The ability to fund and replace the network of legacy satellites well past their design life seems to be the issue.
Even to bolster the backup capability thats ready in orbit.
The life capability is been stretched out for many more years and the conservative number of backups is now starting to show for the fleet.
The "reserve role" is even been packed with older systems rather than replacement with new..
re "and the asylum seekers kept closer to their point of origin while receiving the other portion for their care - it's cheaper to help them closer to their point of origin, like in a neighboring country."
Yes they get to keep their own language, medical care, education, traditions, faiths going and are ready for the very short trip back home when hostilities cease.
A common climate and then the NGO"s can help with rebuilding that nation in need in a very direct way. No funds are then just wasted on very expensive long term per person support payments in distant countries for years.
Distant nations can then look after their own massive internal unemployment issues with more further education and try and get their own workers back to work or younger generations into work.
Its also the sheltered workshop, boondoggle funding, contractors feeding the congresscritters.
Everyone was winning, jobs in the state, votes, cash flowed to states with huge generational production lines, cash flowed back up to the political leadership who ensured the projects got funded.
Thats a lot of gov, mil, political and private sector power to stand up to and hope for "government" level whistleblower protection if in a contractor role.
What is happening at the lower ends of society?
Why is the EU allowing itself to be flooded with people with few or no skills that will need long term generational support if it cant even look after its own best and brightest?
If a nation is so 'poor' why accept more poor people in who will need funds from a government who cant their own fund higher education?
Time for some national interest and ensuring educational funding is placed above EU policy.
Finland was able to keep the Soviet Union out, time to look after its own funding again and stop wasting limited funds on the EU's rapid population growth projects.
Saving weight?
The US could have found out more via a quality control and safety inspector for North American Aviation (NAA) Thomas Baron. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Re "I never understood how scientists can make such an obvious mistake, any child can spot on the first glance."
The US was packed with scientists and other staff from Nazi projects WW2 who had their own thoughts about the risks of mistakes and human life. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The Dora Trial allowed many to escape to the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Cryptome has an interesting list https://cryptome.org/2013-info...
Note the backgrounds to Daniel Ellsberg, Sibel Edmonds, John Kiriakou, Thomas Drake, J. Kirk Wiebe, William Binney, Edward Snowden.
As far as passible the US seems able to close ranks around its medical, nuclear, chemical, biological contractors and workers but seems to allow issues about signals intelligence, digital files and the policy of torture to exist in the wider press.
Or the results of Operation Paperclip https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
So the US Byzantine cover-ups works. The US press only seems to find a few people every generation on a limited set of topics.
Think about the past and what MAINWAY, MARINA, FAIRVIEW, STORMBREW was or even back to STELLARWIND, MAIN CORE.
Collect it all has not changed as a domestic surveillance system to collect all signals intelligence within the USA.
Some options are:
Bring the gov and mil to the contractors rather than the contractors to a gov site. Same domestic data sets just new mission names and a bit of color of law to say the gov projects have ended as talked about in public.
Bring in more 5 eye staff at "shared" sites or even 3rd party nations with US bases. More BOUNDLESSINFORMANT.
Have other partners in the public or private sector do the collection and then just buy into the product.
The same level of total collection just hidden as more Pen Register Trap and Trace or the use of domestic Analysis Centers or Technology Units.
Its cheaper just to collect it all. Signals intelligence is fast, makes a nice computer map, gets a voice print and tracks anyone who stopped for a talk or walked with a person.
The only magic is never to let interesting people know how easy it is. They can always stop using a cell phone.
Then its back to shift work and teams of officials doing surveillance. In the 1940-70's it was still the only and best option with helicopters, radio, beacons, phone taps. Mil or gov teams to track a person anywhere given the support and tools.
The main issue is the change in urban communities and that its hard to have a team sitting in a car or van 24/7 in shifts. That was 6 or 10 gov or mil people to watch one person. Too many people to watch now given the huge lists signals intelligence creates at a city and state level.
2 or 3 hops of all calls and friends.
Thats a lot of over time budget gone and the number of eyes on a street can really make such efforts human difficult.
Human teams can also get approached. The wrong haircuts, tone of voice, lack of slang, music, clothing, accent, no local life story, been too fit and they have to drive on.
