jonwil the
"Charles Babbage Institute Center for the History of Information Technology University of Minnesota" Martin Hellman Interview 22 November 2004 might have some info.
pdf at: https://conservancy.umn.edu/bi...
".... involvement with and the broader context of the debate about the federal government’s cryptography policy—regarding to the National Security Agency’s (NSA) early efforts to contain and discourage academic work in the field"
Using Microsoft products is the way into the corporate network. Stop buying junk products with backdoors, air gap, hire good staff and then secure your networks.
The UK has been reading letters and mail for many generations. Thats why the US has that "persons, houses, papers, and effects" protection.
Defence of the Realm Act 1914 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... really started to dig deeper into mail and communications on a national scale with collect it all, read it all funding and staffing levels.
HOW the home office warrant was also used a lot. A network of Security Liaison Officers, Defence security officers got used to keep track of all political any other emerging issues. The commercial Intelsat phone network was split to ensure every phone call could be obtained. Domestic calls got the same bulk collection.
Every domestic call and all phone calls in and out of Ireland got the same level of interest. The US Irish connections needed a lot of work to block US support for Ireland.
The constant flow of US mil grade supplies to Ireland had to be and was stopped in the 1980's. As Ireland entered a new relationship, the UK had to keep some very powerful laws in place to ensure large numbers of people with skill sets could watched.
Later technology surrounding computer entry and phone voice prints got a vast domestic upgrade in both funding and staff. The UK was following the US down the collect it all domestic use of signals intelligence in open courts. eg TEMPORA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The result in 2016 is the now public announcement that domestic signals collect it all is policy, with the ability to use all the results in courts.
Every person of interest is now expected to use a phone, carry a powered cell phone everywhere, own a networked computer at home and thats all the new bespoke contractor systems can collect from. A big change from the real experts that could follow anyone around Ireland and the UK and then turn actual informants. The real covert, clandestine side has been defunded for the big, simple US style instant "digital" election cycle security wins in open court.
The idea that anyone interesting will not use any electronic devices has not seemed to have been factored in any way:) A new generation of security officials just expects the world to be as connected as they are and stay connected 24/7:)
AC its not a "single parameter", it would be creating free backdoor keys to an entire generation of cell phones.
Any "rightful owner" would then be using a device open to the US gov, other 5 eye nations staff, other random nations spies, police forces, internal affairs, all their ex staff, former staff, contractors and anyone with the cash to buy the same method.
AC the US holds the Fourth Amendment sacrosanct, just giving gov workers, contractors, other nations staff free legal access to generations of cell users is a bad idea for security and privacy given the wide global use of such access methods.
This is not about access to one phone but creating legal junk crypto for generations of phones.
Its now safer than ever, from a legal and tech perspective. Just like it was before and during that time of PRISM big brand, big gov collaboration. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The courts and really smart generations of big brand using tech experts say so:)
Forget about been tracked beacon like, the always on mic option, the sealed in battery, voice prints. The courts, trusted experts and legal teams say its all fine again.
Meet a journalist with your cell phone on, let them record the interview on the cell phone. . its all ok now:)
The idea of trying to hold a nation or area by using a free fire zone grid is not new. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The French and US in "Vietnam", the French in Algeria https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., the US and NATO and their Middle East and North Africa drone zones.
Using an AI or humans to kill everything in a "free fire zone" is not a new US tactic. The results of past wars and regime change/US backed coups tactics should by now by understood. by the smarter mil and contractors the US gov seeks advice from.
Does the US expect different results from an AI ready systems to remove the human control aspect of drone use? Having a human controlled or AI drone fly over an area and target anything moving is not a new idea.
Will the results be any different? The same winning by now body count math as in the Vietnam years.
US AI systems will not be any more secure than todays easy to redirect drones. The US contractors use systems per drone to ensure the mission works and healthy profits ie flying prototypes with weapons systems added. The computing power for ever more on board AI security would detract from the mission and if lost would give insights into US crypto. Better just to have standard equipment fail and fall into other nations hands within a drone than offer up advanced AI crypto links and the needed long range global networks. Losing a simple upgraded AI drone is easy, losing the keys back up to a wider control network is hard.
The plans, tactics and results will be the same. Just with an AI to take the command from special forces, signals intelligence finding any cell phone "on", or a free fire grid pattern to be active in, or local "moderates" with the freedom to call in an AI drone.
