The US almost faced that tricky export market when pushing for early CALEA like access https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... Did the world need to create systems just for the US at an extra cost? Did US brands have to make expensive products for the US and retool for export markets without trap doors, back doors?
Every system got the back doors and trap doors as not to pass on costs or lock out law enforcement. No retooling, no dual designs needed.
This more a legal change. Every UK ready product will have its electronic surveillance layer on by default as shipped out of a factory rather that activated per user later depending on a nations needs/laws.
Ban entering or exiting the UK with paper, pens, maths books with crypto chapters on one time pads and big books.
Any holiday or sabbaticals could be cover for a face to face meeting to set up a one time pad system with near unlimited key material.
Years of messages could get total privacy after just one rendezvous.
A brand outside the UK and 5 eye nations offers an openvpn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... file to user in the UK ensuring a less easy to log internet connection.
That hop is from within a domestic like network after the providers "modem" like product.
Will the UK ban, track, investigate and demand credit card payments to VPN providers be blocked in the UK?
With "no plans to ban encryption services" that will be very cheap and simple way around the most simple provider level logging.
Why is the UK not interested in the networking solution thats a way out of the UK thats simple and cheap?
"Revealed: how US and UK spy agencies defeat internet privacy and security" http://www.theguardian.com/wor... (6 September 2013)
Did Cheesy Name and Tempora advance to a level that the UK feels confident to trace the entry and exit of any VPN service?
Re 'a duty on companies to be able to access their customer data in law" will be interesting for any UK brand offering services. Who gets the keys and when can government officials make the request? The term "prevent criminal acts" sounds like realtime and collect it all even with any oversight.
It can be about attracting and buying up skills. The more people know who is buying, the prices and that people from around the world will be trusted to buy and sell long term, the better branding for the bounty system.
Better to attract ten new ways in from different skilled creators than hope a good hidden method stays open.
Re " sells software and contracting services almost entirely to government, which got bought out by another company, which also sells software and contracting services almost entirely to government, who basically rip off suckle at the government teat (taxpayer money)"
Yes so much is now just front companies doing the work in other nations but they have a 100% US legal firm and security cleared US contractors to be their public face of the 100% made in the USA submitted gov paperwork. A legal "Knock-down kit" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... been used to get no bid or gov contracts with a long supply chain spanning other nations that get to do design work and see the US only plans..
The origins can be a multi national who need make in the USA cover or small regional brands who know US lawyers or mil contractors are the only way into the market.
Secrecy and desperation for time sensitive no bid contracts allows "services almost entirely to government" to be very lucrative for many outside the USA who would never be eligible to put in a bid, tender or be security cleared.
Almost every aspect of gov and mil spending has been tainted by front companies going back to other nations and their staff who know to charm their way into US contracts and contacts.
Re "Shame it's gonna be illegal in the UK soon"
Yes with older efforts like "Revealed: how US and UK spy agencies defeat internet privacy and security" (6 September 2013)
http://www.theguardian.com/wor...
"codenamed Cheesy Name, was aimed at singling out encryption keys, known as 'certificates', that might be vulnerable to being cracked by GCHQ supercomputers."
Thats the key to gov thinking on any consumer grade secure applications.
If that fails 'responsible for identifying, recruiting and running covert agents in the global telecommunications industry"
The "Take 5 minutes and up your opsec game with Tor Messenger [Updated]" (Nov 1, 2015) http://arstechnica.com/securit...
had some of the setting up options and shared secret swap.
If under total digital surveillance ie collect it all, doing things digitally will be interesting to keep anonymity while trying to set up or looking to download message privacy.
All the gov has to do is watch for the downloads of the application again:)
Re "hopelessly dependent on this computer data gleaned from corporate and their own spying."
Thats what "collect it all" is doing now but with no US legal cover.
Re "avoid scrutiny is not use ANY of it."
A lawyer will have to be found with a security clearance. Can a family afford that private sector cost for long with all reported accounts been frozen at the start of the long, secret investigation?