So the trick is to keep speaking points about cell phones been too tricky but access been very legal in open court and to the tech press.
That keeps people on the digital networks with battery packs that last many hours. Great for a live mic remote turn on too.
The other method is to ensure as many people as possible under color of law take a deal or turn into informants.
If in open court, offer limited methods to find how the case was created, what was done. Teams of expert witnesses are not cheap and just funding a good legal team can be made difficult.
Think of the push back from contracts for "collect it all" systems that designed for download speeds of less than 25 Mbps on average?
Did the mil and gov project the US would be stuck on existing coax plans, and POTS copper for a long time?
What was MAINWAY, MARINA, FAIRVIEW, STORMBREW or even back to MAIN CORE keep up but only after another contractor upgrade again?
Thin copper and long POTS networks would have needed a lot of regional collection teams.
On one side are the telcos with too much copper POTS to replace and the other are the contractors who designed collection systems for data over copper speeds.
Would going full optical to or near each user or upgrading coax make "collect it all" more easy for direct collection without needing to buy expensive solutions from existing contractors?
Think of all the local security contractors that could be replaced by one new splitter and location.. if the internet is ever allowed to get too fast.
Slashdot readers may recall the:
How a Group of Rural Washington Neighbors Created Their Own Internet Service (November 01, 2015) http://mobile.slashdot.org/sto...
How a group of neighbors created their own Internet service (Nov 1, 2015) http://arstechnica.com/informa...
The "But all of the nodes are eventually routed through a.. " to get to the many "internet exchange" or "carrier-neutral interconnection facility” options is the real question.
What can an existing network cartel do about such competition in their captive cities and states? Some car sale related ideas might be useful?
For security each connection has to be paid for, listed and have an ip range that can be logged.
Ensure every connection in the US to a consumer is a final hop directly to a federally listed provider by law?
Make sure the list of allowed brands that can sell to the US consumer is complex, regulated and very expensive to join.
A system of internet medallions per city, state that show users can be tracked. Only a select few traditional providers brands could have long term secure staffing for all direct contact with end users to legally supply the internet.
Invoke a law to alter free bandwidth use to ensure the final internet connection can only be for use by the user paying for their own network.
Users can connect to each other in a community network but any internet sharing is not legal. No direct selling down to groups of end users.
Track and chat down each home connecting and then find the new "direct" provider. Users will then have to reconnect to the more traditional providers.
The US grid has so many different city, state, national, federal and commercial plants placed over the decades. From the tourist and gambling needs to military production lines, everyone got to build as needed.
Computers try to balance that out regional load but so many issues can result in brown outs.
Military bases, teaching hospitals and other protected zones will be fine.
Re "someone claims it's fixed we *perhaps* consider taking the next step."
The inner city areas and lack of digital food payments is the real tipping point for the US.
Snowmageddon 2016 and the empty store shelves shows the few days the US has before it goes full post-apocalyptic "The Road" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Would a national grid work? A lot of cash that could be used for Solar Storm of 1859 protection (Carrington Event https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...) will be used for secure grid upgrades just to ensure a steady supply.
The "interstate highway" for power would also upset captive local markets that offer nice generational cash flows from all users.
Local supply can counter solar installs, remove any useful payment for solar, block battery installs feed in or ensure a steep mandated grid connection fee.
If a federal grid moves in with real cash payback for solar or no connection fee for off grid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., what will a local monopoly do that was banking on new fees and charges to its "herd" of power users?
Thanks to well placed news like this users, people, city and state law enforcement will still have faith in US brands.
A flood of sock puppets to contain the topics surrounding the ability of a US company to look after its brand more than follow the color of US telco laws.
Keep using that cell phone, sending images with gps, carrying a live mic with a battery thats built in.
All the brand can secure is the transit from a user level in the phone to another user.
All other hardware and software functions are open to federal law enforcement, mil as sold in the US or UK.
The security services now like voice prints as been one of the few low cost ways to get total coverage of a city to look of people they have on file.
No telco or company is going to get to lock out data recovery or a malware push down or a national hunt for voice prints due to its branding.
"Superspy in the sky could soon be patrolling over British cities to search for hidden terror cells" (26 April 2010 ) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
"The aircraft are able to identify suspects using 'voice-prints'... "
Leaked catalogue details US surveillance hardware ( 18 December 15 ) has more on the dirt boxes.. and other devices http://www.wired.co.uk/news/ar...
