Perhaps the AC forgets or does not wish to recall the origins of some of the domestic protections and past efforts to sneak around them:
Project MINARET https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The "unconstitutional" covers every aspect of color of law and US general opinions. You dont get to rewrite US law for a few decades due to a stacked generation of legal experts seeing or experiencing 'something' not good.
US constitutional law would then be useless in the real world as every generation of US legal experts could use color of law to work with unconstitutional law just for a few years more...
If you have anything to look at in the US get a warrant, its 24/7, very tame, rubber stamped and roving....
Yes that one hub idea seems to be useful. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"2000, 95% of intra-German Internet communications was routed via the DE-CIX Internet exchange point in Frankfurt, Germany"
You don't need a lot of "hard drives" - you just keep the records of call made, time, a voice print and all connections to known and new people.
If the person uses a webcam you keep a few select frames showing - useful for facial recognition.
Every call is sorted in realtime, the small portions of unique data kept and the 'hops' sorted.
Classically you had the above based on spoken words by known people or known people to new people or the use of spoken words or digital data.
Now you just keep every call as a small amount of code and look back over all calls as needed.
In the past it was sort, translate, drop most, store and index.
Now with todays cheap storage you translate, sort, store and index everything and then look back..
The only issue now is the US domestic legal setting and US legal teams in open court. The hard drives needed issue was understood and solved over decades.
Recall what a telco could offer for parallel construction - many years of call data. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/... http://www.reuters.com/article...
During Vietnam their skilled teams did try and save a lot of US lives by predicting and tracking the enemy.
They also tried to help with complex flight paths around layers SAM.
They did great work tracking Soviet weapons tests and digging under embassy foundations to get near telco equipment.
re "milking the govt gravy train", think of it as a leadership table and a set number can vote.
You want to be at the table voting and setting policy with the budget that reflects that role.
You do not want to be called in for tech support and then sent out of the room as in decades past.
Try and think of what "intercepting data off a network" is really about into todays digitally connected world.
Thats every private call, legal documents as a fax or junk crypto, every electronic court document, banking records protected with international junk crypto, local contracts been discussed between gov departments before been offered, international contracts been discussed between gov departments, the expensive needs of education, science wrt to costly upgrades, mil and police needs, health, energy policy, food exports, trade with other nations.... Any nation thats opened itself up to that kind of constant "intercepting" is really sinking into colony status with every act, law, deal, contract been seen and fully understood by a few other nations (5++ other nations).
International tenders become a costly joke with a full understanding of the gov position, needs and price range.
A digital banana republic, as Argentina had the the English Octopus over rail. Once another nation is in your domestic infrastructure they get to understand and shape policy.
The problem is in some parts of the world is the domestic cost of telco interconnects. It can be cheaper to connect domestic calls via an international peering loop that goes way out past a few other nations and their shared facilities. Kind of hard to re build a decades of contracts and local hardware thats all about reducing costs.
They should have known. The ideas behind Project SHAMROCK and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... should have been a hint.
The Martin and Mitchell defection in 1960 did offer the hint 'intercepting and deciphering the secret communications of its own allies" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
There where a few magazine and books over the 1970-80's that also offered a view of global telco reach, indexing, storage and tracking under ECHELON.
Copper, optical it all has to move via some nations backhaul... that so cheap peering loop
The reading back to the press of embassy traffic sent on trusted crypto should have been a hint.
So "anyone else was ever going to know" seems to be a lot of nations where happy to see their telco systems entire output shared with 5 other nations (and a few others) for decades in some form as part of a mil deal.
"Any foreign government that uses" sadly for many its a generational buy in.
Some time during the cold war the telco system went more digital with US 'wiretap' friendly software and hardware to track everybody within that nation.
Staff are trained, generals and the security services are happy, the next generation of staff are trained... after a while the political class just enjoys crypto junk they are handed by their nations best.
How can a small set of a nations experts stand up to their own political class, generals, telco experts all saying its better to help the USA and get good support vs making a diplomatic fuss over crypto and hardware that every other friendly nation uses...
Yes "Best to keep them out of the loop." is very much needed from the NSA perspective.
The outrage from investors, institutional investors, trust funds, technical staff, political leaders, ex staff, the legal teams has to be 100% real.
The "Never believe in anything until it has been officially denied" has to look and sound real every decade.
The academics have to stay tame, the political leaders have to legally make been a whistleblower in the US difficult, the end users stay unaware....
Once the trick is out that long term consumer turns into a new customer for any other brand.