That locks out a lot of the more skilled and charismatic legal teams from even been requested.
So the gov steps in and offers a free "security clearance" ready lawyer:) No talking to the press due to the security clearance.
That would avoid avoid all questions in open court or comments to the media outside courts.
Re "If anything, they have crippled themselves."
Yes why would any global brand be seen near a US entity if all the data is been handed to the US gov as a default.
Secure US cloud computing only has two sets of keys: yours and the US governments will be a hard sell. Free 24/7 US gov "security" scans with every account?
CISA had no protections as to what could be sold, handed over, when or why from the private sector to the US gov. The US gov can use any and all data it is offered. No limits to what is requested, offered, sold or kept..
The press and media cannot even ask too many questions as that would go to hidden methods and ongoing cases:) The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) was not expanded to cover legally important parts of CISA:)
CISA brings collect it all and parallel construction in from the cold. Warrantless domestic surveillance is now legal and kept legally hidden.
Push new cost to the private sector? With the issues of coal, consumers buying solar panels, nuclear interests and just looking after the grid..
Who will pay for the grid upgrades? All tax payers? Each grid passes on a new upgrade tax to the consumers as a new basic connection cost?
The option to just "discuss space weather preparedness" or "raise awareness" will not upgrade the networks.
How much free cash is floating around for extra utility bill pressure to redesign the grid?
Pass on to much cost at the utility side and solar panels becomes more attractive in some States.
The "planning and decision" seems more like what to do after an event. Disaster response and recovery is a camp for the poor inner city populations?
Is it cheaper just to have food, water, on standby from private sector contractors than to pass on grid upgrade costs?
Create some new free State of National Emergency laws or demand new funds to invest in the grid?
The issues goes back to the end of 1945. The UK and US faced the issue of the Soviet Union been difficult to enter, spy on, understand or map at the time.
So the US and UK found all the expert Germans they could without asking any background questions.
Operation Paperclip https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
TICOM programme https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
and the Gehlen Organization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
So the US and UK soaked up a lot of skills and people with no understanding of their origins or methods. All past WW2 issues did not exist.
Over the years and decades the same US/UK methods of total collection turned into and on the EU to find left and right threats to EU politics and policy.
Generations of cleared West European staff shared their entire nations telecommunications and crypto systems with the UK and US.
At the end of the cold war, NATO expanded eastward with the same total access requests.
Generations of select EU staff are only happy when working with the US and UK collecting all on their own nations.
Slowly the democratically elected politicians in the West have understood that they cannot trust their own experts, cryptographers or computer networks. Their own trusted staff are helping the UK and US first and have been for decades.
Can the issues be fixed? The cleared EU staff are told by the US and UK they are holding back communism, fascism, national trade deal fraud, political manipulation, Russia, China all for the good of NATO.
Democratically elected politicians really have to learn to talk to each other away from the provided secure phones, email, fax, web 2.0 like systems if they want their own policy setting ability again.
Data transfers is just part of the collect it all and sharing back to get past local national privacy laws. Total access to EU nations on trade policy creation that counters US and UK interests is great too:)
The placement of the microwave link on the water tank, the network of '10 relay points, which have multiple radios", using "5.8GHz and 900MHz frequencies, and a little bit of 3.65GHz". Long term planning "take their time to add capacity before connecting everyone who wants service"
Tracking what relay point is down and having backup battery power for a time. The suggestion to place a "Raspberry Pi at the different relay points to do speed tests" was a good read too.
This is really motivating and shows what a community can do with existing methods rather than waiting for more traditional networks to even be planned or upgraded or offered.
Thanks.
No more parallel construction. The courts can be presented with clear path to the decrypted material as the company 'helped' from the start.
Warrant? The users understood if the corporation saw something strange in any database it would, could, has, will share all data with law enforcement.
This new US legal system really removes the final protections by getting US corporations to report on users by default with out the tricky questions of how or why the government even started looking:)
Legal teams now get the origins of the case in open court, the corporation reported that... account.... user.
Decryption? The corporation intercepted and found, saved the material as presented to the government.
