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  1. Re:Government Sponsored? on Google Sends State-Sponsored Hack Warnings To Journalists and Professors (ibtimes.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Recall how fast the "news" about the BEAR methods spread in the media by security contractors.
    Now that other a lot of other nations or groups seen in networks, everything is much more secret.
    Strange how some methods get to the media so quickly yet security holds so well when its other nations or groups...
    So what other nations, groups, people have been traversing some US networks for a while and why cant contractors talk about methods so quickly?

  2. Re 'Two factor authentication, ALWAYS" Two factor authentication is not holding as expected.
    "Google warns journalists and professors: Your account is under attack" (11/24/2016)
    http://arstechnica.com/securit...
    "Some of the people who received the warning reported their accounts were protected by two-factor authentication... "

  3. Re:identity verification kiosks? on Personal Data For More Than 130,000 Sailors Hacked: U.S. Navy (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The only way to secure this is to quiz every US mil/gov sector and see who has in house solution that don't leak due to encryption, air gaps and expert gov/mil staff.
    Keep the mil data well away from contractors.
    Someone in the US gov must be doing something very correct as not all agencies leak to the public or trust contractors.

  4. Re:Bain of IA are DoD Contractors on Personal Data For More Than 130,000 Sailors Hacked: U.S. Navy (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    If the Navy keep data secure this with its own teams its seen as a big gov going and not supporting the very dynamic and smarter private sector.
    When data fails in the hands of the private sector its just part of the American way.

  5. Re:Wait what? on US Navy's High-Tech Ship Loses Power In Panama Canal (usni.org) · · Score: 1

    But think of the profit evert time it returns to port. All the teams of contractors fixing systems, no bid contracts for years.
    The US navy only wants to educate its crews to stay at a set speed, not turn to much beyond a set speed and return to port for complex repairs before a set date.
    Crews just have to look at a gui that says all green and its still all good.
    If the US navy takes the project out of port and does not stay within set specs it will fail. Don't go too far out, no fancy fast turns. Don't stay out of port for too long. Don't stay a max speed for too long. The gui has warnings and reminders about when to return to port, staying at top speed for too long and not turning at speed.
    Once back in port and after repairs it will be perfect again.
    The other option is to have real gov engineers keeping a constant watch over systems in real time. They might report design faults, note unsafe working conditions. Best to let contractors do all the complex work.

  6. Re:So what? There's still an intermediate on Google's AI Translation Tool Creates Its Own Secret Language (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    More like some rapid sorting or look up to give a fast gui flow with modern gpu, cpu, ram designs.
    At some point it gets words like dog or glasses hardcoded in and all new languages get filled in when needed for advertising, mil/gov, a product, service or paying client.
    Every translation will then feel fast and responsive to the user even with very different teams get tasked to add a new language years later.
    Great for a mil or gov or NGO paying for slag, jargon, a very regional dialect very quickly to win hearts and minds.

  7. Re: V for Vendetta on UK Plans To Censor Online Videos Of 'Non-Conventional' Sex Acts (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    How many big VPN brands exist with great reviews on trusted sites? 50? 100?
    Thats not a lot of brands to add to vast gov mandated reporting databases.
    Thats not a lot to search for given most nations now really enjoy tracking banking.
    Most govs can request details on transitions they are watching long term. Adding 100 extra payments to brand of interest to the gov is not that hard.
    Even nations with very limited funds like Australia can track all transactions of interest going back to the 1980's with efforts like
    Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
    "suspicious transactions of any kind, being transactions the dealer may reasonably suspect of being part of tax evasion or crime, or might assist in a prosecution."

