AC its just post ww2 branding. When the Soviet military looked around for people it could trust it had to find people who where not killed by ww2 "Fascist" Germany and would want to support East Germany. A bit like the Neocons/Trotskyist in the USA - you work with what you have and shape it over a few generations.
Fascist as a slogan solved all the generational ww2 problems for the emerging East German. Every old person was tainted by it. The next East Germans could be seen as safer as they where shaped by the new gov. In this role of undoing the harm "Fascist" Germany had done to Germany, wider Europe and Soviet Union great care was taken with domestic branding to make young and old understood what the price of rebuilding from rubble was all about - stopping "Fascist" Germany from reforming and going to war again.
The old people just wanted to forget the war and rebuild, the young people on average thought a new nation not at war was a nice change considering what Germany was like.
So to an average outside person looking in, reading books and picking up words you would see the terms "Anti-Fascist" a lot. You would see aid to Africa/Asia as been socialist. You would read about East Germany spending vast sums on support to back "socialist" revolutions, science, sport, space.
Deep down the Stasi knew the truth. The Soviet Union was paying real cash to rebuild East Germany, they where always going to be in debt, a post ww2 political bargaining chip.
The slogans fooled the West, the public, a few AC's on slashdot and provided nation building. The Stasi understood reality they where in - they needed real hard currency, needed to rebuild and needed to project a nation of science, wealth, sport, 3rd world aid, space science, nuclear power... but had no cash, just huge loans and some export deals with huge sneaky Western brands seeking very cheap workers. The Stasi also worked out one vital fact. The Soviet Union would never protect them long term, East Germany was for sale to the West. Price was the only question. So the Stasi worked hard to keep their power knowing their nation was all they had. Anti-Fascist aspect kept Russia happy and Russian support flowing, "socialist" worked well in their part of the world. The rest is just West Germany playing its own games with the US and UK for extra support. The real "Fascist" escaped with Operation Paperclip https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., worked without issue in West Germany or at a low level faced tame courts many years after ww2.
In the East Germany they just replaced the old uniforms, found new songs and added new colors to the mass rallies with new "socialist" books to quote.
There is often a lot more behind terms like "Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart" than just found in "Cold" War history books AC.
Money was not really the issue. A nice home, a good education, travel papers to the West (not been restricted only to the East/Soviet Union) was a real goal worth attempting and protecting.
The problem was even if you put in the hard work, stayed loyal to the gov and its meetings, had the skills you might not be able to escape your parents pasts.
ie same skills, age, level of trust to a point but if your parents where pre ww2 wealthy you might not get anywhere out of the East.
ie if you got to work in the West the gov kept your family back and watched you. Any issues and your lost that paperwork.
As things got more relaxed with visits from the West people could get small gifts in. Very strange that this study got pushed onto Slashdot by an AC:)
AC if you actually saw an East German factory or product you would note the lack of 'automation'. A few areas that needed tech eg computer design and lens work got the top quality hardware support. The rest of East Germany was left to its own 1950's devices. The East German work force was rather dynamic post WW2 as the people who did not escape kept tiny workshops and firms at first. They produced what they has always made for the gov but where left alone as to how. Later the East German gov reached in and closed all the small brands and firms, pulling them together as vast regional efforts (1970's on). All the ability to over or under produce was lost as well as any advancement in the way things where produced. People got jobs, went to work, did them, went to political meetings and then went home. That was it. There was not much "automation" as that would cost real cash, need cash for spare parts and replace workers who needed jobs for life.
East Germany did not have the spare cash to just waste on automation. They would have had to take out huge loans, import the tech, import the skills, keep it running and then export the results to pay the huge loans back in a real currency. The exception was Western brands invited in to use the workers in the East to make products for export and then share the extra profits with East Germany gov. But that kind of spoils the "Communism" propaganda spin AC. A lot of cash was made like that but it shows a nice cash flow interconnect between East and West that does not fit into the Wall and free West propaganda.
The US tried that for a very short time under Nixon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... A massive movement of staff to secure the border was in place and worked very well.
The flow of drugs, drug money laundering in US banks and illegal labor was at risk. Over time the US returned to a policy that can be seen today.