The only questions left for the lawyer is the expensive methods used to 'scan' all data in/out in real time;) Who paid for the new expensive systems to scan internal networks? What is been looked for in real time? Can the court see the code and methods that found the material?
Do the "corporations" now get protection to hide sensitive information about gov friendly systems from a court too?
As for network security? Stop putting readable, searchable plain text material on fast internet facing systems.
Yes the different types of software that a nation can use/buy/create will just look for any signs of encryption. Names or terms in OS logs, times, formatting attempts.
Detection of hidden "random like" data structures or past use of an application is not hard to uncover.
The OS created log files could be a hint to other networked data or a device in use in the control of the user. The next request would be the password to your backup cloud please or to show the device.
Even thats getting tricky. In the old days that was a perfect method. But with diplomatic protection now been confused with local embassy staff any convention on is getting weak. A person can claim to be, show id, seek protections but might have already been searched and had data cloned.
Later nice comments about "intake procedures" "arrest" and "appropriate procedures" will be released to the press ie the full diplomatic immunity part vs consular immunity was not found until well after the search;)
A company is compelled to do the decryption on their own product at their own site:)
No outside legal advice over the warrant, staff are then doing the conversion back to plain text on their own private sector server.
All the cooling, cpu time, staff hours, costs, network changes can be pushed back into the private sector as they have to be fully compliant.
No more tricky private sector encoding ever again.
The cleared defence team is told in closed court the presented evidence is pure and direct from the company. No leaking of further methods in any court or further questions.
The US and UK have 3 areas to worry about.
Open source efforts produce a good new method thats free, accepted and upgraded.
Some neutral nation outside the US and UK direct academic influence sells, creates or offers good working encryption at a low price.
A brand installs harder than average encryption responding to market forces that does not decode easily in realtime in consumer hardware or software.
Most of the above are fixed with big cash offers, international treaties or a nice chat.
Any data flow could be of interest to the UK gov at some time for some reason and UK staff will have to provide gov/mil access when demanded.
A brand thinking their data sets will not be of interest and not build in UK ready traps doors or back doors would be offering a "means of communication between people which we cannot read".
By default UK based brands will have to build in trapdoors, backdoors just to cover that UK gov request eventuality ie "companies must be able to provide targeted access"".
re "such as NSA and DSD were not helpful in this regard"
The main mission in Australia is to look after US, UK collect it all shared sites running 24/7 out in Asia, Pacific and a huge list of 'other' nations.
Staff that are left over from that task are working on Australian only services to duplicate the above so if the US or UK ever shut Australia out again, Australia still has its own full access to every network in the region. With full real time translation, plain text under Australian command structures.
After that the staff have to ensure communications networks between sites sensitive to mil/gov remain secure on commercial dual use networks. A lot of effort in emerging domestic quantum encryption given the given the contractors now working on complex upgrades around Australia.
re "not surprising that there are flaws"
Finally down the list was other crypto work that would not upset the NSA or GCHQ and be of export interest to other nations.
Australia creating good, low cost encryption standards that worked and exporting it would have been quickly questioned by other 5 eye nations.
Some of the early funding for the blimp like systems going back in 'public' since 1981.
Tethered Aerostat Radar System http://fas.org/nuke/guide/usa/...
The real win is the the upkeep, upgrading and new support via different departments, mil or federal gov that just keep the cash flowing over generations of platforms.
The next upgrade for new systems will be long term surveillance above any US city that needs that kind of 24/7 surveillance with a wide selection of civilian/embassy data and optical all weather collection options..
What once looked out over other nations will now always be looking in.
Re "we won't have to worry about"
The other side is a new legal idea that the brand owns the media, device, software flow and the user is just along for/granted a very limited rental experience.
"DOJ Claims Apple Should Be Forced To Decrypt iPhones Because Apple, Not Customers, 'Own' iOS" (Oct 26th 2015 ) https://www.techdirt.com/artic...
Some extra special hidden software might be back in a new way on any device or OS.
