A few nations do not have a lot of hardened mil only networks. They have to use public telco networks passing into a lot of other nations domestic infrastructure thanks to competition policy and trade deals.
The way around having to use very public, foreign owned networks and satellites sourced from many different providers for gov and mil communications was often thought to be emerging quantum cryptography.
Australia is spending huge amounts of time, funding and effort to try and keep the idea of national public/private networks open to its very secure mil and gov communications needs.
An Unbreakable Code (24/08/2006) http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst...
Real gov and mil networks or risk a new Engima 2.0 on public networks due to cost cutting and really having faith that quantum cryptography was good enough:)
Prying Eyes: Inside the NSA's War on Internet Security (December 28, 2014) http://www.spiegel.de/internat...
It was always interesting to see what govs, mil and related security services made a public issue about vs what is just allowed to be offered to the public without comment over the years:)
The problem now is the numbers of rushed in, poorly vetted contractors, random dual citizens working for contractors, other nations workers, private sector staff, US gov staff who are needed to provide support for the once secure all US mil only areas.
As the US looks to out source and no bid contract even more of its invasion, occupation and other massive war like efforts, the amount of random people wondering around, looking around will be interesting.
WW2 worked well as Germany only had look limited fancy new down platforms and had to work with vast radio and telephone capture. German over flight optics was only so good.
Germany had lost its spies in the UK early in WW2. The UK always had very good methods to track people globally. The UK was also very active in hunting down Germans or people in contact with Germany in neutral nations too (MI5 section 1a teams, Camp 020 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ).
UK teams would go to neutral nations and find German related radio networks and turn them or ensure the radio traffic stopped.
Some of the more interesting ww2 related crypto news is at this blog
"Christos military and intelligence corner" http://www.chris-intel-corner....
The blog has offered some great insight into what Germany could break wrt US and UK codes.
What other nations did to Germany and other nations experts helped Germany gain some interesting insights into US and UK mil thinking.
A lot of the low and mid level codes where junk and its nice to see some new info beyond the usual Enigma like efforts.
Every US brand, US.com, US academic and other 'connected' network gets to share anyones cybersecurity information via fancy new "portals" with US federal agencies.
Any and all digital or other US privacy laws over past decades are gone.
The "specific threat" is so vague too, allowing law enforcement to be given every aspect of data without any standing needed for imminent threats to enable "collect it all".
The 4th Amendment protection is gone, replaced with a phone in, phone home, report and share by default digital Berlin Wall. Any digital account, telco product, application, code developed, in or sold by any entity with a connection to the USA is now US federal gov backdoor, trapdoor ready.
Its not legal and the 4th Amendment still protects all, just find a wise legal team to invoke it:)
Talking, writing, commenting on or been an academic with an interesting in crypto is now heretical in the eyes of the UK security services?
But UK academics having to consider complex backdoors in all future UK product design. Just showing an interest in math, numbers, computers, crypto is now not good....
With UK computer skills are been so legally discouraged will smart staff fly in from the US, Australia, NZ, Canada for tricky next gen projects?
Did the GCHQ not tell the UK gov the value of having a vast pool of generational maths experts with languages, arts, history skills is a really good thing every generation?
Thanks to past quality UK education policy the GCHQ had the expert staff ready to help in Korea, Vietnam, with the Soviet Union, West/East German, French decryption over many decades. The UK got to read everything encrypted in the EU thanks to its own experts. Even all of South America when needed.
Did the US puling out of the Tube Alloys projects https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... not show every generation of UK experts that the UK will have to have the domestic skill sets for all possible projects every generation and that any deep commitments to "share" from the US can be revoked.
For the UK to keep up with advancements real thought has to go into encouraging maths, real science, crypto, arts, languages policy for every generation.
Stopping an interest in maths in the UK is about the best gift the UK can give its global competitors.
The UK should be rushing out to teach as much math and real science as possible, not trying to ban it.
When the US gov/mil wants to "Pierce" into US hardware and software with junk and tame default encryption, the consumer can buy other strong brands and services.
The global consumer has the right to route around the US mandated trapdoors, backdoors, gov/private sector partnerships and useless encryption, weak standards, extra gov keys and constant logging.
The more backdoors and trapdoors a nation mandates, the less competitive their software and hardware exports become.
Soon it will become more smart to write code in house and only each out to US standards when and where absolutely necessary with the least about of data exposure.
