be a very secure part of getting a story ready. Voice prints will ensure any comments get tracked.
So the wider press, media, journalists now have a better understanding to not use any phone to chat about contacts.
People have to want to learn math, science. Adding more computers, expensive robot kits, complex layers of GUI software won't make very average students test better with math.
Spending billions on people who will end up doing art, languages, music, sport, work in a trade or the service sector won't help the USA.
Find the students who show some skills, test them and give them a full scholarship or offer advance classes in topics they enjoy.
Spend the billions on the very best. Spreading billions over huge areas of the USA will just see a few robot kits, some new software and a few new computers adding to amazing educational equipment sent in the 1980's, 1990's.
Did any of that do much for every subject? Typing skills? A GUI playing back multimedia?
The very best in the USA need to support to advance in math, science not be slowed down to move words around a proprietary GUI so a very expensive robot arm moves 30 mins later.
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re It makes absolutely no sense whatsoever..
Western brands trying to sell into China are always happy to report users for short term market share.
China wants its staff to be Party members, in the mil or doing great things for China and be seen to get top rankings vs other nations.
Study, self improvement, supporting the Party is been side tracked and eroded by outside influences.
Say a mil officer from China gets sent to the West to study and bring back another nations emerging academic concepts.
They see students and staff exchanging ideas, enjoying media, books, movies, musics, online culture without been reported.
No restrictive uniforms, the freedom to say what you want in a staff meeting about funding, gov cut backs or needed new equipment or waste, incompetence or party political interference.
Back in China they remember that freedom, the internet, the friends who did not report people, helpful staff, the freedom to find housing, the lack of a uniform everyday, the creativity, the ability to buy a book, any book. To go see any movie.
The fear of China is that material will flood in from Japan, the West that will attractive to its workers and its best Party members.
Ideas that support individuality, freedom, freedom of speech, freedom to advance without needing the Party. Not having to denounce or report your friends, neighbours, colleagues or been asked why your not reporting more people.
MI6, the CIA and Japan see an opening with faith based material, science fiction, anime, music, movies, art, cults to flood China. Easy to consume addictive material with distractions that weaken China's educational systems and wider Party control. The individual drifts away from the mil, Party to their own freedoms, hobbies, cult, faith, anime, music. Distracted, solitary, sedentary, addicted and lazy or finds dedication in helping cults, separatist movements, NGO's or democratic politics.
China knows a free person can escape Communism totally and has to do everything it can to stop that. So it follows the best practice of censorship and control.
Welcome to China or some monarchy or theocracy.
Any gov can offer users the ability to be censored, reported for blasphemy and banned back in their own nations for free.
No freedom of speech, freedom after speech. Teams of SJW looking over your comments and links with the need to be a hero.
Time to support new US sites that allow freedom of speech, after speech and allows the free flow of information without SWJ teams.
What will main stream social media look like? Media releases by gov's, technocrats, bureaucrats, think tanks, political parties, their staff, celebrities, cults and faiths? Safe and very boring.
All patrolled by SJW teams who get points for banning accounts and users? The best and brightest will seek out better sites and tell all their fun friends to follow them.
The harder SJW work to ban links and users the more people will have fun and enjoy the freedoms of competing US sites.
Anyone can get censored and banned globally by a gov or faith. Been censored and banned does not trend well.
The freedom to comment, think, enjoy, have fun will sell. The USA has something unique, support and sell freedom to the world.
from username, password and the code moves on.
What happened? ... and what was once secure is now a copy of a copy thats been discovered in the wild.
1. For the first time in a few decades a NSA staging server was left open?
A gov/mil worker made an error? A contractor made a mistake? The buddy system failed and two contractors together did not spot the error?
That happened for the first time in decades of the NSA having total mastery of the internet and not been tracked in real time.
2. Another friendly nation finally educated some of its own staff to near NSA skill levels and they found a live in use staging server and had a look, for the first time ever?
All other nations have been really under skilled/had no funds for so many years and this is the first time they have ever seen the NSA live on the net.
3. The NSA and GCHQ expected their skills to hold against all nations and all internet users for ever. No staging server had ever been discovered and the risk was so low a front company server would ever be randomly discovered.
