Yes it was bespoke, agricultural solution that worked just in time.
"How Nasa brought the monstrous F-1 'moon rocket' engine back to life" (16 APRIL 13 ) http://www.wired.co.uk/news/ar...
".. these were hand-made machines. They were sewn together with arc welders.. "
The other political issue at the time was the attempts to block another Dora Trial https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... that could have finally exposed the number and crimes of the Operation Paperclip https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... German space experts and staff to a wider public.
The number of German staff given total freedom, their past crimes had to stay hidden for more years.
GUI stutter so the system always felt responsive. The sheltered performance space needed so the brands own developers could always ensure a good feel to the device under any load.
The gradual performance and coding understanding of the system took time for the brand and its wider coding platform developers. Now that console developers better understand the hardware limits and core use, a bit more performance can be offered.
A more complex payload can now reach the moon without the many compromise of the past efforts as seen on television.
A later permanent lunar ability would then be less tricky allowing for the wonders of the ultimate high ground to be explored and science shared.
Russian has the very complex metallurgy, science, support, academics, computer applications to ensure all such projects will work.
Lets hope the needed projects get the full funding soon:)
Re "Does any of that really work when massive facial recognition systems exist and cameras are everywhere."
That works well until you are seen near a gov building, court, using public transport, bank, get stopped or get shared with the gov via cctv over the years.
Some nations do the CCTV sharing legally, others just set up public private partnerships and connect to federal government departments in a more discreet way.
"Facial recognition: Privacy advocates raise concern over 'creepy' system Government says will enhance national security" (9 Sep 2015)
".. will allow law enforcement and security agencies to quickly scan through up to 100 million facial images held in databases around Australia."
"The images can come from drivers' licences, passport photos or security cameras in your local shopping centre.."
"..mobile CCTV and tablets and are trialling body cameras to work with facial recognition."
Sooner or later a legal "random" chat down induced by a face not meeting a gov threshold will demand real ID.
Then the sit down interview about proof of been a home owner, rental accommodation, utility bill, phone, car, work, gov, wealth, bank account, education, other forms of ID update questions start.
Re 'So how do illegal"?
In the distant past it was simple: One person has photo ID that is acceptable at a state and federal level. Rent it out to a person who has the same basic appearance and they can rent a home in your name. Only do that one time and a steady flow of cash is paid for the cover ID owner, paper work is paid for by a group of people living in that home under the cover name.
It works as different state, city, federal databases could often never be shared as the name is not on any gov list to be reconciled.
"Under the radar with the UK's illegal migrants" (24 September 2015) http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-343...
"Instead of buying a set of fake documents, he paid someone to share their legitimate national insurance number with him."
What nations need to do is have a set of ID, photo ID at every level of interaction with work, tax, banks, gov services, when seeking any form of accommodation, free gov medical services, post offices services, private sector work, as university students still doing registered (eligible) course work, as tourists, private medical services, gov assistance at a state or federal level, when buying a car or later registration/reporting over the years.
Traditional charities, gov departments and social workers could easily help a nations own citizens or eligible individuals with the new paperwork if they need help to sort, upgrade, apply or request.
The methods are very easy with todays digital gov databases to find the every expanding vast pool of fake and shared ID's.
The other method is to have a system of camera networks to capture face and licence plates on all vehicles at random heavy traffic areas. Does the face match the paperwork and face on the ID, if not a chat down?
The other option is to have long term legal guests who are working, living, or are undertaking a form of real education in a nation, register with the police at set times and if their circumstances change. No need for a "carry at all times" national ID card, just make every aspect of a functional life interact at a city, state and federal level in real time with any issued photo ID. No need for an expensive passport or drivers licence, just offer a "free" state or federal photo ID card based on an interview and a long list of interconnected, supporting documentation.
Why is this not been done in more advanced nations? Too many business leaders like their union free, interchangeable, tax free, no paper work, disposable workers and are allowed to hire such workers by political leaders over decades.