A free flow of people, goods and the need for expensive financial instruments ensures wonderful regional profit.
The UK was a great example too with its visa "expires" database. The UK forgot how/why to count visa in and visa out (was International Passenger Survey).
The main reason seems to be a super cheap flow of workers and the UK will try and bring back "exit checks" in a year or so:)
As for US policy - cheap workers with no on site wage or health laws was always the big win to keep wide open boarders for decades.
Seems Switzerland was first in 1977 (common law nation and a civil law nation). Seem about more than 60? countries have some form of judicial assistance treaties with the USA.
ie direct communication between Justice Departments.
It will be interesting to see what the Freedom of information requests turn up. The "the company's choice whether or not to respond".. "And they often will" and the lack of interest to place the numbers on "transparency reports" is chilling.
Seems the option is slow but "requests specifically for computer records increasing ten-fold" would point to some long term interest in this method.
How many more wars?
As for 'if the Germans knew about it." is the classic understanding of ww2 crypto. Germany trusted the machine, upgraded it a bit and had all its spies turned.
Lets take Normandy. Army Group B has some idea, Pz Lehr Division was moved, Germany had a spy near the British ambassador to Turkey, the Royal Navy had lost aspects to its low level codes, British railroads codes had been lost by late 1943, the German airforce saw changes in US and UK practice traffic, US Transport Command lost its codes, US M-209 and M-138 strip traffic was not totally secure, the A-3 A-3 speech scrambler was not so great, the Polish government in exile had code issues, a few German spies still existed in Sweden and Portugal, SIS-SOE agents where under watch in France
ie Germans moved units to Normandy.
As for "Enigma type machine encrypted messages" post ww2, the Soviet Union had a good understanding of the UK via humans. The Soviet Union was also moving to much tighter one time pad use as it fully understood its code reuse was a huge fault. But they had so much intel to send, they had few options but to risk it.
If govs cant get to one main code, they go for the weak ones, they go for people, they go for the weak codes that get used all day in sloppy ways.
For all the Enigma faith, Germany seemed to understand something was not perfect and worked hard to try and stay ahead.
New rotors, wheel permutations, random indicators, protections to counter cribbing, CY procedure, Uhr device, the UKW-D reflector but it all failed as cryptologic security was so split up. But people keep the old WW2 stories about Germany, Russia, Finland, Australia, Japan code work as just been all safe or all broken.
Post ww2 is filled with new advances and attempts by the UK and US. All very interesting, great in the new history books as more papers are released.
So for that Enigma vision we all give up our rights via an oath to authority for generations?
The talks did cover the authority and rights, press aspect in the last 30 mins.
1+ for 'So forget crypto as a privacy device, unless you're prepared to make it yourself, test in yourself, and be responsible for it yourself. The only unbreakable crypto is the (TRULY F'ING RANDOM) one-time pad, and only if it's used correctly."
Thats really the only way, one time pad used once, number stations. The key to all the free quality crypto was that all the press where been watched anyway so you get to encode all you want. The moment you send, attempt contact, its just tracked back. No need for a gov to waste time on the decrypt, just watch for encryption been used and all the press. Then get the hardware, software and the plain text before its encoded.
Thats all the need. If the contact is the press and the sender works/worked for a gov they are both targeted.
The "An observer could work out who your contacts are" gets even better if you try and meet in person. A member of the press turns their phone off and walks in a direction. Any other person in the area who turns their phone off and then on later like the member of the press is tracked.
IP, the internet, mobile phones its all great for tracking back the moment a person in gov tries reach out.
Thats what a good section of the talk was about. Discovering that journalist to whistleblower association, then turning press and byline journalist into criminals for accepting the material and daring to publish. Then its all secret laws, secret courts for the gov worker and soon the press too.
More Vietnam, Iraq like entanglements as gov staff do not speak out. As they sit back and let more wars to start. That total oath only to authority.
You can encrypt all you like, the metadata of an unbreakable code to the press will be tracked back. So unattributable internet access was mentioned as a good skill to consider teaching via people with the skills to work on such tasks.
Small steps. Move away from the brands that helped ie the PRISM list of willing brands and tame staff building junk systems.