4. Some EU/NATO staff gave their own gov/mil a copy. A third part nation's "trusted" staff used US tools in a NSA related operation and a copy just made it out.
Thanks to politics, cult, faith, lack of funds the code got used and noticed by few other nations mil, gov... special police units
Some other nation was so desperate and used what they had "copied" from the US and made some huge mistakes due to been rushed or a trap the NSA adds to any bespoke altered export grade code it shares with its friends.
Your company will buy an account with your ISP. A card with the company brand in the back of your "modem" will make the network part of your bands office network.
A very secure link from a home to the office. Set bandwidth, 24/7 support but for work only.
If the better VPN's can get around everything China can buy, code and build, the efforts of the Australia gov should not be much of an issue for most good VPN brands experts.
Just an added cost for people in Australia, internet costs and now a VPN to keep the internet working.
Steganography https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... is what would work. The ability to display a lot of normal images in RAW and with jpegs that hide a few RAW images hidden over slightly larger file sizes. It would need a lot of normal images to provide the extra file size for a few real images.
With cheap media and a lot of sets of HDR images https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... , a number of real images could be hidden.
Anyone looking at a few 100 images would see art and allowed sites. Within that would be a ratio of hidden images.
Encryption would be discovered. A camera card with 100 images that don't display would be seen as data.
100 sunset images would be passed.
AC as a few people have mentioned, steganography would solve that issue. A lot of happy images hide the next Tank Man https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... .
Ty AC, more here
"io_crypt - encrypt your photos while you shoot them"
http://www.magiclantern.fm/for...
Re "Take lots of photo of parades and landscape. There should be ample extra bits to save the photo/video that you wish to hide amongst the bland photos. "
Add an extra 5-10 % of data onto each larger RAW file size depending on the brands average RAW file size? Split the hidden files so the RAW files can hold part of another hidden RAW or a few hidden jpegs. Over the many 10's of gb on average consumer storage cards that could spread an extra percentage of of images in the parades and landscapes.
Some hidden gui that shows for a count of images as a ratio of hidden file space that is then ready to hide more images in. Realtime CPU work and real images are then hidden and spread over the parades and landscapes after a very short time. If stopped in the street later, only safe parades and landscape are seen on the display, saved on media, or can be copied.
Quality could then be captured but would need a high count of ready parades and landscapes to hide in.
Or go for jpeg thats not so useful later but a much higher count could be secured in less parades and landscapes RAW images.
Once a gov and mil starts spying on their own people legally the dynamic changes.
A gov has to find people with the tested intellectual disposition who really enjoy spying domestically with no court oversight.
To hand them the keys to junk cryptography and then collect it all.
Most governments who try that then face data walking out as staff contact the press or have to have massive internal oversight to try and prevent staff misuse of access. Staff cults, faiths, politics then surface deep within trusted areas.
Good staff who know they are not trusted don't preform that well and walk out. The ranks become filled with staff who hide their true interests to advance.
Foreign governments move in with offers of friendship, support, cash, understanding in a frenzy of recruitment. Digital tracking is sold as perfection but the more skilled humans spies always get in.
Even the contractor buddy system starts to break down as the teams influence each other and total corruption sets in.
The classic East German issue has not been solved. How to have informants and undercover officers working on groups of 5-10 protesters, spying and reporting on each other, creating vast amounts of files on other deep cover informants. Given the US love of agencies reporting only to to mil, police and different sections of the US gov domestic collection becomes vast with a lot of duplication. Great for contractors and overtime but not much use for what govs crave.
The more domestic data thats created, the more informants that are needed and have to keep their cover and so create more data to collect.
Feed the NSA and GCHQ just what they expect to see.
All the West has is data collection. Junk encryption supported by the big US and UK brands was the way in so offer keywords to the collectors.
So the NSA and GCHQ gets everything thanks to the support of US and UK brands.
Give the security services everything they could every want with digital collection.
Lots of online meetings, conversations, chats, forums, faith, cults, politics in every daily internet log kept by the ISP.
Make it interesting, get the contractor or gov worker addicted to the next days amazing fictional instalment. Add some story arcs over the years.
If your a journalist create a few dozen amazing whistelblowers and informants deep in gov or retired. People who have found a conscience after decades in gov and now just want to talk. Create a hint of their decades of documents and add future meetings to the cloud OS. Create a code that they can use.