Re 'Next stop, machine-learning drone pilot"
That is the end design. Entire section of nations will just become free fire zones for US drone AI systems.
The US mil is thinking back to Vietnam and the Strategic Hamlet Program https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and even the UK experience in the Boer War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The AI will just patrol 24/7 and interdict in any movement it its grid.
Until then its more of the (Nov. 20 2015) https://theintercept.com/2015/...
With build you can find good quality parts at low local prices.
Find the good RAM, CPU, GPU with features and a quality power supply. A motherboard with the modern fast storage options and amount and quality of fast connections without going over budget. Run power as needed and for later upgrades. Fit well made fans that are well designed for air flow and at a low sound level.
Depending on the brand you have the option not to pay a premium for over clocking support.
When you buy your avoiding the need to install a cpu, fit a better cooler and that press down feel.
Go for a self build just to save on quality parts and get exactly what is needed at a fair price.
Buy if a system needs to be ready and tested without the need to install a cpu. Ensure that the product is well supported for the price.
France did this back in the day of the Minitel networking services https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Different groups (university reforms in the mid 1980's) could gather protesters from all over France in the using national, easy to connect to French networking telco systems.
The main thrust for France is to quell domestic protests and stop leaking of information eg French gov staff or press background to a Rainbow Warrior like event. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Been able to track the formation of protests or the press, track gov/mil whistleblowers talking to the French press before publication is interesting under new powers.
"Powers to pre-emptively detain key activists" is chilling.
The issue is that your isp ip from the VPN ip could be discovered at a low cost and by a lot of different interested groups.
A good wired modern router with OpenVPN support will often offer a fast, newer dual core cpu that can support the needed encryption.
That should cover any leaking from within the users OS, apps, software, malware.
Re 'Well, it isn't even news: that's the exact feature that allows, for instance, to connect two distant offices' networks as if they were one hop away."
This is more about the services offered to show a VPN providers IP vs an ISP rather than a traditional "two distant offices" secure networking.
For that a list of who kept the IP would be needed so the product offered can be better understood.
Is it having all servers in one nation under one brands internal control?
Servers in a lot of nations but under total control of the brand?
Some internal network with a way in and a totally different server network out?
An external wired router passing the totality of all OS, app network traffic to a VPN should not be leaking any ISP ip.
The "anonymizing" part is that the VPN becomes your IP for that session.
The ip found on the net should always stop back at the VPN provider. Thats the idea of the router for a system like openvpn. Your entire OS, all apps, web use can only connect via the VPN, no leaking an ISP IP out. The idea that anyone looking back from the VPN IP can see the users ISP is not the best news.
re "So what difference does "credibility" make?"
Global purchasing power. Re think that next bulk imported upgrade and consider an all local product at a different price factoring in security as been of value.
Might need more power, cooling, be slower and not have a fancy bezel that complements the looks of the hardware but staff finally totally understand what they are buying in to and supporting.
Experts can finally go to the top of their departments and show a list of junk encryption, bad standards, weak math, failed hardware imports and consider internal or better domestic options away from the expensive big brand that ships with trap door and backdoor junk over every version..
The other factor is that a generation of crypto experts cannot say they did not know anymore, did not expect the scale and ability of domestic "collect it all" or thought the "legal" department or "legal protections" or "brand" or "private sector" would always be in place to protect from domestic "collect it all".
Good crypto is now every experts problem to fix and get working to protect users, ideas, science, profit, local jobs, accounts, databases from a list of other competing nations reading everything for free thanks to decades of weak standards.
Ideas like this show why VPN use was not a huge issue "Revealed: how US and UK spy agencies defeat internet privacy and security" (6 September 2013) http://www.theguardian.com/wor...
".. decode the encrypted traffic certified by three major (unnamed) internet companies and 30 types of Virtual Private Network (VPN) – used by businesses to provide secure remote access.."
or under the new UK net laws "Snooper's Charter: Why aren't VPNs and Tor mentioned in the Investigatory Powers Bill?" (November 5, 2015) http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/snoop...