Expect to see pop up or correction advice on many web 2.0 social media site with politically correct suggestions.
The next step will be no direct or 2nd hop new site linking to outside site factual information.
Stay in the walled garden site for approved advertiser friendly pro gov/mil news only or risk been banned and a chat down by local authorities.
If a user will not take a hint about corrections the images, texts, links are reported. Loss of account, local government is informed of a 'negative' comment, ip, account details for further investigation by default. All past account details are removed.
The start of such action can already be seen with comments/news about whistleblowers been presented years later in US academic settings. http://arstechnica.com/tech-po... ( Oct 9, 2015) https://www.techdirt.com/artic... (Oct 8th 2015 )
"Senate Rejects All CISA Amendments Designed To Protect Privacy, Reiterating That It's A Surveillance Bill" (Oct 27th 2015 ) https://www.techdirt.com/artic...
All your data is for sale and no looking or asking about what the US is buy or using it for:)
Re "And if Congress wants to pass privacy laws.... all those actors will oppose it behind the scenes."
Yes the idea to remove "personally identifiable information" by “the extent feasible” was an amendment that failed.
The US brands can collect all they want and sell in any form they want.. as collected.
The other option was to try and secure personally identifiable information when it was collected/found/given to the US gov.
That failed. The US gov can get and keep the personally identifiable information.
The powerful Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) exemptions in place to track who was offering what data to the US and what the US gov was planning to do with data could have been extended to help the wider public track such private data use.
As the "proprietary information" moved from the private sector to the US gov its still 'proprietary information". No FOIA for the media, press to even start to understand what been done by what agency or the mil.
One of the ideas was to really set limits on what data could be even considered for gov buy in use or demands. The US gov only gets data when it really needs it rather than just a collect it all private sector bulk deal.
Some good attempts got presented to keep data private or understand its use or restrict collection.
Private sector data is up for sale to any entity for the right price and most weak gov protections have been removed, further weakened or totally blocked.
Slashdot Mirror
The US almost faced that tricky export market when pushing for early CALEA like access https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....
Did the world need to create systems just for the US at an extra cost? Did US brands have to make expensive products for the US and retool for export markets without trap doors, back doors?
Every system got the back doors and trap doors as not to pass on costs or lock out law enforcement. No retooling, no dual designs needed.
This more a legal change. Every UK ready product will have its electronic surveillance layer on by default as shipped out of a factory rather that activated per user later depending on a nations needs/laws.
A Cyber Supremo.
("The Bed of Nails", Yes Minister)
Ban entering or exiting the UK with paper, pens, maths books with crypto chapters on one time pads and big books.
Any holiday or sabbaticals could be cover for a face to face meeting to set up a one time pad system with near unlimited key material.
Years of messages could get total privacy after just one rendezvous.
A brand outside the UK and 5 eye nations offers an openvpn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... file to user in the UK ensuring a less easy to log internet connection.
That hop is from within a domestic like network after the providers "modem" like product.
Will the UK ban, track, investigate and demand credit card payments to VPN providers be blocked in the UK?
With "no plans to ban encryption services" that will be very cheap and simple way around the most simple provider level logging.
Why is the UK not interested in the networking solution thats a way out of the UK thats simple and cheap?
"Revealed: how US and UK spy agencies defeat internet privacy and security" http://www.theguardian.com/wor... (6 September 2013)
Did Cheesy Name and Tempora advance to a level that the UK feels confident to trace the entry and exit of any VPN service?
Re 'a duty on companies to be able to access their customer data in law" will be interesting for any UK brand offering services. Who gets the keys and when can government officials make the request? The term "prevent criminal acts" sounds like realtime and collect it all even with any oversight.
It can be about attracting and buying up skills. The more people know who is buying, the prices and that people from around the world will be trusted to buy and sell long term, the better branding for the bounty system.
Better to attract ten new ways in from different skilled creators than hope a good hidden method stays open.
