The public request for a product wide decryption method is in play, ready for domestic use, in open courts.
Project MINARET https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., ECHELON https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., PRISM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and the big brands that happily helped, the vision of collect it all under 5 eyes with Tempora https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... do point to an interest in collect it all, domestically and globally over many years.
The next step is using the information and collection methods in open court in a domestic setting.
Will the Fourth Amendment be followed or will a trapdoor or backdoor OS be created for all devices so content can be extracted at a city, county, parish, state, federal and contractor level? Security cleared NGO or local government, some other random nations staff, mil and gov workers get the device keys too?
The press, any individual with the cash to pay for a gov key? How weak does junk gov encryption have to get before strong encryption is rediscovered?
That will be fun for the export market. "Gov inside" stickers on all US designed export ready turn key computer solutions.
What can a US software or hardware developer say to their consumers?
Trust US, its only the US federal gov, a few states and larger cities, security cleared contractors and other 5 eye nations that have all the keys to the entire product range?
Ex staff and former workers are under a tight NDA never to share or sell the keys.... or methods..
Under free trade deal other nations will just have to accept the US brands bid and buy into the spy friendly encryption.... hoping the junk encryption holds over the years.
With a mandated tame gov chip inside, its just another weakened by design multi national product range.
Nations might set up their own standards, back their own nationals and staff rather than knowingly and repeatedly buying into 5 eye nations spy kits.
The problem with that is the tool thats been created can then open every phone of a generation and is been seen as been in gov hands via an open court.
Once a federal gov gets that back door ready OS, so do states, cities, their workers, contractors, other nations that work with the USA.
Former staff, ex staff, the private sector, contractors start walking with the methods and skills to anyone with cash for the OS backdoor.
Once a brand gets to be seen as spy friendly in open court its hard to pull back from the optics as every phone after that will be seen as gov ready as designed and sold.
Its not just one phone, its a method for a generation of phones. If that becomes legal and public, people of interest change their habits and the brand is seen as spy friendly. Interesting people dont have to use a phones. Govs now have signals intelligence as a main tool as they now lack human informants and skilled undercover teams. All the new funding went to signals intelligence that "always" worked as big brands always helped.
The UK had the right idea over decades, never comment, never go to court, never have anything in the press. The public was none the wiser and keeps on trusting cell networks tame encryption, buying from big brands, talking and networking. Collect it all was easy for the UK and the wider legal system never worked out how a case really started.
Now the US is undoing decades of global device access in months in public with requests for OS and product wide backdoors.
Re "If the freakin' NSA can't get to the data and break the encryption then what the heck are we paying them for?"
This is in public, it makes the brand look like every device sold will be US spy ready with a new trapdoor OS thats federal, state and city gov friendly. Extracting your phones contents becomes a few GUI clicks. Any nations phone network ships with an OS thats wide open to any US contractor or other nations ex or former staff that worked with the US and kept the "method". In open court with the press reporting that is bad optics globally.
Thats why PRISM invited all the big US brands in but the wider public still kept its academic and private sector encryption fantasy.
Now a new fantasy after PRISM has to be sold to the global tech media.
Buy the cell phones, load up your daily data, its still safe, look even the courts cant get in and "trust" us.
danheskett "carriers and manufacturers" should give a hint about a root or hardware way in.
The "manufacturers or providers of handsets for regular commercial use" is getting more interesting and is why I said "(CALEA) like".
The older laws should show what the US gov historically expected from generations of devices connecting to wider US networks.
What is a "manufacturer" now in 2016 with huge production lines been in China vs designers in USA? Low taxes in the EU?
The result will be total access for the US government for a product sold in the USA and connected to US networks.
The quoted "any phone conversations" has also moved to VOIP as was shown with the kind of support that was given in other areas by OS makers. Recall the help PRISM got? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_%28surveillance_program%29#PRISM_overview
Chat – video, voice, stored data, file transfers
and recall "iPhone has secret software that can be remotely activated to spy on people, says Snowden" ( 21 January 2015) http://www.independent.co.uk/l... ".. published files from the NSA showed that British agency GCHQ used the phones UDIDs — the unique identifier that each iPhone has — to track users."
"has special software that can activate itself without the owner having to press a button and gather information about him, that’s why on security grounds he refused to have this phone."
