Buy another brand of computer thats well understood and has every chip looked at and the OS is open.
If a site, country, brand or network is interesting, expect other nations security services to be all over any such offered hardware options or adding extra access option during private sector shipment.
Why would any nation or brand risk having a computer system that can be turned on, accessed, logs altered and turned off as part of the normal network hardware as imported?
Most smart nations govs and mils can function just fine without consumer grade computer networks tracked by NATO.
Many have finally understood the NSA and GCHQ interest in all their local networks and communications systems going back to the 1960's.
Why not give the West something creative to find, worry about and read on local servers and watch for the reaction and leaks to the press about exotic projects countered by contractors and the mil?
The ability to keep data on a base or area for select trusted staff is the key to ensuring all other networked data is just everyday expected junk or very complex bait.
ie other nations focus on the smarter human aspect and have placed generations of human spies deep in the more advanced nations govs, mil, contracting and mil educational sectors of other nations. As they are loyal they are not doing it for cash or a passport out after a new years of high risk and often limited collection or access to tainted bait files.
NATO is dreaming that other nations are as connected and network open thanks to low quality private sector contractors and the use of consumer grade telco networks connections over decades.
The real skill was to have actual MI6 or CIA skills to back up any found network data about another nations projects. The West spent all its cash on digital spying and that is now becoming a policy issue. Not having a human side to actually verify found digital files is getting to be interesting. Other smarter nations dont have to use digital networks or can fake messages, create vast fictional projects to be found by the West on an open network. The West was sold on been totally connected and trusting what it finds deep in other nations databases cannot be fully understood.
Who will win? The nations with the best real human spies sitting in meetings, shaping the West's policy as its been made over decades. Having new Western embassy staff "buy" a local spy is often a local trap and ends up on the news, wigs, equipment and 'offer' on display for the worlds press.
NATO has the ability to see other nations moves in real time, but thats often way too late, totally expected and now well understood by most govs and their mils. NATO only has the in country trick of funding NGO's and color revolutions but even that policy of local dissident support is been understood and can now be tracked with local informants and well funded, skilled human counterintelligence.
Other nations can create the 'Thousands of pages" digitally everyday and the West as very few ways of understanding if its true, useful, a trap, limited hangout or useful. Way too many Western contractors and private experts kept on selling the West's mil/gov on digital only methods. Great for their own brands growth, but other useful methods lost too much funding. If all thats been collected from other nations is consumer junk and careful disinformation, more NATO funding is not going to help much other than saving local jobs. Probing of the distant networks is now expected and is finally well understood.
The correct way most nations police or clandestine services do it would be some expected hardware like a "random" new transformer upgrade or like for like replacement after "random" local supply issues. Another option would be an upgrade to existing phone or network hardware on a pole. Nobody would look twice at network or power company hardware and actual company uniformed staff. What seems to have happened is a bulk buy in of CCTV like lens products that got placed for a rushed event not long term well thought out, creative concealment via expert blending in with existing older services..
This would show a total lack of trust or secure project "sharing" with the utility company staff or other networking brands with a monopoly or duopoly of CCTV ready services and enclosures in the area.
Sticking random very new looking CCTV like devices with lens that can be seen next to very old, weathered hardware shows a lack of understanding, lack of trust in brands and the private sector's staff or a "deal" to buy in devices based on other needs that keeping the new devices very well hidden.
If this was been done in the correct way, a real company worker would have swapped an existing company device out with a CCTV upgraded device, same service, new hidden feature with no comment from the media or local population over many years.
This seems to be a case of place the lens at the best position at any cost "now" and hope its not noticed over time. Why such a public deployment was allowed is strange. With a bit of company and contractor advice the CCTV like lens placement would have never been seen over many years.
Re "Their corprate first attitude, has basically sold/given all the spectrum to organizations which hate the idea of individuals not having to be locked into paying monthly extortion.."
The idea is just to stay with local gov approved provider(s) no matter the low speed or lack of any local network investment. With ever more gov regulations its back to POTS, costly last mile partial networks of optical or coax from your gov approved monopoly or cozy duopoly network provider.
AC the US lined the oceans with its mil sound surveillance system back in ~ 1960's (SOSUS) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... so any mil precedent has long been set by the US to use the oceans for "anything" any nation wants.
If found to be driving with any amount of cash a person is "structuring" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... to avoid the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) and Internal Revenue Code by using the banking system with much smaller amounts of cash over time.
If no cash is found after a search, the deposit was just made or the vehicle has been altered with cash hiding compartments.
To be found with any digital banking details while driving is now fair game in that state.
