Any protections from Western mil/gov mass surveillance do not exist. The clandestine services work well with each other globally and have great local support in most bandwidth ready nations going back decades (1950's on).
Switzerland has had decades of top level staff working with, been trained by the US mil. Any request from the US gov over telecommunications issues is just a very friendly chat away.
Norway offered the UK reconnaissance flights from the 1950's on. A long term working relationship with the US and UK.
Iceland, Spain: Western mil support over decades.
Re "hosting Internet services and locating VMs"
Have nothing interesting on them and explore all encryptions options. If your interesting any hardware offered or sold will be shipped with a Tailored Access Operations rebuild. Then face the junk standard encryption as a default- trap door, back door, front doors..
So just find a good nation with good cheap bandwidth and build your network with the clarity of been part of a global 'collect it all' system. Via the local telco, the hardware, software and all local networks.
Are any nations recalling, banning, deep in talks to ensure the next generation of telco products finally meet their mil/gov interception needs?
The products are for sale around the world and follow on from been what was Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) acceptable for years.
No nation, city, parishes, state, province have issues with any product on sale. Every interesting call reverts to voice for a voice print, every text message is logged just as the national standards set out to have a cell phone product for sale. Images and gps are no problem, as sold cpypto does not exist for any gov.
Entering a message on the hardware in the system and having a 3rd party application secure it is still expecting a software layer to save a user from the device hardware and software as sold. Create all the app crypto and sell it to users, export it, give it away free, govs and mil are still not banning the sale of the devices.
Still getting all the voice, plain text as entered/displayed, images, gps as always no matter the 3rd party application level 'programming'.
The setting out of CALEA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... was clear. A device for sale in the USA would have to be built-in surveillance ready at the carriers and manufacturers level. Also note the use of Trusted Third Parties on the networks and the need for real-time surveillance:)
No closed legal committees, questions by law enforcement officials about access over past generations of product, exports to nations who also have no interception issues. Everyone has been very happy with every generation of device as it supports all telco treaties and standards as *designed* wrt to logging, tracking, voice, back door, trap door,gps, voice prints. No nation, city or state is been blocked from using any of their cybersecurity or forensics kits at any stage of the telco network ie from new device to tower to just as easy as any old telephone. Everything was Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) friendly by design.
The product is ready for sale when it meets all international standards.
The theatrical process was used to sell junk encryption to nations in the 1980's. They could later read their embassy communications in the clear in the press:)
For that to work they really had to buy into some super smart neutral nations producing perfect crypto under strong branding.
Ideas like that carried over into the consumer crypto branding. The other aspect is to tell all low level law enforcement that generations and brands are too hard to track making internal affairs work trivial.
The only aspect to really consider is the origins of CALEA. If the brand is sold in the US and UK its 100% law enforcement ready as sold over years..
Re "government to do the most basic of functions that "a government" is created for, wielding the collective power of it's people. If a government can't protect it's own its not really fulfilling its purpose."
The database was created for needs of powerful contractors and expensive projects in plain text. The question about projects listed in letter of commendation, work history is the open question. What agencies, gov, mil where told they could keep their own internal lists is also interesting and over what years the unencrypted data was kept. Since the years after 2000? Encryption would have allowed nothing that readable to be found.
Re "Just wondering.. we already monitor 100% of traffic leaving our shores, why can't we use that deep packet inspection to build a firewall?"
It depends on what the network evolved into. An encrypted, air gapped mil/gov only list of expert staff to a readable vendor friendly cloud database for finding or clearing skilled staff?
Say some distant country had freedom needs, a plain text, unencrypted list of cleared contractors would be great, no encryption to worry about, keys to request, logged trail. Get the contractors and "freedom" support is shipped.
The US wanted to removed all the red tape, to get ideas, people and missions flowing supported by all contractors. Gov only firewalls would have stopped contractors from finding, selecting, sorting plain text lists of skilled staff for amazing no bid contracts. Someone requested and got that "treasure trove of data" open, readable and very networked.
Re "Perhaps worse than people not caring (enough) that their whole world is fast becoming an Orwellian nightmare, we are now left without a credible nation to voice the message of Worldly evil."
With "Our Government Has Weaponized The Internet. Here’s How They Did It" http://www.wired.com/2013/11/t... (11.13.13) even finding the "individuals and firms from other nations" is going to be tricky.
All the other 5 eye nations, their staff, ex staff and former staff, contractors and other "friendly" 3rd party nations have some idea about the more advanced methods.
Anyone could set the end point as the most expected nations, use the correct time zone and the found log would be detailed junk..
The other question is why would any nation just allow a plain text "treasure trove of data about government employees" to exist in any form just facing the net?
Boondoggle to find contractors, limited hangout or honey pot?