Re " sells software and contracting services almost entirely to government, which got bought out by another company, which also sells software and contracting services almost entirely to government, who basically rip off suckle at the government teat (taxpayer money)"
Yes so much is now just front companies doing the work in other nations but they have a 100% US legal firm and security cleared US contractors to be their public face of the 100% made in the USA submitted gov paperwork. A legal "Knock-down kit" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... been used to get no bid or gov contracts with a long supply chain spanning other nations that get to do design work and see the US only plans..
The origins can be a multi national who need make in the USA cover or small regional brands who know US lawyers or mil contractors are the only way into the market.
Secrecy and desperation for time sensitive no bid contracts allows "services almost entirely to government" to be very lucrative for many outside the USA who would never be eligible to put in a bid, tender or be security cleared.
Almost every aspect of gov and mil spending has been tainted by front companies going back to other nations and their staff who know to charm their way into US contracts and contacts.
Re "Shame it's gonna be illegal in the UK soon" :)
Yes with older efforts like "Revealed: how US and UK spy agencies defeat internet privacy and security" (6 September 2013) http://www.theguardian.com/wor...
"codenamed Cheesy Name, was aimed at singling out encryption keys, known as 'certificates', that might be vulnerable to being cracked by GCHQ supercomputers."
Thats the key to gov thinking on any consumer grade secure applications.
If that fails 'responsible for identifying, recruiting and running covert agents in the global telecommunications industry"
The "Take 5 minutes and up your opsec game with Tor Messenger [Updated]" (Nov 1, 2015) http://arstechnica.com/securit...
had some of the setting up options and shared secret swap.
If under total digital surveillance ie collect it all, doing things digitally will be interesting to keep anonymity while trying to set up or looking to download message privacy.
All the gov has to do is watch for the downloads of the application again
Re "hopelessly dependent on this computer data gleaned from corporate and their own spying." :) No talking to the press due to the security clearance. :) The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) was not expanded to cover legally important parts of CISA :)
Thats what "collect it all" is doing now but with no US legal cover. Re "avoid scrutiny is not use ANY of it."
A lawyer will have to be found with a security clearance. Can a family afford that private sector cost for long with all reported accounts been frozen at the start of the long, secret investigation?
That locks out a lot of the more skilled and charismatic legal teams from even been requested.
So the gov steps in and offers a free "security clearance" ready lawyer
That would avoid avoid all questions in open court or comments to the media outside courts.
Re "If anything, they have crippled themselves."
Yes why would any global brand be seen near a US entity if all the data is been handed to the US gov as a default.
Secure US cloud computing only has two sets of keys: yours and the US governments will be a hard sell. Free 24/7 US gov "security" scans with every account?
CISA had no protections as to what could be sold, handed over, when or why from the private sector to the US gov. The US gov can use any and all data it is offered. No limits to what is requested, offered, sold or kept..
The press and media cannot even ask too many questions as that would go to hidden methods and ongoing cases
CISA brings collect it all and parallel construction in from the cold. Warrantless domestic surveillance is now legal and kept legally hidden.
Push new cost to the private sector? With the issues of coal, consumers buying solar panels, nuclear interests and just looking after the grid..
Who will pay for the grid upgrades? All tax payers? Each grid passes on a new upgrade tax to the consumers as a new basic connection cost?
The option to just "discuss space weather preparedness" or "raise awareness" will not upgrade the networks.
How much free cash is floating around for extra utility bill pressure to redesign the grid?
Pass on to much cost at the utility side and solar panels becomes more attractive in some States.
The "planning and decision" seems more like what to do after an event. Disaster response and recovery is a camp for the poor inner city populations?
Is it cheaper just to have food, water, on standby from private sector contractors than to pass on grid upgrade costs?
Create some new free State of National Emergency laws or demand new funds to invest in the grid?
The issues goes back to the end of 1945. The UK and US faced the issue of the Soviet Union been difficult to enter, spy on, understand or map at the time. :)
So the US and UK found all the expert Germans they could without asking any background questions.
Operation Paperclip https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
TICOM programme https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
and the Gehlen Organization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
So the US and UK soaked up a lot of skills and people with no understanding of their origins or methods. All past WW2 issues did not exist.