Even with local plates, facial recognition of the driver and passenger can induce a "random" pull over and chat down with the "discovery" of cash or banking details.
The ability to track a face, cell phone powered on, licence plate is now so cheap any county, city, state can afford to stop anyone. If a state/federal database sees any pattern of movement or a degree separation or three of 'hops' from any suspect.
Every federal digital tracking system is now cheap enough for local law enforcement. Add in civil asset forfeiture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... in many US states and just driving gets to be very interesting.
Re "The goal is "Watching with NO RECORDS OF IT."" is one of the real fears of the US government. Too many people have been tipped off and have escaped just after complex phone database requests get entered.
Too many foreign brands, multinationals, dual citizens, cults, faiths, criminals now have generational contacts within the fancy cleared bureaucratic/private sector. Access to requests for devices or accounts of interest to police or who is under investigation is not just the phone company anymore.
Shared faith, any faith or cult from the original homeland generations later, cash, compromising information, ideology all create the perfect very human way into vast private sector databases that have to be altered to allow for what was a log, tap, trace, or just show the official start of any state investigation with federal support or funding.
The US has no way to clear, pass or confirm its trusted support staff at any level anymore as gov workers or contractors. The only solution is to allow roving groups of officials to start any investigation and then add in paperwork during a public trail.
The lack of much needed public comment by lawyers looking back to the origins of any case work is also interesting. Is funding lacking to understand the origins of a case? Are lawyers and their experts been told they cannot comment on the start of any investigation methods in public court?
If the ability to secure basic freedoms and protections for the press, media from constant domestic spying fails if new laws are finally passed... what can be done if everyone is been kept under a digital legal pre crime watch and internet logging?
The digital ability to watch people create computer content is about all most advanced nations have fully invested in. Staff and contractors with security clearances to watch one person wonder around per day in 8-12 team member shifts per interesting person can often be spotted in different inward looking communities. Have fun and be creative with linguistic analysis and a vast world of creative writing on a very average networked computer.
If your a member if the press, blogger, peace activist, academic, author, creative person that has become of interest to the security services....
Buy a new average Microsoft laptop with related productivity apps, keep the laptop internet connected 24/7, add in a UK based cloud backup service. Install some fancy foreign sounding consumer grade AV. Add in any applications needed to get work ready for a publisher or for upload.
Start been very creative in your chosen area of interest by creating publication drafts, folders names, search for and download a lot of background reading..
Go to archives and take out vast amounts of material on events around the 1980-2000's.
Invent a series of new informants with information going back to the 1970's with new stories they just have to get out about the political connected and the fun filled weekend parties, banking related gov funding, tax shelters... contractors, the wrong kind of political connections in the 1980's. Be very creative, add lots of names, times, dates. Leave an unexpected redacted space for code words of projects and operations but create paragraphs full of detail.
Fill back into the 1970's and get really creative on into the 2000's. Line up any created story with past official events. Newspaper clippings and notes help.
Load the draft files with political and banking bait, recreate old scanned documents by adding in unexpected names, meeting times with new informants. Ensure any and all documents are converted for easy digital searching. Add scanned paper files in a huge file format.
Slow the internet connection down and scan in vast amounts of documents creating many huge files with very interesting file names.
Add cryptic names (save some cyrillic names for later) but be very clear on details about all meeting with lists of a few fictional informants.
Create an actor with the ability to pass CCTV capture, smile for facial recognition on the way, get tracked by automatic license-plate recognition and set up a meeting.
Find a good voice actor with the correct professional sounding accent and tone for that decade to fill in the other side of the conversation with the cell phone on and the microphone well positioned to capture every word of their "story" that has to finally be told. Interact naturally and press for more details, create a heavy paper "file" or digital backup to be handed over with "everything" on it. Select a location that ensures a good voice print match and allows for acoustics that captures the sound of the hand over.
Drive, walk or bike to the areas mentioned with your cellular device on and with a full battery for the first of many meetings and file hand overs.
Take a rushed cell phone image of a created 'cover' page. Make sure it will pass layout analysis from that decade but only add to the mystery of the files origins or what could or should be very secret content.
Add to your your own digital dossier every weekend with amazing meetings with a live mic on, new "secret" digital files collected for the clandestine services to find and a growing laptop full of digital details.
Any real work do on a type writer, keep paper work only, keep paper copies to trusted friends and ensure the only time a digital version is made is at the time of publication. Give your cell p
Better to give future stories to the world's media in full. Then every blogger, member of the press, historian, database expert, document expert, linguist, author, NGO with any interest can just work on or search for what they want or are expert in.