Understand how "open source" telco layers over tame telco software and hardware can save any data on entry.
ie once your targeted all is privacy lost no matter the fancy open source app. The security services will be in every hop of any network into and out of your computer/device until they get full plain text.
Encryption seems to be the key until your use of it shows up at an endpoint under constant surveillance. Then the individual targeting starts on the new person.
The most easy step is to make encryption more gui, web 2.0 friendly. Then a lot more people will be flooding the net with random heavy code 24/7.
Use once hardware would be interesting. It would stop any longterm profile, any unique hardware numbers been sent. If you then work on really good crypto to hide voice, pic, file sent, text you could kind of have a one session. Snowden hinted a bit about association (you to the press), mixed routing, the need for unattributable internet access in the 1h+ talk.
A lot of steps to fix an internet that is now really like Tempora https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and what that can do to your message and a person in the press been watched.
The other aspect was education. A civic duty to teach, educate the wider public and press. The classic Sysadmins of the world, unite! also mentioned.
Yes a lot of funding has gone into "Containment control".
Air Force research: How to use social media to control people like drones (July 17 2014) http://arstechnica.com/informa...
"...researchers could be used to sway the opinion of social networks toward a desired set of behaviors—perhaps in concert with some of the social media “effects” cyber-weaponry developed by the NSA and its British counterpart, GCHQ"
A push by sock puppets in posting AC stories eg the "IP addresses".
Someone has new war PR to sell.
The files and paper work to sort on a massive scale. Per city in German–occupied Europe the Gestapo staff count was not big considering the tasks.
Most work was done with informants and tips, letters. A vast network of local people wanting to settle grudges and grievance via denunciation.
A vast happy to help collaborative staff in different nations also worked very hard to clear out their cities..
Very few nations bothered to look into the huge numbers of collaborative staff after ww2. Most just returned to gov work with a few cover stories.
After the war some just reinvented their pasts and went back to basic police work and retirement.
ie its not so much the politics - its the badge, uniform, suit, car, the power and prestige. Reinventing a workplace change from post ww1 Germany, into ww2 Germany and then helping in the four occupation zones after ww2.
The difference is now the computers really work good. The difference is now the global telco sector really helps so much more. Todays staff work hard at sites to create double agents. Terms like ghost detainees, black sites and the roles of medical doctors listed as 'medical technicians' also point to complex tasks.
So with the data seen by the press, what was sorted on cards via complex rented sorting equipment during ww2 is now pre sorted as entered.
The main thrust of relaxing is for Japan.
Then you have the sites in the USA that have got new paper work to run for decades more.
The "unusual event" reports on early warning alarm shuts downs at sites makes the US news over the past few years.
Then you have the US storage site clean ups.
Best to change national standards, stop funding quality US epidemiology, stop the tiny gov grants for books and books chapters on cancer clusters.
Then over time the next generations of top medical staff will be very tame:) Great in the ER but none of that messy long term pathology study work that finds 'facts' over decades.
Another trick is to only talk of basic external exposure issues. Never ever mention ingestion, lungs. Thats a great talking point and can really fool the wider public. i.e. that filter has to work 100% of the time as a worker goes about their daily tasks over a life of the site, plant every year:)
So there is huge effort to get the talking points out about safe new numbers and lessen the mention of what is in the air.
The GCHQ has just the kind of legal history with this kind of project.
The bulk data interest could always be seen as with the first Intelsat (international satellite telephone calls) efforts at Goonhilly Downs -CSO Morwenstow,/GCHQ Bude got every keyword of interest in the late 1960's. Staff asked why domestic calls and numbers where also been tracked after they where only tasked to international calls. The retaining domestic metadata idea went on with little internal legal comment.
When the GCHQ/Intelsat news got into print in the early 1990's nothing was done. There was no legal protection decades ago. There was no protection once domestic collection tasks made it into the UK press. On into the 1990's the UK had new laws around the SIGMod funding initiative (sigint modernisation programme) to further clear up any domestic legal issues over domestic data sorting. The other legal magic is to pass telco work to SIS or other "agencies'". Then you have the vast US shared sites that can capture all but have even less to do with UK laws. More legal cover can flow form "ministerial level" support. If the political class is questioned they will never comment on past or ongoing security issues.
ie law reform cannot get past secrecy laws or get political comment reducing all domestic legal protections to chilling living document status.
