"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
The color of law seems to device power on requested at a boarder crossing or internal boarder checkpoint to affirm citizenship.
The really bad news is in the network information collected on power on if a IMSI-catcher is the most powerful and first network found.
A warrant should be for one person or that parsons residence or their devices moving around the USA.
If this can be done to a building what not a part of a city? A town? A village? A parish or part of a state?
Every later chat down in the USA could now be a request to turn on a device and offers network traffic capture.
This also points to very interesting network, telco, device hardware and software questions. What is it about device power on in the USA that gives the government so much confidence?
Time to just carry around a low cost flip phone with no internal data, records or logs. It turns on and is telco connected when confronted. Keep the actual nice, new fashion phone totally unseen in a vehicle or residence to offer another layer of constitutional protection.
Consider walking as if going passing an external boarder within the USA at all times and expect a total lack of protections when the low cost phone is requested or visible.
Get a work only phone so that any requests then have the legal burden of been connected to a larger legal entity.
Only use the good phone in private away from windows (physical and OS;) ).
The Soviet Union flooded MI6 and the CIA with double agents. Decades of perfect stories to sell or give away. Until a real defector gets out and offers proof its all been set up.
The West really, really wanted to believe that lifestyle, freedom and cash offers could not be countered with a steady flow of double agents.
The other issue is how the CIA and MI6 have to act in Russia. Laying flat in a car, changing clothing, a wig just to reach out to a local turned contact to offer spy equipment or contact paper work often fails.
The turned official is often bait waiting to see what the approach will be and by what US/UK embassy worker or NGO. Thats why the GCHQ and NSA got all the funding. Safe and total signals capture and full translation services. Just like the Enigma but for decades, totally unnoticed by Russia...
The gps issue is just another line of protection to stop bugs from been able to be aligned out of any site.
Re "Doesn't work when the "press" aka propaganda for"...
Thats why a free press before, during and after publication is so vital and so well protected in the USA.
The USA is one of the few really great nations with amazing lawyers, great members of the press and offers the ability for anyone to comment on any topic.
No theocracy, mil gov, monarchy, communist party, company, political party, media educators, or fascists can rush to get court sanctions.
Document experts can go over every line in all the released material and see if any looks like its been expanded on, faked or altered.
Fiction or later alterations do not go unreported in public.
As all the information is now out and can be published and commented on, the wider public can fully take part in democracy.
Freedom is great like that. Publish and publish and publish some more.
Watergate took some time to gain traction with the wider public. Only the help of an insider gave the overview to follow the funding. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
'A protracted period of clue-searching and trail-following then ensued, with reporters, and eventually the United States Senate and the judicial system probing to see how far up the Executive branch of government the Watergate scandal.."
The tame US political press pushed massive counter narratives to cover for political power at the time too.
How many big pipes exit most smaller nations? One old national telco now in private hands? A few international pipes? All the smaller providers are on some nation network or feed into a few other big providers.
Smaller providers might have their own real networks but they all end up at some national hub for cheap peering and low cost international connections.
Anything in the USA falls under a NSL or PRISM like collection. For privacy-based secure e-mail services create your own one time pad. You won't get anonymity on any email product but the message will stay private.
Don't create the plain text message on network facing computer and then encode.
Other than that flood the privacy breaking brands with all the disinformation, random news, fiction, fun and unrelated creativity possible.
Use their platforms to present any creative message or new product range or endeavour in as much fictional plain text as possible.
If the US brands want to collect all day, everyday and now want real details, create something great for them.
We have seen the West push for Russia and the week of posts on Slashdot repeating its Russia and only ever Russia.
Time of day, ip ranges, code litter, emoji.
From UK and US, contractors, ex intelligence service people find language and emoji so quickly.
"How Russia Pulled Off the Biggest Election Hack in U.S. History" (OCT 20, 2016 ) http://www.esquire.com/news-po...
Every aspect of the litter seems to have been left to point at Russia and be easy to find and be media for "open source intelligence" groups.
