Join your local hero battalions, hero-companies and hero-platoons and fight a cyber war?.
Reminds me of the Pals battalion of WW1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"specially constituted battalions of the British Army comprising men who had enlisted together in local recruiting drives, with the promise that they would be able to serve alongside their friends, neighbours and colleagues ("pals"), rather than being arbitrarily allocated to battalion"
Everyone interesting in the UK will just use a VPN.
The moment a VPN turns over a real ip in a public UK court, a flood of users will move to other VPN's in more legally secure nations.
All the online informants can do is track UK pictures, comments, slang and jargon. Report it and hope user did not have a VPN.
The other trick would be to alter their OS to expose the real ip if an OS based VPN. Civilian volunteers help by pushing/offering malware to uncover a weak OS based VPN? It gets the ip, the case goes to court and the method is a secret or gets exposed? Word spreads about the VPN altering method.
Get a VPN router and secure all networks and every link in and out?
The VPN's of the world will counter with more router hardware ready with a fall back to prevent a real ip from been exposed.
The final UK tracking network will look a lot like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... to track every packet in and out of the UK but with court ready logs.
The next layer down will be empowered SJW like informants tracking and reporting any UK terms, slang, comments.
Expect a lot of facial recognition in real time via the volunteers and any camera details in files to be kept.
Will it work? The smart people will get a router VPN and can only be seen by the GCHQ. Getting that to court will expose methods.
If the VPN's get exposed in local UK courts, people will just return to real life fun and use the net for safe everyday life. All the digital tracking will be expensive and very useless. Word will spread that the UK internet is unsafe not fun and best to be avoided. The endless flow of interesting information will slow as ever more interesting users will feel they are under watch and alter their online actions. Information collection will then revert to the real world of MI6, MI5 and the police. Nice over time in 9 person teams to watch one interesting person in the real world. The UK will need a lot more in the overtime budget if the net goes dark after collection becomes a risk that alters interesting users internet patterns.
People do interesting things if they think they are not been watch. Telling the world the UK is watching the net and can take court action is not going to get many results as the interesting people go dark. They don't have to use the net.
Can the UK track every interesting person in the real world like it did in the 1980's? Whats the interesting person ratio to police/army/contractor teams collecting overtime per car, van, at dedicated CCTV per day? Getting near that East Germany ratio? Got an East German budget to cover that amount of staff?
The problem is that any US state task force with federal funding or federal case now has the budget per case to track users ip's.
Been on the dark web is as now as safe as using your own ip and isp.
Anything left is a honey pot, bait, a trap or has been turned long ago and is now a gov run front to collect with.
Every file is has a checksum. Every checksum is tracked on download and upload. New files get a checksum. Facial recognition and any camera details left in a file are extracted and sorted. Every file linked back to a real ip.
The interesting groups are now invite only and in back the real world. Its back to 1900-1980's with clusters of crime interlinked by trusted real people.
Spending time exposed to some vast digital trap is a risk that is well understood.
Think of what the internet once was, chatrooms without SJW and approved social media. Users are looking to rediscover the freedom and fun of the net around the 1980's - 1990's.
Back to theocracies, monarchies, kingdoms flooding US social media with their cash for access.
Users think they are using a free, protected US platform.
Or will a clean up of any negative comments be policy to keep the easy funding flowing?
Hire some really great staff again and fix your OS.
Its not that hard, a few US universities still turn out the best graduates every year. The very best in the world.
They have the skills to make Microsoft products secure again.
What are we seeing in this report?
"A U.S. intelligence expert on Russian cyber activity " seems to have easy and constant press access.
The "tell' is the lack of internal security on the part of the "U.S. intelligence expert" and been allowed to rush to tell the media.
If this was real code, nobody would know and it would all be a secret and under a real investigation and mitigation.
The US is using the media to link very old "Bear" code that has been talked about for a while and is well understood by contractors globally for years to sell other stories to the waiting media.
The link back to "U.S. intelligence officials have concluded were responsible for hacks of Democratic Party databases and emails." should be understood in the context of what was said.
"Julian Assange: 'A lot more material' coming on US elections" http://edition.cnn.com/2016/07...
""Perhaps one day the source or sources will step forward and that might be an interesting moment some people may have egg on their faces. But to exclude certain actors is to make it easier to find out who our sources are," Assange told CNN."
The leak was a walk out like the Pentagon papers or US gov insider help given to the Watergate reporters.
If your going to have a cell phone on you know the gov, mil, police will track you.
The ability to plot you and your contacts is easy. The ability to log what other phone stopped with and for how long is within a nations city or state police budget per case.