  8. Re:Well... on Tech Firms Seek To Frustrate Internet History Log Law (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Re 'Who wants to visit a country where ... you get monitored 24/7"
    Select a VPN and hope the GCHQ does not find you interesting....
    Any consumer VPN will not hold up to the CGQH.
    Hope the UK gov does not do a secret deal with the very distant and safe VPN that had the best reviews for use in the UK.
    Do not enter or exit the UK with any computer like device due to the risk of a "random" inspection and gov OS upgrades during a search.
    Buy local hardware after arrival, get your own networking, install a new OS, VPN using secure and trusted international methods.
    Send and get any data via the VPN, but no local storage at all. The laptop gets booted into a safe OS but keeps no local data.
    Avoid any offers of free wifi or network deals. Buy your own networking and only use your VPN and safe OS.
    Exit the UK with a few books (paper) and clothing. Get a phone for a game or photos on the last day just to fit in with everyone else waiting to exit.

  9. Re:A better way to tackle terrorism on Tech Firms Seek To Frustrate Internet History Log Law (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The profit is in all the help needed with the "related activity and ... noise.". Any gov has a few mil teams that can track the interesting people.
    Why have a few elite gov staff get overtime tracking sites, languages and nations?
    That secret gov funding is closed, secret and locked up for generations.
    Think of the domestic overtime, funding, legal teams and contractors needed to watch an entire nation every year, 24/7.
    The new optical taps, the hardware, software, logs, 24/7 on call, support, keyword searches and political gratitude after reporting local protesters.
    To build and look after a vast new domestic spy system that is open court ready is great private sector growth.
    Staff ready to present logs to open court everyday. Entire new sectors of profit to be funded by gov and ISP users.

  10. Re:Go ahead on Tech Firms Seek To Frustrate Internet History Log Law (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The UK could later go after any UK bank with a CC linked to any VPN as allowing circumvention of ISP policy.
    Any VPN in the EU, NATO member might have to help thanks to national treaty obligations (UK in the EU or not). National telco laws are often secret and have to be followed without much public comment.
    The US, Canada, NZ, Australia would help by default or have laws that make network retention equal to that of the UK.
    A method would be to cut off VPN's from UK banks and then hint that banks that want access to the UK not work with VPN's and VPN host nations that still help hide UK users.
    The final offer would be a deal with a trusted VPN to work with the UK gov on all UK ip's. A bit like a US NSL but much more direct and with onsite UK hardware globally.
    Work with the UK gov as a VPN and enjoy promotion, full banking services and be allowed to attract UK accounts.
    By allowing a few international VPN's to work well in the UK, word would soon be spread about a quality of service and no payment issues. Tracking would then be very easy thanks to a few deals with say 10 or 20 trusted global VPN brands. All other real VPN's would have issues and endure constant negative reviews, tech issues, comments to herd UK users to VPN's that are UK gov friendly.

  11. A digital transformation for next gen propaganda. The UK wants its version of the news to be spread far and wide to get past traditional blocking in some nations e.g. the use of short and medium waves.
    Rather than call nations out on jamming, blocking policies the UK hopes to also use the internet without endangering trade.
    Its all part of the biggest expansion 'since the 1940s' with more funding. (16 November 2016) http://www.bbc.com/news/entert...
    The UK was always aware of trade deals, jobs and the political issues of direct broadcasts into nations. With the internet a user has to find UK content rather than the UK pushing into a nations spectrum.

  12. NSA, GCHQ and the role of German staff? on Snowden Can Be Asked To Testify In Person In Germany NSA Probe (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The real question will be on the quality of German crypto.
    Who tested and passed German communications networks for secure German gov use only to allow the NSA and GCHQ access?
    Why was German crypto set at such a low level? If the NSA, GCHQ got in what other nations had the skills to access junk German crypto?
    Are German staff happy to help the NSA and GCHQ to access German gov communications over decades or just selecting equipment from a list of allowed junk standards?
    NSA surveillance: Merkel's phone may have been monitored 'for over 10 years' (27 October 2013)
    https://www.theguardian.com/wo...