Would any other intelligence service make sloppy mistakes or risk real time discovery with such well understood skills?
Or was the trail left knowing the West and its media had no skills to look no further than ip ranges, code litter and the time of day?
Iran and North Koran have very few pipes to the West that are free of the NSA and GCHQ.
South Korea and Japan have huge listening stations, expert staff and with the help of global reach of their 5 eye nations supporters would know of any Korean internet movements globally in real time.
Miho, Tachiarai and other sites do track everything Korea and have done for a while.
The GCHQ and NSA have Iran surrounded. Overseas Processing Centre, like CIRCUIT, Troodos in Cyprus pick up everything in the Middle East, Iran and into the Caucasus.
The NSA and GCHQ would know if Iran or North Korea acted as a nation and would keep such methods out of the media so they could track, alter material in real time or counter them without comment from contractors, ex intelligence service workers or "open source intelligence" groups reporting on such efforts in real time.
The need for it to be Russian fully, early and often in the Western press is the 'tell'.
If its not secret, been mentioned by method and been tracked its cover for a:
A US internal, domestic walk out, someone gave a package of data and its been covered with "Russia" did it for party political reasons.
Anyone then reading or commenting on or using the material is "Russian" and the leak is reduced. http://edition.cnn.com/2016/07...
Julian Assange: 'A lot more material' coming on US elections
""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,""
Or as mentioned on slashdot
US intelligence had GAMMA material issues as a totally internal domestic issue. (3 August 2016) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
Designing in an extra chip or getting a more expensive chip?
Printing unique passwords on stickers in the packaging?
Having users search forums to find they lost their special password with the packaging? Then login to blame the brand for the unexpected result?
Do that over too many generations of products and its less profit for a nice jet or yacht.
re 'People were able to navigate even before GPS existed"
The US tried that with maps and sketches by informants from Iraq.
When US top experts got deep in Iraq they find cache of vacuum cleaners not match sketch.
Spies who defect or are sent to be perfect defector often draw nice map to earn top defector status and good life as expected. Map match map by past double agent sent last decade, is confirmed by two sources from different departments. Must be true as both now trusted defectors could never both be two double agents.
Decades later MI6 or CIA send local spy in, find art restoration room not vault conference room corridor.
So working gps on site is vital to get signal out, perfect alignment and not spread data flow all over site to be detected during bug sweep.
Would toy device or entertainment unit with hidden or designed useful compasses (magnetic and gyro) be allowed in with any staff?
Giving staff extra special spy device during spy meeting can be a risk for both spy handler and spy to try and hide and walk in.
The West has been placing devices in Russia for years.
"Russian 'spy rock' was genuine, former chief of staff admits" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...
"... accepted that Britain did indeed plant a "spy rock" despite attempts by the then-prime minister to dismiss the story and denials of improper conduct by the Foreign Office."
Britain admits 'fake rock' plot to spy on Russians https://www.theguardian.com/wo...
A lot of spy devices are distance sensitive. So a good idea of the inner device location is needed and the location for a collection or helper device.
By altering the GPS, measurements for device placement by spies gets tricky. Any more power than needed a device risks detection. Not enough and signal is too week to get out of secure area.
Readers might recall the ANGRYNEIGHBOR, SURLYSPAWN, VAGRANT, DROPMIRE, SURLYSPAWN and the note about TAWDRYYARD and gps.
Catalog Advertises NSA Toolbox (December 29, 2013) http://www.spiegel.de/internat...
A hired spy with local time limited access placing a device is then 10 feet out? 100ft ? Pacing the building with funny walk might be off limits or get seen on gait analysis from CCTV. Past sketches, plans or details might have altered with upgrades or have come from double agents sent to West with amazing stories of fiction about layout. So expecting gps to work well at all times was needed to get fine tuning of device to outside support device by spy.
Re "And how do you then get him out of the country?"
Like "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/József_Mindszenty" József Mindszenty , if you can get to a great embassy your safe.