How wars work outside the pretty medical propaganda for new robots:
A vast majority of local population is on your side as they are 'your' people. Any outsider is shunned, reported and dealt with. You win over time
A small majority of local population is on your side as they see your forces as less evil. Any outsider is shunned, reported and dealt with to keep the peace. You hold and hope for a political change.
A small portion of local population is on your side as they see your forces as less evil. Any informant is shunned and dealt with by the local population. You dont win over time.
The only way to win is to buy hearts and minds, a classic false flag to draw/fool the locals in or a huge generational military event to install the right kind of respect for a time.
If you need robots your basically at the level of a death squad with a vast kill zone and staff exhaustion/rotation issues.
Your playing to win like the UK in South Africa ~1899 to 1902 or a 1970's South American junta. You move into a selected zone and kill.
You can hold a remote site or move around as needed. If the press ever do their job and ask questions, hold a meeting with the young, photogenic team overseeing the 'robots'. Play back a few seconds of the 'event' and talk of a few blurred pixels been weapons systems and that robot was cleared for action by a human every time. Then move onto the great new use of medical robots for a few hours.
Both exhibit what any intelligence service would desire. The ability to work in the community facing interesting events, languages, rapidly changing slang, people, cultures, locations and living with habits that are not without constant risk.
They are the classic butterfly collectors or anthropologist with deep cover in distant lands as used over generations.
You have very smart people with the ability to hide their needs. One event may have pulled them very close to the security/mil sector.
What happens when the security/mil sector moves on from their only reason for joining? New people, other skills, new languages. How does that person react, cope, who can they talk to?
Thats always the problem when skilling up fast with the poor or rich, people with needed skills. What are you inviting in long term and how will they react when their cause is not getting instant, top priority?
ie historically a vast number of new people with one event skills does not end well on average. Other groups, countries, faiths, cults start to look and befriend offering the positive feeling about the past.
You have a person who is trusted, has moved up, is sneaky and has new friends... too many people with too many rushed clearances gets hard to track and then confront..
Re 36 times longer is just a question of cash.
A ring build system with computer controlled placement and setting of grout is now better understood.
Grouting can be very well timed via computer controlled additives as needed reducing water ingress issues.
The Qinghai–Tibet Railway had permafrost issues that had to be solved.
It really depends on what rock types they find, if grouting gets too difficult.
1. Take control of your own networks via your own staff again.
No contractors, no private sector, no ex gov staff moving around, people without exhaustive gov staff real world full family tree, education, friends interviewed background results.
2. Drive the private sector contractors out of the gov networks. Fancy 3rd party network wide security software will not stop a trusted system admin, it will just give the security software bosses a nice gov contract bonus.
3. Go back to finding all your staff from top universities after watching them in the wild for a few years. When ready, offer them a great job, for life with academic freedoms and an above great wage. Make sure they feel invited in.
a) Interview them in person using gov staff only staff.
b) If accepted as useful to the gov:
Interview their extended family in person using only gov staff. Interview their recent academic staff in person using gov staff. Drive out to their local community and find friends, cops, ex cops, sealed court records, all teachers at every stage of schooling.... in person using gov only staff.
Look at generations of book lists, magazines, newspapers, payments, gambling, faith with links to other nations, cults with links to other nations, holidays, charities, political causes, the probability of placing another nation/faith/cash/cult interests above all gov security levels.
Build up a real world life story with real world contact with every close person or event and keep looking.
Note: a database search is not a real world interview. A database search by a 3rd party private sector security cleared person is not a real world interview.
Some data on a random gov computer about past good work been seen by a 3rd party private sector security cleared person is not a real world interview.
Keep interviewing, testing, profiling your new staff using trusted gov staff - in house staff, not a 3rd party private sector security cleared person invited in with a new 'system' to rent.
4. The file systems need to be kept air gapped and back to best practice compartmentalization. No new 3rd party cloud, no outside big brand private sector 'helpers' beyond installs.
5.. Dont trust any paperwork from any other sector of the gov/private sector on an individual. If they have great paperwork and want to move jobs, something interesting might be missing from that great 'story'.
6. Stop political suggestions over 'sharing' the cloud and other ways into what should be a sealed gov network.
Some better ways to alter public perception:
Hint at a limited hangout, or partial hangout, the idea that the material was baited provides endless speculation and academic busy work on web 2.0 and beyond.
Drop hints via trusted cutouts to the 'alternative media' that will take years to work out.
A sockpuppet is not a useful cutout.