Don't get fancy, just that material has been sorted and further clarification is needed.
Walk around with your cell phone in city areas, cafes full of "contacts" i.e. government workers and contractors.
Stop for 5 or 10 minutes during for a file hand over. It will show up nice on a map of cell phone movements.
A journalist cell phone stopping for a "meeting" can result in the questioning of 10's of security clearances in minutes. Ensure the contractors have to consider every phone thats next to a journalist everyday for weeks, months, years. Thats 100's of government workers and contractors who had trackable contact with a journalist known to have cultivated a lot of informants. Turn digital tracking into a script and a total work of fiction.
Make sure 100's of fictional files exist packed with keywords any gov would find interesting. Ensure all networked computers running everyone fav US consumer junk OS's.
Slowly a gov worker or contractor will slowly understand that its all fictional junk.
That is the real the problem with tracking your own citizens digitally. The ability for creativity outpaces digital collection that can only focus on keywords and can only afford to task so many contractors to read vast amounts of fictional material and make a determination.
Long term the security services will then have consider the option to task teams of 9 people in shifts per interesting person. Thats East German numbers of gov workers and informants to track one person who can use a consumer OS...
If the US and UK govs want the "normalisation” of government surveillance give them something to read.
Support the junk US bands, their developers, big brand cryptographers who only have the skills to help govs and fill your devices with fictional fun.
If your onto a real story, use your brain and paper notes, avoid CCTV, give your tracked phone to a friend for the day.
China has it own university students who then go on to create things and teach the next generation.
If they want they can learn in the West and bring back ideas and concepts as they are been created in Western universities and think tanks, research labs.
The Communist Party and mil does not need some foreigner wondering around for years asking questions, looking at things, learning about local issues.
Not many people in the West have anything that China needs. If China sees a product or service it wants it has a few options:
Buy the lab in the West and staff it with trusted staff in the West to extract the needed information.
Surround the West's best academics with students who will bring the emerging skills back to China in real time.
Invite the company into China and get a good understanding of the product, prototype and then produce it locally. Export the product to the world under a local brand.
All that can be done in China with people the Communist party can trust.
China is also aware of the skill sets of the CIA and MI6, well funded western NGO's backing protesters and dissidents.
Why even risk a CIA or MI6, NGO front just to bring in a Western student or engineer with a great cover story who could then "travel" all over China and be a constant risk to China.
No Western academic or staff has any skill that is worth that long term risk to China. Buy or get their tech in the West and if they really have to enter China then on very short term contracts, tours, visits.
China was surrounded by the NSA and GCHQ (Demos-4, Little Sai Wan, Chum Hom Kok). Letting in Western teams will just allow ever more CIA and MI6 in to wonder around China making contacts, spying and collecting information. The spread of Western propaganda, support and funding for protesters, more spying is the only result. Any student or academic in the West can have their skills bought or accessed in the West and China can then access the same advancements as needed. No risk, no issues, no foreigners wondering around spying and making contacts for years.
The "identify the particular offender" is going to get more interesting AC.
With the amount of SJW hero groups now been allowed powers on different media and social media sites what will be the next net ban?
As more monarchies, theocracies and cults fund US social media sites what other users could be removed?
Blasphemy? Drawing or spreading a cartoon that is a gateway to atheism? Upsetting a monarch or cult? News about Communist party leaders wealth?
Comment about illegal immigration? Pollution? A hospital that won't clean its wards or equipment? A state political leader wants revenge over comments?
Social media staff who support certain political parties who lost an election but cant face reality who then want users removed from the net, not just their comments?
Once one group, industry or section of the US gets banning powers, every US SWJ will want the same to make the net a safe space.
Giving any group that kind of power will just make other SJW demand the same color of law account access.
In the past it was RAM, CPU. Just getting a computer to run on consumer grade OS was not easy.
Now its the staff needed to work around complex OS and try and secure parts.
The downside is you need a great OS and really skilled developers.
Some US OS brands like to allow data collection and only make computer games easy to code for.
Other OS are just complex and have teams who have helped the security services in the past.
Finding a good secure OS to build on is not easy.
Yes, everyone who wants or needs to be seen with some Apple product has one.
Then reality sets in. Apple is not been so supportive of their older must have product.