"... he was freed in the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and granted political asylum by the United States embassy in Budapest, where Mindszenty lived for the next fifteen years"
Having a person be fully protected in an embassy becomes a great political talking point and keeps the reason as to why in focus.
All the protections and freedoms of the USA and its Constitution are what made web 2.0 great.
Now in its global rush to support monarchies, cults, theocracies, despots, communists and fascists the free speech protections get removed?
By trying to remove what is constitutionally protected in the USA the most fun and best users will just move real sites where they can really speak to any topic they want without been reported and/or banned.
Good luck with a web brand thats the global ad platform for monarchies, cults and theocracies and their all censorship. Do lots of bureaucrats and PR consultants make fun users?
Create a list of parts needed.
A big case with big fans to keep parts cool and dust free.
A good brand of PSU that has been reviewed to offer the correct power for all the parts.
A good GPU thats on the right side of the Nvidia/AMD product range that generation. Read lots of review and consider the games if thats what the GPU will support or work related graphics.
The motherboard should again be well researched and support all emerging fast storage options.
A good sized CPU cooler for a fast CPU. Select RAM that will fit around the CPU cooler.
Add in Windows 10, set the privacy settings to less collection. Enjoy a wide selection of great games at great frame rates. Well designed productivity software thats fully CPU and GPU supportive will also run well making use of that powerful GPU, CPU and lots of RAM.
Windows 10 will update as needed and the user can sit back and enjoy computing.
Dual booting into fully supported Linux is then a fun project for later.
is now a crime along with studying privacy and encryption software?
Given the flow of "Russian" related stories on slashdot, would studying Russian not now be the trending language to get a promotion in the NSA?
Or at least have some skills on show to fend off been replace by a contractor?
Is the NSA and GCHQ now tracking educational Russian language sites like it did crypto sites?
How the NSA Targets Tor Users (July 4, 2014) http://motherboard.vice.com/re...
Was XKeyscore or its upgrade now tasked to watch Russian language sites?
The part about "so the enemy cannot send false commands." was from a device in a movie called a CRM 114 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The ideas are not meant to work, just to get people thinking about the extra costs sold to "secure" a robot funding that will make a nice profit during R and D.
As far as "None of those ideas will work" they do mirror politician's comments on hardware that are really often as funny.
The "free fire zone" is a return to the ideas that worked so well in Vietnam https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Re "You said they already only allow a select group of people have access to the data and that's their security model, now you say that the way to fix the problem is to only allow access to trusted staff? Who is this "select group" if it's not "trusted staff"? A select group of untrusted staff?"
Thats the big question. Encrypt and tell all the workers they are not trusted at any level and all have to get permission/keys everyday?
That breaks down that esprit de corps, comradery or respect and excellence. Taking orders/tasks from a contractor alters gov/mil staffs outlook on their job. Staff start to wonder if they are been demoted, blocked or have done something wrong, been reported, face downsizing, replacement by a contractor, a hunt for a someone and they are caught up in it. Their work suffers, rumours spread fast in communities.
Trust the gov workers but never the contractors? Some contractors are more trusted who have to see the networks as part of their contract? A new layer of tasks and workers to look after and track.
All that while global and domestic collection builds up 24/7. The US has done a lot of testing on how to work with its staff.
How to trust them, educate them, track them, reward them, know if they have been in contact with anyone, or to test them with fake files or unexpected chat downs/encounters in the community or while on holiday. If not self reported, thats an issue.
Thats what kept the NSA safe for so many decades. Thats the methods the US told its other 5 eye members to try with their own staff.
That all fails when rushed in contractors get equal access and need to work with all material.
Re "A random contractor should not be allowed to walk out with 50TB worth of data."
That is just random files floating around the networks so staff can cross reference and search. Plain text, sorted, indexed so future generations of staff next week, month or decade can look back and draw results. Internal tracking of such data flows would slow the networks and allow spies to track if they are been investigated by self searching their own logs. Any changes and they know they are under suspicion.