One person might risk 20 years and another might have all changes dropped to get the story out of the media.
The fun legal part for the UK is now to make US "parallel construction" very legal. They want to use what they intercept or decode in closed courts so the structures have to have a legal expert evidence trail. The UK is back to the days of National Criminal Intelligence Service, Government Telecommunications Advisory Centre, Government Technical Assistance Centre (GTAC ~ GCHQ Technical Assistance Centre) to try and help courts with decryption, domestic and global tracking.
Will it work? Anyone with the cash can buy ex gov staff to sell them the super expensive advice: stay away from all electronic telco products.
The smart nations have leaned to track all easy to spot US efforts.
The really smart nations have noticed the more interesting changes with dark objects moving above their nations.
e.g. the funding fun that was Misty (satellite) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...
the other option is movement e.g. Boeing X-37 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B...
Or you just follow the staff cell phones and watch their sites on networked CCTV?
Yes once the real SAM like systems are in play its very complex.
Siberia Airlines Flight 1812 was shot down by the Ukrainian military over the Black Sea on 4 October 2001 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...
Iran Air Flight 655 had its correct transponder "squawk" code typical of a civilian aircraft. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I...
and perhaps Aerolinee Itavia Flight 870 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A... (27 June 1980)
"On 23 January 2013 Italy’s top criminal court ruled that there was "abundantly" clear evidence that the flight was brought down by a missile."
Its the decades of “tombstone technology” when there are enough tombstones the cash will the found to stream data to satellites/ground stations.
Until then you hope to get to the data as stored in time. Not too toasty for too long or down too deep.
(tombstone technology may relate to a DC-10 that crashed outside Paris, France in 1974, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T... )
+1 for Konrad Zuse and his work on a high-level programming language and the design ability to read instructions from used perforated 35 mm film.
Konrad Zuse http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K...
Yes it has that Korean Air Lines Flight 007 feel. Reconnaissance aircraft flying, watch the local command and control power up.
Sell the world on been lost.
We are in the days of "well, WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE!!!!"
The days of the science/space gap in the 1950's allowed a lot of small regional labs and their skilled staff to get fancy grants and expand.
You also saw the need for inspected, what was biosafety level 4 been well funded and in remote locations.
Over time great advances, endless international recognition flowed for a few top sites and their staff.
Other new and old institutions, states became more enraged as they where seen as falling behind due to location and only been allowed to run lesser biosafety level labs.
The solution was to allow more staff and more grants to work with less stringent biosafety. A larger pool of national skills, more funding, more grants, great peer review and paying students. Don't worry about doors, seals, filters, old stock its all very productive.
The DHS got parts of what was the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, National Biological Warfare
Defense Analysis Center, Plum Island Animal Disease Center, parts of the HHS (Strategic National Stockpile
National Disaster Medical System later returned?) and has some form of 'emergency prevention' or "response, recovery, and mitigation" powers.
Add in ideas like the National Biosurveillance Integration Center (NBIC) for rapid identification, characterisation, localisation, and tracking via integrated biosurveillance.
So a lot of top, well funded science in gov has been recreated, duplicated or folded in to a massive new well funded government, private, non-governmental networks.
It can keep the media away. Track the media in real time and ensure that any details are on message. It keeps the skilled staff on message about past events, pesky old international obligations and makes the wider public feel happy with displays of security theatre.
Re 'The question is, though, what made them decide to release it?"
Its a bit like the EU report on the ECHELON Interception System years ago http://cryptome.org/echelon-ep...
After a while it becomes better to talk openly about the systems due to the constant flow of data out of nations.
More experts, the press and staff can then talk freely as they comment on the induced story in the press.
If they do not comment on it they are seen as tame as a telco, OS firm or the teams who set encryption standards covering for a gov.
Nations might then walk away and form their own international telco groups well outside then UN. Thats a loss of funding and power.
So they talk, just like telcos, OS firms or the teams who set junk encryption standards about their need to understand more over time.
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AC its just post ww2 branding. When the Soviet military looked around for people it could trust it had to find people who where not killed by ww2 "Fascist" Germany and would want to support East Germany. A bit like the Neocons/Trotskyist in the USA - you work with what you have and shape it over a few generations.