No selected press, well funded groups with very regional stories to sell, waiting times.
All the user can reflect on is PRISM years and the lack of public or court comment and internal gov access....
If the hardware is in gov hands?
If the hardware is still been used in the wild and data is been entered and displayed via a fancy user installed software "app" encryption layer?
As consumers the wider buying population of telco products now has a feel for a backdoor in the hands of state/federal task forces, federal officials, ex staff, former staff, contractors and anyone who can afford expert help from ex staff and former staff.
Signals intelligence, voice prints and cell phone data they can.
New FOIA Documents Confirm FBI Used Dirtboxes on Planes Without Any Policies or Legal Guidance (MARCH 9, 2016) https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/...
Related background info on the methods "Feds gather phone data from the sky with aircraft mimicking cell towers" (Nov 14, 2014) http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...
The Feds Are Now Using ‘Stingrays’ in Planes to Spy on Our Phone Calls (11.14.14) http://www.wired.com/2014/11/f...
Dirtbox (cell phone) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
ie mapping out all cell users in vast areas of the US in a domestic collect it all database without needing to ask any court or request tech help via traditional telco staff.
Except for the NSL that got the gov server and splitters in so deep in the network that it looked at everything in plain text.
That new internal gov network was trusted.
All the staff who saw the strange new hardware and flood of outgoing connections and said nothing, reported nothing.
Its kind of hard to clean up after years of having a mil or gov teams just connect deep into any network.
The US is approaching the East Germany issue of having its own best and brightest undercover law enforcement operations watching its own state, city and security service operations and taking a long time to understand its been following its own at very different gov levels.
So many different teams from the mil, FBI, CIA, NSA down to state, city are using undercover teams, ex mil, contractors, turned prisoners that that are spying on each others cover stories in real time.
Very few have the skill or top clearances to ensure very complex operations dont overlap.
Small anti war groups might be under constant signals surveillance and have state and federal under cover staff sitting in on each meeting feeding back to each other their own fake experiences and ideas.
A 4 to 5 hops of collect it all the US is really just sucking up the entire 'internet" for later questions about a person or time line.
Realtime or questions about future events just get a flood of undercover staff, friendly gov operatives, international contractors helping spread freedom, ex mil now undercover or clandestine staff with missing parts in their new "city" or "international" cover stories flooding the results.
Voice prints, facial recognition, finger prints dont help as all that has been secured against everything from smart private detectives to other nations security services.
Adding decryption to every US call will just result in a new flood of ever more undercover stories been discovered in real time.
The NSA and GCHQ warned against this for decades. Let people around the world think they had anonymity and privacy. Trust and enjoy the fax, phone, cell phone, computer networks for decades. The policy of collect it all ensured a constant flow of information back to the security services.
A limitation on crypto and going to open court with a log from a phone just gets interesting people very interested in not talking on any phone.
All this was predicted decades ago via the GCHQ that ensured it never went to court and kept the UK legal system guessing as to the role of informants, luck, undercover law enforcement that got a case started.
Parallel construction held in the UK. The US seems to need the publicity of a short term win in the nations media and will risk decades of quality collection for a few days press coverage telling the world that all US telco crypto is junk.
It depends on what the US gov finally got.
What is public is the request was for a computer related solution that would fit on any gov hard drive and open any branded phone.
Portable to take to any city, state, county, other nation and fully access any waiting phone. http://nypost.com/2016/03/02/f... (March 2, 2016)
"“The request we got from the government in this case is, ‘Take this tool and put it on a hard drive, send it to the FBI,’ and they’d load it onto their computer,”"
Depends on how a person now or later a legal team with real experts requesting case details understands the term "help", "everything", "requests"
Hundreds of requests to unlock phones flood FBI (April 6, 2016) http://www.usatoday.com/story/...
"... the agency was being inundated with requests from state and local law enforcement seeking help accessing the contents of hundreds of encrypted or damaged cellphones linked to unrelated criminal investigations scattered across the country."
"Requests involving more than 500 such devices..."
FBI Offers to Help Local Law Enforcement With Locked iPhones (April 2, 2016) http://time.com/4279841/fbi-un...
"Please know that we will continue to do everything we can to help you consistent with our legal and policy constraints.’’
Think in terms of limited hang out operations and decades honey pots that never got fully understood or mentioned to lower gov levels or law enforcement never got in on the operation..
For that to work a lot of real and fake information has to walk and has to be seen as originating in the depths of real US gov computer systems.
Operations get renamed, staff move around and the resulting security networks are left wide open. Data used as bait or to see where it was going was completed or abandoned months or years ago but nobody now has the insight or new clearances to clean up or later block access to the wide open internet.
