Yes copy the phone number down on a note pad (paper and pen), copy it to a Rolodex like device at home.
Use a desktop computer with Linux to store, sort and manage contacts. Most distros do not phone home unless they offer that as a service or a user wants that service.
The doing part surround the "had probably triggered the program that placed his full name and photo on my page" would be facial recognition gold to city, state, federal and foreign intelligence services.
With GPS, facial recognition, voice prints. Everything that the US/UK gov and mil used to have in the 1970's~90's is now at a consumer level.
The "number into his smartphone’s address book" is all part of the free social media experience.
The "William Binney, a government whistle-blower and former top NSA cryptologist, the answer was simple: almost everything, today, tomorrow, and for decades to come." should be clear to most readers.
The "Its employees dealt with us in an upbeat, tightly scripted manner that appeared to stem from their awareness of several cameras angled toward the service counter." is just the expanded 'chat down' program that all tourists and travellers now face:)
Something about phishing "infects users via macro actions which launch when opening infected documents.". The OS is not clearly mentioned:)
The "online banking consumers" are now safer as the botnet is now connected to a sinkhole.
re 'And the air space is regulated in most countries"
The US mil has been trying drones for years. From the 1970's efforts with NITE GAZELLE NITE GAZELLE and the DASH prototypes.
Battlefield UAVs of the United States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The gov/mil/contractor drone "industry" has been running in the US for decades just not for the wider public.
As for the "agriculture, search and rescue, journalism, real estate, oil and gas, insurance, infrastructure surveying, photography, and videography industries" most of that is covered by lots of regulations, or established well funded and protected work for helicopters, sat and traditional aircraft.
States are also considering their Ag-gag or anti-whistleblower bills
Deploying Drones To Get An Overview Of Factory Farms (JULY 19, 2014) http://www.npr.org/sections/th...
Some state wish to criminalize collection of "resource data" (photos and video), have local laws about no access to any "non-public area", "making secret recordings", to take pictures by photograph, video camera, or other means...
State laws, just been 'near' a mil sites, flight height issues makes drone use interesting in the USA until legal clarifications cover drone flight height and what can be done federally and per state over public and private land.
Re "but not in the hands of everyone"
DSB (Defense Science Board), Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) have been interested in backing, understanding emerging drone like projects for a while.
An advanced always internet connected "free" US operating system might have to send back details on any moved, copied, created or altered image under a 'free' anti virus, malware feature. It would just be a small dataset created from details, names, embedded strings about all files visible, open when the the screen image captured.
All files would be looked at for expected, listed virus or malware and if an image was moved, copied against existing international police databases.
The transmission of a set of small checksums would not be difficult given the amount of other data most big brand modern operating systems send back.
For the average user the file would be reported on by the OS in near realtime for 'free' anti virus efforts with the free operating system.
The user can then run any application to try and convert, remove, transform the image but the report of a copy made would have been sent.
Downloading and using any such rights altering application could also be logged:)
Such efforts are usually done now for any images in free email, cloud or other networked products as part of law enforcement image tracking efforts over the years.
Just push the tech down into the users 'free' OS computers and let the publishing/media community add every image checksum they have.
No action if the image stays in a deep part of the OS for say allowed web browsing, if moved to a new folder or captured the rights owner gets the ip, time, unique hardware details of the computer.
The sites will be a walled garden. Users will have to load and enjoy the site everytime without been able to save data.
The OS will phone home the possession of the saved image or creation of a screen capture with the protected image in it. The free gift of AV software at the OS level gets to look at every file in realtime, why not report on DRM files too:)
AC re "detecting them"
Over the years large tanks of oil are set up register a signal when a positron and a neutron get detected. Thats the large scale classic idea that takes time.
The international idea is to place smaller (refrigerator-sized) devices in all nations that allow inspections. Its easy to spot a reactor working given infrared sensitive satellites. The trick of spotting an existing, listed hot rector is working does not tell inspectors much.