A park bench, a cafe, walking side by side for any length of time can all be discovered. With cell phone mapping it will all be logged and can be played back.
Don't meet contacts with your phone. Have a friend take your phone with them into an area and wonder around to create a fake map.
You can still be tracked on CCTV, by vehicle registration plate but thats is a given.
Do not trust any soft power down, remote turn on is alway a gov/mil supported option in many devices.
Anyone in the press should be aware of how police counter the media with all the tools they can get.
Journalists caught on tape in police bugging (21 September 2002) https://www.theguardian.com/uk...
Your phone is designed to be wire tap friendly as sold globally. Don't carry it near contacts or use it to create vast amounts of disinformation.
More CPU? More wireless? More resolution? More GPU? Make the lens on camera really great or add a set off 3 different lenses?
Change out the cpu, gpu and OS so all users have to hardware upgrade for the best new apps?
Games that need new hardware can be created to push hardware branding.
A new cpu and gpu needed every cycle to keep up with the great code and graphics?
Could running a network in the US be very expensive? To hire great staff and keep a network connected everyday?
Hardware upgrades are really, really expensive in the USA for some reason but have to be hidden.
That would point to inflation numbers been kept low or huge hidden expert staff costs in the US.
Are staff and contractors enjoying top expert pay over the years? Legal teams to keep the networks safe per state are expensive?
Generational shareholders like profit, yachts, jets and see local consumers as a for profit herd?
A shrinking number of connected people have to pay for the staff, ensure profits and cover more costs.
Big brands always wanted to expand into content and have been building their own hidden production empires?
Expect amazing new in house movies and shows soon?
Yachts and jets.
Reading the pdf. Fortune 1000 at risk, IoT issues, Constitutional protections vs domestic collect it all tensions.
Too few really great cyber experts in the US for some reason.
Evil consumers are reviewing products and services of brands and talking about them with others on the net. Warning each other about brands.
Cash might move to a great competitor with a great product based on the internet reporting issues.
The internet allows consumers to share facts about stupid brands with a lack of design skills, product quality or delivery issues.
Herd consumers back into a brand so they have to stay, won't report facts and have to spend.
Something about cloud computing.
Back to the news story.
Something linked about Russia and a "signature". Cyber details are now reduced to a linked analogy about "shimmy down the chimney", "the door down", "build a tunnel".
Seeing the inner working of US politics is very bad even when its factual.
China.
The lack of encryption, poor network design, not having skilled staff and a vast plain US text database policy is all the fault of other nations.
Heathcare.
Vast internet facing databases put genetic markers or fingerprints at risk. Were is the quality US encryption?
North Korea and Iran have capabilities too.
More on "embarrass" American organisations but not the lack of basic encryption to prevent staff walk outs.
Constitution vs big government agencies doing domestic security and cyber stuff for protection.
Something about party political staff.
Thats 1000's of people who will now understand that for any legal issue they pass on any day over the next years they will be contacted.
Passing the wrong protest, standing near a person on a watch list. The ability to reach out and start a chat down will be a lot more simple than any mass court order.
A health report is coordinated to find out why the person is not able to work their phone.
During the health exam and simple phone function tests the case questions can be asked.
The same way it ended in the UK. Files finding their way into the hands of anyone who can pay.
"Journalists caught on tape in police bugging" (21 September 2002)
".. obtaining information from a private detective agency which in turn paid corrupt officers for confidential police material."
https://www.theguardian.com/uk...
AC fake emails don't make party political workers quit.
AC "How hard would it be for those releasing the information to make a few changes here and there to support their political ideology?"
Smart people in the press have some really great experts for that. They look at every word, sentence, name, date, format, font and write up reports.
If anything had been added, altered or changed the press would have found it.
The media world wide has a long institutional memory of been offered altered or fake or historically forged documents over the years. By default they hire smart people to look over them before, during and after publication as a wider whole set of documents.
The decades of a rush to publish has be replaced with a few different experts been tasked to see if what is on offer is real, a trap, a limited hangout or bait or fake.
AC some of the documents even have some fancy DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail) signature features. Is the use of 2048 bit keys still ok AC?. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
If the codes did not add up the press would have found that. Their document experts would have tested for valid signatures at different stages.
Even bloggers and other interested people can report on DKIM result by using different apps.
Re Or add to the basket every day.
Take up landscape photography.
Buy a few books about one time pads online with a credit card and ensure all privacy settings are wide open during the search for a few well written books that review well. Download or buy some steganography apps.
At the end of every email you send on an Apple computer or device add a very small creative photo banner.