That could endanger decades of discovery or placing of fake material and allow escape.
The FBI tried that and found internal spies would look if any action was been taken surrounding their work or teams. Bureaucracy expects a file to be created somewhere and that can be searched for given equal or greater access. A strange new team with project access but no contact could be new security.
The change was a flood of contractors and staff growth. New missions, different contractors who could alter things, give orders and had a more easy path to support and advancement. Yet the same security system of trust the staff, work the data stayed in place as it had always worked so well until it did not.
Any attempts to secure things away from the contractors invokes political support and seen as anti-capitalist or budget envy. Contractors are clearing other contractors just to bring in skills and keep up with the global/domestic work load. The final security that worked was to walk the life of all applicants. Talk to all friends, teachers, extended family and look in local paper documents, paper court records, interest in books, magazines, friends of friends and get a good profile of everything.
That is now digital. The person exists and the federal/state computer says the grew up in a fly over state, passed their exams really good and another agency totally trusts them. The polygraph tester passed them after a chat down and internet log search to see if they looked up "polygraph". None of their self submitted friends are been tracked by any state or federal task force or police database...
That final real world aspect to decades of great security is now not working in a rush to find skills, languages, foreign thinking.
The UK did rushed interviews in the 1930's-40-50's to get Russian and German skills. A lot of interesting people got invited in and moved up the ranks.
Collection at any cost is becoming the only mission.
Slashdot Mirror
AC you may recall
'Homeland Security Border Agents Can Seize Your Phone" https://yro.slashdot.org/story...
Securing Your Notebook Against US Customs https://yro.slashdot.org/story...
The Legal Purgatory at the US Border: Detained, Searched, and Interrogated
https://yro.slashdot.org/story...
The ability to demand a device powers on, once a boarder issue is now becoming a domestic issue.
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
;) ).
The color of law seems to device power on requested at a boarder crossing or internal boarder checkpoint to affirm citizenship.
The really bad news is in the network information collected on power on if a IMSI-catcher is the most powerful and first network found.
A warrant should be for one person or that parsons residence or their devices moving around the USA.
If this can be done to a building what not a part of a city? A town? A village? A parish or part of a state?
Every later chat down in the USA could now be a request to turn on a device and offers network traffic capture.
This also points to very interesting network, telco, device hardware and software questions. What is it about device power on in the USA that gives the government so much confidence?
Time to just carry around a low cost flip phone with no internal data, records or logs. It turns on and is telco connected when confronted. Keep the actual nice, new fashion phone totally unseen in a vehicle or residence to offer another layer of constitutional protection.
Consider walking as if going passing an external boarder within the USA at all times and expect a total lack of protections when the low cost phone is requested or visible.
Get a work only phone so that any requests then have the legal burden of been connected to a larger legal entity.
Only use the good phone in private away from windows (physical and OS
The Soviet Union flooded MI6 and the CIA with double agents. Decades of perfect stories to sell or give away. Until a real defector gets out and offers proof its all been set up.
The West really, really wanted to believe that lifestyle, freedom and cash offers could not be countered with a steady flow of double agents.
The other issue is how the CIA and MI6 have to act in Russia. Laying flat in a car, changing clothing, a wig just to reach out to a local turned contact to offer spy equipment or contact paper work often fails.
The turned official is often bait waiting to see what the approach will be and by what US/UK embassy worker or NGO. Thats why the GCHQ and NSA got all the funding. Safe and total signals capture and full translation services. Just like the Enigma but for decades, totally unnoticed by Russia...
The gps issue is just another line of protection to stop bugs from been able to be aligned out of any site.
Re "Doesn't work when the "press" aka propaganda for" ...
Thats why a free press before, during and after publication is so vital and so well protected in the USA.
The USA is one of the few really great nations with amazing lawyers, great members of the press and offers the ability for anyone to comment on any topic.
No theocracy, mil gov, monarchy, communist party, company, political party, media educators, or fascists can rush to get court sanctions.