People globally know any gov keys, codes, access does not stay with any one gov or mil department. Telco staff, private brands, contractors, mercenaries soon get a copy out to other nations or anyone who can pay. Dual citizens, the need for cash, political or cult or faith based ideals soon allow lot of other nations or random wealthy groups have the same once "secret" US gov backdoors, trapdoors or access. The keys to junk national encryption standards get shared very quickly and globally over the productive use of any product, network or service.
It was the room with the Great Seal of the United States, on display for anyone with a good reason to be invited in to see, public relations pretty, a nation on show.
Fine wire mesh over the door, walls, under the floor might work but its not as secure or useful as a real, designed isolated vault.
Most nations tried to build their secure vaults up off the floor, isolated from everything. A room within a room.
It was an everyday office that projected an image of the wealth, skill and power USA into another nation, but conversations leaked.
The reason why: the US thought it was smarter than every other nation, the room had to be functional, normal looking. Russia was smart and only activated the device eg when the room was in use eg a telegram was been dictated. By luck or during the active bug sweeping the new devices got found or the US/UK was told and had a good cover story... about staff hearing conversations on test equipment.
Re "Is it possible they had been trolling the Soviets for 7 years to discuss phony "top secret" things in such rooms that are not covered with Faraday's cage wall paper?"
The US has such confidence in its bug sweeps that it felt physical room security and an understanding of existing advanced electronics was enough, ie the room was comfy, fancy, tested, warm, papers at hand, secure and the room found to be "safe". Why walk all the way down to the vault for every talk?
The other aspect was US telephone discipline expected the room to be a bit more safe, so staff would talk a bit more face to face in the room.
Prestige vs the depths of the vault:)
Most govs find out they are leaking info when their best spies start feeding junk, get found or replaced or promoted to less interesting positions or cannot warn about something they should have been able to share.
Enjoying the idea of a digital memory hole https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... a bit too much?
In the Soviet Union names, books, sentences, paragraphs, pictures, individuals also disappeared from art, culture, history and new editions of books.
Thanks to a big US brand that always enjoyed the full protections of the US Constitution books and thought will now be "corrected" on a per decade or month or weekly whim of a select few in the private sector? A multi national private sector with deep traditional links to the US gov and mil?
Who decides what is art, culture, history, free speech, freedom of the press when selling a brand an a open public forum?
A gov/mil backed AI? Database? A group of people based in the USA? EU? A pool of trusted language experts who helped the brand in the past? Select groups with their own digital ideas on what text, words or language is "safe" enough? A reporting flag and a herd of human oversight to ban books, news, blogs, forums, web pages from ever been found again? Topics and ideas from the first books to the first web media of the 1990's, 2000's just never get seen as valid search results ever again?
How about just been search engine again and let people find words, documents, books without a big private sector brand or gov or censorship trying to reshape the English language again and again? What kind of words and "type" of searches will be banned? Reported? Every search term tracked?
In Soviet Russia neighbours inform on new car seen with you.
In Capitalist West new car informs on you.
Find the year the advanced phone home electronics become a standard, was introduced in your nation and try to buy a good car just before that year.
That nice decade of advanced engine computing, safe design but no phone home and constant logging.
Governments usually push for been in on the development of national standards for computer brands and telcos. The government then gets to build in trap doors and backdoors during the design stage. The other is the use of informants in the tame private sector and the use of crypto from gov created front companies.
Cryptography in the wild is not easy.
Re " Can these ships really defend against...."
The term used is "re-floated" when such events are tested for.
The US war gamed for that mass of different systems and did not like the results. A "reset" of the war games found a more happy, traditional "winning" result.
Millennium Challenge 2002 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"At this point, the exercise was suspended, Blue's ships were "re-floated", and the rules of engagement were changed"
Re "but can be reprogrammed quickly enough to not make a lick of difference, so this will prove to be a costly game of whack a mole by the local police force, and be just as exhausting as the 'hunt for terrorists' are. This cost can be so extreme, it will QUICKLY deplete the financial resources of an organization attempting to keep the country 'safe'."
The problem with that is the type of investigation that has been opened. In some nations "security" investigations its not just that a person has to be proved guilty or is able find a good lawyer and has the legally usable funds to pay for legal advice.
That "guilty" person has to legally move from now been very guilty to try and prove their way back to been innocent. Every aspect of their life is investigated from that one internet reported issue.
