It gets more fun too
"Immigration officer fired after putting wife on list of terrorists to stop her flying home (31 January 2011) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
"US Has A 'Secret Exception' To Reasonable Suspicion For Putting People On The No Fly List" (Apr 17, 2014) https://www.techdirt.com/artic...
That other list:
"DHS ‘hands off’ list allowed suspects with terror ties into U.S." http://www.washingtontimes.com...
'Hands off' list? Senator questions whether DHS allowing those with terror ties into US (May 07, 2014) http://www.foxnews.com/politic...
As the news from the US shows with "parallel construction" all the digital aspects are cleaned up before any defendant and their legal team get a look at a case presented by the gov.
Local law enforcement know federal/mil/contractor/private sector help with "parallel construction" is totally wrong. The local law enforcement put on a good show to hide the origins of cases or try to seal early case work and present more legally sound evidence.
Thankfully whistleblowers, good legal teams, law reform groups, politicians and the press are now more aware of the role federal/mil/contractor/private sector play in the court cases.
The other method is the idea of a sealed court where a gov expert just presents the logs/digital aspect without public comment or any legal challenge.
Some get given a free mirror of your nations backhaul (NSA, GCHQ).
Some get given a free mirror of your cities telco towers (federal law enforcement, your mil).
Some have to use devices at the street level that become a fake cell tower to track people.
At every level of international, national or local clandestine surveillance you have groups, individuals and multinationals with products and survives to sell, rent or service.
Your average telco is also bound by international conventions to use standard junk encryption and surveillance friendly telco equipment.
The cash flows from every level of law enforcement and the mil for new products and services to track dissidents, protesters as they are found or long term.
The fact that dissidents, protesters are so open to interviews, blog, web 2.0 makes any digital device, service they use a way in.
Has Joe Sixpack been seen near any anti war protests? Written to the press at a city, star or federal level? Given charitable contributions to a faith based group now under investigation? Have a security clearance? Have a family member with a new or old security clearance? Does Joe Sixpack travel outside the USA a lot?
Its not just about been "much easier" its about getting it all, having domestic staff feel ok about storing and sorting domestic details per person, been able to legally collect more domestically without needed per person court work.
Very insightful Opportunist .
With more nations trying to count passports in and out a wealth of information about each person entering some countries is now been stored.
From face recognition, gait analysis, 'free' wifi, a new/old phone been set up for cheaper local use, the random risk of a laptop been examined and cloned on entry and exit.
If you want to rent a car you face a complex 'chat down' by the friendly on site rental staff.
So you take the next random taxi.
In the past along a long airport road the interaction of a few tailing vehicles might be detected given the number of turns into a city.
Destinations can be looked at over time, in near real time and as a history.
That first trip can open up a world of new digital 'hops' - old friends, college buddy, lover, extended family, until now unknown associate to having their lives been examined too.
If you go to a hotel you face another 'chat down' attempt by the friendly staff over a long complex CC or cash transaction.
No follow car pool or beacons needed anymore just go big, local and federally with “collect-it-all”:)
Re "Are resource wars."
China has learned from history and will not allow its own well funded emerging brands, own exporters and needed imports to be contained, slowed and encircled like the Soviet Union was.
China has to ensure its own flagged ships can move freely to bring value added Chinese branded finished goods to any market globally without any interference.
China can see it is been rapidly encircled by regional tame puppet governments and dictated one sided treaties again.
China has to be able to diplomatically and politically show land use and possession that it will not be reduced China to the role of foreign branded factories and limited shared export earnings.
China is been confronted, contained in Africa, South America and Asia over raw materials. A lot of effort went into trade and aid resulting in real progress and infrastructure as a gift from China. Other nations linked basic food aid to post colonial political lectures. The EU seems more open to lucrative high technology transfers that China is working to expand.
China still has a few years to build on the image and branding of its own quality, price competitive brands globally. Until then it is more dependant on whim of outside forces. China also has to contain foreign backed NGO's, environmental groups, separatist and well funded faith based groups trying to distract and alter its plans for growth.
A huge diaspora is able to bring any technology back as it is been developed in any advanced country, for almost free.
China just has to build its own brands in time - low cost, disruptive on price, good quality and stop renting tech with every product sold (foreign set expensive codecs, standards).