"sound files"..."SMS data", "pictures", calendar... "into one report"
Would any US brand be able to block collect it all?
Watch as a lot of traditional services try and become all edgy with a new cyber front end. Same old brand and profits, but now nationally unregulated, online and very global.
The new selected gatekeepers of allowable cyber fund movements for a fee and tracking.
What the Vice, Master Race, American Excess credit cards allowed past generations to enjoy will now be presented in a new digital front, one branding hop away from a big bank.
Same big gov tracking back to you if you try to support a whistleblower:)
Italy offers design, secure luxury prototyping and setting up of production lines for a much cheaper locations.
The US is now making tax, hiring and crypto demands to a level that to be seen looking at other locations is a positive.
A brand cannot thrive if it is forced to hire from a pool of US staff that will never have the skills.
Italy offers all the skills should the US gov keep pushing for staffing changes based on considerations other than merit.
Globally that was solved in the early 1980s with simple international letters and anti terror agreements hidden away by most federal governments. Every cell phone is open to police as sold by design.
No nations was going to need to have 2 or 3 production runs. No designer was going to need dual design teams for a US ready or EU ready phone.
No nation was going to get a secure phone while the global public avoided police ready brands from another nation. Trade cost was not going to be a negative with dual designs and an informed public making selections about crypto branding.
A cell phone would keep the local radio recording out, some of the press out vs what hardware could be used but be totally open to any police force.
The "So why waste money protecting it" is really the propaganda needed to ensure people still use a phone with brands that give total access to federal law enforcement and mil for free.
The other fear is from federal law enforcement that local police will stop talking with a live cell phone mic on or using other features. Internal affairs likes to ensure all local police enjoy their phones at lot too and feel safe with them. They *know* they are safe to have a cell phone powered on at all times as they cannot get access to the same make, brand per generation.
That court support has to keep on been rejected to keep people talking.
Re 'So what are you doing with your phones that needs more speed?"
Too many users packed in using a limited amounts of bandwidth will be an issue that makes a brand look slow. To free up or allow a smarter use of a limited network options, upgrades need to try and keep pace with users needs and demands.
The options are to restrict people with expensive plans (fine if all users are wealthy or a company is paying), data caps, reduce speeds or allow slow network usability issues to spread and be commented on.
An average telco would like to add a lot more people who can pay on *any* plan to spend up more and get the feel of a good network at anytime and location.
The old days of text, low res images and voice calls are now been replaced with video streaming and larger files been sent in both directions.
Camera options might create larger RAW files too that need more bandwidth up than a text message, voice call or very low res compressed image.
Cell phones pack more hardware that can create larger HD or now 4K video files. People are streaming more from video sites for longer when connected.
Huge files, streaming more data for longer, more users, cheaper plans. Time to upgrade the network to keep up and ensure all users enjoy equal access to the media and services they want to pay for anytime they want.
With the OS having root over any keystrokes before "encryption apps" and a company having designer links in CA.
Re: "ecrypted and unlocked by its manufacturer or operating system vendor" would be covered by laws like the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA)...
As for devices been super secure, recall the years of news about "Cops Say They Can Access Encrypted Emails (January 11, 2016 ) https://motherboard.vice.com/r...
Note the access news going back a few years...
Also recall the issue of why any backdoors are really bad for any nations telco system:
SISMI-Telecom scandal, an illegal domestic surveillance program https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and the
Greek wiretapping case 2004–05 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...–05
Weaken any encryption and any staff, ex mil, ex staff, ex contractor, former telco or gov staff, other nations staff, anyone with skills or the cash can get the same deep access...
Also note the news from Australia about who gets that no court needed "law enforcement" role long term locally.
61 agencies apply for metadata access (18/01/2016) https://delimiter.com.au/2016/...
"... a comprehensive list of agencies which had applied to receive accreditation as enforcement agencies under the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act, which will give them access to make metadata requests."
A contractor could rediscover selling the US gov on handing out a limited number of one page executive summary papers and a build a walk in vault.
Patent the ability to type page one of one for each person attending. Ensure only one copy is handed out to each person and then collected at the end of the meeting.
Thats going to be one very expensive typewriter. Think of the contract for a new linotype machine:)
The pretty colors and glow displayed to the leaders are worth billions in funding.