".. but surprisingly, nowhere in the proposal does it mention the use of Virtual Private Networks (VPN)."
What can be done? Some creative way for an internal double VPN?
This could also show that VPN use is vulnerable at a city, state, private sector or federal level/budget rather than just a shorter list of advanced nations with a domestic collect it all capability.
The global tech community knows what standard weak, junk encryption allows for over every generation of device and network they have to fix and clean up after.
Slowly governments and nations can understand what having junk encryption for their political leaders is costing their trade and national development.
Allowing huge national contracts to be set over junk encryption with a few bidding nations listening in is slowly been fully understood locally.
A government with their top officials using smart phones on all the time is not great policy. Trusting sensitive data on foreign owned and designed computer networks, junk weak crypto, clouds is no the best idea.
Re the comments, a lot of nations spend big on shaping comments on tech sites when ideas surrounding good national encryption policy is a topic.
The traditional talking points was that encryption was perfect, cheap, safe and secure, that data sets globally would be too big for any national domestic "collect it all" policy.
The new talking points are more direct after junk encryption standards and domestic "collect it all" was fully understood.
Re "What's the point? This detracts from their own goals of safety for USA."
Think back to all the Overseas interventions of the United States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The US gov and mil needs vast networks of free flowing cash, hardware support and propaganda globally to spread US policy around the world.
The ability to set, sell, then break weak standard encryption as a policy tool helps. Every call, fax, email, bank transaction, shipment, communication, draft report, database is open to US policy makers in near real time.
Re "What is the ends here?"
To have and keep the 5 eye https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... nations in on every part of all telecommunications globally.
Re 'The greatest facilitators in the most intrusive and pervasive surveillance programme in history are the IT giants themselves."
Yes its like the UK too, collect all for the UK gov but want the media to stop reporting that collection for the gov 24/7 is policy and routine.
"UK ISP boss points out massive technical flaws in Investigatory Powers Bill" (Nov 27, 2015) http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...
"....which forbid ISPs from revealing what snooping is being carried out on their systems."
"The Home Office revealed that it was the larger telecom companies that asked for gag orders to be imposed."
All Snowden did was expose the vast US domestic unconstitutional surveillance networks to the public via the US constitutionally protected press.
Junk encryption been sold as a standard, low quality education endorsing and creating weak crypto standards over decades, useless standards, poor quality code, data connections within telcos own systems for gov (splitters), "collect it all" domestically without warrants.
The "Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act" and the standards it set should have been understood for what big telcos would do to all US and global (peering) telco systems and standards.
The "Silicon Valley's privacy policies" never existed, every connection and system set up by big US telcos was always and will always be gov intercept ready as deigned and by default.
Yes the "firmware of routers, IP cameras, VoIP phones, modems" is the key. A lot of different groups search the wider internet for any networked devices. One key when found that fits all is not a good design when the consumer feels they bought a product that has some level of encryption.
Lots of US trade issues held back Japan. The US did not want other nations offering cheaper or better platforms so a few political and treaty obligations now face a lot of nations wanting to sell or expand on their own industrial base into the space market.
Missile Technology Control Regime https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"Japan's space development" and USA trade policy, "Section 301" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
India just went its own way and made sure it could design, build and launch any system it wanted, making sure domestic design and production was well looked after.
Another trick is to get Japan to enter a "consortium" deal to spread costs and then keep Japan buying into a shared, imported system. Japan is kept away from investing in its own specialized tooling, has to pay for development and then the import costs of a final system to pay for.
Slashdot Mirror
Yes it was bespoke, agricultural solution that worked just in time. .. "
The other political issue at the time was the attempts to block another Dora Trial https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... that could have finally exposed the number and crimes of the Operation Paperclip https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... German space experts and staff to a wider public.
"How Nasa brought the monstrous F-1 'moon rocket' engine back to life" (16 APRIL 13 )
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/ar...