With sanctions China and Russia will stop importing so much expensive, exotic, bespoke US designed computer system hardware.
How is US Tailored Access Operations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... going to get to the exported hardware if its not been shipped around the world?
Without that secret spyware and hardware been installed as delivered how will the product sold be found on an open network again?
The US mil had the right idea in the 1990's - flood the export market with tame US brands and watch as every nation installs ever more complex trap doored networked products.
All sanctions do is support local production and reduce the need to even considering any tame Western brands.
It goes back to ideas like Vienna Convention on Consular Relations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The UK and US loved setting up all kinds of embassy or consulate like building globally that have a nice geographic locations.
So a lot of work goes into location, cooling, electrical and ability to collect all signals in another country. Great for the NSA and GCHQ. The idea that a building with its computer systems could be closed down quickly is not a nice thought so the legal protections for embassy or consulate like locations is kept very strong at an international level.
The same legal protections that allow the US and UK to build up their signals intelligence gathering systems on site also protects all other nations staff and the 'site' in the UK.
If not the Soviet Union could have shut down Western embassies at random times, the US could have closed the Russian embassy over any random "spy" incident. The total loss of a site in another nation was never worth it.
A lot of methods, hardware and systems would have been lost. ie the "code-room" in country over decades is worth more than any short term UK raid causing a change in international law.
Any interesting person who made it to the safe grounds of any UK embassy could be removed by any regime for any reason.
The UK would never want to be the nation that set that precedent where other nations technicians can just walk into an embassy as "police" or other services to "help" or find a person at random times.
Diplomatic immunity works so well for all, why would any nation ever want to "expunge" it?
Yes the "All they have to do is classify the records and its essentially game over" is the method. Every legal output is then 'cleaned' with parallel construction.
To get past the 4th amendment everyone doing the collect it all domestic surveillance is always told its just for foreigners.
The key seems to be the: 'But such is the nature of the government’s privileged control over certain classes of information. Plaintiffs must realize that secrecy is yet another form of regulation, prescribing not “what the citizen may do” but instead “what the citizen may know.”"
What where South African power needs in the distant past? Mining, always ready rapid air defence for its decades long military needs, city, towns, advanced industrial use (eg Secunda and other projects).
The power grid was a huge cost to expand everywhere over decades.
Advanced tracking tilt heliostats can offer grid isolated communities a way to escape the traditional costs of diesel use with a generator at a remote location, delivery costs and currency exchange rate pressure needed to pay for all that domestic diesel use.
Why pay for electrical energy in a foreign currency?
Every hour of sun light can be understood on site to optimize the tilt angle every day to give some electrical power.
With the power needs of water pumping, sanitation, farming, education, efficient led displays computers and lighting the needs for always on diesel power in remote sites may change. Domestic build costs, domestic tracking computing and engineering, lower long term costs, not having to buy or transport diesel over years to many remote locations could be a real plus for SA.
Even exports given a local factory, the software, easy set up for appropriate global use.
Only use Windows computers to play computer games on.
+1 for "See if the software you require can run using Wine under Linux, or if there are free alternatives."
Re : to work in our security agencies?
Think of Eastern Europe in the the late 1970-80's. Vast amounts of printed material, Bibles, Western books and communications equipment where been smuggled in by the CIA, MI6 and other Western groups.
What did the Eastern European secret services tell the Communist political leadership? With more funding, time, expensive equipment, more informants and staff every Western influenced plot could be uncovered soon, filled with informants, turned and presented to the worlds press as spies.
In the desperate attempts to earn hard currency the East was trading with the West, a huge flow of products, goods, services and transport. Not every container could be fully searched in ports. Thats how the Western material was getting in. Trade policy and loans.
It was hard to tell political leaders that the trade with the West, the constant flow of material and shipping was the way in for CIA, MI6 funded Western books, newspapers, printing equipment.
The West is filled with the same ideas. With funding, over time, expensive equipment, collect it all, more cash for informants, sock puppets to alter the news and internet and huge amounts of new expert staff every issue can be solved.
Vast security bureaucracies and agencies do what they can within the limitations of the systems they work for. Informants, watching all authors, collecting "the internet", watching academics and the media are all easy, safe growth opportunities for bureaucracies.
Think of the growth in security clearances, overtime, prestige, power and funding within any nations security agencies just from watching all authors over decades:) Better watch them in person to ensure they dont slip out to spread truth at invite only meetings or parties or meet foreign diplomats...
The very old systems? They had a drop to older phone network standards and users would just see it as part of their local rust belt cell networks.
Such changes in networking conditions could be mapped.
Phone Firewall Identifies Rogue Cell Towers Trying To Intercept Your Calls (09.03.14) http://www.wired.com/2014/09/c...
