Lets hope the certs for that end to end link are still good as offered:)
A lot of nations will now just go back to one time pads and number stations with all the junk Western networks used for quality disinformation.
The problem is tame junk encryption is really open to many ex staff, former staff, other nations, cults, faiths, rich people, political groups, anyone with lots of cash and a few contacts.
SISMI-Telecom scandal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Greek wiretapping case 2004–05 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...–05
Cell networks have a very low standard of local encryption thanks to weak junk international standards been set over many years. The results can now be see and understood.
Re "If he was sitting on this information, then why wait so long to release it? "
All the material is now in the hands of the press. The press can release the material in any way it wants or needs to.
Re "Could someone explain where Edward Snowden is getting these kind of leaks and infos from, so long after he fled the NSA?"
The material released by the press is long term generational projects staff get read into as they need to work on the same projects or with staff who do.
Re the how http://www.bbc.com/news/world-... "Edward Snowden: I was a high-tech spy for the CIA and NSA" (28 May 2014)
"...he said he had worked for the CIA and NSA undercover, overseas, and lectured at the Defense Intelligence Agency."
Re "... but do they have any other ability to use the data?"
Parallel construction or just keeping up on slag, street crime, terms, faces, people, voice prints, images sent, gps, serial numbers in each photo or video uploaded? A vast database of interaction, who is smart and turns their phone off, two people walking towards each other who turn their phones off before a meeting but where not understood to be connected until that deeper data mining uncovered their cell logs.
Locals find the locations, federal computers look over years of huge telco logs. Funding is hidden from a local walk in FOIA at a city and state level.
The cost of asking the phone company?
Letting a phone company flag or set a number been logged in a database. If staff or other nations have access to that phone company database then all legal wiretaps might get seen by a few different people or other intelligence agencies. The US seems to have found out over the years that it cannot trust its own tame telcos internal networking.
Yes all the paper files and audio tapes in the archives of Central and Eastern Europe from the early1990's should be a warning from history.
The West likes to collect too;)
+1 for this. Divest from the tame brands that fooled generations with junk encryption.
Teach about the one time pad, number stations and other good encryption that works.
The whistleblowers over the decades have offered insights into how the telco networks work and how weak encryption standards are kept in place for generations.
"So long as the tame brands pretend to encrypt for us, we will pretend to communicate."
Get creative with local political issues and long emails to the local press. Fill the text with past stories about local events.
Drive around with an older working cell phone on random local events.
The part about a system of computer networks that protect dissidents, journalists, NGO's, faith groups, freedom seekers and other color revolution efforts could be open to law enforcement officials at a funding and skill well below an intelligence agency level.
If the anonymity and privacy on offer by onion routing for dissidents, journalists, NGO is trackable on domestic local enforcement budget then what are other well funded nations doing on their internal telco networks?
If the US at a police level can track all users on onion routing other what kinds of lists do other nations have or what have their domestic intelligence agencies found?
Public news like this sheds light on the low costs and ability to track onion routing. Down from intelligence agency to a state or city?
1+ for easily and percisely tag almost all photos we were able to stuff in it. In microseconds.
This tech is old for the 2d face work. Its fast for local police Privacy concerns? UK police test 'faster-than-ever' facial recognition software http://rt.com/uk/173292-facial... (July 16, 2014)
Or just read the public info on records per second in the 10,000 records/sec http://www.nec.com/en/global/r...
+1 for this great suggestion. A good audio codec, video codec, encryption and emoticons. Clean new open code that works as a new instant messaging app:)
From: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firef...
"50% of Fx users on Windows run 64 bit OS. We've reached a threshold where the effort makes sense."
Work on the webcam side now that HTML5 video is supported.
Re How in hell the voters from Britain as well as from America allow such things to happen in the first place??
Addiction. For the UK it goes back to the Defence of the Realm Act 1914 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... with the
"To prevent persons communicating with the enemy or obtaining information for that purpose..."
During and after ww1 the constant flow of new information became totally addictive to generations of UK governments. New laws to ensure funding continued.
Tempora is just this decades reflection of generations of networking and communications efforts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Another reason was the US and UK had got the German OKW-Chi work on from the Target Intelligence Committee teams (TICOM) on the Russian Fish system.
A Soviet military teleprinter that used packet switching was then open to the US and UK in 1945 thanks to German efforts during ww2.
Later efforts by German teams in the UK helped with the Caviar project but only got Soviet administration messages.
All that German material given to the UK in 1945 by the Germans was still been sorted by the UK into the early 1950's.