Why did this happen?
Look at the sales teams, sorry "advisory boards" that sell and watch over what the US needs, to use or buy or offer a no bid contract for decades of networks.
The very few with any real counterintelligence, counterespionage or force protection analysis just seem to want to buy into the same systems they always used from the same teams they knew people in gov can to buy into... surrounded by many people who never worked near or with signals intelligence.
They may have been cleared to see the product of years of signals intelligence offered down to their former bosses but been able to secure anything was never their role...
Been cleared to sell something to the gov is the only needed ability.
Count the visa numbers of the foreign students in and out. Make sure they attend real university courses and dont just drift into full time employment with a digital student ID on computer database thats a fake front for a university.
When they have done with their course send them back home or offer them some rapid degree to work deal if they have great grades. No over staying or ability for the failed or mediocre to just to slip into the work force for many years.
Ensure every student is at their tutorial or other lab work or keeps the needed contact hours.
Focus on merit and wealth to get a better quality of foreign intake so they have no need to work part time.
Rich students will focus on study and be more well adjusted to enjoy getting a degree rather than looking for lots of part time work on arrival.
Count the local and foreign students in and out. Call it a pop quiz every day on the past weeks work... just ensure an ID is needed and noted. Who is missing and why is not really that hard to note with a few trusted staff and students at a door.
No need to pay for fancy new databases and IT staff. Just use what the tax staff, passport control and teams of local staff.
If students don't show up, have a chat with them or cancel their student visa, remove them from the UK and ban them form ever returning under any other visa.
Its not that hard to ensure a good higher educational setting with photo ID's and students actually attending the courses for them.
When done they go home or get help finding a job. Everyone is happy, supported and well educated.
A note on the 'swiping their access card" issues. Dont trust anything but a real person seeing the ID and the photo matches the student for any contact hours with staff for a lab, tutorial. Get to know every student in the tutorial or lab session with questions, work. Kind of hard to fake that day to week and over an exam.
If a university has a retention issue, set better exams and only take in students that can study and are ready to study. Good entry exams and past course work can be used to rank every applicant based on grades.
Re "each student is for their entire degree" could have been done decades ago with a photo id and taking attendance in the smaller group and larger lab settings, no new expensive computers needed.
Re "boost their results" just ensure people who want to learn and have the proven background to learn get a place at a university. 3 or 7 years later they should be ready for the work force.
Yes the budget of the NRO was very large. One of the few historic hints was in a 1998 Naval Research Laboratory 75th Anniversary Event https://fas.org/spp/military/p...
""When the American government eventually reveals the [full range of] reconnaissance systems developed by this nation, the public will learn of space achievements every bit as impressive as the Apollo Moon landings. One program proceeded in utmost secrecy, the other on national television. One steadied the resolve of the American public; the other steadied the resolve of American Presidents.""
Thats a lot of funding to hide and spend on a few hand crafted bespoke satellites that the public sees as a launch or other cargo. The NRO ensured its healthy budget by spending big with a few big US brands that would then lobby for more huge contracts... generations of jobs per political district. The NRO always got its funding in the billions.
The result of all the spending was the US became more happy with only using the results of signals intelligence. The other fun new funding split is ODNI centres vs what was mil intel vs dept of energy.
Think of what a gov backed onion routing network really needs to hide its freedom fighters, color revolutions, NGO's, spies... a much larger pool of global users to make local tracking harder.
By adding a lot of new users the game changes for other actors trying to trace back onion routing users of interest.
How to ensure the flood of new users stay in the system? Get a captive site to network them in.
Nothing to really do with any users privacy but to provide bulk cover for other gov projects and their contacts.
Security, privacy and anonymity for dissident networks, not so much for social media users been tracked by ads.
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The ability to fund and replace the network of legacy satellites well past their design life seems to be the issue.
Even to bolster the backup capability thats ready in orbit.
The life capability is been stretched out for many more years and the conservative number of backups is now starting to show for the fleet.
The "reserve role" is even been packed with older systems rather than replacement with new..
then mention the NSL that was always in place?
re "and the asylum seekers kept closer to their point of origin while receiving the other portion for their care - it's cheaper to help them closer to their point of origin, like in a neighboring country."