The hardware and software, junk encryption was for domestic use by 'others' in the wider US legal system. The results of a splitter, tame corporate/academic decryption ended up with any number of diverse ongoing very legal domestic criminal probes is a great talking point.
Hint at a political culture for weakening once strong gov only security clearance levels.
8. Talk the the UK about decades of tell all books, newspapers, interviews and 'documents' ie the magical "why" nothing ever got much traction beyond academic history books and obscure university level history papers.
9.. As all this is now in the open and telco immunity is/was in place move forward with a domestic locked box for all telco metadata. Move in front of "damaging breach" to a post telco immunity budget and gov security expansion needs.
Its one more step to a new domestic parallel construction becoming legal.
Telcos get retroactive immunity.
2 hops with no real court support is now not illegal.
A lot of color of law to out pace the Fourth Amendment.
Thats the fun legal aspect to been to told to think back to some 'event' and watch your laws get altered.
With every generation of legal staff seeing or been told about emergency cases, all protections are reduced for decades until the next emergency.
The laws still stand just some cases will not exist in the same legal setting.
You enter a secret court where it has been decided that you won't get a Fourth Amendment, have to pay for a security cleared lawyer and that lawyers conversation with you will be recorded.
Evidence is something your cleared lawyer can see but never mention in public, tell you about or contest in any court setting.
The Fourth Amendment still exists, just not in court set up for you:)
Yes it is.
South Africa had the same issues with its massive combat airports surrounded by fences in the 1960-80's.
A lot of interesting trained animals where used to try and keep runways clear from crossing critters at all times so the SADF jet/s could counter Soviet suppled jets as warning times where often limited.
Parts where very, very hard to replace or very expensive to tool for if critters where deep in the complex jet engines.
Good radar coverage was difficult, next gen air to air missiles expensive and skilled crews had to be looked after vs waiting for a clean runway under contant combat conditions.
"military missions" along with happy press about great physics, archaeology and great local jobs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and look for DoD https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"...The DoD influenced key aspects of the shuttle's design such as the size of its cargo bay," ..."USAF in the 1970s hoped to buy up to three shuttles.. and fly them with all-military crews" ..."desired specially-trained military astronauts to handle classified payloads on the about 100 or more shuttle flights it expected to use."
so "spy satellite placement and other related projects" seems fitting given the now more public build up to the project and the use/funding of the project.
It depends on the party political machine.
One party sees great votes in letting more people in and allowing them to vote, recalling who let them in as they vote.
One party sees great support in letting more people in and allowing local wages to go down, recalling who broke unions and enjoying vast political funding for that support.
A worker who is in constant fear of been sent home is a good worker and at a lower wage too.
ie both parties can be swapped out at a state/federal level if some local political leader gets too creative with supporting local workers and visa reductions.
The brands, bosses can just play the parties off against each other to ensure a constant flow of wage reducing, tame workers or new voters.
There is always a well funded left or right front group to ensure the vast visa program remains intact.
Without the stability to send the worker back home they might demand a real US wage and safe conditions:) They might lose all their fear and join/form a union.
Reform like that would halt the dramy downward wage pressue via beholden new staff.
Count every passport in and every passport out with the freedom to keep working for US wages:)
If th US brand just needs the "skills" - the wage should not be a factor as they could not find a person at the same price in the USA.
The shuttle was really just cover for spy satellite placement and other related projects sold to the US public under reusability. The back end was a huge boondoggle for a few states..
Outside the US we know about Russia, Brazil, the UK, France, India and China and the political tool that was the "Missile Technology Control Regime"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S... shows the UK trying to build and buy from the US over decades for many millions, 1 billion+.
Many nations went for satellite building or science rockets to try and stay within the Missile Technology Control Regime" limits.
India is really one of the few nations to think about cost, domestic production and fully understanding the science at a national level.
i.e. a lot of nations are in this for pride, unique skills sets been passed down to next generation, mil or science. They will pour in the cash and charge cents in the $ just for the good news of been doing 'space' via pubic or private.
The main sector to consider is the private communications and sensor networks selling access to tax payer backed gov/mil/ngo projects - that private enterprise is held up as pure private sector entrepreneurship...
Taxpayer money is flooding in for the right projects, its just what you send up or 'rent' via the high ground. Who you send the solution up with is just a short list of other countries rockets.
From 2006 "FBI taps cell phone mic as eavesdropping tool" http://news.cnet.com/2100-1029...
~"functioned whether the phone was powered on or off."
Today is more about gov malware in your modern mobile OS.