Work, banking, telco, gov services, medical, family, friends, educational contacts all get chat downs and requests for more information and clarity. Select from a short list of government approved security cleared lawyers as your bank accounts are now frozen No finding a good lawyer who is media savvy to present a case to the wider public.
All from just using a computer network. In many nations the idea is to isolate the person very quickly, totally and then offer the only free, easy way out, as an informant.
Some nations just create vast numbers of informants every decade.
Yes, the French authorities just need to watch for that first hop to onion routing and then back track to the ISP, provider, service in France.
Send out letters and a chat down about still trying to use that service.
Finding out who is using the service within a nation is not difficult. Reconciliation of information flowing at an international level in and out of France would need more funding ie a Tempora like effort to capture all the communications in and out of France https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Once any nation gets all its telcos and providers inspecting for that first easy onion routing hop, its a difficult service to hide.
What happened with Ada after all that defence spending and standardization?
Was it a rush to other languages from the lower levels ie home PC use in the 1980's -early 1990's that pushed other ideas and options up into academia or via games, cpu hardware options, costs? What kept the good ideas found in Ada over the decades from making it to the faster, more memory ready computer over the years? Thanks:)
Yes after doing anything near the brands products or services your profession, university degree/s, skill sets ie a persons livelihood is at risk of been legally confiscated by a private company on a whim. A secret denunciation with the full force of gov backing.
The only protection is never to work on a product, project related to a company that will go after its workers or contractors in such a direct way.
What next? A special short list of cleared lawyers who can read the hidden charges in a special closed room and cannot mention any facts in open court?
Could a lawyers even talk in open about the case?
A chilling non compete clause for a persons profession for ever and any legal team they hire to try and get their profession back?
The wider network is even more secure from other ad services. Data is more anonymized and everyone is more happy with the free happy services given away for free. Learning is a happy time too, with all the advanced branded products and free services offered for free.
No other marketing communication brand can see the very secure network.
Most of that has been built in by design from the provider down under conditions like The Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) over many years. Voice print, remote turn on, live mic, photo, text, logs... its all part of been allowed to be a telco and collecting all for the US/UK govs.
The issues now are just about adding so many users to limited bandwidth and allowing them ever more data on plans. Towers might not even be ready and fully upgraded so a nation gets compressed codecs and expensive plans to try and make the standard networks feel a bit faster for new data plans.
The fix is new towers, new standards, better design, better voice codecs again, more useful connections from the towers back to the telcos.
ie the clandestine services have always been part of any cell phone design from the beginning:) Thats the only way to get gov approval to connect to the network:)
The problem is the tool set of advance electronics tracking, on going maintenance costs of "free" military hardware at a city, state and local level is starting to catch up with traditional wage based/over time policing budgets.
The new federal mil toys have real federal budget support budgets and upgrade costs over the years that a city or state did not fully understand.
Add in over time, pensions, fancy out sourced "private" sector training and the costs are getting more interesting every decade. How to cover the costs?
Civil forfeiture in the United States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... that no longer goes to the victim or into state, city funds but can flow in part into a department with not much oversight or controls on what the cash is spent on.
The constant need to top up limited funds becomes the mission.
Why would Australia put any interesting part of its Department of Defence on an open network facing system? If its so important dont connect it to the outside world...
Thats what vaults and air gapped networks are for. Then only cleared staff can use an internal network as to their security clearances.
All the out sourcing, public private partnerships, privitization just invited everybody on the world facing "internet" deeper into once very secure gov and mil networks.
If "critical information" is so very secret, keep it secret and dont allow to be stored, created, updated on open, public facing networks.
How about some real, working, in use Australian only developed encryption? So when the public facing networks have issues, the rest of the world gets nothing?
What is with nations around the world and their mil/gov that a generation of well paid gov/mil experts over the past decade cannot understand about the public internet and keeping a nations data secure?
re "So if someone drives down the wrong street because they don't know that you're not supposed to drive down that street"
This tech has been used in boarder states for years on local roads, to get an image of the driver and passenger, front and back plates and a stingray like device to get the cell phone details (bonus voice print if in use).
The tech is now so cheap that its been sold and supported at a city and state level.
A not visible to the press digital Berlin wall that no registered transport can ever escape. Great around all kinds of sites, streets, at protest events, collect it all is cheaper than traditional methods and allows for parallel construction. A good way to get around the Constitutional protections too or any local stop and ID protections some states have.