Upgrades and updates ensure all tracking is now more seamless in any area less of the drop down to another generation of network service. Voice, mapping, rewind packages work "as" any domestic cell infrastructure for a low cost per city, state.
The next gen is as sold as good as is used to track foreigners in their own nations and stay ahead of very low end diplomatic counter surveillance efforts.
Thanks AC, The Autonomous Real-Time Ground Ubiquitous Surveillance Imaging System? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Public private partnerships for realtime access to all CCTV networks are been worked on in many city areas.
The use of small or large manned aircraft has been seen at a state and federal level over the years but seems to be in the press too much now thanks to low level wireless search patterns over hours. Locals tend to notice that. New Senate Bill Would Require Warrants for Federal Aerial Surveillance (June 18 2015) https://firstlook.org/theinter...
Drones, blimps, aerostats are sold as looking outwards or for internal mil testing but will soon be very common for domestic use.
Moored balloons and other efforts over many years show the advancement for more downward looking platforms at a per state or for domestic use from the early 1980's on.
Every powered cell phone in areas will be tracked 24/7 by default from above for the price of a few 10's millions with hidden ongoing reimbursable line items funding.
The cost of collecting it all is now down to a city, county, parishes, state.
Why just sell to nations when 100's of cities can be made to pay for device upgrades that keep track with cell phone hardware.
What was once used for one person over in a foreign country is now tracking all in very hidden domestic setting.
The real risk is who else is buying another set of hardware in the same area to run counter surveillance, use by internal affairs or for years of federal tracking of interesting local state law enforcement cell phone use and movements..
Anyone who can read about policing in Ireland in the 1980-90's, US and UK mil use in other nations in the media over the past decade can understand the ability to collect it all and sort later.
The trick about collect it all, mapping, voice prints ie content 'upgrade' package for all communications and sorting seems to solved at price points any well/federally funded US city can afford.
The magic seems to have been in fooling so many that cell systems are secure or that select phones where secure per every advancing hardware generation.
The question about "how long they’ve been using it" can still be best found by an in person/written FOIA depending on the state/city to see how easy it is to hide the old $400,000+ costs/grants, upgrade costs and work back over years.
At some point the federal/mil use stopped needing small aircraft or any local telco support. ie all aspects of the US telco network are open to mil/federal hardware, software needs.
After that any city/state could buy in for $400,000+ with local hardware.
Re "We simply don't get large numbers of candidates."
and "massive specialization and gross bureaucratization"
What about the security clearance side the US tech professionals? Does that unique gov/mil needs add to private sector staff issues? A lot of US students worked very hard via scholarships, had wealthy parents or what was the classic GI bill over the decades. Higher education is producing the what it was designed to in math and science.
The US spent vast amounts on classical science in its high schools and private schools and saw the results from the top university classes of the 1960's on.
Ada, C, java, big iron, Basic, Pascal every generation had its flood of educational efforts and offered near free university options for only the very best and brightest.
Who or what is taking that huge well educated pool of top 10% to 1% of math/sci/eng/crypto domestic university talent over productive decades from the US private sector every year? Data going back decades about US tech jobs, graduates should be open to the public and presentable in chart or graph form via raw data from networked computers and a few well posted FOIA requests.
Smartest % of US science/comp graduates per year, needs of top US private sector per year, requirement needs of US mil and gov per year for math/sci/crypto.
Do the numbers add up on average over decades. Too many very smart graduates been graduated thanks to decades of science funding? Very smart people stay in limited count of well paying private sector jobs for decades? Vast numbers changed their minds and did arts or found other jobs?
Something is soaking up that vast talent pool and keeping them happy and in good pay if the private sector is not finding expert staff from the huge graduate numbers.
People around the world now understand that chips, networking systems, crypto, OS's, teleco hardware is open to any 'other' nation with skilled staff, ex staff, former staff due to highly collaborative design issues per product range over decades.
Over time with the next generation of buying people/nations have the option to consider other brands, methods, services to ensure security and productivity.
Long term the question will be about having products, stock sitting in the US under a US brand with all the taxes, local costs or just going China direct.
From the factory in China, book printer, CD, Blu ray (region code allowed shipping?), on demand from what was the 'back catalogue", toys. Digital while you wait if an option.
Delivery can be done by private or government postage contractors locally around the world. Robots to pack the products in China. No staff issues as all skilled staff just repair or expand robot use.
Long term its just a slow count down to worlds best packing robots, regional tax shelters and who has the better engineering staff on site to accept products in, hold, sort, ship to international delivery hubs.
The US brands had all the advantages in terms of language, trust, branding, banking, shipping locations, local gov support.
The staff costs, storage, sorting, shipping and handling price via the US is getting interesting.