The next gen of Apple products just extends the lock in, gets slow, must upgrade hardware over another cycle.
People start looking at a real laptop or Surface to be supported and productive.
More ram, better cpu, gpu, real software options.
Once censorship is allowed who really wants to stay on a managed site?
Once topics people have put a lot of work into get banned, edited or removed?
Other really good US sites offer freedom of speech, freedom after speech and the freedom to read a comment later.
They trust their users, their users ideas, thoughts, words, comments and topics.
If a site does not like or trust its users to comment maybe the site should just publish the news, topics it likes?
Re 'picked up by police, secret or not, and then disappear to prison, or simply disappear?"
The SAS solution was tried in Ireland. It works very well but needs huge support teams and has to be fully hidden from any outside comment.
The UK gov/mil cant work its way into the closed, isolated, inward looking faith based communities that it now has in so many of its cities the way it could in move around Ireland.
Mil/undercover police teams would get noticed, confronted in the public street in no go areas. Surrounded, asked who they are, photographed, what they are doing and informed that they are not welcome as that are not local. The classic no go area of layers of look outs and a closed faith based community.
So the UK changed policy and made domestic collection legal. The hope is all the interesting people will always keep on using their junk computers, be so addicted to their cell phones and be trackable nationally. Voice prints was great for that. A policy around the idea that people always use computers and cell phones and always will.
The people of interest can then be tracked outside the protection of a no go area and be tracked, interviewed, arrested, face court as needed.
The part the UK has not considered is the lack of a home computer or cell phone or other easy to track, decrypt device or that any interesting data would be allowed to be found or sent. Or that a phone would be given to a friend to wonder around with for normal work, study...
Time to buy a lot of contractors and informants to track interesting people?
The UK mil could not trust its own police, court workers, the media or university experts.
The UK gov wanted to keep the GCHQ's decryption ability away from academics, the media, police/courts who sold information to interesting people.
Few details about the ability to track Irish groups of interest down to one person, breaking up any value in a cell structure was going to be make it to court.
The use of teams of cars, trucks, vans, helicopters, satellite, total access to every part of Irelands telco system was not going to get out to the wider public.
So news about turned "informants" got spread. The idea was to only trust the SAS, GCHQ, Royal Ulster Constabulary Special Branch, MI5 and army teams who had to work on telco networks.
Experts, courts, police, lawyers, the media knew nothing and got very few details in normal court documents. Just that a case existed and an informant or some other found evidence was ready.
Re 'They are not allowed to lie about what the evidence is, only how it was obtained."
That kind of expert skill sets between GCHQ, army, Special Branch is now replaced by UK political experts telling the world the UK is spying on everyone legally and that all UK hardware is UK gov spy ready.. and that UK brand crypto is junk.
Everyone interesting just uses the net for fun and reverts to secure meeting under the cover of cults, faith groups, holidays, study groups. National logging and decryption just shows data on video games, sport, celebrity gossip and educational use.
Re "state the truth"
The UK fixed all that in the past with the National Technical Assistance Centre, Government Technical Assistance Centre.
The GCHQ/NSA would trapdoor backdoor crypto and the police would then get the result via court ready "Centre" staff in open or closed court.
The staff would then be the experts in court and show normal court sanctioned police methods got access to a device, network and a password was logged at some stage.
Any crypto then failed due to passwords been recorded as past of ongoing police investigations.
The other aspect was early cell phone tracking and recording. That had to be presented as not to give away too much about device access, telco support, quality of mapping.
The NSA saw a huge growth in staff, mission creep and mission design in the past decade.
From just supporting other real agencies with background data in the past, the NSA then wanted to design mission, to follow the missions and get the resulting political/mil budget growth.
A huge growth in budget, outside staff allowed in with poor vetting, computer use, decryption expected to track an enemy who would always be connected. Decades of interesting people always using a phone, fax, computer, cell phone, the internet, sat phone, pager, have a bank account, order services online... was just expected to grow.
A system designed to track domestic users with all junk big US/UK brand crypto and all foreign mil who's encrypted command and control was export grade and also junk.
The NSA projected endless growth in domestic spying and that every other nation would advance into export grade junk encrypted gov, banking, command and control networks.