Yes they get to keep their own language, medical care, education, traditions, faiths going and are ready for the very short trip back home when hostilities cease.
A common climate and then the NGO"s can help with rebuilding that nation in need in a very direct way.
No funds are then just wasted on very expensive long term per person support payments in distant countries for years.
Distant nations can then look after their own massive internal unemployment issues with more further education and try and get their own workers back to work or younger generations into work.
Its also the sheltered workshop, boondoggle funding, contractors feeding the congresscritters.
Everyone was winning, jobs in the state, votes, cash flowed to states with huge generational production lines, cash flowed back up to the political leadership who ensured the projects got funded.
Thats a lot of gov, mil, political and private sector power to stand up to and hope for "government" level whistleblower protection if in a contractor role.
What is happening at the lower ends of society?
Why is the EU allowing itself to be flooded with people with few or no skills that will need long term generational support if it cant even look after its own best and brightest?
If a nation is so 'poor' why accept more poor people in who will need funds from a government who cant their own fund higher education?
Time for some national interest and ensuring educational funding is placed above EU policy.
Finland was able to keep the Soviet Union out, time to look after its own funding again and stop wasting limited funds on the EU's rapid population growth projects.
Saving weight?
The US could have found out more via a quality control and safety inspector for North American Aviation (NAA) Thomas Baron. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Re "I never understood how scientists can make such an obvious mistake, any child can spot on the first glance."
The US was packed with scientists and other staff from Nazi projects WW2 who had their own thoughts about the risks of mistakes and human life.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The Dora Trial allowed many to escape to the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Cryptome has an interesting list https://cryptome.org/2013-info...
Note the backgrounds to Daniel Ellsberg, Sibel Edmonds, John Kiriakou, Thomas Drake, J. Kirk Wiebe, William Binney, Edward Snowden.
As to the ".. rendering such Byzantine cover-ups far more likely to fail."
What has failed for the CIA?
United States President's Commission on CIA Activities within the United States in the mid 1970's went fine even after the MKUltra news https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Doctors and medics get to stay in their professions
CIA medics monitored brutal interrogation tactics (December 12, 2014)
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/ru...
The public will even take in a policy of "Hacked federal files couldn't be encrypted because government computers are too old" (2015/06/16)
http://www.latimes.com/nation/...
As far as passible the US seems able to close ranks around its medical, nuclear, chemical, biological contractors and workers but seems to allow issues about signals intelligence, digital files and the policy of torture to exist in the wider press.
Or the results of Operation Paperclip https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
So the US Byzantine cover-ups works. The US press only seems to find a few people every generation on a limited set of topics.
Think about the past and what MAINWAY, MARINA, FAIRVIEW, STORMBREW was or even back to STELLARWIND, MAIN CORE.
Collect it all has not changed as a domestic surveillance system to collect all signals intelligence within the USA.
Some options are:
Bring the gov and mil to the contractors rather than the contractors to a gov site. Same domestic data sets just new mission names and a bit of color of law to say the gov projects have ended as talked about in public.
Bring in more 5 eye staff at "shared" sites or even 3rd party nations with US bases. More BOUNDLESSINFORMANT.
Have other partners in the public or private sector do the collection and then just buy into the product.
The same level of total collection just hidden as more Pen Register Trap and Trace or the use of domestic Analysis Centers or Technology Units.
Its cheaper just to collect it all. Signals intelligence is fast, makes a nice computer map, gets a voice print and tracks anyone who stopped for a talk or walked with a person.
The only magic is never to let interesting people know how easy it is. They can always stop using a cell phone.
Then its back to shift work and teams of officials doing surveillance. In the 1940-70's it was still the only and best option with helicopters, radio, beacons, phone taps. Mil or gov teams to track a person anywhere given the support and tools.
The main issue is the change in urban communities and that its hard to have a team sitting in a car or van 24/7 in shifts. That was 6 or 10 gov or mil people to watch one person. Too many people to watch now given the huge lists signals intelligence creates at a city and state level.
2 or 3 hops of all calls and friends.
Thats a lot of over time budget gone and the number of eyes on a street can really make such efforts human difficult.
Human teams can also get approached. The wrong haircuts, tone of voice, lack of slang, music, clothing, accent, no local life story, been too fit and they have to drive on.