China is in a global race to get its own products to a waiting global market. ie AC this has an ongoing effort since the 1960's over many generations and via different nations for trade, energy and jobs. Other nations opt to spend their gold on weapons, ever more distant wars or deceptive political charity.
Just think what software products people work at home with and then infect their private computers with:)
Be very careful around any laptop, software package, system or network that is offered for home use.
"School-Webcam Spy Scandal Resurfaces" (06.08.11) http://www.wired.com/2011/06/w...
Use a wired network and only a direct wired network, no routers, wifi, other computers or home networked devices running, expect any webcam or mic to be on at all times.
When done with a free work 'laptop' or network, power down, remove and ensure your own privacy is fully restored.
AC you seem to be missing the news that results from "chances regarding employer surveillance policies" are now shared at a nation level.
The results of been watched do not stop when you exit a workplace or seek new work.
"Thousands of workers 'blacklisted' over political views" (07 August 2012) http://www.independent.co.uk/n...
"construction workers punished by employers for raising health and safety issues" (10 September 2013) http://www.theguardian.com/pol...
Construction workers' blacklist (Nov 18, 2013) http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/u...
This has a long history with the classic "Time and motion study" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Repackaged, sold, rented for the digital age. Expect logs, cameras, spyware, questions, tracking software. Been blacklisted is a risk if you dare to make a fuss, comment or seek outside clarification of your existing rights.
As a boss you are spending a lot to track, log and reshape your staff to do a few tasks really quickly and at a low cost with few breaks every working day.
History is full of stories of perfect production line or office been set up after been sold/rented a system to watch staff.
You end up with a multination with a dormitory, low wages and no ability to change. Lots of hands putting ever more smaller and complex products together fast.
The competition invests in robots and goes smaller, faster, cheaper and with better quality control. The brand was fixated on the time system, tracking their distrusted workers and lost all focus on needed innovation.
The winner is the person selling/renting the surveillance and staff review product, moving onto another boss.
Re " Great transparency there! It's kind of difficult to take this crap seriously."
What a multinational corporation wants to know is if they buy a natural monopoly or own a cartel like structure in a country is:
Can they set prices every year and never face gov regulation, standards or questions.
Are their international staff safe from any court action before, during or after any event no mater the cause or fault.
Can any one nation break up their monopoly or expose their cartel over time?
Can a multinational corporation conspire to set a global price and get a way with rigging the markets.
They want legal and press transparency to ensure they can profit every year on any investment in any nation that signs up.
No national issues, press or political pressure just the ability to buy in and extract the maximum wealth in any region.
Can a multinational take the local press, gov regulatory bodies, NGO's or individual to court for slander or over any other action and expect to always win.
The transparency of making a good investment, keeping it in profit every year, with low maintenance standards, no press, no courts or political questions.
An investment becomes a colony like zone without fear of competitors, local entrepreneurs, standards or tax questions.
Your missing the emerging press spin of the wealth of production, wealth of working with new crews, wealth of keeping the systems flying, upgrades. Diverse sales to cities, states and federal agencies. The rush from prototypes to profitable production line sales. A lot of political and private sector interests in seeing drones flying and been worked on as an ongoing pubic/private boondoggle.
Deep in local or tech news you can find 'events'
How a Large U.S. Navy UAV Crashed in Maryland, From 18,000 Feet (Jan. 7, 2013) http://www.defensenews.com/art... https://publicintelligence.net...
If a drone was lost in war, the classic propaganda value is often balanced by a hidden sale at a great price to other interested groups.
The main problem for the US is the rush from prototypes to front line units without the budget/time/skill/support that a vast new bespoke project like that needs.
The US took a camera platform and packed in many other mil related systems. Then went big and small at a constant low price in a short time demanding ever more tasks and roles.
The other aspect is the way the US mil saw encryption and how to protect it while saving limited power per drone - just dont use it. Nothing is lost in a crash and more needed systems can get what per drone encryption would have taken. Effortless ready to go realtime communications and data networks for drones without the costs of losing, buying or supporting heavy per drone encryption. Great for moving prototypes to global front lines fast but long term it gets much more interesting.
Its a bit like the Nixon White House tapes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and a ~18 min gap was a "a terrible mistake" by a staff member using the stop button vs record button.
Mistakes happen but at that level of US gov - you would see a lot more over a wider more random set of everyday tasks. The very public error seemed to be worth it for some aspect of bitcoin?
In theory you know of all interested people and know they now know of each other.