Create a small photo of a typed one time pad text and use steganography to hide a new one in every image. With a just few emails per week thats a few hundred over a few years.
Is every email a hidden message? Some? A few or just one important one? None?
If a US brand wants to be super helpful, help them track friends of friends of friends. Just make sure every new one time pad image is unique and has a new photo to be placed in.
Considering the interest in detecting steganography might create thats 3 hops of contacts from a small group of random people to sort.
AC US Constitutional protections are not a series of blocked tubes to work around to spy on people.
Color of law does not get around the US Constitution.
Re "Do you know what the US Government would do to a corporation.. "
"The One Telco Exec Who Resisted The NSA Has Been Released From 4+ Years In Jail" (Sep 27th 2013) https://www.techdirt.com/artic...
This news just adds to the PRISM decryption and other issues that US brands seem to offer assistance with. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
If its important encrypt well away from any and all Apple products, send the communications.
Anonymity is hard to ensure but at least people can get their privacy back from Apple and the mil/gov.
AC if a big brand can find an issue, so can its staff. So can other nations security experts. So can cults, faith groups, criminals and ex gov/mil security experts.
If data is released when found, the holes can be patched quickly and a world of really great security researchers can help comment on the issue and help.
Why wait a longer time for an in house fix with even the slightest the risk of an issue been in use in the wild for the same time.
Report on detection, get the community to fix. Days of waiting just becomes days of risk.
The more experts that see interesting issues early and often, the better.
Try the linked http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...
Will the copyrights and patents be valid or will fair use win?
The wider court role of a "four-factor "fair use" test"?
The way APIs could be/is/will be/can be copyrighted.
The news and summary is all in the linked arstechnica.com recap.
If its a win, its fair use for all.
Not a win, then some "fair use" test for US code? Doing programming in the USA just got more interesting. Code has to work and pass a final court test every time per product cycle?
Another type of win and its all copyrighted. Doing programming well away from the USA just got traction.
Re 'is going to find out they've made a huge mistake."
It could get even more epic. Open source is found to be incompatible with the US legal system.
A rush to the exit by brands to their more friendly tax shelters to keep selling globally and revised products back into the USA.
Slashdot Mirror
Join your local hero battalions, hero-companies and hero-platoons and fight a cyber war?.
Reminds me of the Pals battalion of WW1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"specially constituted battalions of the British Army comprising men who had enlisted together in local recruiting drives, with the promise that they would be able to serve alongside their friends, neighbours and colleagues ("pals"), rather than being arbitrarily allocated to battalion"
Everyone interesting in the UK will just use a VPN.
The moment a VPN turns over a real ip in a public UK court, a flood of users will move to other VPN's in more legally secure nations.
All the online informants can do is track UK pictures, comments, slang and jargon. Report it and hope user did not have a VPN.
The other trick would be to alter their OS to expose the real ip if an OS based VPN. Civilian volunteers help by pushing/offering malware to uncover a weak OS based VPN? It gets the ip, the case goes to court and the method is a secret or gets exposed? Word spreads about the VPN altering method.
Get a VPN router and secure all networks and every link in and out?
The VPN's of the world will counter with more router hardware ready with a fall back to prevent a real ip from been exposed.
The final UK tracking network will look a lot like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... to track every packet in and out of the UK but with court ready logs.
The next layer down will be empowered SJW like informants tracking and reporting any UK terms, slang, comments.
Expect a lot of facial recognition in real time via the volunteers and any camera details in files to be kept.
Will it work? The smart people will get a router VPN and can only be seen by the GCHQ. Getting that to court will expose methods.
If the VPN's get exposed in local UK courts, people will just return to real life fun and use the net for safe everyday life. All the digital tracking will be expensive and very useless. Word will spread that the UK internet is unsafe not fun and best to be avoided. The endless flow of interesting information will slow as ever more interesting users will feel they are under watch and alter their online actions. Information collection will then revert to the real world of MI6, MI5 and the police. Nice over time in 9 person teams to watch one interesting person in the real world. The UK will need a lot more in the overtime budget if the net goes dark after collection becomes a risk that alters interesting users internet patterns.
People do interesting things if they think they are not been watch. Telling the world the UK is watching the net and can take court action is not going to get many results as the interesting people go dark. They don't have to use the net.
Can the UK track every interesting person in the real world like it did in the 1980's? Whats the interesting person ratio to police/army/contractor teams collecting overtime per car, van, at dedicated CCTV per day? Getting near that East Germany ratio? Got an East German budget to cover that amount of staff?
The problem is that any US state task force with federal funding or federal case now has the budget per case to track users ip's.
Been on the dark web is as now as safe as using your own ip and isp.