Fascist as a slogan solved all the generational ww2 problems for the emerging East German. Every old person was tainted by it. The next East Germans could be seen as safer as they where shaped by the new gov. In this role of undoing the harm "Fascist" Germany had done to Germany, wider Europe and Soviet Union great care was taken with domestic branding to make young and old understood what the price of rebuilding from rubble was all about - stopping "Fascist" Germany from reforming and going to war again.
The old people just wanted to forget the war and rebuild, the young people on average thought a new nation not at war was a nice change considering what Germany was like.
So to an average outside person looking in, reading books and picking up words you would see the terms "Anti-Fascist" a lot. You would see aid to Africa/Asia as been socialist. You would read about East Germany spending vast sums on support to back "socialist" revolutions, science, sport, space.
Deep down the Stasi knew the truth. The Soviet Union was paying real cash to rebuild East Germany, they where always going to be in debt, a post ww2 political bargaining chip.
The slogans fooled the West, the public, a few AC's on slashdot and provided nation building. The Stasi understood reality they where in - they needed real hard currency, needed to rebuild and needed to project a nation of science, wealth, sport, 3rd world aid, space science, nuclear power... but had no cash, just huge loans and some export deals with huge sneaky Western brands seeking very cheap workers. The Stasi also worked out one vital fact. The Soviet Union would never protect them long term, East Germany was for sale to the West. Price was the only question. So the Stasi worked hard to keep their power knowing their nation was all they had. Anti-Fascist aspect kept Russia happy and Russian support flowing, "socialist" worked well in their part of the world. The rest is just West Germany playing its own games with the US and UK for extra support. The real "Fascist" escaped with Operation Paperclip https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., worked without issue in West Germany or at a low level faced tame courts many years after ww2.
In the East Germany they just replaced the old uniforms, found new songs and added new colors to the mass rallies with new "socialist" books to quote.
There is often a lot more behind terms like "Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart" than just found in "Cold" War history books AC.
Money was not really the issue. A nice home, a good education, travel papers to the West (not been restricted only to the East/Soviet Union) was a real goal worth attempting and protecting. :)
The problem was even if you put in the hard work, stayed loyal to the gov and its meetings, had the skills you might not be able to escape your parents pasts.
ie same skills, age, level of trust to a point but if your parents where pre ww2 wealthy you might not get anywhere out of the East.
ie if you got to work in the West the gov kept your family back and watched you. Any issues and your lost that paperwork.
As things got more relaxed with visits from the West people could get small gifts in. Very strange that this study got pushed onto Slashdot by an AC
AC if you actually saw an East German factory or product you would note the lack of 'automation'. A few areas that needed tech eg computer design and lens work got the top quality hardware support. The rest of East Germany was left to its own 1950's devices. The East German work force was rather dynamic post WW2 as the people who did not escape kept tiny workshops and firms at first. They produced what they has always made for the gov but where left alone as to how. Later the East German gov reached in and closed all the small brands and firms, pulling them together as vast regional efforts (1970's on). All the ability to over or under produce was lost as well as any advancement in the way things where produced. People got jobs, went to work, did them, went to political meetings and then went home. That was it. There was not much "automation" as that would cost real cash, need cash for spare parts and replace workers who needed jobs for life.
East Germany did not have the spare cash to just waste on automation. They would have had to take out huge loans, import the tech, import the skills, keep it running and then export the results to pay the huge loans back in a real currency. The exception was Western brands invited in to use the workers in the East to make products for export and then share the extra profits with East Germany gov. But that kind of spoils the "Communism" propaganda spin AC. A lot of cash was made like that but it shows a nice cash flow interconnect between East and West that does not fit into the Wall and free West propaganda.
The US tried that for a very short time under Nixon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... A massive movement of staff to secure the border was in place and worked very well. :)
The flow of drugs, drug money laundering in US banks and illegal labor was at risk. Over time the US returned to a policy that can be seen today.
A free flow of people, goods and the need for expensive financial instruments ensures wonderful regional profit.
The UK was a great example too with its visa "expires" database. The UK forgot how/why to count visa in and visa out (was International Passenger Survey).