So the trick is to keep speaking points about cell phones been too tricky but access been very legal in open court and to the tech press.
That keeps people on the digital networks with battery packs that last many hours. Great for a live mic remote turn on too.
The other method is to ensure as many people as possible under color of law take a deal or turn into informants.
If in open court, offer limited methods to find how the case was created, what was done. Teams of expert witnesses are not cheap and just funding a good legal team can be made difficult.
Think of the push back from contracts for "collect it all" systems that designed for download speeds of less than 25 Mbps on average?
Did the mil and gov project the US would be stuck on existing coax plans, and POTS copper for a long time?
What was MAINWAY, MARINA, FAIRVIEW, STORMBREW or even back to MAIN CORE keep up but only after another contractor upgrade again?
Thin copper and long POTS networks would have needed a lot of regional collection teams.
On one side are the telcos with too much copper POTS to replace and the other are the contractors who designed collection systems for data over copper speeds.
Would going full optical to or near each user or upgrading coax make "collect it all" more easy for direct collection without needing to buy expensive solutions from existing contractors?
Think of all the local security contractors that could be replaced by one new splitter and location.. if the internet is ever allowed to get too fast.
Slashdot readers may recall the:
.. " to get to the many "internet exchange" or "carrier-neutral interconnection facility” options is the real question.
How a Group of Rural Washington Neighbors Created Their Own Internet Service (November 01, 2015)
http://mobile.slashdot.org/sto...
How a group of neighbors created their own Internet service (Nov 1, 2015)
http://arstechnica.com/informa...
The "But all of the nodes are eventually routed through a
What can an existing network cartel do about such competition in their captive cities and states? Some car sale related ideas might be useful?
For security each connection has to be paid for, listed and have an ip range that can be logged.
Ensure every connection in the US to a consumer is a final hop directly to a federally listed provider by law?
Make sure the list of allowed brands that can sell to the US consumer is complex, regulated and very expensive to join.
A system of internet medallions per city, state that show users can be tracked. Only a select few traditional providers brands could have long term secure staffing for all direct contact with end users to legally supply the internet.
Invoke a law to alter free bandwidth use to ensure the final internet connection can only be for use by the user paying for their own network.
Users can connect to each other in a community network but any internet sharing is not legal. No direct selling down to groups of end users.
Track and chat down each home connecting and then find the new "direct" provider. Users will then have to reconnect to the more traditional providers.
The US grid has so many different city, state, national, federal and commercial plants placed over the decades. From the tourist and gambling needs to military production lines, everyone got to build as needed.
Computers try to balance that out regional load but so many issues can result in brown outs.
Military bases, teaching hospitals and other protected zones will be fine.
Re "someone claims it's fixed we *perhaps* consider taking the next step."
The inner city areas and lack of digital food payments is the real tipping point for the US.
Snowmageddon 2016 and the empty store shelves shows the few days the US has before it goes full post-apocalyptic "The Road" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Would a national grid work? A lot of cash that could be used for Solar Storm of 1859 protection (Carrington Event https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...) will be used for secure grid upgrades just to ensure a steady supply.
The "interstate highway" for power would also upset captive local markets that offer nice generational cash flows from all users.
Local supply can counter solar installs, remove any useful payment for solar, block battery installs feed in or ensure a steep mandated grid connection fee.
If a federal grid moves in with real cash payback for solar or no connection fee for off grid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., what will a local monopoly do that was banking on new fees and charges to its "herd" of power users?
Thanks to well placed news like this users, people, city and state law enforcement will still have faith in US brands.
... " ..."SMS data", "pictures", calendar ... "into one report"
A flood of sock puppets to contain the topics surrounding the ability of a US company to look after its brand more than follow the color of US telco laws.
Keep using that cell phone, sending images with gps, carrying a live mic with a battery thats built in.
All the brand can secure is the transit from a user level in the phone to another user.
All other hardware and software functions are open to federal law enforcement, mil as sold in the US or UK.
The security services now like voice prints as been one of the few low cost ways to get total coverage of a city to look of people they have on file.
No telco or company is going to get to lock out data recovery or a malware push down or a national hunt for voice prints due to its branding.