".. these were hand-made machines. They were sewn together with arc welders
The number of German staff given total freedom, their past crimes had to stay hidden for more years.
GUI stutter so the system always felt responsive. The sheltered performance space needed so the brands own developers could always ensure a good feel to the device under any load.
The gradual performance and coding understanding of the system took time for the brand and its wider coding platform developers. Now that console developers better understand the hardware limits and core use, a bit more performance can be offered.
A more complex payload can now reach the moon without the many compromise of the past efforts as seen on television. :)
A later permanent lunar ability would then be less tricky allowing for the wonders of the ultimate high ground to be explored and science shared.
Russian has the very complex metallurgy, science, support, academics, computer applications to ensure all such projects will work.
Lets hope the needed projects get the full funding soon
re "Remember?" :)
Soviet space program Notable firsts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... has the list of Venus related missions
They tried with the N1 testing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Re "Does any of that really work when massive facial recognition systems exist and cameras are everywhere."
That works well until you are seen near a gov building, court, using public transport, bank, get stopped or get shared with the gov via cctv over the years.
Some nations do the CCTV sharing legally, others just set up public private partnerships and connect to federal government departments in a more discreet way. "Facial recognition: Privacy advocates raise concern over 'creepy' system Government says will enhance national security" (9 Sep 2015)
".. will allow law enforcement and security agencies to quickly scan through up to 100 million facial images held in databases around Australia." "The images can come from drivers' licences, passport photos or security cameras in your local shopping centre.."
"..mobile CCTV and tablets and are trialling body cameras to work with facial recognition."
Sooner or later a legal "random" chat down induced by a face not meeting a gov threshold will demand real ID.
Then the sit down interview about proof of been a home owner, rental accommodation, utility bill, phone, car, work, gov, wealth, bank account, education, other forms of ID update questions start.
Re 'So how do illegal"?
In the distant past it was simple: One person has photo ID that is acceptable at a state and federal level. Rent it out to a person who has the same basic appearance and they can rent a home in your name. Only do that one time and a steady flow of cash is paid for the cover ID owner, paper work is paid for by a group of people living in that home under the cover name.
It works as different state, city, federal databases could often never be shared as the name is not on any gov list to be reconciled.
"Under the radar with the UK's illegal migrants" (24 September 2015)
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-343...
"Instead of buying a set of fake documents, he paid someone to share their legitimate national insurance number with him."
What nations need to do is have a set of ID, photo ID at every level of interaction with work, tax, banks, gov services, when seeking any form of accommodation, free gov medical services, post offices services, private sector work, as university students still doing registered (eligible) course work, as tourists, private medical services, gov assistance at a state or federal level, when buying a car or later registration/reporting over the years.
Traditional charities, gov departments and social workers could easily help a nations own citizens or eligible individuals with the new paperwork if they need help to sort, upgrade, apply or request.
The methods are very easy with todays digital gov databases to find the every expanding vast pool of fake and shared ID's.
The other method is to have a system of camera networks to capture face and licence plates on all vehicles at random heavy traffic areas. Does the face match the paperwork and face on the ID, if not a chat down?
The other option is to have long term legal guests who are working, living, or are undertaking a form of real education in a nation, register with the police at set times and if their circumstances change. No need for a "carry at all times" national ID card, just make every aspect of a functional life interact at a city, state and federal level in real time with any issued photo ID. No need for an expensive passport or drivers licence, just offer a "free" state or federal photo ID card based on an interview and a long list of interconnected, supporting documentation.
Why is this not been done in more advanced nations? Too many business leaders like their union free, interchangeable, tax free, no paper work, disposable workers and are allowed to hire such workers by political leaders over decades.
Re 'Next stop, machine-learning drone pilot" That is the end design. Entire section of nations will just become free fire zones for US drone AI systems.
The US mil is thinking back to Vietnam and the Strategic Hamlet Program https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and even the UK experience in the Boer War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The AI will just patrol 24/7 and interdict in any movement it its grid.