Anything left is a honey pot, bait, a trap or has been turned long ago and is now a gov run front to collect with.
Every file is has a checksum. Every checksum is tracked on download and upload. New files get a checksum. Facial recognition and any camera details left in a file are extracted and sorted. Every file linked back to a real ip.
The interesting groups are now invite only and in back the real world. Its back to 1900-1980's with clusters of crime interlinked by trusted real people.
Spending time exposed to some vast digital trap is a risk that is well understood.
Think of what the internet once was, chatrooms without SJW and approved social media. Users are looking to rediscover the freedom and fun of the net around the 1980's - 1990's.
Back to theocracies, monarchies, kingdoms flooding US social media with their cash for access.
Users think they are using a free, protected US platform.
Or will a clean up of any negative comments be policy to keep the easy funding flowing?
Hire some really great staff again and fix your OS.
Its not that hard, a few US universities still turn out the best graduates every year. The very best in the world.
They have the skills to make Microsoft products secure again.
What are we seeing in this report?
"A U.S. intelligence expert on Russian cyber activity " seems to have easy and constant press access.
The "tell' is the lack of internal security on the part of the "U.S. intelligence expert" and been allowed to rush to tell the media.
If this was real code, nobody would know and it would all be a secret and under a real investigation and mitigation.
The US is using the media to link very old "Bear" code that has been talked about for a while and is well understood by contractors globally for years to sell other stories to the waiting media.
The link back to "U.S. intelligence officials have concluded were responsible for hacks of Democratic Party databases and emails." should be understood in the context of what was said.
"Julian Assange: 'A lot more material' coming on US elections"
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/07...
""Perhaps one day the source or sources will step forward and that might be an interesting moment some people may have egg on their faces. But to exclude certain actors is to make it easier to find out who our sources are," Assange told CNN."
The leak was a walk out like the Pentagon papers or US gov insider help given to the Watergate reporters.
If your going to have a cell phone on you know the gov, mil, police will track you.
The ability to plot you and your contacts is easy. The ability to log what other phone stopped with and for how long is within a nations city or state police budget per case.
A park bench, a cafe, walking side by side for any length of time can all be discovered. With cell phone mapping it will all be logged and can be played back.
Don't meet contacts with your phone. Have a friend take your phone with them into an area and wonder around to create a fake map.
You can still be tracked on CCTV, by vehicle registration plate but thats is a given.
Do not trust any soft power down, remote turn on is alway a gov/mil supported option in many devices.
Anyone in the press should be aware of how police counter the media with all the tools they can get.
Journalists caught on tape in police bugging (21 September 2002)
https://www.theguardian.com/uk...
Your phone is designed to be wire tap friendly as sold globally. Don't carry it near contacts or use it to create vast amounts of disinformation.
More CPU? More wireless? More resolution? More GPU? Make the lens on camera really great or add a set off 3 different lenses?
Change out the cpu, gpu and OS so all users have to hardware upgrade for the best new apps?
Games that need new hardware can be created to push hardware branding.
A new cpu and gpu needed every cycle to keep up with the great code and graphics?
Could be that cable tv prices in their upkeep and staff costs are a good reflection of real costs in the USA :)
Could running a network in the US be very expensive? To hire great staff and keep a network connected everyday?
Hardware upgrades are really, really expensive in the USA for some reason but have to be hidden.
That would point to inflation numbers been kept low or huge hidden expert staff costs in the US.
Are staff and contractors enjoying top expert pay over the years? Legal teams to keep the networks safe per state are expensive?
Generational shareholders like profit, yachts, jets and see local consumers as a for profit herd?
A shrinking number of connected people have to pay for the staff, ensure profits and cover more costs.
Big brands always wanted to expand into content and have been building their own hidden production empires?
Expect amazing new in house movies and shows soon?
Yachts and jets.
Reading the pdf. Fortune 1000 at risk, IoT issues, Constitutional protections vs domestic collect it all tensions.
Too few really great cyber experts in the US for some reason.
Evil consumers are reviewing products and services of brands and talking about them with others on the net. Warning each other about brands.
Cash might move to a great competitor with a great product based on the internet reporting issues.
The internet allows consumers to share facts about stupid brands with a lack of design skills, product quality or delivery issues.
Herd consumers back into a brand so they have to stay, won't report facts and have to spend.
Something about cloud computing.
Back to the news story.
Something linked about Russia and a "signature". Cyber details are now reduced to a linked analogy about "shimmy down the chimney", "the door down", "build a tunnel".
Seeing the inner working of US politics is very bad even when its factual.