Over the years and decades the same US/UK methods of total collection turned into and on the EU to find left and right threats to EU politics and policy.
Generations of cleared West European staff shared their entire nations telecommunications and crypto systems with the UK and US.
At the end of the cold war, NATO expanded eastward with the same total access requests.
Generations of select EU staff are only happy when working with the US and UK collecting all on their own nations.
Slowly the democratically elected politicians in the West have understood that they cannot trust their own experts, cryptographers or computer networks. Their own trusted staff are helping the UK and US first and have been for decades.
Can the issues be fixed? The cleared EU staff are told by the US and UK they are holding back communism, fascism, national trade deal fraud, political manipulation, Russia, China all for the good of NATO.
Democratically elected politicians really have to learn to talk to each other away from the provided secure phones, email, fax, web 2.0 like systems if they want their own policy setting ability again.
Data transfers is just part of the collect it all and sharing back to get past local national privacy laws. Total access to EU nations on trade policy creation that counters US and UK interests is great too
The placement of the microwave link on the water tank, the network of '10 relay points, which have multiple radios", using "5.8GHz and 900MHz frequencies, and a little bit of 3.65GHz". Long term planning "take their time to add capacity before connecting everyone who wants service"
Tracking what relay point is down and having backup battery power for a time. The suggestion to place a "Raspberry Pi at the different relay points to do speed tests" was a good read too.
This is really motivating and shows what a community can do with existing methods rather than waiting for more traditional networks to even be planned or upgraded or offered.
Thanks.
No more parallel construction. The courts can be presented with clear path to the decrypted material as the company 'helped' from the start. :)
.... user. ;) Who paid for the new expensive systems to scan internal networks? What is been looked for in real time? Can the court see the code and methods that found the material?
Warrant? The users understood if the corporation saw something strange in any database it would, could, has, will share all data with law enforcement.
This new US legal system really removes the final protections by getting US corporations to report on users by default with out the tricky questions of how or why the government even started looking
Legal teams now get the origins of the case in open court, the corporation reported that... account
Decryption? The corporation intercepted and found, saved the material as presented to the government.
The only questions left for the lawyer is the expensive methods used to 'scan' all data in/out in real time
Do the "corporations" now get protection to hide sensitive information about gov friendly systems from a court too?
As for network security? Stop putting readable, searchable plain text material on fast internet facing systems.
Yes the different types of software that a nation can use/buy/create will just look for any signs of encryption. Names or terms in OS logs, times, formatting attempts.
Detection of hidden "random like" data structures or past use of an application is not hard to uncover.
The OS created log files could be a hint to other networked data or a device in use in the control of the user. The next request would be the password to your backup cloud please or to show the device.
Even thats getting tricky. In the old days that was a perfect method. But with diplomatic protection now been confused with local embassy staff any convention on is getting weak. A person can claim to be, show id, seek protections but might have already been searched and had data cloned. ;)
Later nice comments about "intake procedures" "arrest" and "appropriate procedures" will be released to the press ie the full diplomatic immunity part vs consular immunity was not found until well after the search
A company is compelled to do the decryption on their own product at their own site :)
No outside legal advice over the warrant, staff are then doing the conversion back to plain text on their own private sector server.
All the cooling, cpu time, staff hours, costs, network changes can be pushed back into the private sector as they have to be fully compliant.
No more tricky private sector encoding ever again.
The cleared defence team is told in closed court the presented evidence is pure and direct from the company. No leaking of further methods in any court or further questions.
The US and UK have 3 areas to worry about.
Open source efforts produce a good new method thats free, accepted and upgraded.
Some neutral nation outside the US and UK direct academic influence sells, creates or offers good working encryption at a low price.
A brand installs harder than average encryption responding to market forces that does not decode easily in realtime in consumer hardware or software.
Most of the above are fixed with big cash offers, international treaties or a nice chat.
AC by shortening of the keysize. What one section of a gov gives away in public, another ensures will revert to plain text :)
Any data flow could be of interest to the UK gov at some time for some reason and UK staff will have to provide gov/mil access when demanded.