Until then its more of the (Nov. 20 2015) https://theintercept.com/2015/...
With build you can find good quality parts at low local prices.
Find the good RAM, CPU, GPU with features and a quality power supply. A motherboard with the modern fast storage options and amount and quality of fast connections without going over budget. Run power as needed and for later upgrades. Fit well made fans that are well designed for air flow and at a low sound level.
Depending on the brand you have the option not to pay a premium for over clocking support.
When you buy your avoiding the need to install a cpu, fit a better cooler and that press down feel.
Go for a self build just to save on quality parts and get exactly what is needed at a fair price. Buy if a system needs to be ready and tested without the need to install a cpu. Ensure that the product is well supported for the price.
Yes ultranova, such investigations by the French press would be very difficult under new laws.
French journalists really helped New Zealand uncover the French.
http://www.theguardian.com/env...
http://www.theguardian.com/env...
France did this back in the day of the Minitel networking services https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Different groups (university reforms in the mid 1980's) could gather protesters from all over France in the using national, easy to connect to French networking telco systems.
The main thrust for France is to quell domestic protests and stop leaking of information eg French gov staff or press background to a Rainbow Warrior like event. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Been able to track the formation of protests or the press, track gov/mil whistleblowers talking to the French press before publication is interesting under new powers.
"Powers to pre-emptively detain key activists" is chilling.
The idea is the rest of the world will only ever see the VNP ip, not the users ISP ip. The leak exposed the users original ISP ip from the VPN ip.
The issue is that your isp ip from the VPN ip could be discovered at a low cost and by a lot of different interested groups.
A good wired modern router with OpenVPN support will often offer a fast, newer dual core cpu that can support the needed encryption.
That should cover any leaking from within the users OS, apps, software, malware.
Re 'Well, it isn't even news: that's the exact feature that allows, for instance, to connect two distant offices' networks as if they were one hop away."
This is more about the services offered to show a VPN providers IP vs an ISP rather than a traditional "two distant offices" secure networking.
For that a list of who kept the IP would be needed so the product offered can be better understood.
Is it having all servers in one nation under one brands internal control?
Servers in a lot of nations but under total control of the brand?
Some internal network with a way in and a totally different server network out?
An external wired router passing the totality of all OS, app network traffic to a VPN should not be leaking any ISP ip.
The "anonymizing" part is that the VPN becomes your IP for that session.
The ip found on the net should always stop back at the VPN provider. Thats the idea of the router for a system like openvpn. Your entire OS, all apps, web use can only connect via the VPN, no leaking an ISP IP out. The idea that anyone looking back from the VPN IP can see the users ISP is not the best news.
re "So what difference does "credibility" make?"
Global purchasing power. Re think that next bulk imported upgrade and consider an all local product at a different price factoring in security as been of value.
Might need more power, cooling, be slower and not have a fancy bezel that complements the looks of the hardware but staff finally totally understand what they are
buying in to and supporting.
Experts can finally go to the top of their departments and show a list of junk encryption, bad standards, weak math, failed hardware imports and consider internal or
better domestic options away from the expensive big brand that ships with trap door and backdoor junk over every version..
The other factor is that a generation of crypto experts cannot say they did not know anymore, did not expect the scale and ability of domestic "collect it all" or thought the "legal" department or "legal protections" or "brand" or "private sector" would always be in place to protect from domestic "collect it all".
Good crypto is now every experts problem to fix and get working to protect users, ideas, science, profit, local jobs, accounts, databases from a list of other competing nations reading everything for free thanks to decades of weak standards.
Ideas like this show why VPN use was not a huge issue "Revealed: how US and UK spy agencies defeat internet privacy and security" (6 September 2013) .."
http://www.theguardian.com/wor...
".. decode the encrypted traffic certified by three major (unnamed) internet companies and 30 types of Virtual Private Network (VPN) – used by businesses to
provide secure remote access
or under the new UK net laws "Snooper's Charter: Why aren't VPNs and Tor mentioned in the Investigatory Powers Bill?" (November 5, 2015)
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/snoop...