The main reason seems to be a super cheap flow of workers and the UK will try and bring back "exit checks" in a year or so
As for US policy - cheap workers with no on site wage or health laws was always the big win to keep wide open boarders for decades.
Seems Switzerland was first in 1977 (common law nation and a civil law nation). Seem about more than 60? countries have some form of judicial assistance treaties with the USA. ie direct communication between Justice Departments. .. "And they often will" and the lack of interest to place the numbers on "transparency reports" is chilling.
It will be interesting to see what the Freedom of information requests turn up. The "the company's choice whether or not to respond"
Seems the option is slow but "requests specifically for computer records increasing ten-fold" would point to some long term interest in this method.
How many more wars?
As for 'if the Germans knew about it." is the classic understanding of ww2 crypto. Germany trusted the machine, upgraded it a bit and had all its spies turned.
Lets take Normandy. Army Group B has some idea, Pz Lehr Division was moved, Germany had a spy near the British ambassador to Turkey, the Royal Navy had lost aspects to its low level codes, British railroads codes had been lost by late 1943, the German airforce saw changes in US and UK practice traffic, US Transport Command lost its codes, US M-209 and M-138 strip traffic was not totally secure, the A-3 A-3 speech scrambler was not so great, the Polish government in exile had code issues, a few German spies still existed in Sweden and Portugal, SIS-SOE agents where under watch in France
ie Germans moved units to Normandy.
As for "Enigma type machine encrypted messages" post ww2, the Soviet Union had a good understanding of the UK via humans. The Soviet Union was also moving to much tighter one time pad use as it fully understood its code reuse was a huge fault. But they had so much intel to send, they had few options but to risk it.
If govs cant get to one main code, they go for the weak ones, they go for people, they go for the weak codes that get used all day in sloppy ways.
For all the Enigma faith, Germany seemed to understand something was not perfect and worked hard to try and stay ahead.
New rotors, wheel permutations, random indicators, protections to counter cribbing, CY procedure, Uhr device, the UKW-D reflector but it all failed as cryptologic security was so split up. But people keep the old WW2 stories about Germany, Russia, Finland, Australia, Japan code work as just been all safe or all broken.
Post ww2 is filled with new advances and attempts by the UK and US. All very interesting, great in the new history books as more papers are released.
So for that Enigma vision we all give up our rights via an oath to authority for generations?
The talks did cover the authority and rights, press aspect in the last 30 mins.
Thats what the talks mentioned too, a set of small steps. Encryption but the wisdom to understand the networks as they are now.
1+ for 'So forget crypto as a privacy device, unless you're prepared to make it yourself, test in yourself, and be responsible for it yourself. The only unbreakable crypto is the (TRULY F'ING RANDOM) one-time pad, and only if it's used correctly."
Thats really the only way, one time pad used once, number stations. The key to all the free quality crypto was that all the press where been watched anyway so you get to encode all you want. The moment you send, attempt contact, its just tracked back. No need for a gov to waste time on the decrypt, just watch for encryption been used and all the press. Then get the hardware, software and the plain text before its encoded.
Thats all the need. If the contact is the press and the sender works/worked for a gov they are both targeted.
The "An observer could work out who your contacts are" gets even better if you try and meet in person. A member of the press turns their phone off and walks in a direction. Any other person in the area who turns their phone off and then on later like the member of the press is tracked.
IP, the internet, mobile phones its all great for tracking back the moment a person in gov tries reach out.
Thats what a good section of the talk was about. Discovering that journalist to whistleblower association, then turning press and byline journalist into criminals for accepting the material and daring to publish. Then its all secret laws, secret courts for the gov worker and soon the press too.
More Vietnam, Iraq like entanglements as gov staff do not speak out. As they sit back and let more wars to start. That total oath only to authority.
You can encrypt all you like, the metadata of an unbreakable code to the press will be tracked back. So unattributable internet access was mentioned as a good skill to consider teaching via people with the skills to work on such tasks.
Small steps. Move away from the brands that helped ie the PRISM list of willing brands and tame staff building junk systems.
Understand how "open source" telco layers over tame telco software and hardware can save any data on entry.
ie once your targeted all is privacy lost no matter the fancy open source app. The security services will be in every hop of any network into and out of your computer/device until they get full plain text.