The UK was very happy to let the press, courts, authors and historians just wonder about the role of the GCHQ for decades.
If expert help was needed for the courts different front groups could offer decryption or play the role of expert witnesses. No need for any comment in open court or for anyone to even understand any aspect of the UK's signals intelligence. Large bases globally, huge amount of staff had nothing to do with the public, courts, politicians, the press, authors. Funding flowed and collect it all worked to ensure information flowed as needed within the UK mil and gov.
The NSA seemed to have a lot of different budget and growth problems. Size and an expanding budget matters in the US, been seen to get results, leading missions not just helping, showing political leaders and their random staff real time results.
The instant and very public win, an ever expanding budget, more mil/public/private sector work, looking after no bid contractors and attracting a new, expanding workforce.
Weak, junk standard crypto sold by big US brands to the world was the easy key to bureaucratic growth and very public success without too much effort for decades.
Every interesting nation knows their domestic and international networks are totally compromised when fully importing junk products.
The problem with the easy path of designing in junk crypto is every other nation soon learns of the same simple weaknesses and can cope with that reality.
Other nations can cope with the US gov having total mastery of every US branded turn key telco and computing product sold, designed or in use.
They can focus on getting their own trusted human staff deep into gov, higher education, industry globally as all focus is on the signals side.
Position loyal staff to shape other nations policy formation for decades with charming humans takes generations and time but they do rise to the very top.
Was a total focus on signals intelligence by the West beyond the 1960's a win? They got to "collect it all" by selling low cost junk encryption globally but the human side was always the way in.
That all came out in the Church Committee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and the US finally thought its telco The Fourth Amendment issues fixed. Color of law was then used with the Freedom act, PATRIOT Act, Transit authority, certification, Executive order's, Special procedures to get around any protections and limitations for bulk domestic collect it all.
STORMBREW, COWBOY, BLARNEY, FAIRVIEW, PRISM, MUSCULAR.
VPNs not mentioned once in UK’s terrifying new internet powers draft bill (4 Nov 2015) https://thestack.com/security/...
".. force UK ISPs to keep an Internet Connection Record (now jargonised into ‘ICR’) for the previous 12 months for all of its customers, and also for the fact that it begins to deliver on prime minister David Cameron’s frequently-aired misgivings about zero-knowledge consumer-level encryption... "
Why the disinterest in VPN's when all other network encryption will be under total gov and mil scrutiny until weakened, designed with a gov backdoor, trapdoored or keys are handed over?
The new gold rush in hospital computer systems is total care tracking.
How many days of care, what care, what cost of care, contact with out patients, home care, seeing your general practitioner for results, funding for diet plans, early intervention, mental health care, tracking war veterans needs and their medical benefits.
Many advanced nations want to ensure care is given after results and no person just wonders around for 6 months or a year with results that needed further advice. Seeking medical advice again much later resulting in a very negative outcome after no contact is very easy to fix with computer tracking. ie every patient will have to sit down with a real doctor and get important results in person.
Outside the UK:
Some nations private health insurance providers also want to know what their patient entered a hospital with and if any preventable hospital related complications set in. Why should private insurance have to pay for a private hospitals total lack of care? Another option for private sector health insurers is to just gently guide very expensive, high risk private sector patients onto the public hospital system in some countries.
Testing parts of such systems on a nations huge public data sets is always good before sales to the international public and private market.
Re 'a nation wide campaign to encrypt all basic communications"
Considering most UK and US political leaders did not have any issues with VPN use or more https, thats going to be interesting.
The 5 eye nation's security services seem very happy for people to keep feeling secure using https and VPN's.
Any code thats a standard seems to be of no challenge to the US and UK once its consumer ready. The only magic is in keeping people trusting their US branded technology. Keep talking, texting, having gps on that phone with a sealed in power supply. The brand is so secure, just like before, during and after PRISM.
The world now knows about PRISM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and how helpful US brands can be. This will just make domestic collect it all legal in open domestic courts. No more parallel construction, raw signals intelligence from any phone is US court ready.
Re "It will only be used once and once it exists they won't be forced to repeat or release the tool"
Apple reveals other FBI demands for iPhone unlocking around U.S. (02/23/2016 ) http://www.mercurynews.com/cri...
Re: "... can they force the landlord to personally assist them in the search?"
Think of every home having a fire department key box on a wall by default.
One standard master key is then given the US federal gov, the staff at the Australia, New Zealand, UK and Canadian embassies under 5 eye terms.