Document experts can go over every line in all the released material and see if any looks like its been expanded on, faked or altered.
Fiction or later alterations do not go unreported in public.
As all the information is now out and can be published and commented on, the wider public can fully take part in democracy.
Freedom is great like that. Publish and publish and publish some more.
The US has great protections for the press to stop tyranny. Color of law and "secrets" cant be used to cover up crimes or other issues.
A "good fiction" would be exposed by document experts going to the media with real evidence of comical creativity.
Watergate took some time to gain traction with the wider public. Only the help of an insider gave the overview to follow the funding. .."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
'A protracted period of clue-searching and trail-following then ensued, with reporters, and eventually the United States Senate and the judicial system probing to see how far up the Executive branch of government the Watergate scandal
The tame US political press pushed massive counter narratives to cover for political power at the time too.
Fiction does not get party political staff to quit. So just keep on reporting and telling the truth.
How many big pipes exit most smaller nations? One old national telco now in private hands? A few international pipes? All the smaller providers are on some nation network or feed into a few other big providers.
Smaller providers might have their own real networks but they all end up at some national hub for cheap peering and low cost international connections.
Anything in the USA falls under a NSL or PRISM like collection. For privacy-based secure e-mail services create your own one time pad. You won't get anonymity on any email product but the message will stay private.
Don't create the plain text message on network facing computer and then encode.
Other than that flood the privacy breaking brands with all the disinformation, random news, fiction, fun and unrelated creativity possible.
Use their platforms to present any creative message or new product range or endeavour in as much fictional plain text as possible.
If the US brands want to collect all day, everyday and now want real details, create something great for them.
A policy of "Do no privacy"
Fake emails don't have party political staff quitting. Thats the different between a book, movie or anything else that has been cleared to publish.
We have seen the West push for Russia and the week of posts on Slashdot repeating its Russia and only ever Russia. :
Time of day, ip ranges, code litter, emoji.
From UK and US, contractors, ex intelligence service people find language and emoji so quickly.
"How Russia Pulled Off the Biggest Election Hack in U.S. History" (OCT 20, 2016 ) http://www.esquire.com/news-po...
Every aspect of the litter seems to have been left to point at Russia and be easy to find and be media for "open source intelligence" groups.
Would any other intelligence service make sloppy mistakes or risk real time discovery with such well understood skills?
Or was the trail left knowing the West and its media had no skills to look no further than ip ranges, code litter and the time of day?
Iran and North Koran have very few pipes to the West that are free of the NSA and GCHQ.
South Korea and Japan have huge listening stations, expert staff and with the help of global reach of their 5 eye nations supporters would know of any Korean internet movements globally in real time.
Miho, Tachiarai and other sites do track everything Korea and have done for a while.
The GCHQ and NSA have Iran surrounded. Overseas Processing Centre, like CIRCUIT, Troodos in Cyprus pick up everything in the Middle East, Iran and into the Caucasus.
The NSA and GCHQ would know if Iran or North Korea acted as a nation and would keep such methods out of the media so they could track, alter material in real time or counter them without comment from contractors, ex intelligence service workers or "open source intelligence" groups reporting on such efforts in real time.
The need for it to be Russian fully, early and often in the Western press is the 'tell'.
If its not secret, been mentioned by method and been tracked its cover for a
A US internal, domestic walk out, someone gave a package of data and its been covered with "Russia" did it for party political reasons.
Anyone then reading or commenting on or using the material is "Russian" and the leak is reduced.
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/07...
Julian Assange: 'A lot more material' coming on US elections
""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,""
Or as mentioned on slashdot
US intelligence had GAMMA material issues as a totally internal domestic issue. (3 August 2016)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
Designing in an extra chip or getting a more expensive chip?
Printing unique passwords on stickers in the packaging?
Having users search forums to find they lost their special password with the packaging? Then login to blame the brand for the unexpected result?