Encryption seems to be the key until your use of it shows up at an endpoint under constant surveillance. Then the individual targeting starts on the new person.
The most easy step is to make encryption more gui, web 2.0 friendly. Then a lot more people will be flooding the net with random heavy code 24/7.
Use once hardware would be interesting. It would stop any longterm profile, any unique hardware numbers been sent. If you then work on really good crypto to hide voice, pic, file sent, text you could kind of have a one session. Snowden hinted a bit about association (you to the press), mixed routing, the need for unattributable internet access in the 1h+ talk.
A lot of steps to fix an internet that is now really like Tempora https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and what that can do to your message and a person in the press been watched.
The other aspect was education. A civic duty to teach, educate the wider public and press. The classic Sysadmins of the world, unite! also mentioned.
Yes a lot of funding has gone into "Containment control".
Air Force research: How to use social media to control people like drones (July 17 2014)
http://arstechnica.com/informa...
"...researchers could be used to sway the opinion of social networks toward a desired set of behaviors—perhaps in concert with some of the social media “effects” cyber-weaponry developed by the NSA and its British counterpart, GCHQ"
A push by sock puppets in posting AC stories eg the "IP addresses".
Someone has new war PR to sell.
The files and paper work to sort on a massive scale. Per city in German–occupied Europe the Gestapo staff count was not big considering the tasks.
Most work was done with informants and tips, letters. A vast network of local people wanting to settle grudges and grievance via denunciation.
A vast happy to help collaborative staff in different nations also worked very hard to clear out their cities..
Very few nations bothered to look into the huge numbers of collaborative staff after ww2. Most just returned to gov work with a few cover stories.
After the war some just reinvented their pasts and went back to basic police work and retirement.
ie its not so much the politics - its the badge, uniform, suit, car, the power and prestige. Reinventing a workplace change from post ww1 Germany, into ww2 Germany and then helping in the four occupation zones after ww2.
The difference is now the computers really work good. The difference is now the global telco sector really helps so much more. Todays staff work hard at sites to create double agents. Terms like ghost detainees, black sites and the roles of medical doctors listed as 'medical technicians' also point to complex tasks.
So with the data seen by the press, what was sorted on cards via complex rented sorting equipment during ww2 is now pre sorted as entered.
The main thrust of relaxing is for Japan. :) Great in the ER but none of that messy long term pathology study work that finds 'facts' over decades. :)
Then you have the sites in the USA that have got new paper work to run for decades more.
The "unusual event" reports on early warning alarm shuts downs at sites makes the US news over the past few years.
Then you have the US storage site clean ups.
Best to change national standards, stop funding quality US epidemiology, stop the tiny gov grants for books and books chapters on cancer clusters.
Then over time the next generations of top medical staff will be very tame
Another trick is to only talk of basic external exposure issues. Never ever mention ingestion, lungs. Thats a great talking point and can really fool the wider public.
i.e. that filter has to work 100% of the time as a worker goes about their daily tasks over a life of the site, plant every year
So there is huge effort to get the talking points out about safe new numbers and lessen the mention of what is in the air.
The GCHQ has just the kind of legal history with this kind of project.
The bulk data interest could always be seen as with the first Intelsat (international satellite telephone calls) efforts at Goonhilly Downs -CSO Morwenstow,/GCHQ Bude got every keyword of interest in the late 1960's. Staff asked why domestic calls and numbers where also been tracked after they where only tasked to international calls. The retaining domestic metadata idea went on with little internal legal comment.
When the GCHQ/Intelsat news got into print in the early 1990's nothing was done. There was no legal protection decades ago. There was no protection once domestic collection tasks made it into the UK press. On into the 1990's the UK had new laws around the SIGMod funding initiative (sigint modernisation programme) to further clear up any domestic legal issues over domestic data sorting. The other legal magic is to pass telco work to SIS or other "agencies'". Then you have the vast US shared sites that can capture all but have even less to do with UK laws. More legal cover can flow form "ministerial level" support. If the political class is questioned they will never comment on past or ongoing security issues.
ie law reform cannot get past secrecy laws or get political comment reducing all domestic legal protections to chilling living document status.
