Yes as with the news about Australia over the past few days. A tax to pay to store logs.
VPN use will drop all internet data into another country. All that is stored is years of logs to one ip range:)
The FRA has always been close to the NSA and GCHQ. A close third party to the 5 eye nations.
Cable collection, an expansion of collection sites shared with the NSA, Tailored Access Operations, Quantum, help with telecommunications.
Sweden helps US spy on Russia, Snowden leaks show December 6, 2013 http://www.smh.com.au/world/sw...
"excerpt of a larger document showing Sweden’s status as a closely allied “Third-party partner”" http://www.svt.se/ug/read-the-... (11 december 2013) https://www.eff.org/nsa-spying... has a few Sweden links to media reports.
Yes it becomes interesting long term. An Australian issued credit card used to buy a VPN product is flagged?
Buy VPN time with a crypto currency? Then buying crypto currency with an Australian issued credit card is an issue:)
Australia will just request help from all the more friendly VPN host countries to get credit card lists:)
Yes VPN providers will just exit that encrypted Australian usage in another random country. All that will be collected is hours of usage to one ip range for years:)
Smartphones, tablets would still give up the gps and other data to the mobile network.
Transport flights full of medical supplies and specialized personnel can go in.
Mil staff understand incubation period and the need for quarantine on return.
The lack of bed space in negative-pressure rooms around the world is the interesting number to consider.
The number of transport pods ready, the filters, protective clothing in place and ready to use.
How many regional, teaching, state, city medical sites have the expert care ready? One bed? A few beds?
Thats why a new net tax is needed to help with the costs.
"Secret government briefing admits metadata law cost and warns of 'internet tax' campaign" (October 30, 2014) (video) http://www.smh.com.au/federal-...
AFP will use data retention to fight piracy (Oct 30, 2014) http://www.itnews.com.au/News/...
""Generally they do this in real-time, so the two years of holding this data probably doesn't make a lot of difference. That process of resolving an IP address to an account name is relevant, and it happens all the time.""
Government introduces data retention bill to Parliament (30 October, 2014 ) https://www.computerworld.com....
"source of communication, destination of communication, date, time and duration of communication, or of its connection to a relevant service, type of a communication, or a type of relevant service used in connection with a communication, location of equipment, or a line, used in connection with a communication"
Thats not "web browsing" history:) Just most details surrounding the content:)
From embassy details in the 1920's and 1930's to HOW (Home Office Warrant), to ENIGMA in ww2, to early satellite ground stations, Skynet (satellite) efforts, every call in and out of Ireland, to what is now understood of the internet under US/UK collect it all.
Over years the UK likes to read about the world in plain text and in near real time.
When tasked staff ask, they are told its legal in a domestic context.
The tame press is told to talk of tracking Soviet/Russian movements. Thats sells the hardware sale and upgrade side.
The good news is more people seem to understand that their cheap mobile is a beacon, microphone, gps and that voiceprints will always find that new phone.
The press is also aware of what a laptop or phone can do when working on an interesting story.
Under Tempora https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... any message in and out of 5 Eye nations and friends can be reconciled with a start and destination ip.
If your still chatting, a back door or rootkit would get the rest.
Anything encrypted just attracts interest until decoded or a plaintext way in is found.
Then its the hops of friends, friends of friends and all networking usage.
The only way around such systems is the number station or correct use of the one time pad.
With data retention in other nations like Australia that ip is going back to a real user as discovered.
http://www.itnews.com.au/News/... (Oct 30, 2014)
"Generally they do this in real-time, so the two years of holding this data probably doesn't make a lot of difference. That process of resolving an IP address to an account name is relevant, and it happens all the time."
The history of the UK RIPA, SIGINT Modernisation Programme efforts can be seen even after new changes.
Thats the details surround a message to, from, when where, sent from and connection (gps or a house).
Its getting very easy for gov and mil to put the internet back together over days or years.
Re: "There was malware installed to get more information than just the IP."
The press has more details on the word "software": http://gizmodo.com/fbi-plants-...
"....-brand malware would be planted on his computer, allowing the Agency to ultimately nab the purported perpetrator. " http://www.slate.com/blogs/fut... (OCT. 28 2014)
"...using a phony—and malware-laced..." http://www.theguardian.com/com... (29 October 2014)
"...all to deliver malware to a suspect in a criminal case.."
http://rt.com/usa/200131-seatt... ( October 28, 2014)
"... was made possible with the use of a so-called “Computer & Internet Protocol Address Verifier” program, or CIPAV, that had been remotely installed on the individual’s machine to collect and then communicate to the authorities the user-specific information that eventually identified the suspect."