China. The lack of encryption, poor network design, not having skilled staff and a vast plain US text database policy is all the fault of other nations. Heathcare. Vast internet facing databases put genetic markers or fingerprints at risk. Were is the quality US encryption?
North Korea and Iran have capabilities too. More on "embarrass" American organisations but not the lack of basic encryption to prevent staff walk outs.
Constitution vs big government agencies doing domestic security and cyber stuff for protection.
Something about party political staff.
Thats 1000's of people who will now understand that for any legal issue they pass on any day over the next years they will be contacted.
Passing the wrong protest, standing near a person on a watch list. The ability to reach out and start a chat down will be a lot more simple than any mass court order.
A health report is coordinated to find out why the person is not able to work their phone.
During the health exam and simple phone function tests the case questions can be asked.
AC the 7500 number is new and much more telling.
The same way it ended in the UK. Files finding their way into the hands of anyone who can pay.
"Journalists caught on tape in police bugging" (21 September 2002)
".. obtaining information from a private detective agency which in turn paid corrupt officers for confidential police material." https://www.theguardian.com/uk...
Even the older generations got them street level locations with logs :)
AC fake emails don't make party political workers quit.
AC "How hard would it be for those releasing the information to make a few changes here and there to support their political ideology?"
Smart people in the press have some really great experts for that. They look at every word, sentence, name, date, format, font and write up reports.
If anything had been added, altered or changed the press would have found it.
The media world wide has a long institutional memory of been offered altered or fake or historically forged documents over the years. By default they hire smart people to look over them before, during and after publication as a wider whole set of documents.
The decades of a rush to publish has be replaced with a few different experts been tasked to see if what is on offer is real, a trap, a limited hangout or bait or fake.
AC some of the documents even have some fancy DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail) signature features. Is the use of 2048 bit keys still ok AC?.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
If the codes did not add up the press would have found that. Their document experts would have tested for valid signatures at different stages.
Even bloggers and other interested people can report on DKIM result by using different apps.
Re Or add to the basket every day.
Take up landscape photography. Buy a few books about one time pads online with a credit card and ensure all privacy settings are wide open during the search for a few well written books that review well. Download or buy some steganography apps.
At the end of every email you send on an Apple computer or device add a very small creative photo banner.
Create a small photo of a typed one time pad text and use steganography to hide a new one in every image. With a just few emails per week thats a few hundred over a few years.
Is every email a hidden message? Some? A few or just one important one? None?
If a US brand wants to be super helpful, help them track friends of friends of friends. Just make sure every new one time pad image is unique and has a new photo to be placed in.
Considering the interest in detecting steganography might create thats 3 hops of contacts from a small group of random people to sort.
AC US Constitutional protections are not a series of blocked tubes to work around to spy on people.
Color of law does not get around the US Constitution.
Re "Do you know what the US Government would do to a corporation .. "
"The One Telco Exec Who Resisted The NSA Has Been Released From 4+ Years In Jail" (Sep 27th 2013)
https://www.techdirt.com/artic...
This news just adds to the PRISM decryption and other issues that US brands seem to offer assistance with.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
If its important encrypt well away from any and all Apple products, send the communications.
Anonymity is hard to ensure but at least people can get their privacy back from Apple and the mil/gov.
+1 for Thinkpads. The support by Linux developers has always been good. Just read up on any GPU support if needed.
He's reading the code,
And compiling it twice;
Why spend on new chips design when the real design team is really busy with ARM?
AC if a big brand can find an issue, so can its staff. So can other nations security experts. So can cults, faith groups, criminals and ex gov/mil security experts.
If data is released when found, the holes can be patched quickly and a world of really great security researchers can help comment on the issue and help.
Why wait a longer time for an in house fix with even the slightest the risk of an issue been in use in the wild for the same time.
Report on detection, get the community to fix. Days of waiting just becomes days of risk.
The more experts that see interesting issues early and often, the better.
Try the linked http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...
Will the copyrights and patents be valid or will fair use win? The wider court role of a "four-factor "fair use" test"?
The way APIs could be/is/will be/can be copyrighted.
The news and summary is all in the linked arstechnica.com recap.
If its a win, its fair use for all.
Not a win, then some "fair use" test for US code? Doing programming in the USA just got more interesting. Code has to work and pass a final court test every time per product cycle?
Another type of win and its all copyrighted. Doing programming well away from the USA just got traction.
Win win. US law protects open source with more protections or shatters all protections :)
Re 'is going to find out they've made a huge mistake."
It could get even more epic. Open source is found to be incompatible with the US legal system.
A rush to the exit by brands to their more friendly tax shelters to keep selling globally and revised products back into the USA.