  13. Re:Wait what? on US Navy's High-Tech Ship Loses Power In Panama Canal (usni.org) · · Score: 1

    Re "What's crazy is that sealing propeller shafts against water ingress is a **solved problem** and regardless of how "hi tech" and "modern" this ship is, there is no excuse for it to have failed, absolutely none."
    This is not the UK navy of 1900. Real engineers don't watch steam power and bearings or early turbines with great care.
    US engineers, captains, staff are not aware of the limitations, secret contractor specs of their vital systems anymore.
    In the past, say the UK, every system was tested, understood and watched by really profession teams on board. Crew how had merit based training and fully understood the steam or turbine systems and their inner workings.
    What the US navy did was go for contractors. The system would delivered, tested and contractors would self sign that the ship was ready for the US navy.
    Its all good if the contractors did their job with design work and the ship is returned to port for contractors to fix all issues.
    The problems start if the vital port work is missed, the contractors expect to be on time to work on parts.
    The US navy might have kept the ship out of port for too long, had the ship go too fast for too long. The crew has some understanding of the design limitations but the computers say its all good until it all fails.
    The US navy has few options:
    1. Return to port and stay in port as requested by the contractors until stay the contractors allow the ship is fixed again. All systems can then be fixed and made ready for a set amount of time to be out of port again.
    2. Design better ships. Learn what really good crews and specs offered nations in the past and build quality. Then ensure all crews are advanced on merit. Thats vital for the engineers and their teams. Understand the systems and their limitations. Ensure every responsible person knows if a ship is made to go too fast for too long lots of different complex parts fail. Work within limitations, don't keep extending missions and pushing speed beyond design specs.

  14. The world was never really aware of what the GCHQ, NSA and FBI could do to alter or access computers globally.
    That was the great fear of the GCHQ going back years. The question of the US, FBI and NSA using their tracking ability and having years of perfect clandestine methods exposed in open US courts.
    Now that reality of observation and tracking vs interesting people not risking the "internet" is becoming more real.
    For years the NSA, GCHQ and FBI could have watched vast criminal networks online and gathered real actionable information to use with parallel construction.

  15. Re:V for Vendetta on UK Plans To Censor Online Videos Of 'Non-Conventional' Sex Acts (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    How long will the VPN's hold on a UK CC? A VPN out of the EU? What nations will fold to UK banking enforcement and political pressure to hand over all UK CC VPN details?
    That will be the real movie moment when the VPN fail, payments discovered and just having VPN seen as a circumvention method.
    A VPN account will be enough for a search?
    If not everyone interesting will just buy a non EU/UK VPN account and use the net or find a free way to get around the ever expanding gov ip and url blocks.

  16. Re:You know, just saying they can't bend the inter on UK Plans To Censor Online Videos Of 'Non-Conventional' Sex Acts (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    But think of the contractors, the hardware, software the the over time and the upgrades. The enforcement and catching of people who try the wrong site, ip.
    The NGO's, SJW, foundations, cults, faiths and public private partnerships that get to alter an entire nations web usage and then add their own ideas or faith to banned sites.
    Once this system is in place wait for an ever expanding list of topics. News, faith, politics, history, blasphemy will all slowly get added with ever more funding for upkeep and database integrity.
    Censorship as a growth industry.

  17. Re:Need a better search engine on Google Search Results Have Liberal Bias, Study Finds (thedenverchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    Re 'People have spent a lot of time figuring out how to look for information."
    The news on the "offensive or disparaging" results is rather easy to find :)

  18. Re:US freedom to grow on Facebook Said To Create Censorship Tool To Get Back Into China (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    AC Nixon undid that in the 1970's.. no more Foreign Assets Control Regulations, less of the Export Control Act.
    The US moved China from trade lists with Cuba, North Korea, North Vietnam to country groups like Eastern Europe the Soviet Union so trade was then more liberal. Communist countries then got most favoured nation status. Also note the role of the Export-Import Bank.