How can the US win? Bilateral trade deals that lock out China long term? It will be interesting to see where Western publishers, designers and artists go if China/Germany can offer a better deal. Is a brand between the Western publishers and the consumer really needed or can they go for their own great regional logistics from the factory?
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The main push for this is control. Not to have to roll out optical per site that will be a shared common carrier to all other local brands.
Limited bandwidth, cheap per gig plans per month or expensive plans for more data is the better lock in.
If the local usage ever really gets saturated then the limitations of huge amounts of people wanting perfect low cost networking on very limited bandwidth will start to be interesting.
Re "And what about security?" Local city, state, parish and federal gov officials can track any new 5G perfectly. Data use, voice print ready, its all in the new standards.
The per user per month bandwidth question is the fun part. How many gigs per month can each user be sold before wireless physics is in play for every attempted fast connection.
Understand and leverage current US geo politics surrounding Russia.
List nations surrounding Russia that have just had a US back coup or historical US backed color revolution.
Contact State Department and ask for any type of whale from other nations surrounding Russia.
Watch as all US paper work is done in hours and transport aircraft fly press to see US backed conservation effort success story.
Ensure to include big national flags on plaques around exhibit and plan big press event for opening ceremony.
The " can't innovate" part is a product of testing over decades.
Think of a bell curve of results and the real needs of worlds best advanced nation building R&D. Only so many really, really smart, expensive people are needed per year.
Testing can find them in public, low cost and expensive private schools. The test results then allow a nation to ensure only the best 10 % of skilled students get well funded top merit based university access. Further sorting of the top 10% gets even better results with scholarships, easy loans, grants, academic industry and government participation.
No real effort is allowed to be wasted on the lower 90% of students.
A lot of cash might be seen to be spent but the best is saved for the smartest few %. Guest workers and foreigners at a lower cost can fill the low and medium skills sets at a lower cost and have fewer rights and have a loss of legal documentation as a control factor.
The lessons of vast science education spending of the 1950-80's was well understood. A lot of average science, math graduates just makes for a lot of average academic workers and their average private sector jobs. On average smarter workers might also be tempted protest unsafe working conditions if they have some understanding about science.
Looks good on test result and international academic rankings but does not provide the worlds very best long term R&D for gov, mil and private sector.
The "secret room" idea is just getting access for a splitter in any nation, part of the USA. More splitters per room is not a big problem with optical.
A location is vital, where data enters, exits the USA, 5 eye nations and other sites. Leverage, partnership.
The filtering is done in other parts of the world as needed, realtime or over time with all the mirrored data ie collect it all.
Scale does not seem to be a problem for most advanced nations anymore. Australia, NZ can get all of Asia without US or UK help.
The UK got every message to/from/within Ireland and between the US and Ireland in the 1980's.
Japan can get Asia, parts of Russia in bulk with its own systems.
Most nations would just use very fast upgraded Echelon like systems. Know the called number or both numbers? Does the call, data mention a list of words? Know one side of the call via voice print? Very similar methods for data, instant translations. Collect it all stopped been the big issue into the 1960's. Sort as needed.
Once split the "secret building" can be any massive secure site with power, cooling as needed. With generational, weak, junk international crypto standards, its all just very fast plain text sorting:)
Optical to the home in parts of the world is just a lot more of the same at 1,000 megabits ++ per second:) Massive optical links between nations are not an issue, new consumer optical down a street is more of the same.
Its understanding of the connections, voices, slang, accents, ensuring global use of free junk weak crypto thats the magic.
Re peering and use of US private sector.
Cheap international standards that are US friendly in terms of new equipment costs and international peering costs via, to and from the USA.
Subsidized funding builds an international reputation that ensured no other nation gets ideas about expensive direct links or distant interconnects of their own?
The EU or South American call or data will pass via the US and then finds is final cheap destination.
That also cuts down on the risk of power, space, cooling, bandwidth, site compromise if it can all be kept at select, expected big data sites.
Local papers, citizen journalists might ask about power, water use by a gov site but fail to see any story in decades of massive.com upgrades.
Trade deals globally or bilateral with another nation might have a very positive result to ensure cheap US peering is not locked out by another nation for any reason.
With the private sector been herded into helping or staff helping or collaborating or been called on to "collaborate and cooperate"...
Not much of the US private sector is really "free" anymore not to help make lists or have gov networks installed to track traffic in real time.
Cyber Information Sharing Act is just the start with its FOIA issues and domestic access beyond NSL (national security letter) or FISC (FISA Court) access.
Over time the entire US tech sectors private net logging is been guided into a legal, US court friendly government "collaborate and cooperate" database.
Every aspect of 'Foreign" logging is now going to be used "legally" domestically.
A collect it all list.
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Any protections from Western mil/gov mass surveillance do not exist. The clandestine services work well with each other globally and have great local support in most bandwidth ready nations going back decades (1950's on).