Its all a nice boondoggle. The scanning products, the comparing of names and address to lists of people who need to be watched. Maintenance contracts and new OCR upgrades added.
Have fun contacting your local journalists with a letter.
"I've got one that can read and write!"
Start writing to a lot of the press, thanking for them for their work. Be sure to fill in your large and stylish sender details on the back so the gov database gets it all.
Increase your own domestic dossier every year. Think back to the 1980's Main Core database https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Expect every email, phone call, fax, web 2.0 interaction, contact to be tracked by the mil and gov.
They just want to know how the gov or mil is trending in real time and ensure no staff are talking to the press in their own time:)
So what can the press do?
If you have a contact meet in a deep underground car park. That stops most look down views tracking top staff as two car pull up next to each other.
Dont bring a phone, even removing a battery before a meeting can be tracked back in time with with all other people in the area.
Two phones are powered off in the same area around the same time, that could be the meeting.
Also expect any car of interest to have a beacon installed.
All digital communications and passwords can be found with keystroke logging over time. So consider a clean laptop for each story.
Then also enjoy the fact you are been tracked.
Start looking back over 10 or 20 years of city, local and federal politics. Get creative with pages of fiction surrounding new contacts, list old and new real projects that have new details, banks, patents, new emerging crypto technology, new contacts with interesting real people with new "details".
Pages of 'real' interviews, 'new' contacts, emails that only get worked on in draft from random coffee shops. Set up a few working 24/7 camera systems.
All that is tracking most of press is a complex computer system looking for names, projects and distant hops to people in databases.
Mention the wrong project and the story is flagged. Is that the first mention seen? Does the press have a new informant with first fresh product?
An insider, direct knowledge been handed down, the first fruit from a productive new contact.
Then a human or team is tasked. Ensure they have a lot to read;)
Yes AC its NBC (nuclear, biological, and chemical) but
"U.S. soldiers are being flown to Liberia with just FOUR HOURS of hazmat training as Ebola death toll hits 4,546" (18 October 2014) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
re "Why didn't they have something like this already, after all these years of talking about bioterrorism?"
it really depends how the US talks about its bio spending. Most of that went into the science of getting around the international treaty outlawing biological warfare.
So a huge effort to ensure tests could be done to make products, test them and then try and find a cure without the international community asking too many questions.
That has nothing to do with basic US science or spending or what is for public release to treat sick people in Africa.
Beyond that is the grant system to work for academic fame on different projects in Biosafety level 2 labs and pull in massive amounts of federal funding with the correct bioterrorism grant wording.
Great news for your book chapter, lab funding, staff size, city and state university state fame, not much help for sick people in Africa.
The final bioterrorism cash flow was the US wide sale of kits, testing, suits, filters, products, new services, long term maintenance contracts. All ready to suit up select state and federal staff but not much help for sick people in Africa.
Lots of cash floating around at different mil, gov, state and federal levels but most of that is going on existing projects or as tax payers cash going for products and boondoggle services in place around the USA.
The only real interesting aspect the US really has in Africa is for what is/was Intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) and wants to keep that 'local' connection in place.
"U.S. expands secret intelligence operations in Africa" (June 13, 2012) http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
To keep that intelligence flowing US teams will be put on the ground. Lets hope they are all NBC experts with many years of training.
The filters and suits have to work perfectly every time in the heat over days, weeks, months.
Thats the kind of work best left to experts or teams in place that have to learned to get to right over time.
Any break in needed skill set will allow for a NBC ready team to face some real issues.
Mix back in with people at home after 21 days? What about that small percentage that show an incubation longer than 21 days?
Thats a nice number to have to work out over time while been tested and re tested.
Perfect filters, cleaning and suits every time. Got that incubation isolation time perfect for all members returning too?
Lets hope the US sends its NBC expert teams with years of intensive training and the best equipment.
The NSA always looked after the wider educational needs of its staff due to hidden funding. The GCHQ had finally learned the reason why staff need to be taken care of with good conditions, more educational support and wages by the 1960-80's.
It really depends on how much the US gov wants to pay, the conditions offered in hot and cold parts of the world and the quality of long term higher education support offered to each person.
If not many other nations will be ready to listen, support and offer funding to any cleared US staff member who feels unhappy and needs a new friend.
Or just get their own people digitally cleared as new US cyberwarriors. Over many years a few will make it to the top of cyberwarrior command.
Re why not hire civilians for 'cyber warrior' positions?