The question of exactly what is been done inside and when is what the new detecting idea is all about.
The new magic is to get the distinctive energy signature and trace methods like any plutonium diversion from a normal everyday nuclear reactor complex.
In the 1950-90's it was still easy to keep out inspectors and just track a limited amount of easy to note satellites that moved in set paths.
How did nations avoid been detected?
Your nation never had a "listed" reactor, no inspections, no questions, no new detection lab work:)
Dont sign up for any international inspectors and the detection equipment is never placed in your nation.
Hide the traded/diverted/created stockpile from the 1960-90's and ensure the international community only visits clean sites or politically is just never allowed in.
The dual use nuclear start up design histories in parts of South America, Australia, South Africa, Yugoslavia are shaping the new thinking on local detection. Hidden or planned programs halted over the post WW2 decades is what the detecting ideas will counter if allowed into nations to set up new local detections.
The other detection methods are soil samples by enthusiastic domestic environmental groups, well funded NGO's, spies, tourists, diplomats, trade groups, foreign workers used as fronts to collect material as they move around a nation of interest.
Medical experts talking to outside experts about discovering unique cancer clusters in mil/gov nuclear workers going back decades due to rushed production, accidents, lack of protection equipment, covert disposal of all materials. Most nations know how to keep such details very well hidden.
Re 'packet inspection and mitm SSL packet inspection tools"
Yes any connection, search term, site visited is been tracked. The hard part is then to come up with a court friendly story about how that user was discovered.
This logging and searching just gives open court cover for long term parallel construction methods.
Re "who came up with this idea had nothing but the best intentions in mind they have in fact mandated sites keep a trove of data that will prove irresistible"
Be great for seeing whistleblowers reaching out to journalists:)
Over the years will the views on the destination of a communication change? The look back for every user who connected to a site or device?
Rather than just removing a book chapter at an authors house, why not see who connected to the author too... and the next connection hops.
What is in the "significant amount of new data" aspect?
A user had an ip of... at 6 am until 9am.
Collection covers the given ip connected with a url, domain name, any terms or words that are not encrypted?
The subscriber id, source of a communication, destination of a communication, date, time and duration of a communication, type or relevant service used, equipment used.
Thats a lot of computer searchable data for two years and human readable words been kept:)
Only the contents or substance of a communication gets filtered from the logging:)
Add in the teams for real time facial recognition, license plate readers and other technical surveillance (internet, wifi, cell, sat) of the site or anyone walking near the site.
Expert support 24/7 with its overtime is expensive beyond just officers outside.
Re Montana. A lot of wealthy people have invested a lot in the northwestern US as escape sites, quality and quantity of private bunker sites... hoping population density, local politics and weather will be factors in creating good place to escape to and then rebuild.
The locals have seen the new funding, expensive builds and know all the interesting locations:)
Out of state contractors been used just makes the build site more interesting.
The main issue would be a clear path out that stays clear as more people with less range just get stuck and block the big main roads for hours.
Yes if you have the wealth of a nation state behind you to pay for gov/mil filters and a way to be evacuated soon.. Top mil staff and officials will be looked after.
Or never face the issues thanks to warnings and an early, safe flight out. For the bunker owner its a supplied, export grade filter that has to work perfectly for years:)
Lost of sales to wealthy people who have bunker dreams or gov/mil staff who have to stay on site and trust in the build quality:)
It depends on local law enforcement officials and their past feelings about the new super gated community. If it is their homes too, then it will be very well protected. If local political leaders can demand city/state protection it might be ok too for a while under normal conditions.
If local law enforcement officials are in another more distant part of a wider city looking after their own, then a vast super walled community will be as secure as any other upper middle class area with limited numbers of law enforcement officials.
The walled city phenomenon would work if the fake documents issue could be fixed. Too many people would just be attracted in due to wealth, have a good cover story and the luxury fortress community feel would fail under a flood of opportunistic people getting entry.