"Superspy in the sky could soon be patrolling over British cities to search for hidden terror cells" (26 April 2010 )
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
"The aircraft are able to identify suspects using 'voice-prints'
Leaked catalogue details US surveillance hardware ( 18 December 15 ) has more on the dirt boxes.. and other devices
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/ar...
"sound files"
Would any US brand be able to block collect it all?
+1 for that. Recall the use of "Cindy" back in the 1980's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Watch as a lot of traditional services try and become all edgy with a new cyber front end. Same old brand and profits, but now nationally unregulated, online and very global. :)
The new selected gatekeepers of allowable cyber fund movements for a fee and tracking.
What the Vice, Master Race, American Excess credit cards allowed past generations to enjoy will now be presented in a new digital front, one branding hop away from a big bank.
Same big gov tracking back to you if you try to support a whistleblower
Italy offers design, secure luxury prototyping and setting up of production lines for a much cheaper locations.
The US is now making tax, hiring and crypto demands to a level that to be seen looking at other locations is a positive.
A brand cannot thrive if it is forced to hire from a pool of US staff that will never have the skills.
Italy offers all the skills should the US gov keep pushing for staffing changes based on considerations other than merit.
Globally that was solved in the early 1980s with simple international letters and anti terror agreements hidden away by most federal governments. Every cell phone is open to police as sold by design.
No nations was going to need to have 2 or 3 production runs. No designer was going to need dual design teams for a US ready or EU ready phone.
No nation was going to get a secure phone while the global public avoided police ready brands from another nation. Trade cost was not going to be a negative with dual designs and an informed public making selections about crypto branding.
A cell phone would keep the local radio recording out, some of the press out vs what hardware could be used but be totally open to any police force.
The "So why waste money protecting it" is really the propaganda needed to ensure people still use a phone with brands that give total access to federal law enforcement and mil for free.
The other fear is from federal law enforcement that local police will stop talking with a live cell phone mic on or using other features. Internal affairs likes to ensure all local police enjoy their phones at lot too and feel safe with them. They *know* they are safe to have a cell phone powered on at all times as they cannot get access to the same make, brand per generation.
That court support has to keep on been rejected to keep people talking.
Re 'So what are you doing with your phones that needs more speed?"
Too many users packed in using a limited amounts of bandwidth will be an issue that makes a brand look slow. To free up or allow a smarter use of a limited network options, upgrades need to try and keep pace with users needs and demands.
The options are to restrict people with expensive plans (fine if all users are wealthy or a company is paying), data caps, reduce speeds or allow slow network usability issues to spread and be commented on.
An average telco would like to add a lot more people who can pay on *any* plan to spend up more and get the feel of a good network at anytime and location.
The old days of text, low res images and voice calls are now been replaced with video streaming and larger files been sent in both directions.
Camera options might create larger RAW files too that need more bandwidth up than a text message, voice call or very low res compressed image.
Cell phones pack more hardware that can create larger HD or now 4K video files. People are streaming more from video sites for longer when connected.
Huge files, streaming more data for longer, more users, cheaper plans. Time to upgrade the network to keep up and ensure all users enjoy equal access to the media and services they want to pay for anytime they want.
With the OS having root over any keystrokes before "encryption apps" and a company having designer links in CA.
Re: "ecrypted and unlocked by its manufacturer or operating system vendor" would be covered by laws like the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA)...
As for devices been super secure, recall the years of news about "Cops Say They Can Access Encrypted Emails (January 11, 2016 )
https://motherboard.vice.com/r...
Note the access news going back a few years...
Also recall the issue of why any backdoors are really bad for any nations telco system:
SISMI-Telecom scandal, an illegal domestic surveillance program https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and the
Greek wiretapping case 2004–05 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...–05
Weaken any encryption and any staff, ex mil, ex staff, ex contractor, former telco or gov staff, other nations staff, anyone with skills or the cash can get the same deep access...
Also note the news from Australia about who gets that no court needed "law enforcement" role long term locally.
61 agencies apply for metadata access (18/01/2016)
https://delimiter.com.au/2016/...
"... a comprehensive list of agencies which had applied to receive accreditation as enforcement agencies under the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act, which will give them access to make metadata requests."
A contractor could rediscover selling the US gov on handing out a limited number of one page executive summary papers and a build a walk in vault. :)
Patent the ability to type page one of one for each person attending. Ensure only one copy is handed out to each person and then collected at the end of the meeting.