With US mil staff they can be kept on base, called up, sent on any mission, given meds, kept in remote, hot or cold locations on low pay. Their base and social lives can be understood, controlled, legally shaped and corrected. Their internet use logged, the calls listened in on. No escape form any task over years after the skill set has been learned.
With civilians they have real rights, real lawyers, can sort of still say no to meds and remote locations for years, can report crimes, bosses who may or may not apply for a contract, may have limited digital only background clearances.
The mil ends up with someone who has the private sector skills and a computer has a trail of data that says they lived in the US, went to school in the US, has US parents and has no strange reading or web use habits.
In the past their schools, friends, family around the US would have been found, interviewed and life story fully investigated.
The US mil wants the kind of staff the NSA and GCHQ had in the 1950's. Any location, any task, no questions, no lawyers.
The US has a few issues with civilian employees and its deeper.mil networks.
In the past 10 or so years the numbers of people in the US with some form of security clearance has expanded.
In the wild rush to get new language skills, cloud computing, reduce the walls between different areas of the mil and gov networks and other ideas a lot of staff where hired.
Staff with older security clearance paper work that was updated by a contractor or boss or firm, security clearance options given to staff who might be kind of dual citizens, new citizens or have no real connection with the USA.
Everything they see is sent back to their real country while been advanced deeper into cleared US projects over many years..
Thats 10 plus years of random strangers with rapid digital background work providing perfect paper work and clearances wondering around the contractor and private sector getting into any US mil work offered. Great for the boss, great for the investors, great for no bid contracts.
Some in the US mil seem to understand that this rapid uptake of random new people is not good long term and needs to be understood and story of life background work done each new and existing staff member.
Civilian employees or gov or mil all have to be cleared. What the US hired over the past 10 years was more a language and skill set hunt.
A lot of interesting people now have jobs for life, hidden faiths, hidden loyalties but the US gov has no real idea who they are, why their private sector boss cleared them or if any or some digital database work was really done on them. That is interesting over the productive life, many result and academic advancements.
Who really knows where a lot of the new gov cleared staff will end up in 30 years?
Smart people in the US gov have seen all this before in other nations and over history. A flood of new staff without deep background work allows a lot of people to get protected deep penetration agents in for decades and over many different projects.
A lot got in, a few will be found decades later.
+1. If it works and is for sale in the USA, the standard will be ready as sold for CALEA.
Thats ready for tracking, remote turn on, software update and voice recording at a village, town, city, sate, federal level as sold.
Some much older tech or kits in private hands for security work may need upgrading.
Great link, ty.
The "Such an arrangement would mean all seven satellites would have continuous radio visibility with Indian control stations." and "A network of 21 ranging stations located across the country will provide data for the orbit determination of the satellites and monitoring of the navigation signal." should help most readers understand the navigation system.
Great news from India and it shows the long term design efforts. Fully understanding the science and been able to build the needed systems at a national level has allowed for the year by year growth.
"But we are convinced that if we are to play a meaningful role nationally, and in the community of nations, we must be second to none in the application of advanced technologies to the real problems of man and society." has worked out well.
from Indian Space Research Organisation at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
RE"So there were chemical weapons in Iraq?"
Iraq invaded Iran and the West was very happy to see Iran fully degraded.
Iraq was winning so Iran was supported a bit. Then Iran was winning so Iraq was supported a bit. Other nations got to sell all kinds of support and old mil spare parts over the years to both sides for huge amounts of cash.
It was a huge arms sale and everybody was winning but Iraq and Iran.
Iran finally got creative and was able to push Iraq back in open battle. This was not good so the US, UK and EU offered the chemical weapons systems to push Iran back and restore the expected no-win situation.
So Iraq was full of US, UK, EU supplied raw materials, production lines and brands.
Iran, Iraq, the US, the UK, UN, world press all knew what was going on and had the paper work.
Years later all Iraq had was out of date raw materials in bulk, listed with the UN and US, UK.
When the UK and UK invaded and occupied Iraq they found, walked into sites with the out of date, UN registered raw materials.
Did all the US and UK troops have all the protective equipment needed all the time for industrial exposure at all sites? Where all the filters fitted correctly, in good working order and in good condition to protect the US and UK troops per site, every time?
The on site UK and UK had two options. Destroy on site or secure the sites and allow contractors to make a site safe later.
If the raw material sites where destroyed where all US and UK troops in the area fully protected over the time until safe?
If not US and UK troops would have returned home with different levels of industrial exposure.
That would be costly to any US or UK medical system. Better for the West to say and do nothing and hint their own exposed troops where suffering from stress.