That would be the most optimistic view, smart people are going long term operations and a lot of low sec and mid level data is bait and can be lost along the way to sell a big, complex fake story to some other nation.
The next option is the funding for contractors is so good and addictive that if security was ever improved they would suffer from a lack of work and over time, been on call.
ie the gov/mil networks can be fixed but its more profitable to allow the contractor funding for repairs and lucrative after event clean up to keep funds flowing. So few have the clearances to find fault or note the same issues getting fixed again and again for billable hours over years that any real oversight is a non issue.
The last option is the US gov design of the cloud or new networks and the location of decades of data.
Paper records might not exist, or never got used but vast digital databases got created on desktop and laptop computers 10, 20 years ago.
It cant be secured as so many other networks and agencies now need access in real time. In the past that would have been on site and secure but now its national and security is a new front end network to a very old plain text database on an open network. The data walks and everyone is totally amazed that its a plain text database facing the internet... with secure information that should have always been encrypted or kept to one building.
So think in terms of huge honey pots operations not been looked after long term, contractors enjoying the billable hours for every intrusion or staff trying to keep old plain text databases working and connected nationally.
Who really wants to fix the networks? Its great for attracting entry attempts and for secret gov teams to following anyone looking in. Contractor cash flows when it needs fixing and gov busy work to keep it connected as it now. Win win win for every level of the mil and gov and all the contractors too.
It also depends on how the US mil would do it in the USA. A legal sounding secret letter and all cell towers in a region of a state, city stop working except for emergency and select secure calls from a pre set list of allowed users.
All the talk of dark optical, dot com built redundancy is often just talk in many parts of the USA. A lot of physical optical might have been built out at some time but only a few active monopolies, cartels, duopolies really control all networks to keep the backhaul working in some regions with the wider national interconnects.
"First map of US fiber infrastructure reveals potential network redundancy issues" ( September 25, 2015,)
"Using multiple service providers to improve redundancy works only if the providers are not sharing fiber optic conduit space. Researchers suggest caution, as infrastructure sharing is common." http://www.techrepublic.com/ar...
ie US political or mil request to a actual few owners and the local US telco network becomes a sneaker net. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
All that would be left working would be any non US/NATO advanced handheld and other sat options with pre paid credit ie voice communications and uploading short vids, images. How many 2way sat providers would honour a request to turn off over the USA?
The only way for the US around that up link that would be mil grade jamming or the hunting down each user with working connected hardware once detected..
Consumer grade internet and telco system is easy for any owner to turn off at a national level. Getting images, video out via a sat uplink would then be a risk.
From the story "you need only one access point", "multiplying the time-in-flight value they receive from each user with the speed of light, they were able to detect each user's distance to the central WiFi access point.".
Other older options needed more ie. "Previous WiFi tracking systems needed at least four"
Thats 270 million users via the locked in desktop. Browser ads would be getting in for free and MS wont allow that.
Next idea will be to slow the startup at the perfect time. Only allow applications to cover the daily desktop ads after the user has been fully exposed to the marketing for a set time.
“One click? I eventually had to go down to the basement to find support.”
“That’s the Customer Retention department.”
“With a flashlight.”
“Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.”
“So had the stairs.”
“But look, you found the GUI, didn’t you?”
“Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on a laptop in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused office with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the NSA.”
That quote was as testified in public.
The statement given was for the creation of a method as in "Take this tool and put it on a hard drive". A harddrive ready tool can then be used on any phone of that generation.
Access was the whole idea, a portable, state and federal ready master key to decrypt any generation of phone before any public state or federal court.
The tool that was going to be created was a master key able to decrypt generations of cell phones.
That was the request was for conscripted software was on a federal computer ie well beyond any quote about a phone.
Apple Is Right: The FBI Wants to Break Into Lots of Phones ( Feb 23, 2016 ) http://www.theatlantic.com/tec...
"Meanwhile, there are a whole lot more devices waiting in the wings, in the hands of state and local law enforcement."
"...it would be much easier for the judges overseeing these other, similar cases to compel Apple to comply."
The federal gov might only feel like be seen requesting help on one phone in public, but the conscripted tool set would open all other phones of that generation. The end result is decryption via a US gov mandated and conscripted masterkey and ensuring junk crypto over an entire product range. A masterkey in the hands offering data access to any generation of phone from an easy to use harddrive tool at a state and federal level.
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Buy another brand of computer thats well understood and has every chip looked at and the OS is open.
If a site, country, brand or network is interesting, expect other nations security services to be all over any such offered hardware options or adding extra access option during private sector shipment.