Thats going to be one very expensive typewriter. Think of the contract for a new linotype machine
The pretty colors and glow displayed to the leaders are worth billions in funding.
Why did this happen?
Look at the sales teams, sorry "advisory boards" that sell and watch over what the US needs, to use or buy or offer a no bid contract for decades of networks.
The very few with any real counterintelligence, counterespionage or force protection analysis just seem to want to buy into the same systems they always used from the same teams they knew people in gov can to buy into... surrounded by many people who never worked near or with signals intelligence.
They may have been cleared to see the product of years of signals intelligence offered down to their former bosses but been able to secure anything was never their role...
Been cleared to sell something to the gov is the only needed ability.
Iran recalls the US and UK support for Operation Ajax https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Iran also recalls US support for the Iraqi invasion of Iran in 1980 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...–Iraq_War
ie the mischiefs of foreign intrigue.
As far as the astronaut part goes, the Soviet Union and Russia offered places to a lot of other nations.
List of cosmonauts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... has a list of other "Other cosmonauts" from different nations.
Also see the Intercosmos program https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Count the visa numbers of the foreign students in and out. Make sure they attend real university courses and dont just drift into full time employment with a digital student ID on computer database thats a fake front for a university.
When they have done with their course send them back home or offer them some rapid degree to work deal if they have great grades. No over staying or ability for the failed or mediocre to just to slip into the work force for many years.
Ensure every student is at their tutorial or other lab work or keeps the needed contact hours.
Focus on merit and wealth to get a better quality of foreign intake so they have no need to work part time.
Rich students will focus on study and be more well adjusted to enjoy getting a degree rather than looking for lots of part time work on arrival.
Count the local and foreign students in and out. Call it a pop quiz every day on the past weeks work... just ensure an ID is needed and noted. Who is missing and why is not really that hard to note with a few trusted staff and students at a door.
No need to pay for fancy new databases and IT staff. Just use what the tax staff, passport control and teams of local staff.
If students don't show up, have a chat with them or cancel their student visa, remove them from the UK and ban them form ever returning under any other visa.
Its not that hard to ensure a good higher educational setting with photo ID's and students actually attending the courses for them.
When done they go home or get help finding a job. Everyone is happy, supported and well educated.
A note on the 'swiping their access card" issues. Dont trust anything but a real person seeing the ID and the photo matches the student for any contact hours with staff for a lab, tutorial. Get to know every student in the tutorial or lab session with questions, work. Kind of hard to fake that day to week and over an exam.
If a university has a retention issue, set better exams and only take in students that can study and are ready to study. Good entry exams and past course work can be used to rank every applicant based on grades.
Re "each student is for their entire degree" could have been done decades ago with a photo id and taking attendance in the smaller group and larger lab settings, no new expensive computers needed.
Re "boost their results" just ensure people who want to learn and have the proven background to learn get a place at a university. 3 or 7 years later they should be ready for the work force.
Yes the budget of the NRO was very large. One of the few historic hints was in a 1998 Naval Research Laboratory 75th Anniversary Event ... generations of jobs per political district. The NRO always got its funding in the billions.
https://fas.org/spp/military/p...
""When the American government eventually reveals the [full range of] reconnaissance systems developed by this nation, the public will learn of space achievements every bit as impressive as the Apollo Moon landings. One program proceeded in utmost secrecy, the other on national television. One steadied the resolve of the American public; the other steadied the resolve of American Presidents.""
Thats a lot of funding to hide and spend on a few hand crafted bespoke satellites that the public sees as a launch or other cargo. The NRO ensured its healthy budget by spending big with a few big US brands that would then lobby for more huge contracts
The result of all the spending was the US became more happy with only using the results of signals intelligence. The other fun new funding split is ODNI centres vs what was mil intel vs dept of energy.
Think of what a gov backed onion routing network really needs to hide its freedom fighters, color revolutions, NGO's, spies... a much larger pool of global users to make local tracking harder.
By adding a lot of new users the game changes for other actors trying to trace back onion routing users of interest.
How to ensure the flood of new users stay in the system? Get a captive site to network them in.
Nothing to really do with any users privacy but to provide bulk cover for other gov projects and their contacts.
Security, privacy and anonymity for dissident networks, not so much for social media users been tracked by ads.