One person might risk 20 years and another might have all changes dropped to get the story out of the media.
The fun legal part for the UK is now to make US "parallel construction" very legal. They want to use what they intercept or decode in closed courts so the structures have to have a legal expert evidence trail. The UK is back to the days of National Criminal Intelligence Service, Government Telecommunications Advisory Centre, Government Technical Assistance Centre (GTAC ~ GCHQ Technical Assistance Centre) to try and help courts with decryption, domestic and global tracking.
Will it work? Anyone with the cash can buy ex gov staff to sell them the super expensive advice: stay away from all electronic telco products.
The smart nations have leaned to track all easy to spot US efforts.
The really smart nations have noticed the more interesting changes with dark objects moving above their nations.
e.g. the funding fun that was Misty (satellite) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...
the other option is movement e.g. Boeing X-37
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B...
Or you just follow the staff cell phones and watch their sites on networked CCTV?
A few years later you had the Programma 101 also known as Perottina http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...
Antivirus software for Linux might help over time for some issues?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
"a very interesting and sophisticated piece of malware that has a flexible and complicated architecture." as linked.
What do the plug ins offer?
Yes once the real SAM like systems are in play its very complex.
Siberia Airlines Flight 1812 was shot down by the Ukrainian military over the Black Sea on 4 October 2001
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...
Iran Air Flight 655 had its correct transponder "squawk" code typical of a civilian aircraft.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I...
and perhaps Aerolinee Itavia Flight 870
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A... (27 June 1980)
"On 23 January 2013 Italy’s top criminal court ruled that there was "abundantly" clear evidence that the flight was brought down by a missile."
Its the decades of “tombstone technology” when there are enough tombstones the cash will the found to stream data to satellites/ground stations.
Until then you hope to get to the data as stored in time. Not too toasty for too long or down too deep.
(tombstone technology may relate to a DC-10 that crashed outside Paris, France in 1974, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T... )
+1 for Konrad Zuse and his work on a high-level programming language and the design ability to read instructions from used perforated 35 mm film.
Konrad Zuse http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K...
Yes it has that Korean Air Lines Flight 007 feel. Reconnaissance aircraft flying, watch the local command and control power up.
Sell the world on been lost.
We are in the days of "well, WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE!!!!"
The days of the science/space gap in the 1950's allowed a lot of small regional labs and their skilled staff to get fancy grants and expand.
You also saw the need for inspected, what was biosafety level 4 been well funded and in remote locations.
Over time great advances, endless international recognition flowed for a few top sites and their staff.
Other new and old institutions, states became more enraged as they where seen as falling behind due to location and only been allowed to run lesser biosafety level labs.
The solution was to allow more staff and more grants to work with less stringent biosafety. A larger pool of national skills, more funding, more grants, great peer review and paying students. Don't worry about doors, seals, filters, old stock its all very productive.
The DHS got parts of what was the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, National Biological Warfare Defense Analysis Center, Plum Island Animal Disease Center, parts of the HHS (Strategic National Stockpile National Disaster Medical System later returned?) and has some form of 'emergency prevention' or "response, recovery, and mitigation" powers.
Add in ideas like the National Biosurveillance Integration Center (NBIC) for rapid identification, characterisation, localisation, and tracking via integrated biosurveillance.
So a lot of top, well funded science in gov has been recreated, duplicated or folded in to a massive new well funded government, private, non-governmental networks.
It can keep the media away. Track the media in real time and ensure that any details are on message. It keeps the skilled staff on message about past events, pesky old international obligations and makes the wider public feel happy with displays of security theatre.
Re 'The question is, though, what made them decide to release it?"
Its a bit like the EU report on the ECHELON Interception System years ago http://cryptome.org/echelon-ep...
After a while it becomes better to talk openly about the systems due to the constant flow of data out of nations.
More experts, the press and staff can then talk freely as they comment on the induced story in the press.
If they do not comment on it they are seen as tame as a telco, OS firm or the teams who set encryption standards covering for a gov.
Nations might then walk away and form their own international telco groups well outside then UN.
Thats a loss of funding and power.
So they talk, just like telcos, OS firms or the teams who set junk encryption standards about their need to understand more over time.