A brand thinking their data sets will not be of interest and not build in UK ready traps doors or back doors would be offering a "means of communication between people which we cannot read".
By default UK based brands will have to build in trapdoors, backdoors just to cover that UK gov request eventuality ie "companies must be able to provide targeted access"".
Nobody Expects the targeted data request.
re "such as NSA and DSD were not helpful in this regard"
The main mission in Australia is to look after US, UK collect it all shared sites running 24/7 out in Asia, Pacific and a huge list of 'other' nations.
Staff that are left over from that task are working on Australian only services to duplicate the above so if the US or UK ever shut Australia out again, Australia still has its own full access to every network in the region. With full real time translation, plain text under Australian command structures.
After that the staff have to ensure communications networks between sites sensitive to mil/gov remain secure on commercial dual use networks. A lot of effort in emerging domestic quantum encryption given the given the contractors now working on complex upgrades around Australia.
re "not surprising that there are flaws"
Finally down the list was other crypto work that would not upset the NSA or GCHQ and be of export interest to other nations.
Australia creating good, low cost encryption standards that worked and exporting it would have been quickly questioned by other 5 eye nations.
Some of the early funding for the blimp like systems going back in 'public' since 1981.
Tethered Aerostat Radar System
http://fas.org/nuke/guide/usa/...
The real win is the the upkeep, upgrading and new support via different departments, mil or federal gov that just keep the cash flowing over generations of platforms.
The next upgrade for new systems will be long term surveillance above any US city that needs that kind of 24/7 surveillance with a wide selection of civilian/embassy data and optical all weather collection options..
What once looked out over other nations will now always be looking in.
Re "we won't have to worry about"
The other side is a new legal idea that the brand owns the media, device, software flow and the user is just along for/granted a very limited rental experience.
"DOJ Claims Apple Should Be Forced To Decrypt iPhones Because Apple, Not Customers, 'Own' iOS" (Oct 26th 2015 )
https://www.techdirt.com/artic...
Some extra special hidden software might be back in a new way on any device or OS.
Expect to see pop up or correction advice on many web 2.0 social media site with politically correct suggestions.
The next step will be no direct or 2nd hop new site linking to outside site factual information.
Stay in the walled garden site for approved advertiser friendly pro gov/mil news only or risk been banned and a chat down by local authorities.
If a user will not take a hint about corrections the images, texts, links are reported. Loss of account, local government is informed of a 'negative' comment, ip, account details for further investigation by default. All past account details are removed.
The start of such action can already be seen with comments/news about whistleblowers been presented years later in US academic settings.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-po... ( Oct 9, 2015)
https://www.techdirt.com/artic... (Oct 8th 2015 )
"Senate Rejects All CISA Amendments Designed To Protect Privacy, Reiterating That It's A Surveillance Bill" (Oct 27th 2015 ) :)
https://www.techdirt.com/artic...
All your data is for sale and no looking or asking about what the US is buy or using it for
Re "And if Congress wants to pass privacy laws.... all those actors will oppose it behind the scenes."
Yes the idea to remove "personally identifiable information" by “the extent feasible” was an amendment that failed.
The US brands can collect all they want and sell in any form they want.. as collected.
The other option was to try and secure personally identifiable information when it was collected/found/given to the US gov.
That failed. The US gov can get and keep the personally identifiable information.
The powerful Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) exemptions in place to track who was offering what data to the US and what the US gov was planning to do with data could have been extended to help the wider public track such private data use.
As the "proprietary information" moved from the private sector to the US gov its still 'proprietary information". No FOIA for the media, press to even start to understand what been done by what agency or the mil.
One of the ideas was to really set limits on what data could be even considered for gov buy in use or demands. The US gov only gets data when it really needs it rather than just a collect it all private sector bulk deal.
Some good attempts got presented to keep data private or understand its use or restrict collection.
Private sector data is up for sale to any entity for the right price and most weak gov protections have been removed, further weakened or totally blocked.