Wait for the next gen: hand-held Doppler radar devices, thermal, deep into a car scans, local body scanners, per city tethered aerostat (blimp with low cost 24/7 all weather look down systems).
The free offer is just a talking point to make new contacts in the private sector.
The "free" testing has a few different ideas behind it:
An offer to upper level private sector stakeholders to talk about security threat assessments and protective measures. Basically upper management get a fancy digital version of see something, say something and an offer of a special card just for them.
Long term a free offer to host a new server might be made to split and compare all real time data flows to shared police and international databases (fast per file checksum in near real time reporting).
It is the enterprise server version of an older idea going back a few years:
"FBI asks computer shops to help fight cybercrime" (February 5, 2004) http://the.honoluluadvertiser....
".. any overtly criminal activity they find in customers' computers.
The end result is social control.
The problem with websites, email systems, forums and chatrooms is they all can be found, have feeder sites to them or are listed, get mentioned in public over web 2.0, could be intelligence service fronts and understood by any nation, group, NGO or contractor on the hunt. Or the admin/s are turned or have been replaced or have been befriended.
In theory US/UK "collect it all" would have got very packet by default for any 'word' readable in any language on any internet facing network, OS, system, brand.
Italy is now been seen spending a lot of cash in public to internally duplicate packet collection that NATO has been doing for decades over different telco networks and systems.
Italy has a strong history with expert decoding. After 1945 US/UK TICOM got Italy working on French diplomatic traffic and soon had all French diplomatic traffic decoded in real time and did other work on advanced emerging "Taper" related projects.
New money is on the table, why not spend it on bureaucratic growth, private sector contractors can help too. Think of the over time, bids for new optical splitters, vast new databases, advanced linguistics software contracts, 24/7 translation teams for languages and slang, "renting' ongoing private sector support for all the new teams, upgrades. Lawyers, courts, ip to a physical address support, new interfaces with other advanced nations, travel for top experts and government officials over the years, advancement and rank.... vans, undercover teams, 5-10 gov officials/contractors for every individual of interest found
All the sock puppet accounts to then start a conversation and build a rapport with correct slang, dialects and regional inflections..
Slashdot Mirror
A few nations do not have a lot of hardened mil only networks. They have to use public telco networks passing into a lot of other nations domestic infrastructure thanks to competition policy and trade deals. :)
The way around having to use very public, foreign owned networks and satellites sourced from many different providers for gov and mil communications was often thought to be emerging quantum cryptography.
Australia is spending huge amounts of time, funding and effort to try and keep the idea of national public/private networks open to its very secure mil and gov communications needs.
An Unbreakable Code (24/08/2006)
http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst...
Real gov and mil networks or risk a new Engima 2.0 on public networks due to cost cutting and really having faith that quantum cryptography was good enough
Prying Eyes: Inside the NSA's War on Internet Security (December 28, 2014) :)
http://www.spiegel.de/internat...
It was always interesting to see what govs, mil and related security services made a public issue about vs what is just allowed to be offered to the public without comment over the years
The problem now is the numbers of rushed in, poorly vetted contractors, random dual citizens working for contractors, other nations workers, private sector staff, US gov staff who are needed to provide support for the once secure all US mil only areas.
As the US looks to out source and no bid contract even more of its invasion, occupation and other massive war like efforts, the amount of random people wondering around, looking around will be interesting.
WW2 worked well as Germany only had look limited fancy new down platforms and had to work with vast radio and telephone capture. German over flight optics was only so good.
Germany had lost its spies in the UK early in WW2. The UK always had very good methods to track people globally.
The UK was also very active in hunting down Germans or people in contact with Germany in neutral nations too (MI5 section 1a teams, Camp 020 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ).
UK teams would go to neutral nations and find German related radio networks and turn them or ensure the radio traffic stopped.
Some of the more interesting ww2 related crypto news is at this blog
"Christos military and intelligence corner"
http://www.chris-intel-corner....
The blog has offered some great insight into what Germany could break wrt US and UK codes.
What other nations did to Germany and other nations experts helped Germany gain some interesting insights into US and UK mil thinking.
A lot of the low and mid level codes where junk and its nice to see some new info beyond the usual Enigma like efforts.
Every US brand, US .com, US academic and other 'connected' network gets to share anyones cybersecurity information via fancy new "portals" with US federal agencies.
:)
Any and all digital or other US privacy laws over past decades are gone.