Bait (with coin sale), catch looking for each others coins, release as informants.
Think of it more as US staff moving between gov jobs and the US private sector.
Think of it more as German crypto staff enjoying US mil methods, hardware, software and shared sites.
Generations have long friendships and private jobs waiting.
From big brands to startups, front companies to open source:)
Thats what so many Germans just dont seem to get.
This is all banking data, legal data, gov databases, cryptography, trade negotiations, science funding, export opportunities, advanced aerospace, computer support is just gifted to the USA for free.
Everything Germany is considering internally on its own networks is been given to the US military industrial complex with the help of German telcos and a select few German gov staff.
ECHELON was super fast voice to text and then working of key phrases and words from known and new phone calls, faxes world wide.
The limitations of ECHELON was you had to have a telephone number to watch or hope the 'bad' people used the correct word in a random call.
Storage was then for the calls known or new calls to known numbers. Later voice prints where used to pick up known people using new/random phone system.
The NSA now keeps aspects of all calls, data and then looks back in its own time. The need to drop a call and move to the next or not keep details has been solved.
The same storage methods now work for computer networking - dont just look in real time, just keep all data and sort as needed.
Germany traditionally did not get the data product back from the USA vs UK (GCHQ ) and USA share their data. Germany allows the NSA to fully tap all of Germany in any way they like and expects/asks for nothing back in return.
Over time the German gov or mil will get a good deal on US export grade mil equipment or US mil signals hardware as a thank you from the US gov.
Cooperation with the NSA comes in stages from a full two way sharing (rare) to a massive data dump for the USA without sharing (more common and global now) from helpful nations and their tame telcos.
NZ was under consideration from 1945 on due to its great code work in ww2 (navy vs Japan). There is not real "UKUSA" one document or event, just a series of top level sigint meetings just after ww2.
Other to be EU/nations where offered deals for bases only getting unrelated mil hardware as a US/UK thank you. NZ got the full sharing deal, later computer upgrades and was always allowed to look up into Asia, Pacific. Amazing for its own gov/trade/domestic spying needs.
NZ got tech it could never afford, build, design, buy or even begin to prototype for decades for almost 'free'.
Australia was at least a bit more smart and listened to the wise words of its ww2 generals - big empires always abandon small nations (Australian early ww2 experiences)
Australia expanded its human spy networks, own signals listening and funded its mil/science outside US/UK shared methods. NZ kept its human spy side funded but seemed to use UK/UK shared sites in NZ more.
Reality finally set in over French action in NZ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... . NZ asked for UK, US, Australian help and got a political surprise - no real help in the EU with French phone networks and political leaders. NZ was on its own just as the wise Australian end of ww2 generals had hinted decades ago - shared material can just stop.
The threat is China trading with Asia on its own optical networks in its own way. For that US shared sites in NZ are vital.
With the number of tame brands hardware and software layers helping between your keyboard and your secure crypto software?
You almost want your own file system and OS:) http://www.theguardian.com/wor... (7 June 2013)
Experts have had a while to think about what is under and around their secure crypto projects on the big consumer, prosumer and 'free' OS.
recall the '"WARNING: Using TrueCrypt is not secure as it may contain unfixed security issues""
"TrueCrypt probably didn't leave a Latin message alerting users to NSA spying" http://www.theguardian.com/tec... (17 June 2014)
"Using TrueCrypt is not secure as it may contain unfixed security issues"
What is your average democratically elected political leader supposed to think/do when their nations top crypto experts, security services, generals invite them to use a secure phone?
Then to read in the worlds press that that their gov tested device is useless?
Why would generations/groups of trusted, top, expert German staff be signing off on junk encryption projects 100% open to another nation?
Its Germany their top gov staff should not be that out of their comport zone with advanced telco equipment?
Its Germany their top gov staff should should have the notion to test and re test any electronic device given their ~100 year history with telco networks, failed crypto, East and West teloc taps.
Reality for Germany is its top experts went along with a junk encryption project... just this one time... the first time due a privitization directive and budget cuts? Out sourcing?
The German govs one top telco crypto expert left for the private sector around that time the gov testing unit was understaffed?
Some closed source US based encryption seems to have 'collaborated closely with US intelligence services to allow users' communications to be intercepted, including helping the National Security Agency to circumvent the company's own encryption" http://www.theguardian.com/wor... (12 July 2013)
Re "If I had data like this, I could probably make a killing in the stock market or provide lots of insider information for hedge funds."