So yes the telco software/hardware layers are fair game to any gov and have been for years with court docs mentioned in the US press.
The journalism going back years was the result of US court documents.
Now just get it all http://www.wired.com/2014/03/s...
Also see the http://www.reuters.com/article... ideas around domestic phone records.
A lot of external and domestic US gov propaganda is now very legal and very well funded.
On sites like slashdot an AC with a certain style, lets say a "sockpuppet" will get a story posted and then attemt to shape the comments to relfect their needs/views.
The end gain is a rush to support Western mil and gov actions, weapon sales and loans for eastern parts of the expanding EU, front foundations pushing for color revolutions around/in Russia.
A lot of interested well funded groups are now into the "newsworthy" side of web 2.0 as the resutls are very useful.
Gas deals to cover weapon sales and ever new loans from the region.
Counter to that you have a internal German view to just let the gas flow from Russia as Germany cannot afford not to have energy for jobs and exports.
As for Russia they have been invaded so many times, they know how to absorb, halt, roll back every costly European dream of endless free raw materials, food, workers from the east...
The gain is in the mix of gas exports and weapons sales. To get the EU off generational Russian gas contracts and onto another energy new exporter...
For that you need endless flood of propaganda that every web 2.0 user can understand and relate to.
Re "pro-Russian anything".... given the Ukrainian parliamentary election, 2012 results and the ability of a Russophone party to attract and keep a good ratio of votes.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
They knew what autonomy would result in. The clear vote was for autonomy. After autonomy you join the side that will look after most of the people who voted.
If not the vote for autonomy would have failed....
Many countries has split, reformed, joined larger nations over history based on the wishes of the local population.
Other vast populations have been gifted away by gloabal powers eg UK/US/Soviet deals at the end of WW2 who got what part of Europe.
At least the locals got a clear vote for autonomy this time.
The East is pro Russian as they know what awaits for them under a national pro EU gov. More of the same lack of services, more of the same 'deals'.
Like many regions in the post 1990 EU/East bloc region better to vote to get out and elect you own regional people than trust been ruled via the EU or locals supported/funded by the EU/USA.>
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Perhaps the AC forgets or does not wish to recall the origins of some of the domestic protections and past efforts to sneak around them: ...
Project MINARET https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The "unconstitutional" covers every aspect of color of law and US general opinions. You dont get to rewrite US law for a few decades due to a stacked generation of legal experts seeing or experiencing 'something' not good.
US constitutional law would then be useless in the real world as every generation of US legal experts could use color of law to work with unconstitutional law just for a few years more
If you have anything to look at in the US get a warrant, its 24/7, very tame, rubber stamped and roving....
Yes that one hub idea seems to be useful.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"2000, 95% of intra-German Internet communications was routed via the DE-CIX Internet exchange point in Frankfurt, Germany"
You don't need a lot of "hard drives" - you just keep the records of call made, time, a voice print and all connections to known and new people.
If the person uses a webcam you keep a few select frames showing - useful for facial recognition.
Every call is sorted in realtime, the small portions of unique data kept and the 'hops' sorted.
Classically you had the above based on spoken words by known people or known people to new people or the use of spoken words or digital data.
Now you just keep every call as a small amount of code and look back over all calls as needed.
In the past it was sort, translate, drop most, store and index.
Now with todays cheap storage you translate, sort, store and index everything and then look back..
The only issue now is the US domestic legal setting and US legal teams in open court. The hard drives needed issue was understood and solved over decades.
Recall what a telco could offer for parallel construction - many years of call data. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/...
http://www.reuters.com/article...
During Vietnam their skilled teams did try and save a lot of US lives by predicting and tracking the enemy.
They also tried to help with complex flight paths around layers SAM.
They did great work tracking Soviet weapons tests and digging under embassy foundations to get near telco equipment.
re "milking the govt gravy train", think of it as a leadership table and a set number can vote.
You want to be at the table voting and setting policy with the budget that reflects that role.
You do not want to be called in for tech support and then sent out of the room as in decades past.
Try and think of what "intercepting data off a network" is really about into todays digitally connected world.
Thats every private call, legal documents as a fax or junk crypto, every electronic court document, banking records protected with international junk crypto, local contracts been discussed between gov departments before been offered, international contracts been discussed between gov departments, the expensive needs of education, science wrt to costly upgrades, mil and police needs, health, energy policy, food exports, trade with other nations.... Any nation thats opened itself up to that kind of constant "intercepting" is really sinking into colony status with every act, law, deal, contract been seen and fully understood by a few other nations (5++ other nations).