Any tests done would have to be cleared by gov experts on cost and need. No need for complex tests if its just stress after war and occupation.
Govs and mil never have to tell the public too much about their export deals to Iraq or lack of clean up skills during occupation.
Brands that exported to Iraq are safe thanks to state and federal political leaders.
Troops exposed to US and UK export grade chemicals or products is just not an issue that fits with the winning, greeted with "sweets and flowers" talking points.
Win win win. Iran and Iraq are degraded while been supplied by the West. The costs of keeping troops in wars and occupations by the contractors was wonderful.
The troops returned with "stress" after many years of duty.
Now the media and medical experts are finally reporting reality but the only real question is:
Did your quality filter work well and was it on at the right times in Iraq or (other nations if in "special" forces) every time?
Not much people can do about tame Interactive voice response (IVR), calls kept for kept for training purposes over the years and passed onto gov/mil.
The good news is people now know more and know of the public, private , gov and mil sharing of tech like voice prints and the low cost of huge generational databases.
What was once used to track high ranking Soviet officials in realtime and people of interest in South America is now at home, cheap and for 'legal' domestic use.
With the added features on International Mobile Subscriber Identity catchers and the next gen IMSI-catchers expect the voice print tech to be in the hands of city and state officials.
Driving your car near any protests with powered cell tech and city parallel construction kit might just log all.
re "Well, speaker recognition dates as far back as facial recognition does."
It was big in the 1980's to find interesting people using different phones and very early cell phones in South America by the US mil/gov.
The UK enjoyed using it "Spy-in-sky patrols over British cities in hunt for Taliban fighters" (3 August 2008) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
"They are attempting to identify suspects using ‘voice prints’"... "Traffic’ intercepted by the equipment on board is analysed and processed, probably at the GCHQ spy centre in Cheltenham, searching for voice matches"
The only real change is the cost of collection, cost of sorting and ability to build on public, telco, private and mil databases been shared with the Five Eye nations and friends.
Expect every arrival chatdown to be recored and indexed with your face, passport and the usual biometrics details.
Expect every car rental, duty free, cafe airport chatdown to be recored and indexed with your face, passport and the usual biometrics details.
Get you talking, keep you talking, its not just about the car rental use or been friendly to the wider travelling public;)
Domestically the telco and trusted brands Interactive voice response (IVR) will record the rest of the wider populations over years.
That 1 or 5 min chat with Bob or Sally in telco support is not just kept for training purposes or quality control:)
Your billing details have been matched with something globally unique.
What are the options for the USA?
Got that negative pressure or half-facepiece respirator ready, full facepiece or hood or helmet per medial team member?
Or is the just in time supply track on the way with more expensive kit?
How many negative-pressure airborne infection isolation rooms are ready per city, state?
With all that potential for aerosolising fluids the infection-control teams really have to start thinking fast per city.
Home stay with a box of food and expert medical care visit per home per city?
Big new tent outside a regional teaching hospital? Your local Care Camp is ready too ie a drip and a camp bed.
Then you have the contractors to clean up the used camp bed and get that hermetically sealed casket.
The legal system is ready per state. The expert camp contractors are ready to feed, wash, clean and care for huge numbers of people at short notice. The caskets have always been ready.
The only question is are people ready to stay home, hope that powered air-purifying respirator was fitted correctly every day for all staff or wait for the legal order to get ready for that local camp?
So dont worry, the state and federal legal system will get people into well funded camps. The contractors have all the quality hermetically sealed caskets needed per camp.
Just as the tame telcos have been very helpful so have Western shipping firms;) Lots of interesting container ships around and into China:)
The space plane is just another way of keeping the cash flowing to contractors and keeping old space related jobs safe.
Keep the expensive skill sets with a few more projects and generations.
Re optics of a military spy satellite... how handy would that be?
Many nations that would be interesting to a military spy satellite would have the ability to track this and over time every other US spy satellite.
The selling point of this project would have been to remove all the limitations of a traditional, trackable path of a hardware limited military spy satellite.
Other nations know its up, know kit can be swapped out, know it is a bit different and have taken simple, very low cost steps to avoid any new US spy efforts.
The handy aspect is the US tooling, profits, jobs, ongoing development boondoggle at a state and national level.
Most nations understand and track all US spy satellites, ships, aircraft new and old.
Container ships and then containers with a signals package moving deep in country would be more creative and unexpected that another expensive, trackable military spy in the sky:)
Other nations just ensure the US has something to see 24/7 from space. A bit harder now than than classic warm shadows. Lined up in neat rows and countable.