Thats the reality Australia, Canada, UK, NZ, Germany, France, other EU NSA helper nations face internally long term.
Generations of generals, top technical experts and their groomed staff are giving all their nations secure data away to the USA in real time.
How can a bright, local, entrepreneur with job creating, huge profit exports ever hope to compete against the USA? A nations best and brightest telcos are giving their own banking sectors time and trade/time sensitive data to the USA.
A nations telcos are giving their own emerging scientific data to the USA.
A nations telcos are networking their own gov data to the USA when they only ever upgrade to the next generation of junk encryption.
Re "It creates civil war and misery for a lot of people for the benefit of a very few by manipulating unstable systems into chaotic situations."
You can see that every year - the protected and well supported movement of CIA backed 'freedom fighters' help to reduce/split nations to smaller groups needing constant outside support.
How The US Is Arming Both Sides Of The Iraqi Conflict 06/12/2014 http://www.zerohedge.com/news/...
The only way out is for talented local entrepreneurs to understand what signals intelligence is when they used a phone, fax, network or any other digital device.
The only way out is for talented diplomatic staff to understand what signals intelligence is when they use their bespoke embassy communications equipment.
Re "I suppose by creationism, they mean the idea that all animals were created at once, rather than simply the idea that God created animals?"
In sci fi terms:
The earth was tested, life created, populated and left, ignored, the tech alien staff where recalled, the ruling culture had issues and 'earth' was long forgotten in a alien coup/new king.
A very, very old world created, abandoned and left to evolve.
Or the short time version:
The earth was tested, life created, populated, the alien tech staff fully enjoyed what they had made and worked on. The ruling culture had problems and 'earth' was in play for a coup/king.
The order for a total wipe was issued (Flood) but the alien staff on site had other ideas (Ark) and ensured repopulation after ruling culture left.
A very new world created, cared for and left to evolve in a much shorter time.
Select your cargo cult: old distant king God or the young staff that open sourced just in time.
Slashdot Mirror
It gets more fun too
"Immigration officer fired after putting wife on list of terrorists to stop her flying home (31 January 2011)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
"US Has A 'Secret Exception' To Reasonable Suspicion For Putting People On The No Fly List" (Apr 17, 2014)
https://www.techdirt.com/artic...
That other list:
"DHS ‘hands off’ list allowed suspects with terror ties into U.S."
http://www.washingtontimes.com...
'Hands off' list? Senator questions whether DHS allowing those with terror ties into US (May 07, 2014)
http://www.foxnews.com/politic...
As the news from the US shows with "parallel construction" all the digital aspects are cleaned up before any defendant and their legal team get a look at a case presented by the gov.
Local law enforcement know federal/mil/contractor/private sector help with "parallel construction" is totally wrong. The local law enforcement put on a good show to hide the origins of cases or try to seal early case work and present more legally sound evidence.
Thankfully whistleblowers, good legal teams, law reform groups, politicians and the press are now more aware of the role federal/mil/contractor/private sector play in the court cases.
The other method is the idea of a sealed court where a gov expert just presents the logs/digital aspect without public comment or any legal challenge.
Some get given a free mirror of your nations backhaul (NSA, GCHQ).
Some get given a free mirror of your cities telco towers (federal law enforcement, your mil).
Some have to use devices at the street level that become a fake cell tower to track people.
At every level of international, national or local clandestine surveillance you have groups, individuals and multinationals with products and survives to sell, rent or service.
Your average telco is also bound by international conventions to use standard junk encryption and surveillance friendly telco equipment.
The cash flows from every level of law enforcement and the mil for new products and services to track dissidents, protesters as they are found or long term.
The fact that dissidents, protesters are so open to interviews, blog, web 2.0 makes any digital device, service they use a way in.
Has Joe Sixpack been seen near any anti war protests? Written to the press at a city, star or federal level? Given charitable contributions to a faith based group now under investigation? Have a security clearance? Have a family member with a new or old security clearance? Does Joe Sixpack travel outside the USA a lot?
Its not just about been "much easier" its about getting it all, having domestic staff feel ok about storing and sorting domestic details per person, been able to legally collect more domestically without needed per person court work.
Very insightful Opportunist . :)
With more nations trying to count passports in and out a wealth of information about each person entering some countries is now been stored.