If wealthy bunker owner is out planting crops for next year the smart locals will be out looking for food too:)
As for "survive radiation poisoning" question then the bunker owner would be behind the filter system and looking at the routine maintenance schedule for a while longer.
If a person is banking on cold war fantasies about survivable, region limited northern hemisphere only nuclear exchange...
The people with the real political/mil/contractor connections with the 24-48h warning will get to their other homes in places like New Zealand with a set flight plan, ready passport documents. A nice site and lifestyle will be waiting as expected and planned.
The only winners are the out of state contractors, designers, teams that fill the bunkers with equipment and supplies for the low end domestic bunker owners.
The rest of the not so rich domestic bunker owning population will face a race to even get to their bunker and then keep it..
The smarter locals would have seen the owners driving in or recall that "fancy" well stocked site been build.
So the domestic reality of limited "fallout and radiation sickness" will be totally avoided by people who can afford with the connections to get away early.
The cold war dreams about "fallout and radiation sickness" will be tested by bunker filter costs:) The mil idea is to get their selected people out to safe sites quickly:)
That great 99.9998+++ % filter has to work perfectly and be looked after over how many weeks, months for an average domestic bunker owner who is committed to their location:)
So the very rich will be just fine a world away in any limited political war like event:)
Re "The middle class will try to drive out, but they'll just get stuck in traffic until they run out of gas. Any who reach rural areas and try"
It will be a complex offering of gov/mil/contractor/faith based camps where food, education, medication and 'showers' will try and lure in the bulk of the transport limited urban poor.
Wealthy people with longer range transport will get noticed for having the ready cash to buy more fuel or food in smaller more remote towns. Their final destination of an expensive remote cabin, bunker will be noticed too.
The city areas will then be cleaned out by expert teams of mil/contractors.
Re "What happens when their food and fuel run out?"
A lot of brands will sell wealthy people with remote sites to escape to on complex agricultural supplies and equipment for the years after the provided storable food runs low.
Find some land, pump clean water, get planting, have spare parts, make spare parts, grow food then preserve, store for next year and the long winter. Get ready for the next crop. A dynamic hobby farm with nice people all around.
Such complex efforts will not go unseen by huge numbers of tight knit locals with their own needs and more simple direct ideas:)
Re... "your best bet is to be friends with and rely on your neighbors."
They have all seen the flow of materials for the site, expensive out of state construction teams that took much needed local jobs on that project, know what was designed into a local property and at what cost.
Re "If you are a "prepper" and think that you can wait out a siege in your bomb shelter or bunker or whatever, you are sadly mistaken."
Local faith groups, cults, gangs, tribes, town ~village ~gov workers, retired mil contractors who know of the same kind of projects will all gossip about any out of the ordinary project on local land sold.
The jetset smart cash buys a passport out to a society - New Zealand or distant location like that.
The question the becomes simple: time enough to get to your jet and file that international flight plan out vs SUV/domestic flight to a local bunker that the real locals have images, plans and maps of.
Or have faith that the out of state construction teams fooled everyone and the fancy cabin with a big swimming pool and deep wine cellar story holds...
The Swiss complexes have been totally mapped by many other nations thanks to walk in offers by trusted staff going back decades. Lots of cash and shared politics can get copies of any secure paper work.
The US government has 2 options. Infect the cell network over any nation of interest. Use equipment interference to get into an interesting users cell phone to log all data in/out/entered/images/voice print/gps.
Both options work well if other nations are happy to let 5 eye nations access their own domestic networks and domestic staff help hide all traces..
The main issue is the quality staff of understanding the totality of their nations cell networks at a domestic level and talking to outside very smart AV firms, in open courts or the tech press about strange powerful not requested software upgrades.
The better solution is just to set a tame international standard that states all law enforcement can access and get it built into every cell phone produced by default.
The the issues is how to sell the public on a few trusted nations, ex staff, former staff, random smart other nations mil/gov, anyone who can afford to hire ex staff, telcos, the more wealthy press and media... having total access to keystroke logging/all functions of any phone as a weak remote default software setting.