Slashdot Mirror
Yes as with the news about Australia over the past few days. A tax to pay to store logs. :)
VPN use will drop all internet data into another country. All that is stored is years of logs to one ip range
The FRA has always been close to the NSA and GCHQ. A close third party to the 5 eye nations.
Cable collection, an expansion of collection sites shared with the NSA, Tailored Access Operations, Quantum, help with telecommunications.
Sweden helps US spy on Russia, Snowden leaks show December 6, 2013
http://www.smh.com.au/world/sw...
"excerpt of a larger document showing Sweden’s status as a closely allied “Third-party partner”"
http://www.svt.se/ug/read-the-... (11 december 2013)
https://www.eff.org/nsa-spying... has a few Sweden links to media reports.
Yes it becomes interesting long term. An Australian issued credit card used to buy a VPN product is flagged? :) :)
Buy VPN time with a crypto currency? Then buying crypto currency with an Australian issued credit card is an issue
Australia will just request help from all the more friendly VPN host countries to get credit card lists
Yes VPN providers will just exit that encrypted Australian usage in another random country. All that will be collected is hours of usage to one ip range for years :)
Smartphones, tablets would still give up the gps and other data to the mobile network.
Transport flights full of medical supplies and specialized personnel can go in.
Mil staff understand incubation period and the need for quarantine on return.
The lack of bed space in negative-pressure rooms around the world is the interesting number to consider.
The number of transport pods ready, the filters, protective clothing in place and ready to use.
How many regional, teaching, state, city medical sites have the expert care ready? One bed? A few beds?
Thats why a new net tax is needed to help with the costs. :) Just most details surrounding the content :)
"Secret government briefing admits metadata law cost and warns of 'internet tax' campaign" (October 30, 2014) (video)
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-...
AFP will use data retention to fight piracy (Oct 30, 2014)
http://www.itnews.com.au/News/...
""Generally they do this in real-time, so the two years of holding this data probably doesn't make a lot of difference. That process of resolving an IP address to an account name is relevant, and it happens all the time.""
Government introduces data retention bill to Parliament (30 October, 2014 )
https://www.computerworld.com....
"source of communication, destination of communication, date, time and duration of communication, or of its connection to a relevant service, type of a
communication, or a type of relevant service used in connection with a communication, location of equipment, or a line, used in connection with a communication"
Thats not "web browsing" history
From embassy details in the 1920's and 1930's to HOW (Home Office Warrant), to ENIGMA in ww2, to early satellite ground stations, Skynet (satellite) efforts, every call in and out of Ireland, to what is now understood of the internet under US/UK collect it all.
Over years the UK likes to read about the world in plain text and in near real time.
When tasked staff ask, they are told its legal in a domestic context.
The tame press is told to talk of tracking Soviet/Russian movements. Thats sells the hardware sale and upgrade side.
The good news is more people seem to understand that their cheap mobile is a beacon, microphone, gps and that voiceprints will always find that new phone.
The press is also aware of what a laptop or phone can do when working on an interesting story.
Under Tempora https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... any message in and out of 5 Eye nations and friends can be reconciled with a start and destination ip.
If your still chatting, a back door or rootkit would get the rest.
Anything encrypted just attracts interest until decoded or a plaintext way in is found.
Then its the hops of friends, friends of friends and all networking usage.
The only way around such systems is the number station or correct use of the one time pad.
With data retention in other nations like Australia that ip is going back to a real user as discovered. http://www.itnews.com.au/News/... (Oct 30, 2014)
"Generally they do this in real-time, so the two years of holding this data probably doesn't make a lot of difference. That process of resolving an IP address to an account name is relevant, and it happens all the time."
The history of the UK RIPA, SIGINT Modernisation Programme efforts can be seen even after new changes.
Thats the details surround a message to, from, when where, sent from and connection (gps or a house).
Its getting very easy for gov and mil to put the internet back together over days or years.
Re: "There was malware installed to get more information than just the IP."
The press has more details on the word "software":
http://gizmodo.com/fbi-plants-...
"....-brand malware would be planted on his computer, allowing the Agency to ultimately nab the purported perpetrator. "
http://www.slate.com/blogs/fut... (OCT. 28 2014)
"...using a phony—and malware-laced..."
http://www.theguardian.com/com... (29 October 2014)
"...all to deliver malware to a suspect in a criminal case.." http://rt.com/usa/200131-seatt... ( October 28, 2014)
"... was made possible with the use of a so-called “Computer & Internet Protocol Address Verifier” program, or CIPAV, that had been remotely installed on the
individual’s machine to collect and then communicate to the authorities the user-specific information that eventually identified the suspect."