CALEA support was public and people can now draw more information.
If the phone is for sale and network use in the USA, it has to be Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) like ready.
The need to tell the press that its still so difficult is about the optics of global sales and the US big brand gov encryption disclosures.
If this access was the normal for cell tech a few years ago, "FBI taps cell phone mic as eavesdropping tool" (December 4, 2006) http://www.cnet.com/news/fbi-t...!
what has changed in the US cell network access for any other gov data or network requests?
A cell phone as sold for US network access has to be open to law enforcement as sold and designed.
Stories like this keeps the cell phone faith and signals intelligence flowing as users still think their generations devices have "special" encryption or safe storage.
No 5 eye nation would let the majority of public walk around secure communications for voice, data, storage or video.
Onion routing vs Tempora https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... would show that in a nation every packet in and out can be reconciled.
The US gov origins and fronts for funding for onion routing to help US backed NGO's, spies, freedom groups, color revolutions. https://pando.com/2014/07/16/t...
As for the NSA, GCHQ? Why would anything the US gov created be left out of their reach? Collect it all is the mission. A lot of nations globally have given or got asked or offered to share their entire telco systems and networks with the US and UK. Hard to escape that computer power and shared bases, collection sites.
The next question is US state and federal law enforcement budgets, if onion routing fails at that low cost, any well funded nation can do the same.
How?
Equipment interference ie getting bespoke gov malware to the user via some induced interaction seems to be the method thats hinted at.
The vocal supporters of onion routing will push news that the method as designed is still good but more and more open court sessions show issues surrounding real ip's been discovered on a per case funding level. Federal police can pay the costs per year, per case thats lower than spy budgets with billions to spend on contractors.
If the method offered cant secure all packets in and out of a computer network, OS, a real ip will leak.
A link thats a trap or expensive total network overview, the result of an ip leak is the same.
Yes AC, all the better VPN providers have to do is buy into the right ip ranges and hardware locations in the USA.
Huge blocks of ip's exist and so do interesting telco like options. A 100 optical link in New Zealand or the UK becomes a virtual copper connected user in a US state.
Every line test and request shows an average community of US users, a brand name and a US ip range. With a low "ms" ping to match the geographic location.
The magic will be in the interface between a city or rural network front and the global backend.
That is really what the end game for "work remotely from across the country" is going to be for the factory owners. They still need humans for now and want the cheapest workers who can be replaced if they get expensive.
Its about low cost, union free, interchangeable workers until robotics can be used for more and more in any nation.
What needs to be kept in the USA? A few people with security clearances for the no bid contracts or US only paperwork, lawyers and public relations.
If a product needs to be made in the US for the gov or mil, knock-down kits seem to allow for very distant and cheap supply chains with lots of local paperwork and contractor "oversight".
A few select jobs still need to be done in the US, the rest can be given to workers or other nations for tax and wage reasons.
Another trick to induce "tech" sector hardship and then enjoy US tax cuts and fly in endless numbers of workers who have to do what they are told.
Finding a way to "work remotely from across the country" would block the workers flowing in and US jobs flowing out.
Its not a telco issue, its showing a need for low cost workers as the skill sets just dont exist in the US. The big brand looked "locally" and found it needed skills from other nations to grow.
Finding good, skilled US workers at any price is the last thing US brands want to do when they can shop for lower cost skills and tax systems globally.
The good news is the whistleblowing material reached the public and press in full. Whistleblowing material and full public release. https://cryptome.org/2013-info...
Long term what could happen?
The prospect of Sweden doing a "temporary surrender" to the US and its secret grand jury before returning to Sweden again.
"Julian Assange: where does he go from here?" (September 12, 2015) http://www.theaustralian.com.a...
"They admit that the grand jury is continuing. "
"Don't lose sight of why the US is out to get Julian Assange " http://www.theguardian.com/com...
"There are specific risks in Sweden – for example, its fast-track "temporary surrender" extradition agreement it has with the US. "
Revealed: US plans to charge Assange http://www.smh.com.au/technolo...
"... the existence of a ''temporary surrender'' mechanism that could allow Mr Assange to be extradited from Sweden to the US."
The other history is that of József Mindszenty
"...political asylum by the United States embassy in Budapest, where Mindszenty lived for the next fifteen years"
"Mindszenty lived there for the next 15 years, unable to leave the grounds"
The "payment processors" part will work in the UK.