The "specific threat" is so vague too, allowing law enforcement to be given every aspect of data without any standing needed for imminent threats to enable "collect it all".
The 4th Amendment protection is gone, replaced with a phone in, phone home, report and share by default digital Berlin Wall.
Any digital account, telco product, application, code developed, in or sold by any entity with a connection to the USA is now US federal gov backdoor, trapdoor ready.
Its not legal and the 4th Amendment still protects all, just find a wise legal team to invoke it
Talking, writing, commenting on or been an academic with an interesting in crypto is now heretical in the eyes of the UK security services?
But UK academics having to consider complex backdoors in all future UK product design. Just showing an interest in math, numbers, computers, crypto is now not good....
With UK computer skills are been so legally discouraged will smart staff fly in from the US, Australia, NZ, Canada for tricky next gen projects?
Did the GCHQ not tell the UK gov the value of having a vast pool of generational maths experts with languages, arts, history skills is a really good thing every generation?
Thanks to past quality UK education policy the GCHQ had the expert staff ready to help in Korea, Vietnam, with the Soviet Union, West/East German, French decryption over many decades. The UK got to read everything encrypted in the EU thanks to its own experts. Even all of South America when needed.
Did the US puling out of the Tube Alloys projects https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... not show every generation of UK experts that the UK will have to have the domestic skill sets for all possible projects every generation and that any deep commitments to "share" from the US can be revoked.
For the UK to keep up with advancements real thought has to go into encouraging maths, real science, crypto, arts, languages policy for every generation.
Stopping an interest in maths in the UK is about the best gift the UK can give its global competitors.
The UK should be rushing out to teach as much math and real science as possible, not trying to ban it.
When the US gov/mil wants to "Pierce" into US hardware and software with junk and tame default encryption, the consumer can buy other strong brands and services.
The global consumer has the right to route around the US mandated trapdoors, backdoors, gov/private sector partnerships and useless encryption, weak standards, extra gov keys and constant logging.
The more backdoors and trapdoors a nation mandates, the less competitive their software and hardware exports become.
Soon it will become more smart to write code in house and only each out to US standards when and where absolutely necessary with the least about of data exposure.
People globally know any gov keys, codes, access does not stay with any one gov or mil department. Telco staff, private brands, contractors, mercenaries soon get a copy out to other nations or anyone who can pay.
Dual citizens, the need for cash, political or cult or faith based ideals soon allow lot of other nations or random wealthy groups have the same once "secret" US gov backdoors, trapdoors or access.
The keys to junk national encryption standards get shared very quickly and globally over the productive use of any product, network or service.
Consider hardware brands that are more about a real clean OS install.
Consider other better OS options.
It was the room with the Great Seal of the United States, on display for anyone with a good reason to be invited in to see, public relations pretty, a nation on show.
Fine wire mesh over the door, walls, under the floor might work but its not as secure or useful as a real, designed isolated vault.
Most nations tried to build their secure vaults up off the floor, isolated from everything. A room within a room.
It was an everyday office that projected an image of the wealth, skill and power USA into another nation, but conversations leaked.
The reason why: the US thought it was smarter than every other nation, the room had to be functional, normal looking. Russia was smart and only activated the device eg when the room was in use eg a telegram was been dictated. By luck or during the active bug sweeping the new devices got found or the US/UK was told and had a good cover story... about staff hearing conversations on test equipment.
Re "Is it possible they had been trolling the Soviets for 7 years to discuss phony "top secret" things in such rooms that are not covered with Faraday's cage wall paper?" :)
The US has such confidence in its bug sweeps that it felt physical room security and an understanding of existing advanced electronics was enough, ie the room was comfy, fancy, tested, warm, papers at hand, secure and the room found to be "safe". Why walk all the way down to the vault for every talk?
The other aspect was US telephone discipline expected the room to be a bit more safe, so staff would talk a bit more face to face in the room. Prestige vs the depths of the vault
Most govs find out they are leaking info when their best spies start feeding junk, get found or replaced or promoted to less interesting positions or cannot warn about something they should have been able to share.
Enjoying the idea of a digital memory hole https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... a bit too much?
In the Soviet Union names, books, sentences, paragraphs, pictures, individuals also disappeared from art, culture, history and new editions of books.
Thanks to a big US brand that always enjoyed the full protections of the US Constitution books and thought will now be "corrected" on a per decade or month or weekly whim of a select few in the private sector? A multi national private sector with deep traditional links to the US gov and mil?