Russia has its own systems and was under constant decryption efforts by Germany in ww2 and then UK and German staff after ww2.
The same methods just kept on giving the US and UK what they needed for years and they where not going to tell the world about how easy it was or the ww2 german staff that where helping in mid 1945.
Think of it as a Operation Paperclip for ww2 German intelligence assets that kept on working in 1945:)
In the early 1940's yes. By the 1950's the UK had an entire new generation of skilled people working on jet, nuclear and electronic brain projects. The GCHQ had moved onto helping the US with its difficult Korean war issues. By the 1950's Turing's role in ww2 and his 1950's travel was seen a huge security risk.
Any documents and hardware from the 1940's was also seen as a security risk. Why tell the world how the UK had won ww2 by reading German Red, Tunny material in realtime? Its a good trick that the UK could keep working with Tempora https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Re China and the risks of intelligence, bugging and manipulation?
"remove high-end servers" and "replace them with a local brand":) (05/27/2014) http://www.zerohedge.com/news/...
AC: A self signed letter from an official due to some imagined totality of circumstances does not remove the US protections regarding unreasonable search and seizure.
The US Constitution is not some living document an official can alter with some new view of what is legal reasonableness.
The people who had the letter shown to them and their legal team would be put under more extra special top secret surveillance.
All members of the US press who showed any interest in the case, legal team or letter would be under more surveillance.
Any member of the public who linked, hosted or commented on the story would be under surveillance.
ie everybody would then share in the sealed secret court fun of that original NSL. RICO Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act like:)
Re "I really wish someone would have the balls to stand up to the blatantly unconstitutional bullshit prevalent in the system."
A few groups in the USA have:
"In 2005, Library Connection, received a National Security Letter (NSL) from the FBI, along with its accompanying perpetual gag order, demanding library patrons’ records." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Different oversight and historical accountability. If the front and back license plates, driver and passengers are going to get tracked in some federal database best to use a federal database that lawyers, the press, politicians and Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) cant really question or even know about.
It also hides the requests for optical character recognition, facial recognition system away from the teams of journalists who look deep into state, federal gov and mil procurement databases for just such public contracts.
The US press and legal teams at a state and federal level where able to track cellular phone surveillance device due to paper work.
By using different federal enforcement projects to buy and run tracking systems the public databases and open court material can be kept more clean from legal teams and the press.
The US has its own unique nuclear issues. Some locations where selected on older planning ideas and more is now understood about the deep geology.
Just thinking about reports on earthquakes and flooding is expensive as the press and locals do read the reports and ask more difficult questions.
The need for pressure-venting flaps and what role they could have or how they would work when needed?
The costs of parts, the ability to fit, look after and even buy quality parts is the main issue in the US.
The site locations of basic emergency and limited redundant systems has been set over decades and is costed. The locations of US cooling, power, electrical sub systems as a back up to the main systems when they fail is price set as US standards and tested over decades.
The US has a lot of old questions about its old designs and just keeping or getting needed spare parts that meet low US standards is difficult.
If the US now has to pay to upgrade or even rebuild parts of its nuclear sites to fancy new standards? Find the cracks, report the cracks, fix and then pay to have teams look for new cracks as part of ongoing ongoing preventative maintenance?
The easy way out is just another round of decades of US paper licence extensions.
If the public saw press images from foreign inspections at US sites? Or understood the role of US insurance for US nuclear sites?
Best to keep the paper licence extensions, keep all foreign inspections focused to non proliferation issues and veto any talk of costly international upgrades.
No need to waste profits on new ideas as the needed maintenance costs are already too expensive. Upgrades as needed for parts only and the locals keep their jobs. The nuclear priesthood did a great job with the US nuclear paper licence extensions. The next part is the looking after profits and any keeping new nuclear standards voluntary.
Re: "But, honestly, that same amount of money will get you a MUCH better NEW laptop and there are ways to secure a system around AMT."
The issues with the newer systems is the remote low level access thats part of the "NEW laptop" or computer system.
If a person is seen and tracked outside away from their networked computer that would give time to access that networked computer.
Some of the needed tools are are built into the hardware as sold and powered waiting for the remote commands.
After a system is altered all the owner would see in their own logs is the soft sleep or shutdown and their own use.
Projects like this remove some of that built in, waiting, easy remote access as sold. A remote system that could have granted easy network access might now need physical access or other network access that might be more a bit more difficult to hide.
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Lets hope the certs for that end to end link are still good as offered :)
A lot of nations will now just go back to one time pads and number stations with all the junk Western networks used for quality disinformation.