Why would any nation or brand risk having a computer system that can be turned on, accessed, logs altered and turned off as part of the normal network hardware as imported?
Most smart nations govs and mils can function just fine without consumer grade computer networks tracked by NATO.
Many have finally understood the NSA and GCHQ interest in all their local networks and communications systems going back to the 1960's.
Why not give the West something creative to find, worry about and read on local servers and watch for the reaction and leaks to the press about exotic projects countered by contractors and the mil?
The ability to keep data on a base or area for select trusted staff is the key to ensuring all other networked data is just everyday expected junk or very complex bait.
ie other nations focus on the smarter human aspect and have placed generations of human spies deep in the more advanced nations govs, mil, contracting and mil educational sectors of other nations. As they are loyal they are not doing it for cash or a passport out after a new years of high risk and often limited collection or access to tainted bait files.
NATO is dreaming that other nations are as connected and network open thanks to low quality private sector contractors and the use of consumer grade telco networks connections over decades.
The real skill was to have actual MI6 or CIA skills to back up any found network data about another nations projects. The West spent all its cash on digital spying and that is now becoming a policy issue. Not having a human side to actually verify found digital files is getting to be interesting. Other smarter nations dont have to use digital networks or can fake messages, create vast fictional projects to be found by the West on an open network. The West was sold on been totally connected and trusting what it finds deep in other nations databases cannot be fully understood.
Who will win? The nations with the best real human spies sitting in meetings, shaping the West's policy as its been made over decades. Having new Western embassy staff "buy" a local spy is often a local trap and ends up on the news, wigs, equipment and 'offer' on display for the worlds press.
NATO has the ability to see other nations moves in real time, but thats often way too late, totally expected and now well understood by most govs and their mils. NATO only has the in country trick of funding NGO's and color revolutions but even that policy of local dissident support is been understood and can now be tracked with local informants and well funded, skilled human counterintelligence.
Other nations can create the 'Thousands of pages" digitally everyday and the West as very few ways of understanding if its true, useful, a trap, limited hangout or useful. Way too many Western contractors and private experts kept on selling the West's mil/gov on digital only methods. Great for their own brands growth, but other useful methods lost too much funding. If all thats been collected from other nations is consumer junk and careful disinformation, more NATO funding is not going to help much other than saving local jobs. Probing of the distant networks is now expected and is finally well understood.
The correct way most nations police or clandestine services do it would be some expected hardware like a "random" new transformer upgrade or like for like replacement after "random" local supply issues. Another option would be an upgrade to existing phone or network hardware on a pole. Nobody would look twice at network or power company hardware and actual company uniformed staff. What seems to have happened is a bulk buy in of CCTV like lens products that got placed for a rushed event not long term well thought out, creative concealment via expert blending in with existing older services..
This would show a total lack of trust or secure project "sharing" with the utility company staff or other networking brands with a monopoly or duopoly of CCTV ready services and enclosures in the area.
Sticking random very new looking CCTV like devices with lens that can be seen next to very old, weathered hardware shows a lack of understanding, lack of trust in brands and the private sector's staff or a "deal" to buy in devices based on other needs that keeping the new devices very well hidden.
If this was been done in the correct way, a real company worker would have swapped an existing company device out with a CCTV upgraded device, same service, new hidden feature with no comment from the media or local population over many years.
This seems to be a case of place the lens at the best position at any cost "now" and hope its not noticed over time. Why such a public deployment was allowed is strange. With a bit of company and contractor advice the CCTV like lens placement would have never been seen over many years.
Re "Their corprate first attitude, has basically sold/given all the spectrum to organizations which hate the idea of individuals not having to be locked into paying monthly extortion.."
The idea is just to stay with local gov approved provider(s) no matter the low speed or lack of any local network investment. With ever more gov regulations its back to POTS, costly last mile partial networks of optical or coax from your gov approved monopoly or cozy duopoly network provider.
How a group of neighbors created their own Internet service (Nov 2, 2015) http://arstechnica.com/informa...
AC the US lined the oceans with its mil sound surveillance system back in ~ 1960's (SOSUS) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... so any mil precedent has long been set by the US to use the oceans for "anything" any nation wants.
If found to be driving with any amount of cash a person is "structuring" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... to avoid the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) and Internal Revenue Code by using the banking system with much smaller amounts of cash over time.
If no cash is found after a search, the deposit was just made or the vehicle has been altered with cash hiding compartments.
To be found with any digital banking details while driving is now fair game in that state.