Later contractors in the US, EU and other nations get a copy too as they are friends with the US gov. Ex staff and former staff get to keep a key too.
Soon the master keys are for sale.
Anyone can then just walk in:)
"Justice Department Seeks to Force Apple to Extract Data From About 12 Other iPhones" (Feb. 23, 2016)
"Apple embroiled in phone court fights beyond San Bernardino; cases don’t involve terrorism charges, sources say" http://www.wsj.com/article_ema...
Also the service providers have a lot of details and so do all the other gov linked workers on gov issued platforms.
The end product been requested is a new backdoor operating system. Once the US federal gov gets this, so will Canada, Australia, the UK, NZ. Then third party "friends" of the US gov/mil in the EU, all their staff, contractors and gov workers. The keys to a generation of devices will be requested around the world and govs will use the new OS for any reason they want. So will ex and former staff, contractors who got cleared for the same work but then moved to the "private" sector working for anyone with cash.
Every phone of that generation will need a "Charlie is listening" sticker as any random gov or ex gov worker around the world will have the backdoor keys over time.
Once US smartphones get the court ordered access, so will every other US designed networked device. Spying on citizens will be designed into every US device legally and for anyone else with the cash to access.
Other OS just have to get their developer 3D support, audio and gpu support up to a great standard.
The frame rate and visual quality has to be equal or better and developer support made more easy.
Every other aspect of computing seems to have been worked out well on other OS's.
All that can be done is to reduce the amount of useful, new, unique data users store, interact with or request via MS. Games is one area people are kind of locked into, so just reduce the data exposure and move other tasks on better OS's.
GPU support has to offer the same easy and advanced hair, smoke, particle, water, wave ability.
Enjoy your advanced gpu and play some computer games.
After that turn Microsoft off and return to any other real OS. No need to go deep into settings on a real OS to get basic users rights back.
Its always your computer:)
Re 'I can only imagine how effective it must be at "...
A mini phosphorus "like" round at a given distance? The optics of a few treaty obligations when even considering such munitions is interesting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Why are such military systems been pushed again considering the reasons for their past international regulation?
So that ever more larger teams are needed recover and work on just one wounded individual and rush them to ever more expensive long term expert care?
No professional army ever wants to face such systems. Strange to see any nation wanting to re introduce such weapons given bans and international regulations.
Re 'There used to be good divisions of Microsoft" are the marketing people making sure gpu's, OS and computer games work.
Enjoy the computer game OS and consider more secure options for all other computer related tasks.
Re " What's the point in encrypting the phone if the government already has access to all information it sends or receives?" part to a lot of different federal, state, city gov and NGO groups for free.
61 agencies apply for metadata access (18/01/2016) https://delimiter.com.au/2016/...
The other part is who owns the phone can be linked back to a version of the 100 point check with photo ID https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The "Are they looking for photos or files created on the mobile device?" is a big "yes".
The "why" is a result of generations of communist hunting in the 1950's at a state and federal level, the need to track all anti Vietnam war protesters in the 1960's and their views on the mil draft, to keep public views on US bases in Australia positive, 1980's anti Apartheid groups, environmentalist got seen as a gateway issue to more communists.
A lot of issues shaped the need to have total control over all aspects of Australian communications. Encryption does not help surveillance so its is seen as a negative. The mass import of US tame, junk turn key trapdoor and backdoor ready encryption works wonders for the gov as a standard.
The point of weak encryption in is to keep out other users, the press and keep conversations private from the public yet still be reversible in real time for any level of gov. The other issue is the lack of skilled undercover agents that can keep their cover in different faith, political, criminal and cult like groups of interest. Australia bought into the US view of signals intelligence been the key to any issue and placed less effort on funding gov infiltrators. So the phone and data encryption has to stay weak and ready for tracking, inspection, collection. The undercover art has been lost and replaced with a total trust in generations deep packed inspection to find users using terms, words, phrases and been of a set of hops from other interesting people. The other option is to "buy" informants who always have the perfect story to sell and hope they have a list of digital connections.
Follow the funding, tax funds to the contractors, contractors to their politicians. The huge contracts per satellite system, all the other contracts to keep "collect it all" working domestically.
The contractors then give back to the congress critters that ensure funding flows to select projects and keeps jobs in their states.
Everyone is winning with ever more funding for expensive domestic signals intelligence collection every decade.