The "force internet service providers to block sites that did not perform effective age checks" will be a ban list of sites? Or a cleared list of UK users accounts that have given ID to the UK provider and get unfiltered internet? A licence to "internet" in the UK.
VPN services will see a lot more interest if providers start to ban "the internet" until classified accessible in the UK.
When getting a VPN service ensure it has support to not leak your normal IP when it fails. Some routers and flashed routers have support for that if the network goes down.
Now its all out in the courts, the press, whistleblowers, campaigners, NGO's, protesters now know what they will face as far as signals collection goes.
Re "If they are allowed to break laws to find civillians who are breaking laws then why are civillians not allowed to break laws to find officials who are breaking laws?"
Previously tame UK parliament watchdog rips into new Snooper’s Charter (Feb 9, 2016)
Committee says IPB's metadata collection is "inconsistent and largely incomprehensible." http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-...
The other aspect is "Mastering the Internet" and vendors:
Exclusive: Snowden intelligence docs reveal UK spooks' malware checklist (2016/02/02) https://boingboing.net/2016/02...
Re 'Autonomous machines are an advantage for everyone involved, and would be a much more humane way to solve wars."
The US plan will be for area denial, the free fire zones https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... dreams of the US in Vietnam or the British in South Africa during the Boer wars.
Anything that moves and an AI has a pattern for in its database will be engaged within a large area without hesitation.
Its a very old idea and the US mil still seems to think air power or area denial alone will magically win any war with no messy tv images.
It will be sold as contractors not needing to fly for hours, but the mass killing will be automated too.
The next round of contractor boondoggles to service and support the AI:)
Think of the ratio found mentioned in the https://theintercept.com/drone... but with an AI to give political.
and https://theintercept.com/drone... with "nearly 90 percent of the people killed in airstrikes were not the intended targets." been done by the best contractors and mil experts.
What will an AI do? Just match up the same programmed patterns that the humans did with the same resulting ratios.
A Nuremberg defence defence will change from "superior orders" to the AI?
With the main web 2.0 social media walled gardens creating ever more watchful and censored platforms this news could open an older golden age of of US online freedom for generations.
No more having your link, image, comment reported and tracked by a committee or brand's select group. To be free to post, mention, talk about any subject, topic, nation, political or historical event again without fear of losing an account or been reported to a government.
If a brand could embrace US freedoms that so many nations lack or brands work so hard at taking away, something new and good could emerge.
More that the users on the wide mesh end up on the brands central network and get a free branded cloud account.
Decentralized would be a few random exit points to the real internet rather than "ultimately its platform":)
Now Russia will get its own CPU's, software and hardware. The OS was really the last big issue that had US gov/mil backdoors, trapsdoors as designed and exported.
Russia can move on with good local jobs, understanding every line of code and work out any issues with its own trusted experts.
Its win win win. A deeper understanding of OS and network security, good local jobs, great code.
Secure computer systems will help making each network a bit more unique:)
Firefox add ons can be given a list of components to be blocked.
Unless html5 has some type of deep drm that can protect the delivery from all browser and computer interaction the users will just have to click to remove.
Yes the devices sold, designed for consumers in the US have to be wiretap, plain text and voice recording friendly.
If not they would not be on sale and be locked out of networks.
Details that are just set out in english in full, left out in plain text on a networked system?
Honey trap?
Any files found that are not on secure, encrypted systems and airgapped could just be bait in parts or full.
A number of front companies, contractors, terms, projects are just waiting with CCTV, tracking, cameras, 24/7 surveillance teams or online website profile traps.
Any of the very unique search terms are flagged and tracked.
Any smart nation would just have flooded the US with generations of clean applications. Cleared, trusted and tested staff that have now risen up the ranks over many decades.
The trapdoors and backdoors are designed into all US telco, export and consumer product lines. The device as sold is the "key" to most other nations and domestic users.
Slashdot Mirror
Its just finding where the public encryption ends and the plain text for all the "ads" starts :)
Funny after helping with PRISM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... all the big brands are now out in public rediscovering the 4th Amendment.
re "Which will be obsolete in 2-3 years. Literally."
Some form of "Charlie is Listening" stickers for that generation of phones?