Switzerland has had decades of top level staff working with, been trained by the US mil. Any request from the US gov over telecommunications issues is just a very friendly chat away.
Norway offered the UK reconnaissance flights from the 1950's on. A long term working relationship with the US and UK. Iceland, Spain: Western mil support over decades. Re "hosting Internet services and locating VMs"
Have nothing interesting on them and explore all encryptions options. If your interesting any hardware offered or sold will be shipped with a Tailored Access Operations rebuild. Then face the junk standard encryption as a default- trap door, back door, front doors..
So just find a good nation with good cheap bandwidth and build your network with the clarity of been part of a global 'collect it all' system. Via the local telco, the hardware, software and all local networks.
Are any nations recalling, banning, deep in talks to ensure the next generation of telco products finally meet their mil/gov interception needs? :)
The products are for sale around the world and follow on from been what was Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) acceptable for years.
No nation, city, parishes, state, province have issues with any product on sale. Every interesting call reverts to voice for a voice print, every text message is logged just as the national standards set out to have a cell phone product for sale. Images and gps are no problem, as sold cpypto does not exist for any gov.
Entering a message on the hardware in the system and having a 3rd party application secure it is still expecting a software layer to save a user from the device hardware and software as sold. Create all the app crypto and sell it to users, export it, give it away free, govs and mil are still not banning the sale of the devices.
Still getting all the voice, plain text as entered/displayed, images, gps as always no matter the 3rd party application level 'programming'. The setting out of CALEA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... was clear. A device for sale in the USA would have to be built-in surveillance ready at the carriers and manufacturers level. Also note the use of Trusted Third Parties on the networks and the need for real-time surveillance
No closed legal committees, questions by law enforcement officials about access over past generations of product, exports to nations who also have no interception issues. Everyone has been very happy with every generation of device as it supports all telco treaties and standards as *designed* wrt to logging, tracking, voice, back door, trap door,gps, voice prints. No nation, city or state is been blocked from using any of their cybersecurity or forensics kits at any stage of the telco network ie from new device to tower to just as easy as any old telephone. Everything was Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) friendly by design. :)
The product is ready for sale when it meets all international standards.
The theatrical process was used to sell junk encryption to nations in the 1980's. They could later read their embassy communications in the clear in the press
For that to work they really had to buy into some super smart neutral nations producing perfect crypto under strong branding.
Ideas like that carried over into the consumer crypto branding. The other aspect is to tell all low level law enforcement that generations and brands are too hard to track making internal affairs work trivial.
The only aspect to really consider is the origins of CALEA. If the brand is sold in the US and UK its 100% law enforcement ready as sold over years..
Re "government to do the most basic of functions that "a government" is created for, wielding the collective power of it's people. If a government can't protect it's own its not really fulfilling its purpose."
The database was created for needs of powerful contractors and expensive projects in plain text. The question about projects listed in letter of commendation, work history is the open question. What agencies, gov, mil where told they could keep their own internal lists is also interesting and over what years the unencrypted data was kept. Since the years after 2000? Encryption would have allowed nothing that readable to be found.
Re "Just wondering.. we already monitor 100% of traffic leaving our shores, why can't we use that deep packet inspection to build a firewall?"
It depends on what the network evolved into. An encrypted, air gapped mil/gov only list of expert staff to a readable vendor friendly cloud database for finding or clearing skilled staff?
Say some distant country had freedom needs, a plain text, unencrypted list of cleared contractors would be great, no encryption to worry about, keys to request, logged trail. Get the contractors and "freedom" support is shipped.
The US wanted to removed all the red tape, to get ideas, people and missions flowing supported by all contractors. Gov only firewalls would have stopped contractors from finding, selecting, sorting plain text lists of skilled staff for amazing no bid contracts. Someone requested and got that "treasure trove of data" open, readable and very networked.
Re "Perhaps worse than people not caring (enough) that their whole world is fast becoming an Orwellian nightmare, we are now left without a credible nation to voice the message of Worldly evil."
With "Our Government Has Weaponized The Internet. Here’s How They Did It" http://www.wired.com/2013/11/t... (11.13.13) even finding the "individuals and firms from other nations" is going to be tricky.
All the other 5 eye nations, their staff, ex staff and former staff, contractors and other "friendly" 3rd party nations have some idea about the more advanced methods.
Anyone could set the end point as the most expected nations, use the correct time zone and the found log would be detailed junk..
The other question is why would any nation just allow a plain text "treasure trove of data about government employees" to exist in any form just facing the net?
Boondoggle to find contractors, limited hangout or honey pot?
With sanctions China and Russia will stop importing so much expensive, exotic, bespoke US designed computer system hardware.