Its all a nice boondoggle. The scanning products, the comparing of names and address to lists of people who need to be watched. Maintenance contracts and new OCR upgrades added.
Have fun contacting your local journalists with a letter.
"I've got one that can read and write!"
Start writing to a lot of the press, thanking for them for their work. Be sure to fill in your large and stylish sender details on the back so the gov database gets it all.
Increase your own domestic dossier every year. Think back to the 1980's Main Core database https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Expect every email, phone call, fax, web 2.0 interaction, contact to be tracked by the mil and gov. :) ;)
They just want to know how the gov or mil is trending in real time and ensure no staff are talking to the press in their own time
So what can the press do?
If you have a contact meet in a deep underground car park. That stops most look down views tracking top staff as two car pull up next to each other.
Dont bring a phone, even removing a battery before a meeting can be tracked back in time with with all other people in the area.
Two phones are powered off in the same area around the same time, that could be the meeting.
Also expect any car of interest to have a beacon installed.
All digital communications and passwords can be found with keystroke logging over time. So consider a clean laptop for each story.
Then also enjoy the fact you are been tracked. Start looking back over 10 or 20 years of city, local and federal politics. Get creative with pages of fiction surrounding new contacts, list old and new real projects that have new details, banks, patents, new emerging crypto technology, new contacts with interesting real people with new "details".
Pages of 'real' interviews, 'new' contacts, emails that only get worked on in draft from random coffee shops. Set up a few working 24/7 camera systems.
All that is tracking most of press is a complex computer system looking for names, projects and distant hops to people in databases.
Mention the wrong project and the story is flagged. Is that the first mention seen? Does the press have a new informant with first fresh product?
An insider, direct knowledge been handed down, the first fruit from a productive new contact.
Then a human or team is tasked. Ensure they have a lot to read
Yes AC its NBC (nuclear, biological, and chemical) but
"U.S. soldiers are being flown to Liberia with just FOUR HOURS of hazmat training as Ebola death toll hits 4,546" (18 October 2014)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
re "Why didn't they have something like this already, after all these years of talking about bioterrorism?"
it really depends how the US talks about its bio spending. Most of that went into the science of getting around the international treaty outlawing biological warfare.
So a huge effort to ensure tests could be done to make products, test them and then try and find a cure without the international community asking too many questions.
That has nothing to do with basic US science or spending or what is for public release to treat sick people in Africa.
Beyond that is the grant system to work for academic fame on different projects in Biosafety level 2 labs and pull in massive amounts of federal funding with the correct bioterrorism grant wording.
Great news for your book chapter, lab funding, staff size, city and state university state fame, not much help for sick people in Africa.
The final bioterrorism cash flow was the US wide sale of kits, testing, suits, filters, products, new services, long term maintenance contracts. All ready to suit up select state and federal staff but not much help for sick people in Africa.
Lots of cash floating around at different mil, gov, state and federal levels but most of that is going on existing projects or as tax payers cash going for products and boondoggle services in place around the USA.
The only real interesting aspect the US really has in Africa is for what is/was Intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) and wants to keep that 'local' connection in place.
"U.S. expands secret intelligence operations in Africa" (June 13, 2012)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
To keep that intelligence flowing US teams will be put on the ground.
Lets hope they are all NBC experts with many years of training.
The filters and suits have to work perfectly every time in the heat over days, weeks, months.
Thats the kind of work best left to experts or teams in place that have to learned to get to right over time.
Any break in needed skill set will allow for a NBC ready team to face some real issues.
Mix back in with people at home after 21 days? What about that small percentage that show an incubation longer than 21 days?
Thats a nice number to have to work out over time while been tested and re tested.
Perfect filters, cleaning and suits every time. Got that incubation isolation time perfect for all members returning too?
Lets hope the US sends its NBC expert teams with years of intensive training and the best equipment.
The NSA always looked after the wider educational needs of its staff due to hidden funding. The GCHQ had finally learned the reason why staff need to be taken care of with good conditions, more educational support and wages by the 1960-80's.
It really depends on how much the US gov wants to pay, the conditions offered in hot and cold parts of the world and the quality of long term higher education support offered to each person.
If not many other nations will be ready to listen, support and offer funding to any cleared US staff member who feels unhappy and needs a new friend.
Or just get their own people digitally cleared as new US cyberwarriors. Over many years a few will make it to the top of cyberwarrior command.
Re why not hire civilians for 'cyber warrior' positions?