In the past push out tower wide setting has been attempted. https://theintercept.com/2015/... (Sep. 29 2015)
Telecom scandal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Or the per phone option WARRIOR PRIDE and the SMURF list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Brands talking of any after data input encryption or total network encryption is really no use, as every keystroke is logged as entered before a high level network or brand of network crypto application. Network encryption works but the plain text entry and display is the collection point:)
Re "it still means you need 2 boxes. but really, since one box (the cell part) will never be 'ours' or trustable, might as well make it its own separate box, create an IP boundary and talk just IP."
Or just pen and paper to create the encoded message:) Enter the message and be seen with normal fancy hardware
The next question is how good is the filtering of all data at a city, state or federal level for all free, open source, commercial encryption use or interest.
A city/state based journalist shows an interest in unique crypto software and is then using it 12-24 hours later... who with and can the journalists end be collected from. Where is the data flowing? In the city? State? Another local whistleblower is found in near real time:)
If the news story is been created and communications is been encrypted on a computer like device using well understood digital methods, privacy is gone.
So yes the 'cell phone as simple a transport, only, and never a data entry or even data display device" is one way to try and keep privacy.
Re: "arranged back doors", weak crypto, trap doors designed in.
Equipment interference options for the state or city is now at a very low cost per user from federal/mil contractors or other nations/private sectors.. Collect it all is now at a city budget per year per interesting user.
Users cannot gain anonymity on any cell network given todays tracking methods and key loggers that are placed at low software levels beyond any user complied crypto app.
The only way to keep mail, digital documents, text messages safe from unreasonable searches and seizures is to encrypt before digital data entry.
ie the keystrokes are in code as entered.
Electronic communications content is safe after sending or waiting to be accessed sounds good to a court and the press but the key loggers at one and then both ends will get all the plain text everytime.
AC In the 1920s GC&CS gave the UK great access to Soviet embassy/Trade Mission, traffic thanks to the work of Ernst Fetterlein. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Soviet "Mask" material was then worked on after the 1920's under John Tiltman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....
The UK had all Russian systems under total collection into the 1940's . Correct use of one time pads made Russia very difficult in the early 1950's but Russia had so much traffic it reverted to fast advance systems that the NSA and GCHQ quickly got back into after the early 1950's.
re 'This is about having a tamper-proof connection, safe against crime and anyone else."
That is a huge issue. If a nation is too good with banking encryption it gets US diplomatic pressure until its banking system starts to report on every "international" account or movement of funds.
The issue about "safe against crime and anyone else" is that the US and UK military have so many generations of experts, staff at many shared bases globally that work with local staff on the the same export grade decryption systems that the more basic methods start to leak per decade.
Any faith, cult, political party, other nation, military, gov, well backed NGO with endless funding, the media can then go shopping for the same weak crypto backdoors for their own nationals now ex staff or former mil/gov staff. Its win win win for everyone with an interest in weak international crypto standards.
Contractors and groups can sell their experts to anyone as the crypto is weak and so many governments can only break weak networks.
Banking is just a small part of decades of tame crypto games.
The US and UK hope they can induce the public to react in ways that expose privacy and anonymity at all levels.
A face to face meeting to exchange one time pads set up on a leaky computer network;)
Using advance encryption from a web site thats always been under constant observation.
The software works but just been interested made all network connections by a person to that website interesting.
The public is been pushed to find, use or seek or consider different strong encryption. The very act of looking breaks anonymity for decades.
The privacy of a message aspect is just a tame OS or weakened hardware product away once a computer or network user is discovered.
The use of informants as gatekeepers over entire generations of emerging math and crypto or software release, hardware creation.
Building in back doors at a lower hardware level while the public gets told the big brand software and hight level OS is secure and can be tested by anyone.
Public and private sector partnerships to track all interest in emerging crypto. From educational, to start up to funding, open source to multi national. All considered, shaped, weakened, pushed, hyped or superseded.