Do that over too many generations of products and its less profit for a nice jet or yacht.
AC GLONASS does not work near or in NSA, GCHQ lab so its hard to prototype a device with that functionality.
re 'People were able to navigate even before GPS existed"
The US tried that with maps and sketches by informants from Iraq.
When US top experts got deep in Iraq they find cache of vacuum cleaners not match sketch.
Spies who defect or are sent to be perfect defector often draw nice map to earn top defector status and good life as expected. Map match map by past double agent sent last decade, is confirmed by two sources from different departments. Must be true as both now trusted defectors could never both be two double agents.
Decades later MI6 or CIA send local spy in, find art restoration room not vault conference room corridor.
So working gps on site is vital to get signal out, perfect alignment and not spread data flow all over site to be detected during bug sweep.
Would toy device or entertainment unit with hidden or designed useful compasses (magnetic and gyro) be allowed in with any staff?
Giving staff extra special spy device during spy meeting can be a risk for both spy handler and spy to try and hide and walk in.
The West has been placing devices in Russia for years.
"Russian 'spy rock' was genuine, former chief of staff admits"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...
"... accepted that Britain did indeed plant a "spy rock" despite attempts by the then-prime minister to dismiss the story and denials of improper conduct by the Foreign Office."
Britain admits 'fake rock' plot to spy on Russians
https://www.theguardian.com/wo...
A lot of spy devices are distance sensitive. So a good idea of the inner device location is needed and the location for a collection or helper device.
By altering the GPS, measurements for device placement by spies gets tricky. Any more power than needed a device risks detection. Not enough and signal is too week to get out of secure area.
Readers might recall the ANGRYNEIGHBOR, SURLYSPAWN, VAGRANT, DROPMIRE, SURLYSPAWN and the note about TAWDRYYARD and gps.
Catalog Advertises NSA Toolbox (December 29, 2013)
http://www.spiegel.de/internat...
A hired spy with local time limited access placing a device is then 10 feet out? 100ft ? Pacing the building with funny walk might be off limits or get seen on gait analysis from CCTV. Past sketches, plans or details might have altered with upgrades or have come from double agents sent to West with amazing stories of fiction about layout.
So expecting gps to work well at all times was needed to get fine tuning of device to outside support device by spy.
Re "And how do you then get him out of the country?"
Like "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/József_Mindszenty" József Mindszenty , if you can get to a great embassy your safe.
"... he was freed in the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and granted political asylum by the United States embassy in Budapest, where Mindszenty lived for the next fifteen years"
Having a person be fully protected in an embassy becomes a great political talking point and keeps the reason as to why in focus.
All the protections and freedoms of the USA and its Constitution are what made web 2.0 great.
Now in its global rush to support monarchies, cults, theocracies, despots, communists and fascists the free speech protections get removed?
By trying to remove what is constitutionally protected in the USA the most fun and best users will just move real sites where they can really speak to any topic they want without been reported and/or banned.
Good luck with a web brand thats the global ad platform for monarchies, cults and theocracies and their all censorship. Do lots of bureaucrats and PR consultants make fun users?
Create a list of parts needed.
A big case with big fans to keep parts cool and dust free.
A good brand of PSU that has been reviewed to offer the correct power for all the parts.
A good GPU thats on the right side of the Nvidia/AMD product range that generation. Read lots of review and consider the games if thats what the GPU will support or work related graphics.
The motherboard should again be well researched and support all emerging fast storage options.
A good sized CPU cooler for a fast CPU. Select RAM that will fit around the CPU cooler.
Add in Windows 10, set the privacy settings to less collection. Enjoy a wide selection of great games at great frame rates. Well designed productivity software thats fully CPU and GPU supportive will also run well making use of that powerful GPU, CPU and lots of RAM.
Windows 10 will update as needed and the user can sit back and enjoy computing.
Dual booting into fully supported Linux is then a fun project for later.
Re What am I missing .. ?