How is US Tailored Access Operations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... going to get to the exported hardware if its not been shipped around the world?
Without that secret spyware and hardware been installed as delivered how will the product sold be found on an open network again?
The US mil had the right idea in the 1990's - flood the export market with tame US brands and watch as every nation installs ever more complex trap doored networked products.
All sanctions do is support local production and reduce the need to even considering any tame Western brands.
It goes back to ideas like Vienna Convention on Consular Relations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The UK and US loved setting up all kinds of embassy or consulate like building globally that have a nice geographic locations.
So a lot of work goes into location, cooling, electrical and ability to collect all signals in another country. Great for the NSA and GCHQ. The idea that a building with its computer systems could be closed down quickly is not a nice thought so the legal protections for embassy or consulate like locations is kept very strong at an international level.
The same legal protections that allow the US and UK to build up their signals intelligence gathering systems on site also protects all other nations staff and the 'site' in the UK.
If not the Soviet Union could have shut down Western embassies at random times, the US could have closed the Russian embassy over any random "spy" incident. The total loss of a site in another nation was never worth it.
A lot of methods, hardware and systems would have been lost. ie the "code-room" in country over decades is worth more than any short term UK raid causing a change in international law.
Any interesting person who made it to the safe grounds of any UK embassy could be removed by any regime for any reason.
The UK would never want to be the nation that set that precedent where other nations technicians can just walk into an embassy as "police" or other services to "help" or find a person at random times.
Diplomatic immunity works so well for all, why would any nation ever want to "expunge" it?
Yes the "All they have to do is classify the records and its essentially game over" is the method. Every legal output is then 'cleaned' with parallel construction.
To get past the 4th amendment everyone doing the collect it all domestic surveillance is always told its just for foreigners.
The key seems to be the:
'But such is the nature of the government’s privileged control over certain classes of information. Plaintiffs must realize that secrecy is yet another form of regulation, prescribing not “what the citizen may do” but instead “what the citizen may know.”"
What where South African power needs in the distant past? Mining, always ready rapid air defence for its decades long military needs, city, towns, advanced industrial use (eg Secunda and other projects).
The power grid was a huge cost to expand everywhere over decades.
Advanced tracking tilt heliostats can offer grid isolated communities a way to escape the traditional costs of diesel use with a generator at a remote location, delivery costs and currency exchange rate pressure needed to pay for all that domestic diesel use.
Why pay for electrical energy in a foreign currency?
Every hour of sun light can be understood on site to optimize the tilt angle every day to give some electrical power.
With the power needs of water pumping, sanitation, farming, education, efficient led displays computers and lighting the needs for always on diesel power in remote sites may change. Domestic build costs, domestic tracking computing and engineering, lower long term costs, not having to buy or transport diesel over years to many remote locations could be a real plus for SA.
Even exports given a local factory, the software, easy set up for appropriate global use.
Yes Linux is looking great to escape the phone home, collect it all OS's. Even for the older non PAE hardware http://www.bodhilinux.com/w/se...
Only use Windows computers to play computer games on.
+1 for "See if the software you require can run using Wine under Linux, or if there are free alternatives."
Re : to work in our security agencies? :)
Think of Eastern Europe in the the late 1970-80's. Vast amounts of printed material, Bibles, Western books and communications equipment where been smuggled in by the CIA, MI6 and other Western groups.
What did the Eastern European secret services tell the Communist political leadership? With more funding, time, expensive equipment, more informants and staff every Western influenced plot could be uncovered soon, filled with informants, turned and presented to the worlds press as spies.
In the desperate attempts to earn hard currency the East was trading with the West, a huge flow of products, goods, services and transport. Not every container could be fully searched in ports. Thats how the Western material was getting in. Trade policy and loans.
It was hard to tell political leaders that the trade with the West, the constant flow of material and shipping was the way in for CIA, MI6 funded Western books, newspapers, printing equipment.
The West is filled with the same ideas. With funding, over time, expensive equipment, collect it all, more cash for informants, sock puppets to alter the news and internet and huge amounts of new expert staff every issue can be solved.
Vast security bureaucracies and agencies do what they can within the limitations of the systems they work for. Informants, watching all authors, collecting "the internet", watching academics and the media are all easy, safe growth opportunities for bureaucracies.
Think of the growth in security clearances, overtime, prestige, power and funding within any nations security agencies just from watching all authors over decades
Better watch them in person to ensure they dont slip out to spread truth at invite only meetings or parties or meet foreign diplomats...
The very old systems? They had a drop to older phone network standards and users would just see it as part of their local rust belt cell networks.
Such changes in networking conditions could be mapped.
Phone Firewall Identifies Rogue Cell Towers Trying To Intercept Your Calls (09.03.14)
http://www.wired.com/2014/09/c...