What can any candidate do in a two party race? Close down 100 or 1000 or 10000 gov funded sheltered workshop security "jobs" in the private sector in their state?
The other sides political leadership would be out selling gov spying funding and enjoy the much needed new donations.
Its very hard to get away from decades of the domestic signals intelligence lobby, the contractors and shareholders who expect an ever expanding security bureaucracy to fund them every decade.
Re 'Maybe they should go back to good old policing: keeping personal contacts with the neighbourhoods, keeping good relations with the people, and actually get useful information directly out of the community the old fashioned way."
All that funding got given to 3 hop domestic digital collection. Undercover law enforcement needs the funds and support to work well in many closed cult like communities now of interest. Paid informants just tell any story they hope will get the best payment or consideration. The undercover art has been lost and political leaders now get given PRISM like projects product to give them an overview. The signals teams now get funding, bring product, get more funding, set missions, now even enjoy setting policy. The much more useful human side of collection has lost its funding and access to political leaders.
The political leaders become the candidates for the gov and mil contractors. The JFK and Nixon generations really understood what they faced and attempted reforms but their reform efforts got replaced with the huge domestic funding for "collect it all" trapdoor, backdoor systems.
This decades policy comments and talking points as linked do reflect the vision of just more digital collect it all systems domestically.
Using VOIP hardware has risks and then conducting sensitive commercial or political discussions may not always be wise.
Use VOIP to talk about any product, service or policy thats out in public.
Keep sensitive discussions face to face. It might take a few hours or a 5 day round trip but it will be a bit more secure.
Contactless cards: how to avoid paying twice
"Credit cards that you simply wave at a reader save time and are a boon for visitors to London. But they can also raid your bank account invisibly" (11 Nov 2014) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/fin...
or from slashdot back in 2012 "Android App Lets You Steal Contactless Credit Card Data" (June 21, 2012 ) http://it.slashdot.org/story/1...
Whats the new news AC? The risks of some of the newer cards and bank services have been in the tech media for years and been reported by the media too.
Slashdot Mirror
jonwil the "Charles Babbage Institute Center for the History of Information Technology University of Minnesota" Martin Hellman Interview 22 November 2004 might have some info.
pdf at: https://conservancy.umn.edu/bi...
".... involvement with and the broader context of the debate about the federal government’s cryptography policy—regarding to the National Security Agency’s (NSA) early efforts to contain and discourage academic work in the field"
Using Microsoft products is the way into the corporate network. Stop buying junk products with backdoors, air gap, hire good staff and then secure your networks.
The UK has been reading letters and mail for many generations. Thats why the US has that "persons, houses, papers, and effects" protection. :) A new generation of security officials just expects the world to be as connected as they are and stay connected 24/7 :)
Defence of the Realm Act 1914 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... really started to dig deeper into mail and communications on a national scale with collect it all, read it all funding and staffing levels.
HOW the home office warrant was also used a lot. A network of Security Liaison Officers, Defence security officers got used to keep track of all political any other emerging issues. The commercial Intelsat phone network was split to ensure every phone call could be obtained. Domestic calls got the same bulk collection.
Every domestic call and all phone calls in and out of Ireland got the same level of interest. The US Irish connections needed a lot of work to block US support for Ireland.
The constant flow of US mil grade supplies to Ireland had to be and was stopped in the 1980's. As Ireland entered a new relationship, the UK had to keep some very powerful laws in place to ensure large numbers of people with skill sets could watched.
Later technology surrounding computer entry and phone voice prints got a vast domestic upgrade in both funding and staff. The UK was following the US down the collect it all domestic use of signals intelligence in open courts. eg TEMPORA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The result in 2016 is the now public announcement that domestic signals collect it all is policy, with the ability to use all the results in courts.
Every person of interest is now expected to use a phone, carry a powered cell phone everywhere, own a networked computer at home and thats all the new bespoke contractor systems can collect from.
A big change from the real experts that could follow anyone around Ireland and the UK and then turn actual informants. The real covert, clandestine side has been defunded for the big, simple US style instant "digital" election cycle security wins in open court.
The idea that anyone interesting will not use any electronic devices has not seemed to have been factored in any way
AC its not a "single parameter", it would be creating free backdoor keys to an entire generation of cell phones.
Any "rightful owner" would then be using a device open to the US gov, other 5 eye nations staff, other random nations spies, police forces, internal affairs, all their ex staff, former staff, contractors and anyone with the cash to buy the same method.