The physics of FTTX with X been lots of very long POTS networks i.e. wireline.
is now a crime along with studying privacy and encryption software?
Given the flow of "Russian" related stories on slashdot, would studying Russian not now be the trending language to get a promotion in the NSA?
Or at least have some skills on show to fend off been replace by a contractor?
Is the NSA and GCHQ now tracking educational Russian language sites like it did crypto sites?
How the NSA Targets Tor Users (July 4, 2014)
http://motherboard.vice.com/re...
Was XKeyscore or its upgrade now tasked to watch Russian language sites?
The part about "so the enemy cannot send false commands." was from a device in a movie called a CRM 114
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The ideas are not meant to work, just to get people thinking about the extra costs sold to "secure" a robot funding that will make a nice profit during R and D.
As far as "None of those ideas will work" they do mirror politician's comments on hardware that are really often as funny.
The "free fire zone" is a return to the ideas that worked so well in Vietnam https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The programmers finally understand how to make use of the hardware and now have a good attitude.
Re "You said they already only allow a select group of people have access to the data and that's their security model, now you say that the way to fix the problem is to only allow access to trusted staff? Who is this "select group" if it's not "trusted staff"? A select group of untrusted staff?"
Thats the big question. Encrypt and tell all the workers they are not trusted at any level and all have to get permission/keys everyday?
That breaks down that esprit de corps, comradery or respect and excellence. Taking orders/tasks from a contractor alters gov/mil staffs outlook on their job. Staff start to wonder if they are been demoted, blocked or have done something wrong, been reported, face downsizing, replacement by a contractor, a hunt for a someone and they are caught up in it. Their work suffers, rumours spread fast in communities.
Trust the gov workers but never the contractors? Some contractors are more trusted who have to see the networks as part of their contract? A new layer of tasks and workers to look after and track.
All that while global and domestic collection builds up 24/7. The US has done a lot of testing on how to work with its staff.
How to trust them, educate them, track them, reward them, know if they have been in contact with anyone, or to test them with fake files or unexpected chat downs/encounters in the community or while on holiday. If not self reported, thats an issue.
Thats what kept the NSA safe for so many decades. Thats the methods the US told its other 5 eye members to try with their own staff.
That all fails when rushed in contractors get equal access and need to work with all material.
Re "A random contractor should not be allowed to walk out with 50TB worth of data."
That is just random files floating around the networks so staff can cross reference and search. Plain text, sorted, indexed so future generations of staff next week, month or decade can look back and draw results. Internal tracking of such data flows would slow the networks and allow spies to track if they are been investigated by self searching their own logs. Any changes and they know they are under suspicion.
That could endanger decades of discovery or placing of fake material and allow escape.
The FBI tried that and found internal spies would look if any action was been taken surrounding their work or teams. Bureaucracy expects a file to be created somewhere and that can be searched for given equal or greater access. A strange new team with project access but no contact could be new security.
The change was a flood of contractors and staff growth. New missions, different contractors who could alter things, give orders and had a more easy path to support and advancement. Yet the same security system of trust the staff, work the data stayed in place as it had always worked so well until it did not.
Any attempts to secure things away from the contractors invokes political support and seen as anti-capitalist or budget envy. Contractors are clearing other contractors just to bring in skills and keep up with the global/domestic work load. The final security that worked was to walk the life of all applicants. Talk to all friends, teachers, extended family and look in local paper documents, paper court records, interest in books, magazines, friends of friends and get a good profile of everything.
That is now digital. The person exists and the federal/state computer says the grew up in a fly over state, passed their exams really good and another agency totally trusts them. The polygraph tester passed them after a chat down and internet log search to see if they looked up "polygraph". None of their self submitted friends are been tracked by any state or federal task force or police database...
That final real world aspect to decades of great security is now not working in a rush to find skills, languages, foreign thinking.
The UK did rushed interviews in the 1930's-40-50's to get Russian and German skills. A lot of interesting people got invited in and moved up the ranks.
Collection at any cost is becoming the only mission.