International tenders become a costly joke with a full understanding of the gov position, needs and price range.
A digital banana republic, as Argentina had the the English Octopus over rail. Once another nation is in your domestic infrastructure they get to understand and shape policy.
The problem is in some parts of the world is the domestic cost of telco interconnects. It can be cheaper to connect domestic calls via an international peering loop that goes way out past a few other nations and their shared facilities. Kind of hard to re build a decades of contracts and local hardware thats all about reducing costs.
They should have known. The ideas behind Project SHAMROCK and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... should have been a hint.
The Martin and Mitchell defection in 1960 did offer the hint 'intercepting and deciphering the secret communications of its own allies"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
There where a few magazine and books over the 1970-80's that also offered a view of global telco reach, indexing, storage and tracking under ECHELON.
Copper, optical it all has to move via some nations backhaul... that so cheap peering loop
The reading back to the press of embassy traffic sent on trusted crypto should have been a hint.
So "anyone else was ever going to know" seems to be a lot of nations where happy to see their telco systems entire output shared with 5 other nations (and a few others) for decades in some form as part of a mil deal.
"Any foreign government that uses" sadly for many its a generational buy in.
Some time during the cold war the telco system went more digital with US 'wiretap' friendly software and hardware to track everybody within that nation.
Staff are trained, generals and the security services are happy, the next generation of staff are trained... after a while the political class just enjoys crypto junk they are handed by their nations best.
How can a small set of a nations experts stand up to their own political class, generals, telco experts all saying its better to help the USA and get good support vs making a diplomatic fuss over crypto and hardware that every other friendly nation uses...
Yes "Best to keep them out of the loop." is very much needed from the NSA perspective.
The outrage from investors, institutional investors, trust funds, technical staff, political leaders, ex staff, the legal teams has to be 100% real.
The "Never believe in anything until it has been officially denied" has to look and sound real every decade.
The academics have to stay tame, the political leaders have to legally make been a whistleblower in the US difficult, the end users stay unaware....
Once the trick is out that long term consumer turns into a new customer for any other brand.
How wars work outside the pretty medical propaganda for new robots:
A vast majority of local population is on your side as they are 'your' people. Any outsider is shunned, reported and dealt with. You win over time
A small majority of local population is on your side as they see your forces as less evil. Any outsider is shunned, reported and dealt with to keep the peace. You hold and hope for a political change.
A small portion of local population is on your side as they see your forces as less evil. Any informant is shunned and dealt with by the local population. You dont win over time.
The only way to win is to buy hearts and minds, a classic false flag to draw/fool the locals in or a huge generational military event to install the right kind of respect for a time.
If you need robots your basically at the level of a death squad with a vast kill zone and staff exhaustion/rotation issues.
Your playing to win like the UK in South Africa ~1899 to 1902 or a 1970's South American junta. You move into a selected zone and kill.
You can hold a remote site or move around as needed. If the press ever do their job and ask questions, hold a meeting with the young, photogenic team overseeing the 'robots'. Play back a few seconds of the 'event' and talk of a few blurred pixels been weapons systems and that robot was cleared for action by a human every time.
Then move onto the great new use of medical robots for a few hours.
Both exhibit what any intelligence service would desire. The ability to work in the community facing interesting events, languages, rapidly changing slang, people, cultures, locations and living with habits that are not without constant risk.
They are the classic butterfly collectors or anthropologist with deep cover in distant lands as used over generations.
You have very smart people with the ability to hide their needs. One event may have pulled them very close to the security/mil sector.
What happens when the security/mil sector moves on from their only reason for joining? New people, other skills, new languages. How does that person react, cope, who can they talk to?
Thats always the problem when skilling up fast with the poor or rich, people with needed skills. What are you inviting in long term and how will they react when their cause is not getting instant, top priority?
ie historically a vast number of new people with one event skills does not end well on average. Other groups, countries, faiths, cults start to look and befriend offering the positive feeling about the past.
You have a person who is trusted, has moved up, is sneaky and has new friends... too many people with too many rushed clearances gets hard to track and then confront..
Re 36 times longer is just a question of cash.
A ring build system with computer controlled placement and setting of grout is now better understood.
Grouting can be very well timed via computer controlled additives as needed reducing water ingress issues.
The Qinghai–Tibet Railway had permafrost issues that had to be solved.
It really depends on what rock types they find, if grouting gets too difficult.