With US mil staff they can be kept on base, called up, sent on any mission, given meds, kept in remote, hot or cold locations on low pay. Their base and social lives can be understood, controlled, legally shaped and corrected. Their internet use logged, the calls listened in on. No escape form any task over years after the skill set has been learned.
With civilians they have real rights, real lawyers, can sort of still say no to meds and remote locations for years, can report crimes, bosses who may or may not apply for a contract, may have limited digital only background clearances.
The mil ends up with someone who has the private sector skills and a computer has a trail of data that says they lived in the US, went to school in the US, has US parents and has no strange reading or web use habits.
In the past their schools, friends, family around the US would have been found, interviewed and life story fully investigated.
The US mil wants the kind of staff the NSA and GCHQ had in the 1950's. Any location, any task, no questions, no lawyers.
The US has a few issues with civilian employees and its deeper .mil networks.
In the past 10 or so years the numbers of people in the US with some form of security clearance has expanded.
In the wild rush to get new language skills, cloud computing, reduce the walls between different areas of the mil and gov networks and other ideas a lot of staff where hired.
Staff with older security clearance paper work that was updated by a contractor or boss or firm, security clearance options given to staff who might be kind of dual citizens, new citizens or have no real connection with the USA.
Everything they see is sent back to their real country while been advanced deeper into cleared US projects over many years..
Thats 10 plus years of random strangers with rapid digital background work providing perfect paper work and clearances wondering around the contractor and private sector getting into any US mil work offered. Great for the boss, great for the investors, great for no bid contracts.
Some in the US mil seem to understand that this rapid uptake of random new people is not good long term and needs to be understood and story of life background work done each new and existing staff member.
Civilian employees or gov or mil all have to be cleared. What the US hired over the past 10 years was more a language and skill set hunt.
A lot of interesting people now have jobs for life, hidden faiths, hidden loyalties but the US gov has no real idea who they are, why their private sector boss cleared them or if any or some digital database work was really done on them. That is interesting over the productive life, many result and academic advancements.
Who really knows where a lot of the new gov cleared staff will end up in 30 years?
Smart people in the US gov have seen all this before in other nations and over history. A flood of new staff without deep background work allows a lot of people to get protected deep penetration agents in for decades and over many different projects.
A lot got in, a few will be found decades later.
+1. If it works and is for sale in the USA, the standard will be ready as sold for CALEA.
Thats ready for tracking, remote turn on, software update and voice recording at a village, town, city, sate, federal level as sold.
Some much older tech or kits in private hands for security work may need upgrading.
Great link, ty.
The "Such an arrangement would mean all seven satellites would have continuous radio visibility with Indian control stations." and "A network of 21 ranging stations located across the country will provide data for the orbit determination of the satellites and monitoring of the navigation signal." should help most readers understand the navigation system.
Great news from India and it shows the long term design efforts. Fully understanding the science and been able to build the needed systems at a national level has allowed for the year by year growth.
"But we are convinced that if we are to play a meaningful role nationally, and in the community of nations, we must be second to none in the application of advanced technologies to the real problems of man and society." has worked out well.
from Indian Space Research Organisation at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
RE"So there were chemical weapons in Iraq?"
Iraq invaded Iran and the West was very happy to see Iran fully degraded.
Iraq was winning so Iran was supported a bit. Then Iran was winning so Iraq was supported a bit. Other nations got to sell all kinds of support and old mil spare parts over the years to both sides for huge amounts of cash.
It was a huge arms sale and everybody was winning but Iraq and Iran.
Iran finally got creative and was able to push Iraq back in open battle. This was not good so the US, UK and EU offered the chemical weapons systems to push Iran back and restore the expected no-win situation.
So Iraq was full of US, UK, EU supplied raw materials, production lines and brands.
Iran, Iraq, the US, the UK, UN, world press all knew what was going on and had the paper work.
Years later all Iraq had was out of date raw materials in bulk, listed with the UN and US, UK.
When the UK and UK invaded and occupied Iraq they found, walked into sites with the out of date, UN registered raw materials.
Did all the US and UK troops have all the protective equipment needed all the time for industrial exposure at all sites? Where all the filters fitted correctly, in good working order and in good condition to protect the US and UK troops per site, every time? The on site UK and UK had two options. Destroy on site or secure the sites and allow contractors to make a site safe later.
If the raw material sites where destroyed where all US and UK troops in the area fully protected over the time until safe?
If not US and UK troops would have returned home with different levels of industrial exposure.
That would be costly to any US or UK medical system. Better for the West to say and do nothing and hint their own exposed troops where suffering from stress.