From face recognition, gait analysis, 'free' wifi, a new/old phone been set up for cheaper local use, the random risk of a laptop been examined and cloned on entry and exit.
If you want to rent a car you face a complex 'chat down' by the friendly on site rental staff.
So you take the next random taxi.
In the past along a long airport road the interaction of a few tailing vehicles might be detected given the number of turns into a city.
Destinations can be looked at over time, in near real time and as a history.
That first trip can open up a world of new digital 'hops' - old friends, college buddy, lover, extended family, until now unknown associate to having their lives been examined too.
If you go to a hotel you face another 'chat down' attempt by the friendly staff over a long complex CC or cash transaction.
No follow car pool or beacons needed anymore just go big, local and federally with “collect-it-all”
Re "Are resource wars."
China has learned from history and will not allow its own well funded emerging brands, own exporters and needed imports to be contained, slowed and encircled like the Soviet Union was.
China has to ensure its own flagged ships can move freely to bring value added Chinese branded finished goods to any market globally without any interference.
China can see it is been rapidly encircled by regional tame puppet governments and dictated one sided treaties again.
China has to be able to diplomatically and politically show land use and possession that it will not be reduced China to the role of foreign branded factories and limited shared export earnings.
China is been confronted, contained in Africa, South America and Asia over raw materials. A lot of effort went into trade and aid resulting in real progress and infrastructure as a gift from China. Other nations linked basic food aid to post colonial political lectures.
The EU seems more open to lucrative high technology transfers that China is working to expand.
China still has a few years to build on the image and branding of its own quality, price competitive brands globally. Until then it is more dependant on whim of outside forces. China also has to contain foreign backed NGO's, environmental groups, separatist and well funded faith based groups trying to distract and alter its plans for growth.
A huge diaspora is able to bring any technology back as it is been developed in any advanced country, for almost free.
China just has to build its own brands in time - low cost, disruptive on price, good quality and stop renting tech with every product sold (foreign set expensive codecs, standards).
China is in a global race to get its own products to a waiting global market. ie AC this has an ongoing effort since the 1960's over many generations and via different nations for trade, energy and jobs. Other nations opt to spend their gold on weapons, ever more distant wars or deceptive political charity.
Just think what software products people work at home with and then infect their private computers with :)
Be very careful around any laptop, software package, system or network that is offered for home use.
"School-Webcam Spy Scandal Resurfaces" (06.08.11)
http://www.wired.com/2011/06/w...
Use a wired network and only a direct wired network, no routers, wifi, other computers or home networked devices running, expect any webcam or mic to be on at all times.
When done with a free work 'laptop' or network, power down, remove and ensure your own privacy is fully restored.
AC you seem to be missing the news that results from "chances regarding employer surveillance policies" are now shared at a nation level.
The results of been watched do not stop when you exit a workplace or seek new work.
"Thousands of workers 'blacklisted' over political views" (07 August 2012)
http://www.independent.co.uk/n...
"construction workers punished by employers for raising health and safety issues" (10 September 2013)
http://www.theguardian.com/pol...
Construction workers' blacklist (Nov 18, 2013)
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/u...
This has a long history with the classic "Time and motion study" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Repackaged, sold, rented for the digital age. Expect logs, cameras, spyware, questions, tracking software. Been blacklisted is a risk if you dare to make a fuss, comment or seek outside clarification of your existing rights.
As a boss you are spending a lot to track, log and reshape your staff to do a few tasks really quickly and at a low cost with few breaks every working day.
History is full of stories of perfect production line or office been set up after been sold/rented a system to watch staff.
You end up with a multination with a dormitory, low wages and no ability to change. Lots of hands putting ever more smaller and complex products together fast.
The competition invests in robots and goes smaller, faster, cheaper and with better quality control. The brand was fixated on the time system, tracking their distrusted workers and lost all focus on needed innovation.
The winner is the person selling/renting the surveillance and staff review product, moving onto another boss.
Re " Great transparency there! It's kind of difficult to take this crap seriously."
What a multinational corporation wants to know is if they buy a natural monopoly or own a cartel like structure in a country is:
Can they set prices every year and never face gov regulation, standards or questions.
Are their international staff safe from any court action before, during or after any event no mater the cause or fault.
Can any one nation break up their monopoly or expose their cartel over time?
Can a multinational corporation conspire to set a global price and get a way with rigging the markets.