AC the US holds the Fourth Amendment sacrosanct, just giving gov workers, contractors, other nations staff free legal access to generations of cell users is a bad idea for security and privacy given the wide global use of such access methods.
This is not about access to one phone but creating legal junk crypto for generations of phones.
Its now safer than ever, from a legal and tech perspective. Just like it was before and during that time of PRISM big brand, big gov collaboration. :) :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The courts and really smart generations of big brand using tech experts say so
Forget about been tracked beacon like, the always on mic option, the sealed in battery, voice prints. The courts, trusted experts and legal teams say its all fine again.
Meet a journalist with your cell phone on, let them record the interview on the cell phone. . its all ok now
The idea of trying to hold a nation or area by using a free fire zone grid is not new.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The French and US in "Vietnam", the French in Algeria https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., the US and NATO and their Middle East and North Africa drone zones.
Using an AI or humans to kill everything in a "free fire zone" is not a new US tactic. The results of past wars and regime change/US backed coups tactics should by now by understood. by the smarter mil and contractors the US gov seeks advice from.
Does the US expect different results from an AI ready systems to remove the human control aspect of drone use? Having a human controlled or AI drone fly over an area and target anything moving is not a new idea.
Will the results be any different? The same winning by now body count math as in the Vietnam years.
US AI systems will not be any more secure than todays easy to redirect drones. The US contractors use systems per drone to ensure the mission works and healthy profits ie flying prototypes with weapons systems added. The computing power for ever more on board AI security would detract from the mission and if lost would give insights into US crypto.
Better just to have standard equipment fail and fall into other nations hands within a drone than offer up advanced AI crypto links and the needed long range global networks. Losing a simple upgraded AI drone is easy, losing the keys back up to a wider control network is hard.
The plans, tactics and results will be the same. Just with an AI to take the command from special forces, signals intelligence finding any cell phone "on", or a free fire grid pattern to be active in, or local "moderates" with the freedom to call in an AI drone.
The UK was very happy to let the press, courts, authors and historians just wonder about the role of the GCHQ for decades.
If expert help was needed for the courts different front groups could offer decryption or play the role of expert witnesses. No need for any comment in open court or for anyone to even understand any aspect of the UK's signals intelligence. Large bases globally, huge amount of staff had nothing to do with the public, courts, politicians, the press, authors. Funding flowed and collect it all worked to ensure information flowed as needed within the UK mil and gov.
The NSA seemed to have a lot of different budget and growth problems. Size and an expanding budget matters in the US, been seen to get results, leading missions not just helping, showing political leaders and their random staff real time results.
The instant and very public win, an ever expanding budget, more mil/public/private sector work, looking after no bid contractors and attracting a new, expanding workforce.
Weak, junk standard crypto sold by big US brands to the world was the easy key to bureaucratic growth and very public success without too much effort for decades.
Every interesting nation knows their domestic and international networks are totally compromised when fully importing junk products. The problem with the easy path of designing in junk crypto is every other nation soon learns of the same simple weaknesses and can cope with that reality.
Other nations can cope with the US gov having total mastery of every US branded turn key telco and computing product sold, designed or in use.
They can focus on getting their own trusted human staff deep into gov, higher education, industry globally as all focus is on the signals side.
Position loyal staff to shape other nations policy formation for decades with charming humans takes generations and time but they do rise to the very top.
Was a total focus on signals intelligence by the West beyond the 1960's a win? They got to "collect it all" by selling low cost junk encryption globally but the human side was always the way in.
That all came out in the Church Committee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and the US finally thought its telco The Fourth Amendment issues fixed.
Color of law was then used with the Freedom act, PATRIOT Act, Transit authority, certification, Executive order's, Special procedures to get around any protections and limitations for bulk domestic collect it all.
STORMBREW, COWBOY, BLARNEY, FAIRVIEW, PRISM, MUSCULAR.
VPNs not mentioned once in UK’s terrifying new internet powers draft bill (4 Nov 2015) ... "
https://thestack.com/security/...
".. force UK ISPs to keep an Internet Connection Record (now jargonised into ‘ICR’) for the previous 12 months for all of its customers, and also for the fact that it begins to deliver on prime minister David Cameron’s frequently-aired misgivings about zero-knowledge consumer-level encryption
Why the disinterest in VPN's when all other network encryption will be under total gov and mil scrutiny until weakened, designed with a gov backdoor, trapdoored or keys are handed over?