".. but surprisingly, nowhere in the proposal does it mention the use of Virtual Private Networks (VPN)."
What can be done? Some creative way for an internal double VPN?
This could also show that VPN use is vulnerable at a city, state, private sector or federal level/budget rather than just a shorter list of advanced nations with a domestic collect it all capability.
The global tech community knows what standard weak, junk encryption allows for over every generation of device and network they have to fix and clean up after.
Slowly governments and nations can understand what having junk encryption for their political leaders is costing their trade and national development.
Allowing huge national contracts to be set over junk encryption with a few bidding nations listening in is slowly been fully understood locally.
A government with their top officials using smart phones on all the time is not great policy. Trusting sensitive data on foreign owned and designed computer networks, junk weak crypto, clouds is no the best idea.
Re the comments, a lot of nations spend big on shaping comments on tech sites when ideas surrounding good national encryption policy is a topic.
The traditional talking points was that encryption was perfect, cheap, safe and secure, that data sets globally would be too big for any national domestic "collect it all" policy.
The new talking points are more direct after junk encryption standards and domestic "collect it all" was fully understood.
Re "What's the point? This detracts from their own goals of safety for USA."
Think back to all the Overseas interventions of the United States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The US gov and mil needs vast networks of free flowing cash, hardware support and propaganda globally to spread US policy around the world.
The ability to set, sell, then break weak standard encryption as a policy tool helps. Every call, fax, email, bank transaction, shipment, communication, draft report, database is open to US policy makers in near real time.
Re "What is the ends here?"
To have and keep the 5 eye https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... nations in on every part of all telecommunications globally.
Re 'The greatest facilitators in the most intrusive and pervasive surveillance programme in history are the IT giants themselves."
Yes its like the UK too, collect all for the UK gov but want the media to stop reporting that collection for the gov 24/7 is policy and routine.
"UK ISP boss points out massive technical flaws in Investigatory Powers Bill" (Nov 27, 2015)
http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...
"....which forbid ISPs from revealing what snooping is being carried out on their systems."
"The Home Office revealed that it was the larger telecom companies that asked for gag orders to be imposed."
All Snowden did was expose the vast US domestic unconstitutional surveillance networks to the public via the US constitutionally protected press.
Junk encryption been sold as a standard, low quality education endorsing and creating weak crypto standards over decades, useless standards, poor quality code, data connections within telcos own systems for gov (splitters), "collect it all" domestically without warrants.
The "Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act" and the standards it set should have been understood for what big telcos would do to all US and global (peering) telco systems and standards.
The "Silicon Valley's privacy policies" never existed, every connection and system set up by big US telcos was always and will always be gov intercept ready as deigned and by default.
Yes the "firmware of routers, IP cameras, VoIP phones, modems" is the key. A lot of different groups search the wider internet for any networked devices. One key when found that fits all is not a good design when the consumer feels they bought a product that has some level of encryption.
Lots of US trade issues held back Japan. The US did not want other nations offering cheaper or better platforms so a few political and treaty obligations now face a lot of nations wanting to sell or expand on their own industrial base into the space market.
Missile Technology Control Regime https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"Japan's space development" and USA trade policy, "Section 301" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
India just went its own way and made sure it could design, build and launch any system it wanted, making sure domestic design and production was well looked after.
Another trick is to get Japan to enter a "consortium" deal to spread costs and then keep Japan buying into a shared, imported system. Japan is kept away from investing in its own specialized tooling, has to pay for development and then the import costs of a final system to pay for.
Yes the user is paying for internet services, why or how can that account just be removed?
Bodhi Linux www.bodhilinux.com has a few options for legacy and modern hardware support with no Systemd (Ubuntu 14.04) iirc.
http://www.bodhilinux.com/down... and the info on the images http://www.bodhilinux.com/w/se...