Even with local plates, facial recognition of the driver and passenger can induce a "random" pull over and chat down with the "discovery" of cash or banking details.
The ability to track a face, cell phone powered on, licence plate is now so cheap any county, city, state can afford to stop anyone. If a state/federal database sees any pattern of movement or a degree separation or three of 'hops' from any suspect.
Every federal digital tracking system is now cheap enough for local law enforcement. Add in civil asset forfeiture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... in many US states and just driving gets to be very interesting.
Re "The goal is "Watching with NO RECORDS OF IT."" is one of the real fears of the US government. Too many people have been tipped off and have escaped just after complex phone database requests get entered.
Too many foreign brands, multinationals, dual citizens, cults, faiths, criminals now have generational contacts within the fancy cleared bureaucratic/private sector. Access to requests for devices or accounts of interest to police or who is under investigation is not just the phone company anymore.
Shared faith, any faith or cult from the original homeland generations later, cash, compromising information, ideology all create the perfect very human way into vast private sector databases that have to be altered to allow for what was a log, tap, trace, or just show the official start of any state investigation with federal support or funding.
The US has no way to clear, pass or confirm its trusted support staff at any level anymore as gov workers or contractors. The only solution is to allow roving groups of officials to start any investigation and then add in paperwork during a public trail.
The lack of much needed public comment by lawyers looking back to the origins of any case work is also interesting. Is funding lacking to understand the origins of a case? Are lawyers and their experts been told they cannot comment on the start of any investigation methods in public court?
If the ability to secure basic freedoms and protections for the press, media from constant domestic spying fails if new laws are finally passed... what can be done if everyone is been kept under a digital legal pre crime watch and internet logging?
The digital ability to watch people create computer content is about all most advanced nations have fully invested in. Staff and contractors with security clearances to watch one person wonder around per day in 8-12 team member shifts per interesting person can often be spotted in different inward looking communities. Have fun and be creative with linguistic analysis and a vast world of creative writing on a very average networked computer.
If your a member if the press, blogger, peace activist, academic, author, creative person that has become of interest to the security services....
Buy a new average Microsoft laptop with related productivity apps, keep the laptop internet connected 24/7, add in a UK based cloud backup service. Install some fancy foreign sounding consumer grade AV. Add in any applications needed to get work ready for a publisher or for upload.
Start been very creative in your chosen area of interest by creating publication drafts, folders names, search for and download a lot of background reading..
Go to archives and take out vast amounts of material on events around the 1980-2000's.
Invent a series of new informants with information going back to the 1970's with new stories they just have to get out about the political connected and the fun filled weekend parties, banking related gov funding, tax shelters... contractors, the wrong kind of political connections in the 1980's. Be very creative, add lots of names, times, dates. Leave an unexpected redacted space for code words of projects and operations but create paragraphs full of detail.
Fill back into the 1970's and get really creative on into the 2000's. Line up any created story with past official events. Newspaper clippings and notes help.
Load the draft files with political and banking bait, recreate old scanned documents by adding in unexpected names, meeting times with new informants. Ensure any and all documents are converted for easy digital searching. Add scanned paper files in a huge file format.
Slow the internet connection down and scan in vast amounts of documents creating many huge files with very interesting file names.
Add cryptic names (save some cyrillic names for later) but be very clear on details about all meeting with lists of a few fictional informants.
Create an actor with the ability to pass CCTV capture, smile for facial recognition on the way, get tracked by automatic license-plate recognition and set up a meeting.
Find a good voice actor with the correct professional sounding accent and tone for that decade to fill in the other side of the conversation with the cell phone on and the microphone well positioned to capture every word of their "story" that has to finally be told. Interact naturally and press for more details, create a heavy paper "file" or digital backup to be handed over with "everything" on it. Select a location that ensures a good voice print match and allows for acoustics that captures the sound of the hand over.
Drive, walk or bike to the areas mentioned with your cellular device on and with a full battery for the first of many meetings and file hand overs.
Take a rushed cell phone image of a created 'cover' page. Make sure it will pass layout analysis from that decade but only add to the mystery of the files origins or what could or should be very secret content.
Add to your your own digital dossier every weekend with amazing meetings with a live mic on, new "secret" digital files collected for the clandestine services to find and a growing laptop full of digital details.
Any real work do on a type writer, keep paper work only, keep paper copies to trusted friends and ensure the only time a digital version is made is at the time of publication. Give your cell p
Better to give future stories to the world's media in full. Then every blogger, member of the press, historian, database expert, document expert, linguist, author, NGO with any interest can just work on or search for what they want or are expert in.
No selected press, well funded groups with very regional stories to sell, waiting times.