  19. Re:It's called a "memory leak" on Malicious Video Link Can Cause Any iOS Device To Freeze (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 0

    Considering its a top US brand and the only best internal teams ... should issues like that really still make it to the user?
    Where is the internal testing, quality control, bug reports, basic app security?
    In house OS, hardware, tools, testing... the very best staff.

  20. Re:Need a better search engine on Google Search Results Have Liberal Bias, Study Finds (thedenverchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    Re "So, you would prefer a search engine that makes absolutely no value judgments?"
    Yes.
    How much SJW staff work is needed to set the tone for "offensive or disparaging" alterations?
    Just for a serving politician that has the same outlook as staff?
    Do search results have to protect a political dynasty over decades? Book results too? Free digital results from city and state newspapers from the 1970-90 get found or not so much?
    How far and deep does a top down policy of party political "offensive or disparaging" protection go?

  21. Re:As much exectation of privacy as you can afford on Tor-Enabled Smartphone Is Antidote To Google 'Hostility' Over Android, Says Developer (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    So voice, gps, power on, live mic, call logs are all hardware designed in.
    The more commercial advance spyware, adware apps would get detected as they altered the OS, expecting a different OS.

  22. US freedom to grow on Facebook Said To Create Censorship Tool To Get Back Into China (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Sells out to Communist China so global the profits flow.
    Who wants to be on censored media? How boring is that? Reading what your gov tells you? Been aware that you will be denounced by gov staff or the US brand just with one click?
    Time to move to more freedom aware US brands that are fun, real and protect all their users from Communist party members and gov workers.
    If a US brand wants to be with Communists, the rest of the world has the freedom find much better quality US brands.

  23. Re " they're one of the biggest industries in those states.".
    The growth is in tools the CIA needs to track digital cover stories for its future staff. Other nations, detective agencies, brands that do background work on staff, all have the same web 2.0 info and look at all US staff, workers, tourists, NGO's.
    The big fear is that undercover CIA is going to have one image, photo that was not found in time that shows their true origins, politics and interest in serving the US gov.
    Their created cover as a random NGO worker, person of faith, cult member, trust fund tourist, below average company worker, average new embassy worker is then exposed. An average student gets a US gov job is what the resume said, the photo shows a much smarter student at different US university taking advanced language, political courses.
    If such info exists in the private sector that new CIA worker cant do much globally as their true background and really great academic ability is so very public.
    The other issue is that of deep cover complex legends covering brands, cults, faith groups, groups of tech people, staff working undercover "together". All timelines have to fit a CIA created cover story. A party picture found a decade later on some private database can undo years of CIA creativity.
    The CIA can request to alter the web 2.0 and any easy to find US online archive. But what did a 3rd party store in real time a decade ago? The CIA needs that same live feed to look back over all applicants and see what any other smart nation will be able to find or buy on the open market.
    Creating a fake past was state paper work and a few US federal computer database alterations easy until the 1980's. Facial recognition will now find that old university picture on early social media and web 2.0. The right person at another university, different friends, very different degree, different politics.
    The CIA now has to hire real NGO workers, persons of faith, cult members, trust fund tourists, below average company workers, average new embassy workers but such people on average often create stories or don't make great workers. Or hope they found every digital trace of their smart worker.
    Or hope that a smart new staff undercover really kept away from all parties, functions, clubs, had no friends with an early digital camera archive to put online a decade later and only had state and student ID for a few years at university...

  24. Need a better search engine on Google Search Results Have Liberal Bias, Study Finds (thedenverchannel.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    Given the party political support that taints brands in the USA.
    How about a search engine that just searches?
    No SJW algorithms, no SJW suggestions, no party political staff, just search results for a global community.
    Get back to literally search results and if reality is offensive or disparaging that is more to do with decades of policy, party and politics.
    A search engine is not a safe space. If the user wants a safe space online, let them configure settings for that on their own devices.

  25. Given the US per case costs of tracking onion routing for open court case work... all ip's are court ready now.