The public request for a product wide decryption method is in play, ready for domestic use, in open courts.
Project MINARET https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., ECHELON https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...,
PRISM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and the big brands that happily helped, the vision of collect it all under 5 eyes with Tempora https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... do point to an interest in collect it all, domestically and globally over many years.
The next step is using the information and collection methods in open court in a domestic setting.
Will the Fourth Amendment be followed or will a trapdoor or backdoor OS be created for all devices so content can be extracted at a city, county, parish, state, federal and contractor level? Security cleared NGO or local government, some other random nations staff, mil and gov workers get the device keys too?
The press, any individual with the cash to pay for a gov key? How weak does junk gov encryption have to get before strong encryption is rediscovered?
That will be fun for the export market. "Gov inside" stickers on all US designed export ready turn key computer solutions.
What can a US software or hardware developer say to their consumers?
Trust US, its only the US federal gov, a few states and larger cities, security cleared contractors and other 5 eye nations that have all the keys to the entire product range?
Ex staff and former workers are under a tight NDA never to share or sell the keys.... or methods..
Under free trade deal other nations will just have to accept the US brands bid and buy into the spy friendly encryption.... hoping the junk encryption holds over the years.
With a mandated tame gov chip inside, its just another weakened by design multi national product range.
Nations might set up their own standards, back their own nationals and staff rather than knowingly and repeatedly buying into 5 eye nations spy kits.
The problem with that is the tool thats been created can then open every phone of a generation and is been seen as been in gov hands via an open court.
Once a federal gov gets that back door ready OS, so do states, cities, their workers, contractors, other nations that work with the USA.
Former staff, ex staff, the private sector, contractors start walking with the methods and skills to anyone with cash for the OS backdoor.
Once a brand gets to be seen as spy friendly in open court its hard to pull back from the optics as every phone after that will be seen as gov ready as designed and sold.
Its not just one phone, its a method for a generation of phones. If that becomes legal and public, people of interest change their habits and the brand is seen as spy friendly. Interesting people dont have to use a phones. Govs now have signals intelligence as a main tool as they now lack human informants and skilled undercover teams. All the new funding went to signals intelligence that "always" worked as big brands always helped.
The UK had the right idea over decades, never comment, never go to court, never have anything in the press. The public was none the wiser and keeps on trusting cell networks tame encryption, buying from big brands, talking and networking. Collect it all was easy for the UK and the wider legal system never worked out how a case really started.
Now the US is undoing decades of global device access in months in public with requests for OS and product wide backdoors.
Re "If the freakin' NSA can't get to the data and break the encryption then what the heck are we paying them for?"
This is in public, it makes the brand look like every device sold will be US spy ready with a new trapdoor OS thats federal, state and city gov friendly. Extracting your phones contents becomes a few GUI clicks. Any nations phone network ships with an OS thats wide open to any US contractor or other nations ex or former staff that worked with the US and kept the "method". In open court with the press reporting that is bad optics globally.
Thats why PRISM invited all the big US brands in but the wider public still kept its academic and private sector encryption fantasy.
Now a new fantasy after PRISM has to be sold to the global tech media.
Buy the cell phones, load up your daily data, its still safe, look even the courts cant get in and "trust" us.
danheskett "carriers and manufacturers" should give a hint about a root or hardware way in.
The "manufacturers or providers of handsets for regular commercial use" is getting more interesting and is why I said "(CALEA) like".
The older laws should show what the US gov historically expected from generations of devices connecting to wider US networks.
What is a "manufacturer" now in 2016 with huge production lines been in China vs designers in USA? Low taxes in the EU?
The result will be total access for the US government for a product sold in the USA and connected to US networks.
The quoted "any phone conversations" has also moved to VOIP as was shown with the kind of support that was given in other areas by OS makers. Recall the help PRISM got?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_%28surveillance_program%29#PRISM_overview
Chat – video, voice, stored data, file transfers
and recall "iPhone has secret software that can be remotely activated to spy on people, says Snowden" ( 21 January 2015)
http://www.independent.co.uk/l... ".. published files from the NSA showed that British agency GCHQ used the phones UDIDs — the unique identifier that each iPhone has — to track users."
"has special software that can activate itself without the owner having to press a button and gather information about him, that’s why on security grounds he refused to have this phone."