They want legal and press transparency to ensure they can profit every year on any investment in any nation that signs up.
No national issues, press or political pressure just the ability to buy in and extract the maximum wealth in any region.
Can a multinational take the local press, gov regulatory bodies, NGO's or individual to court for slander or over any other action and expect to always win.
The transparency of making a good investment, keeping it in profit every year, with low maintenance standards, no press, no courts or political questions.
An investment becomes a colony like zone without fear of competitors, local entrepreneurs, standards or tax questions.
Your missing the emerging press spin of the wealth of production, wealth of working with new crews, wealth of keeping the systems flying, upgrades. Diverse sales to cities, states and federal agencies. The rush from prototypes to profitable production line sales. A lot of political and private sector interests in seeing drones flying and been worked on as an ongoing pubic/private boondoggle.
Deep in local or tech news you can find 'events'
How a Large U.S. Navy UAV Crashed in Maryland, From 18,000 Feet (Jan. 7, 2013)
http://www.defensenews.com/art...
https://publicintelligence.net...
If a drone was lost in war, the classic propaganda value is often balanced by a hidden sale at a great price to other interested groups.
The main problem for the US is the rush from prototypes to front line units without the budget/time/skill/support that a vast new bespoke project like that needs.
The US took a camera platform and packed in many other mil related systems. Then went big and small at a constant low price in a short time demanding ever more tasks and roles.
The other aspect is the way the US mil saw encryption and how to protect it while saving limited power per drone - just dont use it. Nothing is lost in a crash and more needed systems can get what per drone encryption would have taken. Effortless ready to go realtime communications and data networks for drones without the costs of losing, buying or supporting heavy per drone encryption.
Great for moving prototypes to global front lines fast but long term it gets much more interesting.
Its a bit like the Nixon White House tapes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and a ~18 min gap was a "a terrible mistake" by a staff member using the stop button vs record button. Mistakes happen but at that level of US gov - you would see a lot more over a wider more random set of everyday tasks. The very public error seemed to be worth it for some aspect of bitcoin?
In theory you know of all interested people and know they now know of each other.
Bait (with coin sale), catch looking for each others coins, release as informants.
Think of it more as US staff moving between gov jobs and the US private sector. :)
Think of it more as German crypto staff enjoying US mil methods, hardware, software and shared sites.
Generations have long friendships and private jobs waiting.
From big brands to startups, front companies to open source
Thats what so many Germans just dont seem to get.
This is all banking data, legal data, gov databases, cryptography, trade negotiations, science funding, export opportunities, advanced aerospace, computer support is just gifted to the USA for free.
Everything Germany is considering internally on its own networks is been given to the US military industrial complex with the help of German telcos and a select few German gov staff.
ECHELON was super fast voice to text and then working of key phrases and words from known and new phone calls, faxes world wide.
The limitations of ECHELON was you had to have a telephone number to watch or hope the 'bad' people used the correct word in a random call.
Storage was then for the calls known or new calls to known numbers. Later voice prints where used to pick up known people using new/random phone system.
The NSA now keeps aspects of all calls, data and then looks back in its own time. The need to drop a call and move to the next or not keep details has been solved.
The same storage methods now work for computer networking - dont just look in real time, just keep all data and sort as needed.
Germany traditionally did not get the data product back from the USA vs UK (GCHQ ) and USA share their data. Germany allows the NSA to fully tap all of Germany in any way they like and expects/asks for nothing back in return.
Over time the German gov or mil will get a good deal on US export grade mil equipment or US mil signals hardware as a thank you from the US gov.
Cooperation with the NSA comes in stages from a full two way sharing (rare) to a massive data dump for the USA without sharing (more common and global now) from helpful nations and their tame telcos.
NZ was under consideration from 1945 on due to its great code work in ww2 (navy vs Japan). There is not real "UKUSA" one document or event, just a series of top level sigint meetings just after ww2.
Other to be EU/nations where offered deals for bases only getting unrelated mil hardware as a US/UK thank you. NZ got the full sharing deal, later computer upgrades and was always allowed to look up into Asia, Pacific. Amazing for its own gov/trade/domestic spying needs.
NZ got tech it could never afford, build, design, buy or even begin to prototype for decades for almost 'free'.