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Yes copy the phone number down on a note pad (paper and pen), copy it to a Rolodex like device at home.
Use a desktop computer with Linux to store, sort and manage contacts. Most distros do not phone home unless they offer that as a service or a user wants that service.
The doing part surround the "had probably triggered the program that placed his full name and photo on my page" would be facial recognition gold to city, state, federal and foreign intelligence services.
With GPS, facial recognition, voice prints. Everything that the US/UK gov and mil used to have in the 1970's~90's is now at a consumer level. :)
The "number into his smartphone’s address book" is all part of the free social media experience.
The "William Binney, a government whistle-blower and former top NSA cryptologist, the answer was simple: almost everything, today, tomorrow, and for decades to come." should be clear to most readers.
The "Its employees dealt with us in an upbeat, tightly scripted manner that appeared to stem from their awareness of several cameras angled toward the service counter." is just the expanded 'chat down' program that all tourists and travellers now face
Something about phishing "infects users via macro actions which launch when opening infected documents.". The OS is not clearly mentioned :)
The "online banking consumers" are now safer as the botnet is now connected to a sinkhole.
re 'And the air space is regulated in most countries"
The US mil has been trying drones for years. From the 1970's efforts with NITE GAZELLE NITE GAZELLE and the DASH prototypes.
Battlefield UAVs of the United States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The gov/mil/contractor drone "industry" has been running in the US for decades just not for the wider public.
As for the "agriculture, search and rescue, journalism, real estate, oil and gas, insurance, infrastructure surveying, photography, and videography industries" most of that is covered by lots of regulations, or established well funded and protected work for helicopters, sat and traditional aircraft.
States are also considering their Ag-gag or anti-whistleblower bills
Deploying Drones To Get An Overview Of Factory Farms (JULY 19, 2014)
http://www.npr.org/sections/th...
Some state wish to criminalize collection of "resource data" (photos and video), have local laws about no access to any "non-public area", "making secret recordings", to take pictures by photograph, video camera, or other means...
State laws, just been 'near' a mil sites, flight height issues makes drone use interesting in the USA until legal clarifications cover drone flight height and what can be done federally and per state over public and private land.
Re "but not in the hands of everyone"
DSB (Defense Science Board), Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) have been interested in backing, understanding emerging drone like projects for a while.
An advanced always internet connected "free" US operating system might have to send back details on any moved, copied, created or altered image under a 'free' anti virus, malware feature.
:)
:)
It would just be a small dataset created from details, names, embedded strings about all files visible, open when the the screen image captured.
All files would be looked at for expected, listed virus or malware and if an image was moved, copied against existing international police databases.
The transmission of a set of small checksums would not be difficult given the amount of other data most big brand modern operating systems send back.
For the average user the file would be reported on by the OS in near realtime for 'free' anti virus efforts with the free operating system.
The user can then run any application to try and convert, remove, transform the image but the report of a copy made would have been sent. Downloading and using any such rights altering application could also be logged
Such efforts are usually done now for any images in free email, cloud or other networked products as part of law enforcement image tracking efforts over the years.
Just push the tech down into the users 'free' OS computers and let the publishing/media community add every image checksum they have.
No action if the image stays in a deep part of the OS for say allowed web browsing, if moved to a new folder or captured the rights owner gets the ip, time, unique hardware details of the computer.
The sites will be a walled garden. Users will have to load and enjoy the site everytime without been able to save data.
The OS will phone home the possession of the saved image or creation of a screen capture with the protected image in it. The free gift of AV software at the OS level gets to look at every file in realtime, why not report on DRM files too
AC re "detecting them" :)
Over the years large tanks of oil are set up register a signal when a positron and a neutron get detected. Thats the large scale classic idea that takes time.
The international idea is to place smaller (refrigerator-sized) devices in all nations that allow inspections. Its easy to spot a reactor working given infrared sensitive satellites. The trick of spotting an existing, listed hot rector is working does not tell inspectors much.