Upgrades and updates ensure all tracking is now more seamless in any area less of the drop down to another generation of network service. Voice, mapping, rewind packages work "as" any domestic cell infrastructure for a low cost per city, state.
The next gen is as sold as good as is used to track foreigners in their own nations and stay ahead of very low end diplomatic counter surveillance efforts.
Thanks AC, The Autonomous Real-Time Ground Ubiquitous Surveillance Imaging System? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Public private partnerships for realtime access to all CCTV networks are been worked on in many city areas.
The use of small or large manned aircraft has been seen at a state and federal level over the years but seems to be in the press too much now thanks to low level wireless search patterns over hours. Locals tend to notice that.
New Senate Bill Would Require Warrants for Federal Aerial Surveillance (June 18 2015)
https://firstlook.org/theinter...
Drones, blimps, aerostats are sold as looking outwards or for internal mil testing but will soon be very common for domestic use.
Moored balloons and other efforts over many years show the advancement for more downward looking platforms at a per state or for domestic use from the early 1980's on.
Every powered cell phone in areas will be tracked 24/7 by default from above for the price of a few 10's millions with hidden ongoing reimbursable line items funding.
The cost of collecting it all is now down to a city, county, parishes, state.
Why just sell to nations when 100's of cities can be made to pay for device upgrades that keep track with cell phone hardware.
What was once used for one person over in a foreign country is now tracking all in very hidden domestic setting.
The real risk is who else is buying another set of hardware in the same area to run counter surveillance, use by internal affairs or for years of federal tracking of interesting local state law enforcement cell phone use and movements..
Anyone who can read about policing in Ireland in the 1980-90's, US and UK mil use in other nations in the media over the past decade can understand the ability to collect it all and sort later.
The trick about collect it all, mapping, voice prints ie content 'upgrade' package for all communications and sorting seems to solved at price points any well/federally funded US city can afford.
The magic seems to have been in fooling so many that cell systems are secure or that select phones where secure per every advancing hardware generation.
The question about "how long they’ve been using it" can still be best found by an in person/written FOIA depending on the state/city to see how easy it is to hide the old $400,000+ costs/grants, upgrade costs and work back over years.
At some point the federal/mil use stopped needing small aircraft or any local telco support. ie all aspects of the US telco network are open to mil/federal hardware, software needs. After that any city/state could buy in for $400,000+ with local hardware.
Re "We simply don't get large numbers of candidates."
and "massive specialization and gross bureaucratization"
What about the security clearance side the US tech professionals? Does that unique gov/mil needs add to private sector staff issues? A lot of US students worked very hard via scholarships, had wealthy parents or what was the classic GI bill over the decades. Higher education is producing the what it was designed to in math and science.
The US spent vast amounts on classical science in its high schools and private schools and saw the results from the top university classes of the 1960's on.
Ada, C, java, big iron, Basic, Pascal every generation had its flood of educational efforts and offered near free university options for only the very best and brightest.
Who or what is taking that huge well educated pool of top 10% to 1% of math/sci/eng/crypto domestic university talent over productive decades from the US private sector every year? Data going back decades about US tech jobs, graduates should be open to the public and presentable in chart or graph form via raw data from networked computers and a few well posted FOIA requests.
Smartest % of US science/comp graduates per year, needs of top US private sector per year, requirement needs of US mil and gov per year for math/sci/crypto.
Do the numbers add up on average over decades. Too many very smart graduates been graduated thanks to decades of science funding? Very smart people stay in limited count of well paying private sector jobs for decades? Vast numbers changed their minds and did arts or found other jobs?
Something is soaking up that vast talent pool and keeping them happy and in good pay if the private sector is not finding expert staff from the huge graduate numbers.
Re So you have proof, now what ?
People around the world now understand that chips, networking systems, crypto, OS's, teleco hardware is open to any 'other' nation with skilled staff, ex staff, former staff due to highly collaborative design issues per product range over decades.
Over time with the next generation of buying people/nations have the option to consider other brands, methods, services to ensure security and productivity.
Long term the question will be about having products, stock sitting in the US under a US brand with all the taxes, local costs or just going China direct.
From the factory in China, book printer, CD, Blu ray (region code allowed shipping?), on demand from what was the 'back catalogue", toys. Digital while you wait if an option.
Delivery can be done by private or government postage contractors locally around the world. Robots to pack the products in China. No staff issues as all skilled staff just repair or expand robot use.
Long term its just a slow count down to worlds best packing robots, regional tax shelters and who has the better engineering staff on site to accept products in, hold, sort, ship to international delivery hubs.
The US brands had all the advantages in terms of language, trust, branding, banking, shipping locations, local gov support.
The staff costs, storage, sorting, shipping and handling price via the US is getting interesting.