Any tests done would have to be cleared by gov experts on cost and need. No need for complex tests if its just stress after war and occupation.
Govs and mil never have to tell the public too much about their export deals to Iraq or lack of clean up skills during occupation.
Brands that exported to Iraq are safe thanks to state and federal political leaders.
Troops exposed to US and UK export grade chemicals or products is just not an issue that fits with the winning, greeted with "sweets and flowers" talking points.
Win win win. Iran and Iraq are degraded while been supplied by the West. The costs of keeping troops in wars and occupations by the contractors was wonderful.
The troops returned with "stress" after many years of duty.
Now the media and medical experts are finally reporting reality but the only real question is:
Did your quality filter work well and was it on at the right times in Iraq or (other nations if in "special" forces) every time?
Not much people can do about tame Interactive voice response (IVR), calls kept for kept for training purposes over the years and passed onto gov/mil.
The good news is people now know more and know of the public, private , gov and mil sharing of tech like voice prints and the low cost of huge generational databases.
What was once used to track high ranking Soviet officials in realtime and people of interest in South America is now at home, cheap and for 'legal' domestic use.
With the added features on International Mobile Subscriber Identity catchers and the next gen IMSI-catchers expect the voice print tech to be in the hands of city and state officials.
Driving your car near any protests with powered cell tech and city parallel construction kit might just log all.
re "Well, speaker recognition dates as far back as facial recognition does." ... "Traffic’ intercepted by the equipment on board is analysed and processed, probably at the GCHQ spy centre in Cheltenham, searching for voice matches" ;) :)
It was big in the 1980's to find interesting people using different phones and very early cell phones in South America by the US mil/gov.
The UK enjoyed using it "Spy-in-sky patrols over British cities in hunt for Taliban fighters" (3 August 2008)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
"They are attempting to identify suspects using ‘voice prints’"
The only real change is the cost of collection, cost of sorting and ability to build on public, telco, private and mil databases been shared with the Five Eye nations and friends.
Expect every arrival chatdown to be recored and indexed with your face, passport and the usual biometrics details.
Expect every car rental, duty free, cafe airport chatdown to be recored and indexed with your face, passport and the usual biometrics details.
Get you talking, keep you talking, its not just about the car rental use or been friendly to the wider travelling public
Domestically the telco and trusted brands Interactive voice response (IVR) will record the rest of the wider populations over years.
That 1 or 5 min chat with Bob or Sally in telco support is not just kept for training purposes or quality control
Your billing details have been matched with something globally unique.
What are the options for the USA?
Got that negative pressure or half-facepiece respirator ready, full facepiece or hood or helmet per medial team member?
Or is the just in time supply track on the way with more expensive kit?
How many negative-pressure airborne infection isolation rooms are ready per city, state?
With all that potential for aerosolising fluids the infection-control teams really have to start thinking fast per city.
Home stay with a box of food and expert medical care visit per home per city?
Big new tent outside a regional teaching hospital? Your local Care Camp is ready too ie a drip and a camp bed.
Then you have the contractors to clean up the used camp bed and get that hermetically sealed casket.
The legal system is ready per state. The expert camp contractors are ready to feed, wash, clean and care for huge numbers of people at short notice. The caskets have always been ready.
The only question is are people ready to stay home, hope that powered air-purifying respirator was fitted correctly every day for all staff or wait for the legal order to get ready for that local camp?
So dont worry, the state and federal legal system will get people into well funded camps. The contractors have all the quality hermetically sealed caskets needed per camp.
Just as the tame telcos have been very helpful so have Western shipping firms ;) Lots of interesting container ships around and into China :)
The space plane is just another way of keeping the cash flowing to contractors and keeping old space related jobs safe.
Keep the expensive skill sets with a few more projects and generations.
Re optics of a military spy satellite... how handy would that be? :)
Many nations that would be interesting to a military spy satellite would have the ability to track this and over time every other US spy satellite.
The selling point of this project would have been to remove all the limitations of a traditional, trackable path of a hardware limited military spy satellite.
Other nations know its up, know kit can be swapped out, know it is a bit different and have taken simple, very low cost steps to avoid any new US spy efforts.
The handy aspect is the US tooling, profits, jobs, ongoing development boondoggle at a state and national level.
Most nations understand and track all US spy satellites, ships, aircraft new and old.
Container ships and then containers with a signals package moving deep in country would be more creative and unexpected that another expensive, trackable military spy in the sky
Other nations just ensure the US has something to see 24/7 from space. A bit harder now than than classic warm shadows. Lined up in neat rows and countable.