CALEA support was public and people can now draw more information.
If the phone is for sale and network use in the USA, it has to be Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) like ready.
The need to tell the press that its still so difficult is about the optics of global sales and the US big brand gov encryption disclosures.
If this access was the normal for cell tech a few years ago, "FBI taps cell phone mic as eavesdropping tool" (December 4, 2006)
http://www.cnet.com/news/fbi-t...!
what has changed in the US cell network access for any other gov data or network requests?
A cell phone as sold for US network access has to be open to law enforcement as sold and designed.
Stories like this keeps the cell phone faith and signals intelligence flowing as users still think their generations devices have "special" encryption or safe storage.
No 5 eye nation would let the majority of public walk around secure communications for voice, data, storage or video.
Onion routing vs Tempora https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... would show that in a nation every packet in and out can be reconciled.
The US gov origins and fronts for funding for onion routing to help US backed NGO's, spies, freedom groups, color revolutions.
https://pando.com/2014/07/16/t...
As for the NSA, GCHQ? Why would anything the US gov created be left out of their reach? Collect it all is the mission. A lot of nations globally have given or got asked or offered to share their entire telco systems and networks with the US and UK. Hard to escape that computer power and shared bases, collection sites.
The next question is US state and federal law enforcement budgets, if onion routing fails at that low cost, any well funded nation can do the same.
How?
Equipment interference ie getting bespoke gov malware to the user via some induced interaction seems to be the method thats hinted at.
The vocal supporters of onion routing will push news that the method as designed is still good but more and more open court sessions show issues surrounding real ip's been discovered on a per case funding level. Federal police can pay the costs per year, per case thats lower than spy budgets with billions to spend on contractors.
If the method offered cant secure all packets in and out of a computer network, OS, a real ip will leak.
A link thats a trap or expensive total network overview, the result of an ip leak is the same.
Yes AC, all the better VPN providers have to do is buy into the right ip ranges and hardware locations in the USA.
Huge blocks of ip's exist and so do interesting telco like options. A 100 optical link in New Zealand or the UK becomes a virtual copper connected user in a US state.
Every line test and request shows an average community of US users, a brand name and a US ip range. With a low "ms" ping to match the geographic location.
The magic will be in the interface between a city or rural network front and the global backend.
That is really what the end game for "work remotely from across the country" is going to be for the factory owners. They still need humans for now and want the cheapest workers who can be replaced if they get expensive.
Its about low cost, union free, interchangeable workers until robotics can be used for more and more in any nation.
What needs to be kept in the USA? A few people with security clearances for the no bid contracts or US only paperwork, lawyers and public relations.
If a product needs to be made in the US for the gov or mil, knock-down kits seem to allow for very distant and cheap supply chains with lots of local paperwork and contractor "oversight".
A few select jobs still need to be done in the US, the rest can be given to workers or other nations for tax and wage reasons.
Another trick to induce "tech" sector hardship and then enjoy US tax cuts and fly in endless numbers of workers who have to do what they are told.
Finding a way to "work remotely from across the country" would block the workers flowing in and US jobs flowing out.
Its not a telco issue, its showing a need for low cost workers as the skill sets just dont exist in the US. The big brand looked "locally" and found it needed skills from other nations to grow.
Finding good, skilled US workers at any price is the last thing US brands want to do when they can shop for lower cost skills and tax systems globally.
The good news is the whistleblowing material reached the public and press in full. Whistleblowing material and full public release.
https://cryptome.org/2013-info...
Long term what could happen?
The prospect of Sweden doing a "temporary surrender" to the US and its secret grand jury before returning to Sweden again.
"Julian Assange: where does he go from here?" (September 12, 2015)
http://www.theaustralian.com.a...
"They admit that the grand jury is continuing. "
"Don't lose sight of why the US is out to get Julian Assange "
http://www.theguardian.com/com...
"There are specific risks in Sweden – for example, its fast-track "temporary surrender" extradition agreement it has with the US. "
Revealed: US plans to charge Assange
http://www.smh.com.au/technolo...
"... the existence of a ''temporary surrender'' mechanism that could allow Mr Assange to be extradited from Sweden to the US."