All the user can reflect on is PRISM years and the lack of public or court comment and internal gov access....
If the hardware is in gov hands?
If the hardware is still been used in the wild and data is been entered and displayed via a fancy user installed software "app" encryption layer?
That as a value added service, with per year costs they could add onto low upfront priced hosting and domain packages.
As consumers the wider buying population of telco products now has a feel for a backdoor in the hands of state/federal task forces, federal officials, ex staff, former staff, contractors and anyone who can afford expert help from ex staff and former staff.
Re for what? Why do you need this DNA
http://www.theguardian.com/wor... (Tuesday 12 July 2011)
Signals intelligence, voice prints and cell phone data they can.
New FOIA Documents Confirm FBI Used Dirtboxes on Planes Without Any Policies or Legal Guidance (MARCH 9, 2016)
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/...
Related background info on the methods "Feds gather phone data from the sky with aircraft mimicking cell towers" (Nov 14, 2014)
http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...
The Feds Are Now Using ‘Stingrays’ in Planes to Spy on Our Phone Calls (11.14.14)
http://www.wired.com/2014/11/f...
Dirtbox (cell phone) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
ie mapping out all cell users in vast areas of the US in a domestic collect it all database without needing to ask any court or request tech help via traditional telco staff.
Except for the NSL that got the gov server and splitters in so deep in the network that it looked at everything in plain text.
That new internal gov network was trusted.
All the staff who saw the strange new hardware and flood of outgoing connections and said nothing, reported nothing.
Its kind of hard to clean up after years of having a mil or gov teams just connect deep into any network.
The US is approaching the East Germany issue of having its own best and brightest undercover law enforcement operations watching its own state, city and security service operations and taking a long time to understand its been following its own at very different gov levels.
So many different teams from the mil, FBI, CIA, NSA down to state, city are using undercover teams, ex mil, contractors, turned prisoners that that are spying on each others cover stories in real time.
Very few have the skill or top clearances to ensure very complex operations dont overlap.
Small anti war groups might be under constant signals surveillance and have state and federal under cover staff sitting in on each meeting feeding back to each other their own fake experiences and ideas.
A 4 to 5 hops of collect it all the US is really just sucking up the entire 'internet" for later questions about a person or time line.
Realtime or questions about future events just get a flood of undercover staff, friendly gov operatives, international contractors helping spread freedom, ex mil now undercover or clandestine staff with missing parts in their new "city" or "international" cover stories flooding the results.
Voice prints, facial recognition, finger prints dont help as all that has been secured against everything from smart private detectives to other nations security services.
Adding decryption to every US call will just result in a new flood of ever more undercover stories been discovered in real time.
The NSA and GCHQ warned against this for decades. Let people around the world think they had anonymity and privacy. Trust and enjoy the fax, phone, cell phone, computer networks for decades. The policy of collect it all ensured a constant flow of information back to the security services.
A limitation on crypto and going to open court with a log from a phone just gets interesting people very interested in not talking on any phone.
All this was predicted decades ago via the GCHQ that ensured it never went to court and kept the UK legal system guessing as to the role of informants, luck, undercover law enforcement that got a case started.
Parallel construction held in the UK. The US seems to need the publicity of a short term win in the nations media and will risk decades of quality collection for a few days press coverage telling the world that all US telco crypto is junk.
It depends on what the US gov finally got.
What is public is the request was for a computer related solution that would fit on any gov hard drive and open any branded phone.
Portable to take to any city, state, county, other nation and fully access any waiting phone.
http://nypost.com/2016/03/02/f... (March 2, 2016)
"“The request we got from the government in this case is, ‘Take this tool and put it on a hard drive, send it to the FBI,’ and they’d load it onto their computer,”"
Depends on how a person now or later a legal team with real experts requesting case details understands the term "help", "everything", "requests" Hundreds of requests to unlock phones flood FBI (April 6, 2016)
http://www.usatoday.com/story/...
"... the agency was being inundated with requests from state and local law enforcement seeking help accessing the contents of hundreds of encrypted or damaged cellphones linked to unrelated criminal investigations scattered across the country."
"Requests involving more than 500 such devices..."
FBI Offers to Help Local Law Enforcement With Locked iPhones (April 2, 2016)
http://time.com/4279841/fbi-un...
"Please know that we will continue to do everything we can to help you consistent with our legal and policy constraints.’’
Think in terms of limited hang out operations and decades honey pots that never got fully understood or mentioned to lower gov levels or law enforcement never got in on the operation..
For that to work a lot of real and fake information has to walk and has to be seen as originating in the depths of real US gov computer systems.