The new gold rush in hospital computer systems is total care tracking.
How many days of care, what care, what cost of care, contact with out patients, home care, seeing your general practitioner for results, funding for diet plans, early intervention, mental health care, tracking war veterans needs and their medical benefits.
Many advanced nations want to ensure care is given after results and no person just wonders around for 6 months or a year with results that needed further advice. Seeking medical advice again much later resulting in a very negative outcome after no contact is very easy to fix with computer tracking. ie every patient will have to sit down with a real doctor and get important results in person.
Outside the UK:
Some nations private health insurance providers also want to know what their patient entered a hospital with and if any preventable hospital related complications set in. Why should private insurance have to pay for a private hospitals total lack of care?
Another option for private sector health insurers is to just gently guide very expensive, high risk private sector patients onto the public hospital system in some countries.
Testing parts of such systems on a nations huge public data sets is always good before sales to the international public and private market.
Re 'a nation wide campaign to encrypt all basic communications"
Considering most UK and US political leaders did not have any issues with VPN use or more https, thats going to be interesting.
The 5 eye nation's security services seem very happy for people to keep feeling secure using https and VPN's.
Any code thats a standard seems to be of no challenge to the US and UK once its consumer ready. The only magic is in keeping people trusting their US branded technology. Keep talking, texting, having gps on that phone with a sealed in power supply. The brand is so secure, just like before, during and after PRISM.
The world now knows about PRISM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and how helpful US brands can be.
This will just make domestic collect it all legal in open domestic courts. No more parallel construction, raw signals intelligence from any phone is US court ready.
Re "It will only be used once and once it exists they won't be forced to repeat or release the tool"
Apple reveals other FBI demands for iPhone unlocking around U.S. (02/23/2016 )
http://www.mercurynews.com/cri...
Re: "... can they force the landlord to personally assist them in the search?" :)
Think of every home having a fire department key box on a wall by default.
One standard master key is then given the US federal gov, the staff at the Australia, New Zealand, UK and Canadian embassies under 5 eye terms.
Later contractors in the US, EU and other nations get a copy too as they are friends with the US gov. Ex staff and former staff get to keep a key too.
Soon the master keys are for sale.
Anyone can then just walk in
"Justice Department Seeks to Force Apple to Extract Data From About 12 Other iPhones" (Feb. 23, 2016)
"Apple embroiled in phone court fights beyond San Bernardino; cases don’t involve terrorism charges, sources say"
http://www.wsj.com/article_ema...
Also the service providers have a lot of details and so do all the other gov linked workers on gov issued platforms.
The end product been requested is a new backdoor operating system. Once the US federal gov gets this, so will Canada, Australia, the UK, NZ. Then third party "friends" of the US gov/mil in the EU, all their staff, contractors and gov workers. The keys to a generation of devices will be requested around the world and govs will use the new OS for any reason they want. So will ex and former staff, contractors who got cleared for the same work but then moved to the "private" sector working for anyone with cash.
Every phone of that generation will need a "Charlie is listening" sticker as any random gov or ex gov worker around the world will have the backdoor keys over time.
Once US smartphones get the court ordered access, so will every other US designed networked device. Spying on citizens will be designed into every US device legally and for anyone else with the cash to access.
The feature list can be seen on sites like: http://www.geforce.com/hardwar... :)
http://www.geforce.com/hardwar...
http://www.geforce.com/hardwar...
https://developer.nvidia.com/w...
If Linux has that gpu support vs CPU bound, thats great
DX12 was the bait that games will need and use "soon". Wait until your fav game is upgraded to or released with DX12 support :)
Other OS just have to get their developer 3D support, audio and gpu support up to a great standard.
The frame rate and visual quality has to be equal or better and developer support made more easy.
Every other aspect of computing seems to have been worked out well on other OS's.
All that can be done is to reduce the amount of useful, new, unique data users store, interact with or request via MS. Games is one area people are kind of locked into, so just reduce the data exposure and move other tasks on better OS's.
GPU support has to offer the same easy and advanced hair, smoke, particle, water, wave ability.
Enjoy your advanced gpu and play some computer games. :)
After that turn Microsoft off and return to any other real OS. No need to go deep into settings on a real OS to get basic users rights back.
Its always your computer
Re 'I can only imagine how effective it must be at " ...
A mini phosphorus "like" round at a given distance? The optics of a few treaty obligations when even considering such munitions is interesting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Why are such military systems been pushed again considering the reasons for their past international regulation?