The other history is that of József Mindszenty
"...political asylum by the United States embassy in Budapest, where Mindszenty lived for the next fifteen years"
"Mindszenty lived there for the next 15 years, unable to leave the grounds"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The part about been born in "Australia". Most nations try or are expected to look after their passport holders.
The "payment processors" part will work in the UK.
The "force internet service providers to block sites that did not perform effective age checks" will be a ban list of sites? Or a cleared list of UK users accounts that have given ID to the UK provider and get unfiltered internet? A licence to "internet" in the UK.
VPN services will see a lot more interest if providers start to ban "the internet" until classified accessible in the UK.
When getting a VPN service ensure it has support to not leak your normal IP when it fails. Some routers and flashed routers have support for that if the network goes down.
Thanks RW, I have also used Disconnect, HTTPS everywhere, Ghostery, Privacy Badger :)
A nice list of all the useful add-ons would be good.
Firefox should have been included just for what was used as with every other year.
Now its all out in the courts, the press, whistleblowers, campaigners, NGO's, protesters now know what they will face as far as signals collection goes.
Re "If they are allowed to break laws to find civillians who are breaking laws then why are civillians not allowed to break laws to find officials who are breaking laws?"
Previously tame UK parliament watchdog rips into new Snooper’s Charter (Feb 9, 2016)
Committee says IPB's metadata collection is "inconsistent and largely incomprehensible."
http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-...
The other aspect is "Mastering the Internet" and vendors:
Exclusive: Snowden intelligence docs reveal UK spooks' malware checklist (2016/02/02)
https://boingboing.net/2016/02...
Re 'Autonomous machines are an advantage for everyone involved, and would be a much more humane way to solve wars." :)
The US plan will be for area denial, the free fire zones https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... dreams of the US in Vietnam or the British in South Africa during the Boer wars.
Anything that moves and an AI has a pattern for in its database will be engaged within a large area without hesitation.
Its a very old idea and the US mil still seems to think air power or area denial alone will magically win any war with no messy tv images.
It will be sold as contractors not needing to fly for hours, but the mass killing will be automated too.
The next round of contractor boondoggles to service and support the AI
Think of the ratio found mentioned in the https://theintercept.com/drone... but with an AI to give political.
and https://theintercept.com/drone... with "nearly 90 percent of the people killed in airstrikes were not the intended targets." been done by the best contractors and mil experts.
What will an AI do? Just match up the same programmed patterns that the humans did with the same resulting ratios.
A Nuremberg defence defence will change from "superior orders" to the AI?
With the main web 2.0 social media walled gardens creating ever more watchful and censored platforms this news could open an older golden age of of US online freedom for generations.
No more having your link, image, comment reported and tracked by a committee or brand's select group. To be free to post, mention, talk about any subject, topic, nation, political or historical event again without fear of losing an account or been reported to a government.
If a brand could embrace US freedoms that so many nations lack or brands work so hard at taking away, something new and good could emerge.
More that the users on the wide mesh end up on the brands central network and get a free branded cloud account. :)
Decentralized would be a few random exit points to the real internet rather than "ultimately its platform"
Now Russia will get its own CPU's, software and hardware. The OS was really the last big issue that had US gov/mil backdoors, trapsdoors as designed and exported. :)
Russia can move on with good local jobs, understanding every line of code and work out any issues with its own trusted experts.
Its win win win. A deeper understanding of OS and network security, good local jobs, great code.
Secure computer systems will help making each network a bit more unique
Firefox add ons can be given a list of components to be blocked.
Unless html5 has some type of deep drm that can protect the delivery from all browser and computer interaction the users will just have to click to remove.
Yes the devices sold, designed for consumers in the US have to be wiretap, plain text and voice recording friendly.
If not they would not be on sale and be locked out of networks.
Details that are just set out in english in full, left out in plain text on a networked system?
Honey trap?
Any files found that are not on secure, encrypted systems and airgapped could just be bait in parts or full.
A number of front companies, contractors, terms, projects are just waiting with CCTV, tracking, cameras, 24/7 surveillance teams or online website profile traps.
Any of the very unique search terms are flagged and tracked.
Any smart nation would just have flooded the US with generations of clean applications. Cleared, trusted and tested staff that have now risen up the ranks over many decades.
The trapdoors and backdoors are designed into all US telco, export and consumer product lines. The device as sold is the "key" to most other nations and domestic users.