The problem is tame junk encryption is really open to many ex staff, former staff, other nations, cults, faiths, rich people, political groups, anyone with lots of cash and a few contacts.
SISMI-Telecom scandal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Greek wiretapping case 2004–05 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...–05
Cell networks have a very low standard of local encryption thanks to weak junk international standards been set over many years. The results can now be see and understood.
Re "If he was sitting on this information, then why wait so long to release it? "
All the material is now in the hands of the press. The press can release the material in any way it wants or needs to.
Re "Could someone explain where Edward Snowden is getting these kind of leaks and infos from, so long after he fled the NSA?"
The material released by the press is long term generational projects staff get read into as they need to work on the same projects or with staff who do.
Re the how http://www.bbc.com/news/world-... "Edward Snowden: I was a high-tech spy for the CIA and NSA" (28 May 2014)
"...he said he had worked for the CIA and NSA undercover, overseas, and lectured at the Defense Intelligence Agency."
Re "... but do they have any other ability to use the data?"
Parallel construction or just keeping up on slag, street crime, terms, faces, people, voice prints, images sent, gps, serial numbers in each photo or video uploaded? A vast database of interaction, who is smart and turns their phone off, two people walking towards each other who turn their phones off before a meeting but where not understood to be connected until that deeper data mining uncovered their cell logs.
Locals find the locations, federal computers look over years of huge telco logs. Funding is hidden from a local walk in FOIA at a city and state level.
The cost of asking the phone company?
Letting a phone company flag or set a number been logged in a database. If staff or other nations have access to that phone company database then all legal wiretaps might get seen by a few different people or other intelligence agencies. The US seems to have found out over the years that it cannot trust its own tame telcos internal networking.
Yes all the paper files and audio tapes in the archives of Central and Eastern Europe from the early1990's should be a warning from history. ;)
The West likes to collect too
+1 for this. Divest from the tame brands that fooled generations with junk encryption.
Teach about the one time pad, number stations and other good encryption that works.
The whistleblowers over the decades have offered insights into how the telco networks work and how weak encryption standards are kept in place for generations.
"So long as the tame brands pretend to encrypt for us, we will pretend to communicate."
Get creative with local political issues and long emails to the local press. Fill the text with past stories about local events.
Drive around with an older working cell phone on random local events.
The part about a system of computer networks that protect dissidents, journalists, NGO's, faith groups, freedom seekers and other color revolution efforts could be open to law enforcement officials at a funding and skill well below an intelligence agency level.
If the anonymity and privacy on offer by onion routing for dissidents, journalists, NGO is trackable on domestic local enforcement budget then what are other well funded nations doing on their internal telco networks?
If the US at a police level can track all users on onion routing other what kinds of lists do other nations have or what have their domestic intelligence agencies found?
Public news like this sheds light on the low costs and ability to track onion routing. Down from intelligence agency to a state or city?
1+ for easily and percisely tag almost all photos we were able to stuff in it. In microseconds.
This tech is old for the 2d face work. Its fast for local police Privacy concerns? UK police test 'faster-than-ever' facial recognition software http://rt.com/uk/173292-facial... (July 16, 2014)
Or just read the public info on records per second in the 10,000 records/sec http://www.nec.com/en/global/r...
How is open code everybody can see, work on, understand and create with "a different monoculture?"
The past closed proprietary DHTML features?
+1 for this great suggestion. A good audio codec, video codec, encryption and emoticons. Clean new open code that works as a new instant messaging app :)
Re "It's a mail reader. That is all it needs to be."
Crypto GUI with the signing and encrypting.
From: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firef...
"50% of Fx users on Windows run 64 bit OS. We've reached a threshold where the effort makes sense."
Work on the webcam side now that HTML5 video is supported.
Re How in hell the voters from Britain as well as from America allow such things to happen in the first place??
Addiction. For the UK it goes back to the Defence of the Realm Act 1914 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... with the
"To prevent persons communicating with the enemy or obtaining information for that purpose..."
During and after ww1 the constant flow of new information became totally addictive to generations of UK governments. New laws to ensure funding continued.
Tempora is just this decades reflection of generations of networking and communications efforts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Another reason was the US and UK had got the German OKW-Chi work on from the Target Intelligence Committee teams (TICOM) on the Russian Fish system. :)
A Soviet military teleprinter that used packet switching was then open to the US and UK in 1945 thanks to German efforts during ww2.
Later efforts by German teams in the UK helped with the Caviar project but only got Soviet administration messages.