Now the collection issues that MI5,6, CIA, GCHQ hinted at is reality. Once the world knows its been spied on domestically and globally the interesting people can just change their behaviour.
Human spies, covert teams need really great support, mass domestic collection has taken their budgets away for decades.
The decades of easy domestic decryption becomes less easy when interesting people stop using junk brand devices, systems and networks.
They meet face to face, in faith groups, cults, on holiday, sabbaticals and are part of an endless jet set. No phone, fax, junk backdoor and trapdoor US brand crypto network needed. Number stations are one way.
Parallel construction in domestic courts does not work. For a few easy years it looks good and budgets grow. Decades of access is lost once interesting networks go dark once court staff and security cleared lawyers work out what happened to their clients.
Too many outside contractors, the core mission of helping others in the US mil replaced with a rush for budget growth.
The GCHQ faced the same issues in the 1970-80's. They returned to their actual core mission and supported their own staff with merit advancement and better pay, further education.
Looking after workers is a start, vetting needed contractors and then replace the contractors with real staff. Decades of good internal advancement support for staff also helps. Been replaced by or having to work under a contractor is not great. The buddy system now shows how deep and far low quality contractor vetting has reached.
A vast domestic and global spying network can be run by contractors but quality and vetting will slip as any clandestine service knows or later finds out.
AC that gets kind of hard to fund. Most nations that tried to focus on everyone really had to build up huge mil troop and police numbers.
The French in Algeria and what was Vietnam, France now, 1970-80's South Africa.
Where to get a vast number of experts to start search everyone? Use the mil as a wider example?
Searching the majority of a population all the time gets really expensive and allows criminal groups to quickly adjust easy weaknesses given the huge spread of police.
Real papers and nothing to find will always allow interesting people to pass most fixed mil checkpoints given rush hour traffic flows. Try searching many random cars, vans, trucks for a hidden compartment or cash? Road transport would stop for hours each morning and night.
Troops out of uniform from all over the nation don't make good local undercover cops who need very local accents and ever evolving criminal jargon and slang.
Most get thanked for their service as they are so easy to spot with hair cuts and mannerisms. A gym lifestyle trying to blend in with a move average inner city sedentary look is hard to work with.
The SAS did well in small expert teams in 1970-80's Ireland given expert support in local clothing, with local hair cuts, in local vans and cars, as long as accents could stay hidden. But that was for very unique tasks.
Troops in uniform are easy to avoid once set patrol areas are mapped.
Better to map the city areas with huge issues and flood the streets with smart, local police who can then focus all their efforts on criminals and the areas that shelter them.
Decades of really great intelligence can quickly be mapped down to the street level and allow local police experts to find vast areas of local crime.
Wages and over time won't find much on average in traditional low crime areas. Tracking a person who often enters a high crime area from a low crime area might.
Focus funds on criminals and crime goes down. Spend funds on low crime areas and thats needed funding lost to areas with very high crime rates.
The US is much smarter in its city policing and has not allowed the vast formation of the EU's epic failed no go areas.
No-go area
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To get all voice prints in a quick look up index? Everything.
People can now understand the risk of having no anonymity or security on any device globally.
So to take back privacy use a one time pad not created on the same device.
Getting any from of anonymity is more tricky but at least privacy can be attempted.
This is also important for journalists, members of the press. Phoning in a story, update or talking to a colleague or office after meeting a whistleblower, bureaucrat, politician or other contact might not be a very secure part of getting a story ready. Voice prints will ensure any comments get tracked.
So the wider press, media, journalists now have a better understanding to not use any phone to chat about contacts.
People have to want to learn math, science. Adding more computers, expensive robot kits, complex layers of GUI software won't make very average students test better with math.
Spending billions on people who will end up doing art, languages, music, sport, work in a trade or the service sector won't help the USA.
Find the students who show some skills, test them and give them a full scholarship or offer advance classes in topics they enjoy.
Spend the billions on the very best. Spreading billions over huge areas of the USA will just see a few robot kits, some new software and a few new computers adding to amazing educational equipment sent in the 1980's, 1990's.
Did any of that do much for every subject? Typing skills? A GUI playing back multimedia?
The very best in the USA need to support to advance in math, science not be slowed down to move words around a proprietary GUI so a very expensive robot arm moves 30 mins later.