The question of exactly what is been done inside and when is what the new detecting idea is all about.
The new magic is to get the distinctive energy signature and trace methods like any plutonium diversion from a normal everyday nuclear reactor complex.
In the 1950-90's it was still easy to keep out inspectors and just track a limited amount of easy to note satellites that moved in set paths.
How did nations avoid been detected?
Your nation never had a "listed" reactor, no inspections, no questions, no new detection lab work
Dont sign up for any international inspectors and the detection equipment is never placed in your nation.
Hide the traded/diverted/created stockpile from the 1960-90's and ensure the international community only visits clean sites or politically is just never allowed in.
The dual use nuclear start up design histories in parts of South America, Australia, South Africa, Yugoslavia are shaping the new thinking on local detection. Hidden or planned programs halted over the post WW2 decades is what the detecting ideas will counter if allowed into nations to set up new local detections.
The other detection methods are soil samples by enthusiastic domestic environmental groups, well funded NGO's, spies, tourists, diplomats, trade groups, foreign workers used as fronts to collect material as they move around a nation of interest.
Medical experts talking to outside experts about discovering unique cancer clusters in mil/gov nuclear workers going back decades due to rushed production, accidents, lack of protection equipment, covert disposal of all materials. Most nations know how to keep such details very well hidden.
Re 'packet inspection and mitm SSL packet inspection tools"
Yes any connection, search term, site visited is been tracked. The hard part is then to come up with a court friendly story about how that user was discovered.
This logging and searching just gives open court cover for long term parallel construction methods.
Re "who came up with this idea had nothing but the best intentions in mind they have in fact mandated sites keep a trove of data that will prove irresistible" :) ... and the next connection hops.
Be great for seeing whistleblowers reaching out to journalists
Over the years will the views on the destination of a communication change? The look back for every user who connected to a site or device?
Rather than just removing a book chapter at an authors house, why not see who connected to the author too
What is in the "significant amount of new data" aspect? ... at 6 am until 9am. :) :)
A user had an ip of
Collection covers the given ip connected with a url, domain name, any terms or words that are not encrypted?
The subscriber id, source of a communication, destination of a communication, date, time and duration of a communication, type or relevant service used, equipment used.
Thats a lot of computer searchable data for two years and human readable words been kept
Only the contents or substance of a communication gets filtered from the logging
Add in the teams for real time facial recognition, license plate readers and other technical surveillance (internet, wifi, cell, sat) of the site or anyone walking near the site.
Expert support 24/7 with its overtime is expensive beyond just officers outside.
Re Montana. A lot of wealthy people have invested a lot in the northwestern US as escape sites, quality and quantity of private bunker sites... hoping population density, local politics and weather will be factors in creating good place to escape to and then rebuild. :)
The locals have seen the new funding, expensive builds and know all the interesting locations
Out of state contractors been used just makes the build site more interesting.
The main issue would be a clear path out that stays clear as more people with less range just get stuck and block the big main roads for hours.
Yes if you have the wealth of a nation state behind you to pay for gov/mil filters and a way to be evacuated soon.. Top mil staff and officials will be looked after. :) :)
Or never face the issues thanks to warnings and an early, safe flight out. For the bunker owner its a supplied, export grade filter that has to work perfectly for years
Lost of sales to wealthy people who have bunker dreams or gov/mil staff who have to stay on site and trust in the build quality
It depends on local law enforcement officials and their past feelings about the new super gated community. If it is their homes too, then it will be very well protected. If local political leaders can demand city/state protection it might be ok too for a while under normal conditions.
If local law enforcement officials are in another more distant part of a wider city looking after their own, then a vast super walled community will be as secure as any other upper middle class area with limited numbers of law enforcement officials.
The walled city phenomenon would work if the fake documents issue could be fixed. Too many people would just be attracted in due to wealth, have a good cover story and the luxury fortress community feel would fail under a flood of opportunistic people getting entry.