Who decides what is art, culture, history, free speech, freedom of the press when selling a brand an a open public forum?
A gov/mil backed AI? Database? A group of people based in the USA? EU? A pool of trusted language experts who helped the brand in the past? Select groups with their own digital ideas on what text, words or language is "safe" enough? A reporting flag and a herd of human oversight to ban books, news, blogs, forums, web pages from ever been found again? Topics and ideas from the first books to the first web media of the 1990's, 2000's just never get seen as valid search results ever again?
How about just been search engine again and let people find words, documents, books without a big private sector brand or gov or censorship trying to reshape the English language again and again? What kind of words and "type" of searches will be banned? Reported? Every search term tracked?
In Soviet Russia neighbours inform on new car seen with you.
In Capitalist West new car informs on you.
Find the year the advanced phone home electronics become a standard, was introduced in your nation and try to buy a good car just before that year.
That nice decade of advanced engine computing, safe design but no phone home and constant logging.
Governments usually push for been in on the development of national standards for computer brands and telcos. The government then gets to build in trap doors and backdoors during the design stage. The other is the use of informants in the tame private sector and the use of crypto from gov created front companies.
Cryptography in the wild is not easy.
Re " Can these ships really defend against ...."
The term used is "re-floated" when such events are tested for.
The US war gamed for that mass of different systems and did not like the results. A "reset" of the war games found a more happy, traditional "winning" result.
Millennium Challenge 2002 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"At this point, the exercise was suspended, Blue's ships were "re-floated", and the rules of engagement were changed"
Re "but can be reprogrammed quickly enough to not make a lick of difference, so this will prove to be a costly game of whack a mole by the local police force, and be just as exhausting as the 'hunt for terrorists' are. This cost can be so extreme, it will QUICKLY deplete the financial resources of an organization attempting to keep the country 'safe'."
The problem with that is the type of investigation that has been opened. In some nations "security" investigations its not just that a person has to be proved guilty or is able find a good lawyer and has the legally usable funds to pay for legal advice.
That "guilty" person has to legally move from now been very guilty to try and prove their way back to been innocent. Every aspect of their life is investigated from that one internet reported issue.
Work, banking, telco, gov services, medical, family, friends, educational contacts all get chat downs and requests for more information and clarity. Select from a short list of government approved security cleared lawyers as your bank accounts are now frozen No finding a good lawyer who is media savvy to present a case to the wider public.
All from just using a computer network. In many nations the idea is to isolate the person very quickly, totally and then offer the only free, easy way out, as an informant.
Some nations just create vast numbers of informants every decade.
Yes, the French authorities just need to watch for that first hop to onion routing and then back track to the ISP, provider, service in France.
Send out letters and a chat down about still trying to use that service.
Finding out who is using the service within a nation is not difficult. Reconciliation of information flowing at an international level in and out of France would need more funding ie a Tempora like effort to capture all the communications in and out of France https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Once any nation gets all its telcos and providers inspecting for that first easy onion routing hop, its a difficult service to hide.
What happened with Ada after all that defence spending and standardization? :)
Was it a rush to other languages from the lower levels ie home PC use in the 1980's -early 1990's that pushed other ideas and options up into academia or via games, cpu hardware options, costs? What kept the good ideas found in Ada over the decades from making it to the faster, more memory ready computer over the years? Thanks
Yes after doing anything near the brands products or services your profession, university degree/s, skill sets ie a persons livelihood is at risk of been legally
confiscated by a private company on a whim. A secret denunciation with the full force of gov backing.
The only protection is never to work on a product, project related to a company that will go after its workers or contractors in such a direct way.
What next? A special short list of cleared lawyers who can read the hidden charges in a special closed room and cannot mention any facts in open court?
Could a lawyers even talk in open about the case?
A chilling non compete clause for a persons profession for ever and any legal team they hire to try and get their profession back?
The wider network is even more secure from other ad services. Data is more anonymized and everyone is more happy with the free happy services given away for free. Learning is a happy time too, with all the advanced branded products and free services offered for free.
No other marketing communication brand can see the very secure network.