So that ever more larger teams are needed recover and work on just one wounded individual and rush them to ever more expensive long term expert care?
No professional army ever wants to face such systems. Strange to see any nation wanting to re introduce such weapons given bans and international regulations.
Re 'There used to be good divisions of Microsoft" are the marketing people making sure gpu's, OS and computer games work.
Enjoy the computer game OS and consider more secure options for all other computer related tasks.
Re " What's the point in encrypting the phone if the government already has access to all information it sends or receives?" part to a lot of different federal, state, city gov and NGO groups for free.
61 agencies apply for metadata access (18/01/2016)
https://delimiter.com.au/2016/...
The other part is who owns the phone can be linked back to a version of the 100 point check with photo ID https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The "Are they looking for photos or files created on the mobile device?" is a big "yes".
The "why" is a result of generations of communist hunting in the 1950's at a state and federal level, the need to track all anti Vietnam war protesters in the 1960's and their views on the mil draft, to keep public views on US bases in Australia positive, 1980's anti Apartheid groups, environmentalist got seen as a gateway issue to more communists.
A lot of issues shaped the need to have total control over all aspects of Australian communications. Encryption does not help surveillance so its is seen as a negative. The mass import of US tame, junk turn key trapdoor and backdoor ready encryption works wonders for the gov as a standard.
The point of weak encryption in is to keep out other users, the press and keep conversations private from the public yet still be reversible in real time for any level of gov. The other issue is the lack of skilled undercover agents that can keep their cover in different faith, political, criminal and cult like groups of interest. Australia bought into the US view of signals intelligence been the key to any issue and placed less effort on funding gov infiltrators. So the phone and data encryption has to stay weak and ready for tracking, inspection, collection. The undercover art has been lost and replaced with a total trust in generations deep packed inspection to find users using terms, words, phrases and been of a set of hops from other interesting people. The other option is to "buy" informants who always have the perfect story to sell and hope they have a list of digital connections.
Yes 4K will be the test at 60 fps, 120 and beyond. No more sli needed :)
Follow the funding, tax funds to the contractors, contractors to their politicians. The huge contracts per satellite system, all the other contracts to keep "collect it all" working domestically.
The contractors then give back to the congress critters that ensure funding flows to select projects and keeps jobs in their states.
Everyone is winning with ever more funding for expensive domestic signals intelligence collection every decade.
What can any candidate do in a two party race? Close down 100 or 1000 or 10000 gov funded sheltered workshop security "jobs" in the private sector in their state?
The other sides political leadership would be out selling gov spying funding and enjoy the much needed new donations.
Its very hard to get away from decades of the domestic signals intelligence lobby, the contractors and shareholders who expect an ever expanding security bureaucracy to fund them every decade.
Re 'Maybe they should go back to good old policing: keeping personal contacts with the neighbourhoods, keeping good relations with the people, and actually get useful information directly out of the community the old fashioned way."
All that funding got given to 3 hop domestic digital collection. Undercover law enforcement needs the funds and support to work well in many closed cult like communities now of interest. Paid informants just tell any story they hope will get the best payment or consideration. The undercover art has been lost and political leaders now get given PRISM like projects product to give them an overview. The signals teams now get funding, bring product, get more funding, set missions, now even enjoy setting policy. The much more useful human side of collection has lost its funding and access to political leaders.
The political leaders become the candidates for the gov and mil contractors. The JFK and Nixon generations really understood what they faced and attempted reforms but their reform efforts got replaced with the huge domestic funding for "collect it all" trapdoor, backdoor systems.
This decades policy comments and talking points as linked do reflect the vision of just more digital collect it all systems domestically.
Using VOIP hardware has risks and then conducting sensitive commercial or political discussions may not always be wise.
Use VOIP to talk about any product, service or policy thats out in public.
Keep sensitive discussions face to face. It might take a few hours or a 5 day round trip but it will be a bit more secure.
Contactless cards: how to avoid paying twice
"Credit cards that you simply wave at a reader save time and are a boon for visitors to London. But they can also raid your bank account invisibly" (11 Nov 2014)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/fin...
or from slashdot back in 2012 "Android App Lets You Steal Contactless Credit Card Data" (June 21, 2012 )
http://it.slashdot.org/story/1...
Whats the new news AC? The risks of some of the newer cards and bank services have been in the tech media for years and been reported by the media too.