If wealthy bunker owner is out planting crops for next year the smart locals will be out looking for food too :)
As for "survive radiation poisoning" question then the bunker owner would be behind the filter system and looking at the routine maintenance schedule for a while longer.
If a person is banking on cold war fantasies about survivable, region limited northern hemisphere only nuclear exchange ... :) The mil idea is to get their selected people out to safe sites quickly :) :) :)
The people with the real political/mil/contractor connections with the 24-48h warning will get to their other homes in places like New Zealand with a set flight plan, ready passport documents. A nice site and lifestyle will be waiting as expected and planned.
The only winners are the out of state contractors, designers, teams that fill the bunkers with equipment and supplies for the low end domestic bunker owners.
The rest of the not so rich domestic bunker owning population will face a race to even get to their bunker and then keep it..
The smarter locals would have seen the owners driving in or recall that "fancy" well stocked site been build.
So the domestic reality of limited "fallout and radiation sickness" will be totally avoided by people who can afford with the connections to get away early.
The cold war dreams about "fallout and radiation sickness" will be tested by bunker filter costs
That great 99.9998+++ % filter has to work perfectly and be looked after over how many weeks, months for an average domestic bunker owner who is committed to their location
So the very rich will be just fine a world away in any limited political war like event
Re "The middle class will try to drive out, but they'll just get stuck in traffic until they run out of gas. Any who reach rural areas and try"
It will be a complex offering of gov/mil/contractor/faith based camps where food, education, medication and 'showers' will try and lure in the bulk of the transport limited urban poor.
Wealthy people with longer range transport will get noticed for having the ready cash to buy more fuel or food in smaller more remote towns. Their final destination of an expensive remote cabin, bunker will be noticed too.
The city areas will then be cleaned out by expert teams of mil/contractors.
Re "What happens when their food and fuel run out?" :)
A lot of brands will sell wealthy people with remote sites to escape to on complex agricultural supplies and equipment for the years after the provided storable food runs low.
Find some land, pump clean water, get planting, have spare parts, make spare parts, grow food then preserve, store for next year and the long winter. Get ready for the next crop. A dynamic hobby farm with nice people all around.
Such complex efforts will not go unseen by huge numbers of tight knit locals with their own needs and more simple direct ideas
Re ... "your best bet is to be friends with and rely on your neighbors."
They have all seen the flow of materials for the site, expensive out of state construction teams that took much needed local jobs on that project, know what was designed into a local property and at what cost.
Re "If you are a "prepper" and think that you can wait out a siege in your bomb shelter or bunker or whatever, you are sadly mistaken."
Local faith groups, cults, gangs, tribes, town ~village ~gov workers, retired mil contractors who know of the same kind of projects will all gossip about any out of the ordinary project on local land sold.
The jetset smart cash buys a passport out to a society - New Zealand or distant location like that.
The question the becomes simple: time enough to get to your jet and file that international flight plan out vs SUV/domestic flight to a local bunker that the real locals have images, plans and maps of.
Or have faith that the out of state construction teams fooled everyone and the fancy cabin with a big swimming pool and deep wine cellar story holds...
The Swiss complexes have been totally mapped by many other nations thanks to walk in offers by trusted staff going back decades. Lots of cash and shared politics can get copies of any secure paper work.
The US government has 2 options. ... having total access to keystroke logging/all functions of any phone as a weak remote default software setting. :)
Infect the cell network over any nation of interest. Use equipment interference to get into an interesting users cell phone to log all data in/out/entered/images/voice print/gps.
Both options work well if other nations are happy to let 5 eye nations access their own domestic networks and domestic staff help hide all traces..
The main issue is the quality staff of understanding the totality of their nations cell networks at a domestic level and talking to outside very smart AV firms, in open courts or the tech press about strange powerful not requested software upgrades.
The better solution is just to set a tame international standard that states all law enforcement can access and get it built into every cell phone produced by default.