How can the US win? Bilateral trade deals that lock out China long term?
It will be interesting to see where Western publishers, designers and artists go if China/Germany can offer a better deal. Is a brand between the Western publishers and the consumer really needed or can they go for their own great regional logistics from the factory?
The main push for this is control. Not to have to roll out optical per site that will be a shared common carrier to all other local brands.
Limited bandwidth, cheap per gig plans per month or expensive plans for more data is the better lock in.
If the local usage ever really gets saturated then the limitations of huge amounts of people wanting perfect low cost networking on very limited bandwidth will start to be interesting.
Re "And what about security?" Local city, state, parish and federal gov officials can track any new 5G perfectly. Data use, voice print ready, its all in the new standards.
The per user per month bandwidth question is the fun part. How many gigs per month can each user be sold before wireless physics is in play for every attempted fast connection.
Understand and leverage current US geo politics surrounding Russia.
List nations surrounding Russia that have just had a US back coup or historical US backed color revolution.
Contact State Department and ask for any type of whale from other nations surrounding Russia.
Watch as all US paper work is done in hours and transport aircraft fly press to see US backed conservation effort success story.
Ensure to include big national flags on plaques around exhibit and plan big press event for opening ceremony.
The " can't innovate" part is a product of testing over decades.
Think of a bell curve of results and the real needs of worlds best advanced nation building R&D. Only so many really, really smart, expensive people are needed per year.
Testing can find them in public, low cost and expensive private schools. The test results then allow a nation to ensure only the best 10 % of skilled students get well funded top merit based university access. Further sorting of the top 10% gets even better results with scholarships, easy loans, grants, academic industry and government participation.
No real effort is allowed to be wasted on the lower 90% of students.
A lot of cash might be seen to be spent but the best is saved for the smartest few %. Guest workers and foreigners at a lower cost can fill the low and medium skills sets at a lower cost and have fewer rights and have a loss of legal documentation as a control factor.
The lessons of vast science education spending of the 1950-80's was well understood. A lot of average science, math graduates just makes for a lot of average academic workers and their average private sector jobs. On average smarter workers might also be tempted protest unsafe working conditions if they have some understanding about science.
Looks good on test result and international academic rankings but does not provide the worlds very best long term R&D for gov, mil and private sector.
The "secret room" idea is just getting access for a splitter in any nation, part of the USA. More splitters per room is not a big problem with optical. :) :) Massive optical links between nations are not an issue, new consumer optical down a street is more of the same.
A location is vital, where data enters, exits the USA, 5 eye nations and other sites. Leverage, partnership.
The filtering is done in other parts of the world as needed, realtime or over time with all the mirrored data ie collect it all.
Scale does not seem to be a problem for most advanced nations anymore. Australia, NZ can get all of Asia without US or UK help.
The UK got every message to/from/within Ireland and between the US and Ireland in the 1980's.
Japan can get Asia, parts of Russia in bulk with its own systems.
Most nations would just use very fast upgraded Echelon like systems. Know the called number or both numbers? Does the call, data mention a list of words? Know one side of the call via voice print? Very similar methods for data, instant translations. Collect it all stopped been the big issue into the 1960's. Sort as needed.
Once split the "secret building" can be any massive secure site with power, cooling as needed. With generational, weak, junk international crypto standards, its all just very fast plain text sorting
Optical to the home in parts of the world is just a lot more of the same at 1,000 megabits ++ per second
Its understanding of the connections, voices, slang, accents, ensuring global use of free junk weak crypto thats the magic.
Re peering and use of US private sector. .com upgrades.
Cheap international standards that are US friendly in terms of new equipment costs and international peering costs via, to and from the USA.
Subsidized funding builds an international reputation that ensured no other nation gets ideas about expensive direct links or distant interconnects of their own?
The EU or South American call or data will pass via the US and then finds is final cheap destination.
That also cuts down on the risk of power, space, cooling, bandwidth, site compromise if it can all be kept at select, expected big data sites.
Local papers, citizen journalists might ask about power, water use by a gov site but fail to see any story in decades of massive
Trade deals globally or bilateral with another nation might have a very positive result to ensure cheap US peering is not locked out by another nation for any reason.
With the private sector been herded into helping or staff helping or collaborating or been called on to "collaborate and cooperate"...
Not much of the US private sector is really "free" anymore not to help make lists or have gov networks installed to track traffic in real time.
Cyber Information Sharing Act is just the start with its FOIA issues and domestic access beyond NSL (national security letter) or FISC (FISA Court) access.
Over time the entire US tech sectors private net logging is been guided into a legal, US court friendly government "collaborate and cooperate" database.
Every aspect of 'Foreign" logging is now going to be used "legally" domestically.
A collect it all list.