Australia was at least a bit more smart and listened to the wise words of its ww2 generals - big empires always abandon small nations (Australian early ww2 experiences)
Australia expanded its human spy networks, own signals listening and funded its mil/science outside US/UK shared methods. NZ kept its human spy side funded but seemed to use UK/UK shared sites in NZ more.
Reality finally set in over French action in NZ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... . NZ asked for UK, US, Australian help and got a political surprise - no real help in the EU with French phone networks and political leaders. NZ was on its own just as the wise Australian end of ww2 generals had hinted decades ago - shared material can just stop.
The threat is China trading with Asia on its own optical networks in its own way. For that US shared sites in NZ are vital.
With the number of tame brands hardware and software layers helping between your keyboard and your secure crypto software? :)
You almost want your own file system and OS
http://www.theguardian.com/wor... (7 June 2013)
Experts have had a while to think about what is under and around their secure crypto projects on the big consumer, prosumer and 'free' OS.
"Librarians' NSL Challenge" (May 26, 2006)
https://www.aclu.org/national-...
https://www.aclu.org/blog/cont...
The US legal system has faced the unconstitutional NSL issue.
Once in light the press and in open court the gov just "withdrew its demand".
recall the '"WARNING: Using TrueCrypt is not secure as it may contain unfixed security issues""
"TrueCrypt probably didn't leave a Latin message alerting users to NSA spying"
http://www.theguardian.com/tec... (17 June 2014)
"Using TrueCrypt is not secure as it may contain unfixed security issues"
What is your average democratically elected political leader supposed to think/do when their nations top crypto experts, security services, generals invite them to use a secure phone?
Then to read in the worlds press that that their gov tested device is useless?
Why would generations/groups of trusted, top, expert German staff be signing off on junk encryption projects 100% open to another nation?
Its Germany their top gov staff should not be that out of their comport zone with advanced telco equipment?
Its Germany their top gov staff should should have the notion to test and re test any electronic device given their ~100 year history with telco networks, failed crypto, East and West teloc taps.
Reality for Germany is its top experts went along with a junk encryption project... just this one time... the first time due a privitization directive and budget cuts? Out sourcing?
The German govs one top telco crypto expert left for the private sector around that time the gov testing unit was understaffed?
Some closed source US based encryption seems to have 'collaborated closely with US intelligence services to allow users' communications to be intercepted, including helping the National Security Agency to circumvent the company's own encryption"
http://www.theguardian.com/wor... (12 July 2013)
Re "If I had data like this, I could probably make a killing in the stock market or provide lots of insider information for hedge funds."
Thats the reality Australia, Canada, UK, NZ, Germany, France, other EU NSA helper nations face internally long term.
Generations of generals, top technical experts and their groomed staff are giving all their nations secure data away to the USA in real time.
How can a bright, local, entrepreneur with job creating, huge profit exports ever hope to compete against the USA? A nations best and brightest telcos are giving their own banking sectors time and trade/time sensitive data to the USA.
A nations telcos are giving their own emerging scientific data to the USA.
A nations telcos are networking their own gov data to the USA when they only ever upgrade to the next generation of junk encryption.
Re "It creates civil war and misery for a lot of people for the benefit of a very few by manipulating unstable systems into chaotic situations."
You can see that every year - the protected and well supported movement of CIA backed 'freedom fighters' help to reduce/split nations to smaller groups needing constant outside support.
How The US Is Arming Both Sides Of The Iraqi Conflict 06/12/2014
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/...
The only way out is for talented local entrepreneurs to understand what signals intelligence is when they used a phone, fax, network or any other digital device.
The only way out is for talented diplomatic staff to understand what signals intelligence is when they use their bespoke embassy communications equipment.
Re "I suppose by creationism, they mean the idea that all animals were created at once, rather than simply the idea that God created animals?"
In sci fi terms:
The earth was tested, life created, populated and left, ignored, the tech alien staff where recalled, the ruling culture had issues and 'earth' was long forgotten in a alien coup/new king.
A very, very old world created, abandoned and left to evolve.
Or the short time version:
The earth was tested, life created, populated, the alien tech staff fully enjoyed what they had made and worked on. The ruling culture had problems and 'earth' was in play for a coup/king.
The order for a total wipe was issued (Flood) but the alien staff on site had other ideas (Ark) and ensured repopulation after ruling culture left.
A very new world created, cared for and left to evolve in a much shorter time.
Select your cargo cult: old distant king God or the young staff that open sourced just in time.