The the issues is how to sell the public on a few trusted nations, ex staff, former staff, random smart other nations mil/gov, anyone who can afford to hire ex staff, telcos, the more wealthy press and media
In the past push out tower wide setting has been attempted.
https://theintercept.com/2015/... (Sep. 29 2015)
Telecom scandal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Or the per phone option WARRIOR PRIDE and the SMURF list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Brands talking of any after data input encryption or total network encryption is really no use, as every keystroke is logged as entered before a high level network or brand of network crypto application. Network encryption works but the plain text entry and display is the collection point
Re "it still means you need 2 boxes. but really, since one box (the cell part) will never be 'ours' or trustable, might as well make it its own separate box, create an IP boundary and talk just IP." :) Enter the message and be seen with normal fancy hardware :)
Or just pen and paper to create the encoded message
The next question is how good is the filtering of all data at a city, state or federal level for all free, open source, commercial encryption use or interest.
A city/state based journalist shows an interest in unique crypto software and is then using it 12-24 hours later... who with and can the journalists end be collected from. Where is the data flowing? In the city? State? Another local whistleblower is found in near real time
If the news story is been created and communications is been encrypted on a computer like device using well understood digital methods, privacy is gone.
So yes the 'cell phone as simple a transport, only, and never a data entry or even data display device" is one way to try and keep privacy.
Re: "arranged back doors", weak crypto, trap doors designed in. Equipment interference options for the state or city is now at a very low cost per user from federal/mil contractors or other nations/private sectors.. Collect it all is now at a city budget per year per interesting user.
Users cannot gain anonymity on any cell network given todays tracking methods and key loggers that are placed at low software levels beyond any user complied crypto app.
The only way to keep mail, digital documents, text messages safe from unreasonable searches and seizures is to encrypt before digital data entry.
ie the keystrokes are in code as entered.
Electronic communications content is safe after sending or waiting to be accessed sounds good to a court and the press but the key loggers at one and then both ends will get all the plain text everytime.
AC In the 1920s GC&CS gave the UK great access to Soviet embassy/Trade Mission, traffic thanks to the work of Ernst Fetterlein.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Soviet "Mask" material was then worked on after the 1920's under John Tiltman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....
The UK had all Russian systems under total collection into the 1940's . Correct use of one time pads made Russia very difficult in the early 1950's but Russia had so much traffic it reverted to fast advance systems that the NSA and GCHQ quickly got back into after the early 1950's.
re 'This is about having a tamper-proof connection, safe against crime and anyone else."
That is a huge issue. If a nation is too good with banking encryption it gets US diplomatic pressure until its banking system starts to report on every "international" account or movement of funds.
The issue about "safe against crime and anyone else" is that the US and UK military have so many generations of experts, staff at many shared bases globally that work with local staff on the the same export grade decryption systems that the more basic methods start to leak per decade.
Any faith, cult, political party, other nation, military, gov, well backed NGO with endless funding, the media can then go shopping for the same weak crypto backdoors for their own nationals now ex staff or former mil/gov staff. Its win win win for everyone with an interest in weak international crypto standards.
Contractors and groups can sell their experts to anyone as the crypto is weak and so many governments can only break weak networks.
Banking is just a small part of decades of tame crypto games.
The US and UK hope they can induce the public to react in ways that expose privacy and anonymity at all levels. ;)
A face to face meeting to exchange one time pads set up on a leaky computer network
Using advance encryption from a web site thats always been under constant observation.
The software works but just been interested made all network connections by a person to that website interesting.
The public is been pushed to find, use or seek or consider different strong encryption. The very act of looking breaks anonymity for decades.
The privacy of a message aspect is just a tame OS or weakened hardware product away once a computer or network user is discovered.
The use of informants as gatekeepers over entire generations of emerging math and crypto or software release, hardware creation.
Building in back doors at a lower hardware level while the public gets told the big brand software and hight level OS is secure and can be tested by anyone.
Public and private sector partnerships to track all interest in emerging crypto. From educational, to start up to funding, open source to multi national. All considered, shaped, weakened, pushed, hyped or superseded.