All that German material given to the UK in 1945 by the Germans was still been sorted by the UK into the early 1950's.
Russia has its own systems and was under constant decryption efforts by Germany in ww2 and then UK and German staff after ww2.
The same methods just kept on giving the US and UK what they needed for years and they where not going to tell the world about how easy it was or the ww2 german staff that where helping in mid 1945.
Think of it as a Operation Paperclip for ww2 German intelligence assets that kept on working in 1945
In the early 1940's yes. By the 1950's the UK had an entire new generation of skilled people working on jet, nuclear and electronic brain projects. The GCHQ had moved onto helping the US with its difficult Korean war issues. By the 1950's Turing's role in ww2 and his 1950's travel was seen a huge security risk.
Any documents and hardware from the 1940's was also seen as a security risk. Why tell the world how the UK had won ww2 by reading German Red, Tunny material in realtime? Its a good trick that the UK could keep working with Tempora https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Re China and the risks of intelligence, bugging and manipulation? :) (05/27/2014)
"remove high-end servers" and "replace them with a local brand"
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/...
AC amendments are not self signed letters from officials with dreams about changing circumstances.
AC: A self signed letter from an official due to some imagined totality of circumstances does not remove the US protections regarding unreasonable search and seizure.
The US Constitution is not some living document an official can alter with some new view of what is legal reasonableness.
The people who had the letter shown to them and their legal team would be put under more extra special top secret surveillance. :)
All members of the US press who showed any interest in the case, legal team or letter would be under more surveillance.
Any member of the public who linked, hosted or commented on the story would be under surveillance.
ie everybody would then share in the sealed secret court fun of that original NSL. RICO Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act like
Re "I really wish someone would have the balls to stand up to the blatantly unconstitutional bullshit prevalent in the system."
A few groups in the USA have:
"In 2005, Library Connection, received a National Security Letter (NSL) from the FBI, along with its accompanying perpetual gag order, demanding library patrons’ records." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Yes Operation Fast and Furious
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Different oversight and historical accountability.
If the front and back license plates, driver and passengers are going to get tracked in some federal database best to use a federal database that lawyers, the press, politicians and Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) cant really question or even know about.
It also hides the requests for optical character recognition, facial recognition system away from the teams of journalists who look deep into state, federal gov and mil procurement databases for just such public contracts.
The US press and legal teams at a state and federal level where able to track cellular phone surveillance device due to paper work.
By using different federal enforcement projects to buy and run tracking systems the public databases and open court material can be kept more clean from legal teams and the press.
The US has its own unique nuclear issues. Some locations where selected on older planning ideas and more is now understood about the deep geology.
Just thinking about reports on earthquakes and flooding is expensive as the press and locals do read the reports and ask more difficult questions.
The need for pressure-venting flaps and what role they could have or how they would work when needed?
The costs of parts, the ability to fit, look after and even buy quality parts is the main issue in the US.
The site locations of basic emergency and limited redundant systems has been set over decades and is costed. The locations of US cooling, power, electrical sub systems as a back up to the main systems when they fail is price set as US standards and tested over decades.
The US has a lot of old questions about its old designs and just keeping or getting needed spare parts that meet low US standards is difficult.
If the US now has to pay to upgrade or even rebuild parts of its nuclear sites to fancy new standards? Find the cracks, report the cracks, fix and then pay to have teams look for new cracks as part of ongoing ongoing preventative maintenance?
The easy way out is just another round of decades of US paper licence extensions.
If the public saw press images from foreign inspections at US sites? Or understood the role of US insurance for US nuclear sites?
Best to keep the paper licence extensions, keep all foreign inspections focused to non proliferation issues and veto any talk of costly international upgrades.
No need to waste profits on new ideas as the needed maintenance costs are already too expensive. Upgrades as needed for parts only and the locals keep their jobs. The nuclear priesthood did a great job with the US nuclear paper licence extensions. The next part is the looking after profits and any keeping new nuclear standards voluntary.
Re: "But, honestly, that same amount of money will get you a MUCH better NEW laptop and there are ways to secure a system around AMT."
The issues with the newer systems is the remote low level access thats part of the "NEW laptop" or computer system.
If a person is seen and tracked outside away from their networked computer that would give time to access that networked computer.
Some of the needed tools are are built into the hardware as sold and powered waiting for the remote commands.
After a system is altered all the owner would see in their own logs is the soft sleep or shutdown and their own use.
Projects like this remove some of that built in, waiting, easy remote access as sold. A remote system that could have granted easy network access might now need physical access or other network access that might be more a bit more difficult to hide.