Operations get renamed, staff move around and the resulting security networks are left wide open. Data used as bait or to see where it was going was completed or abandoned months or years ago but nobody now has the insight or new clearances to clean up or later block access to the wide open internet.
That would be the most optimistic view, smart people are going long term operations and a lot of low sec and mid level data is bait and can be lost along the way to sell a big, complex fake story to some other nation.
The next option is the funding for contractors is so good and addictive that if security was ever improved they would suffer from a lack of work and over time, been on call.
ie the gov/mil networks can be fixed but its more profitable to allow the contractor funding for repairs and lucrative after event clean up to keep funds flowing. So few have the clearances to find fault or note the same issues getting fixed again and again for billable hours over years that any real oversight is a non issue.
The last option is the US gov design of the cloud or new networks and the location of decades of data.
Paper records might not exist, or never got used but vast digital databases got created on desktop and laptop computers 10, 20 years ago.
It cant be secured as so many other networks and agencies now need access in real time. In the past that would have been on site and secure but now its national and security is a new front end network to a very old plain text database on an open network. The data walks and everyone is totally amazed that its a plain text database facing the internet... with secure information that should have always been encrypted or kept to one building.
So think in terms of huge honey pots operations not been looked after long term, contractors enjoying the billable hours for every intrusion or staff trying to keep old plain text databases working and connected nationally.
Who really wants to fix the networks? Its great for attracting entry attempts and for secret gov teams to following anyone looking in. Contractor cash flows when it needs fixing and gov busy work to keep it connected as it now. Win win win for every level of the mil and gov and all the contractors too.
It also depends on how the US mil would do it in the USA. A legal sounding secret letter and all cell towers in a region of a state, city stop working except for emergency and select secure calls from a pre set list of allowed users.
All the talk of dark optical, dot com built redundancy is often just talk in many parts of the USA. A lot of physical optical might have been built out at some time but only a few active monopolies, cartels, duopolies really control all networks to keep the backhaul working in some regions with the wider national interconnects.
"First map of US fiber infrastructure reveals potential network redundancy issues" ( September 25, 2015,)
"Using multiple service providers to improve redundancy works only if the providers are not sharing fiber optic conduit space. Researchers suggest caution, as infrastructure sharing is common."
http://www.techrepublic.com/ar...
ie US political or mil request to a actual few owners and the local US telco network becomes a sneaker net.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
All that would be left working would be any non US/NATO advanced handheld and other sat options with pre paid credit ie voice communications and uploading short vids, images. How many 2way sat providers would honour a request to turn off over the USA?
The only way for the US around that up link that would be mil grade jamming or the hunting down each user with working connected hardware once detected..
Consumer grade internet and telco system is easy for any owner to turn off at a national level. Getting images, video out via a sat uplink would then be a risk.
From the story "you need only one access point", "multiplying the time-in-flight value they receive from each user with the speed of light, they were able to detect each user's distance to the central WiFi access point.".
Other older options needed more ie. "Previous WiFi tracking systems needed at least four"
Thats 270 million users via the locked in desktop. Browser ads would be getting in for free and MS wont allow that.
Next idea will be to slow the startup at the perfect time. Only allow applications to cover the daily desktop ads after the user has been fully exposed to the marketing for a set time.
“One click? I eventually had to go down to the basement to find support.”
“That’s the Customer Retention department.”
“With a flashlight.”
“Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.”
“So had the stairs.”
“But look, you found the GUI, didn’t you?”
“Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on a laptop in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused office with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the NSA.”
That quote was as testified in public.
The statement given was for the creation of a method as in "Take this tool and put it on a hard drive". A harddrive ready tool can then be used on any phone of that generation.
Access was the whole idea, a portable, state and federal ready master key to decrypt any generation of phone before any public state or federal court.
The tool that was going to be created was a master key able to decrypt generations of cell phones.
That was the request was for conscripted software was on a federal computer ie well beyond any quote about a phone.
Apple Is Right: The FBI Wants to Break Into Lots of Phones ( Feb 23, 2016 )
http://www.theatlantic.com/tec...
"Meanwhile, there are a whole lot more devices waiting in the wings, in the hands of state and local law enforcement."
"...it would be much easier for the judges overseeing these other, similar cases to compel Apple to comply."
The federal gov might only feel like be seen requesting help on one phone in public, but the conscripted tool set would open all other phones of that generation. The end result is decryption via a US gov mandated and conscripted masterkey and ensuring junk crypto over an entire product range. A masterkey in the hands offering data access to any generation of phone from an easy to use harddrive tool at a state and federal level.