Most of that has been built in by design from the provider down under conditions like The Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) over many years. Voice print, remote turn on, live mic, photo, text, logs... its all part of been allowed to be a telco and collecting all for the US/UK govs. :) Thats the only way to get gov approval to connect to the network :)
The issues now are just about adding so many users to limited bandwidth and allowing them ever more data on plans. Towers might not even be ready and fully upgraded so a nation gets compressed codecs and expensive plans to try and make the standard networks feel a bit faster for new data plans.
The fix is new towers, new standards, better design, better voice codecs again, more useful connections from the towers back to the telcos.
ie the clandestine services have always been part of any cell phone design from the beginning
The problem is the tool set of advance electronics tracking, on going maintenance costs of "free" military hardware at a city, state and local level is starting to catch up with traditional wage based/over time policing budgets.
The new federal mil toys have real federal budget support budgets and upgrade costs over the years that a city or state did not fully understand.
Add in over time, pensions, fancy out sourced "private" sector training and the costs are getting more interesting every decade. How to cover the costs?
Civil forfeiture in the United States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... that no longer goes to the victim or into state, city funds but can flow in part into a department with not much oversight or controls on what the cash is spent on.
The constant need to top up limited funds becomes the mission.
Why would Australia put any interesting part of its Department of Defence on an open network facing system? If its so important dont connect it to the outside world...
Thats what vaults and air gapped networks are for. Then only cleared staff can use an internal network as to their security clearances.
All the out sourcing, public private partnerships, privitization just invited everybody on the world facing "internet" deeper into once very secure gov and mil networks.
If "critical information" is so very secret, keep it secret and dont allow to be stored, created, updated on open, public facing networks.
How about some real, working, in use Australian only developed encryption? So when the public facing networks have issues, the rest of the world gets nothing?
What is with nations around the world and their mil/gov that a generation of well paid gov/mil experts over the past decade cannot understand about the public internet and keeping a nations data secure?
re "So if someone drives down the wrong street because they don't know that you're not supposed to drive down that street"
This tech has been used in boarder states for years on local roads, to get an image of the driver and passenger, front and back plates and a stingray like device to get the cell phone details (bonus voice print if in use).
The tech is now so cheap that its been sold and supported at a city and state level.
A not visible to the press digital Berlin wall that no registered transport can ever escape. Great around all kinds of sites, streets, at protest events, collect it all is cheaper than traditional methods and allows for parallel construction. A good way to get around the Constitutional protections too or any local stop and ID protections some states have.
Wait for the next gen: hand-held Doppler radar devices, thermal, deep into a car scans, local body scanners, per city tethered aerostat (blimp with low cost 24/7 all weather look down systems).
The free offer is just a talking point to make new contacts in the private sector.
The "free" testing has a few different ideas behind it:
An offer to upper level private sector stakeholders to talk about security threat assessments and protective measures. Basically upper management get a fancy digital version of see something, say something and an offer of a special card just for them.
Long term a free offer to host a new server might be made to split and compare all real time data flows to shared police and international databases (fast per file checksum in near real time reporting).
It is the enterprise server version of an older idea going back a few years:
"FBI asks computer shops to help fight cybercrime" (February 5, 2004)
http://the.honoluluadvertiser....
".. any overtly criminal activity they find in customers' computers.
The end result is social control.
The problem with websites, email systems, forums and chatrooms is they all can be found, have feeder sites to them or are listed, get mentioned in public over web 2.0, could be intelligence service fronts and understood by any nation, group, NGO or contractor on the hunt. Or the admin/s are turned or have been replaced or have been befriended.
In theory US/UK "collect it all" would have got very packet by default for any 'word' readable in any language on any internet facing network, OS, system, brand.
Italy is now been seen spending a lot of cash in public to internally duplicate packet collection that NATO has been doing for decades over different telco networks and systems.
Italy has a strong history with expert decoding. After 1945 US/UK TICOM got Italy working on French diplomatic traffic and soon had all French diplomatic traffic decoded in real time and did other work on advanced emerging "Taper" related projects.
New money is on the table, why not spend it on bureaucratic growth, private sector contractors can help too. Think of the over time, bids for new optical splitters, vast new databases, advanced linguistics software contracts, 24/7 translation teams for languages and slang, "renting' ongoing private sector support for all the new teams, upgrades. Lawyers, courts, ip to a physical address support, new interfaces with other advanced nations, travel for top experts and government officials over the years, advancement and rank.... vans, undercover teams, 5-10 gov officials/contractors for every individual of interest found
All the sock puppet accounts to then start a conversation and build a rapport with correct slang, dialects and regional inflections..