1. Take control of your own networks via your own staff again.
No contractors, no private sector, no ex gov staff moving around, people without exhaustive gov staff real world full family tree, education, friends interviewed background results.
2. Drive the private sector contractors out of the gov networks. Fancy 3rd party network wide security software will not stop a trusted system admin, it will just give the security software bosses a nice gov contract bonus.
3. Go back to finding all your staff from top universities after watching them in the wild for a few years. When ready, offer them a great job, for life with academic freedoms and an above great wage. Make sure they feel invited in.
a) Interview them in person using gov staff only staff.
b) If accepted as useful to the gov:
Interview their extended family in person using only gov staff. Interview their recent academic staff in person using gov staff. Drive out to their local community and find friends, cops, ex cops, sealed court records, all teachers at every stage of schooling.... in person using gov only staff.
Look at generations of book lists, magazines, newspapers, payments, gambling, faith with links to other nations, cults with links to other nations, holidays, charities, political causes, the probability of placing another nation/faith/cash/cult interests above all gov security levels.
Build up a real world life story with real world contact with every close person or event and keep looking.
Note: a database search is not a real world interview. A database search by a 3rd party private sector security cleared person is not a real world interview.
Some data on a random gov computer about past good work been seen by a 3rd party private sector security cleared person is not a real world interview.
Keep interviewing, testing, profiling your new staff using trusted gov staff - in house staff, not a 3rd party private sector security cleared person invited in with a new 'system' to rent.
4. The file systems need to be kept air gapped and back to best practice compartmentalization. No new 3rd party cloud, no outside big brand private sector 'helpers' beyond installs.
5.. Dont trust any paperwork from any other sector of the gov/private sector on an individual. If they have great paperwork and want to move jobs, something interesting might be missing from that great 'story'.
6. Stop political suggestions over 'sharing' the cloud and other ways into what should be a sealed gov network.
Some better ways to alter public perception:
Hint at a limited hangout, or partial hangout, the idea that the material was baited provides endless speculation and academic busy work on web 2.0 and beyond.
Drop hints via trusted cutouts to the 'alternative media' that will take years to work out.
A sockpuppet is not a useful cutout.
The hardware and software, junk encryption was for domestic use by 'others' in the wider US legal system. The results of a splitter, tame corporate/academic decryption ended up with any number of diverse ongoing very legal domestic criminal probes is a great talking point.
Hint at a political culture for weakening once strong gov only security clearance levels.
8. Talk the the UK about decades of tell all books, newspapers, interviews and 'documents' ie the magical "why" nothing ever got much traction beyond academic history books and obscure university level history papers.
9.. As all this is now in the open and telco immunity is/was in place move forward with a domestic locked box for all telco metadata. Move in front of "damaging breach" to a post telco immunity budget and gov security expansion needs.
Its one more step to a new domestic parallel construction becoming legal. :)
Telcos get retroactive immunity.
2 hops with no real court support is now not illegal.
A lot of color of law to out pace the Fourth Amendment.
Thats the fun legal aspect to been to told to think back to some 'event' and watch your laws get altered.
With every generation of legal staff seeing or been told about emergency cases, all protections are reduced for decades until the next emergency.
The laws still stand just some cases will not exist in the same legal setting.
You enter a secret court where it has been decided that you won't get a Fourth Amendment, have to pay for a security cleared lawyer and that lawyers conversation with you will be recorded.
Evidence is something your cleared lawyer can see but never mention in public, tell you about or contest in any court setting.
The Fourth Amendment still exists, just not in court set up for you
Yes it is. South Africa had the same issues with its massive combat airports surrounded by fences in the 1960-80's.
A lot of interesting trained animals where used to try and keep runways clear from crossing critters at all times so the SADF jet/s could counter Soviet suppled jets as warning times where often limited.
Parts where very, very hard to replace or very expensive to tool for if critters where deep in the complex jet engines.
Good radar coverage was difficult, next gen air to air missiles expensive and skilled crews had to be looked after vs waiting for a clean runway under contant combat conditions.
"military missions" along with happy press about great physics, archaeology and great local jobs.
..."USAF in the 1970s hoped to buy up to three shuttles.. and fly them with all-military crews"
..."desired specially-trained military astronauts to handle classified payloads on the about 100 or more shuttle flights it expected to use."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and look for DoD
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"...The DoD influenced key aspects of the shuttle's design such as the size of its cargo bay,"
so "spy satellite placement and other related projects" seems fitting given the now more public build up to the project and the use/funding of the project.
It depends on the party political machine.
One party sees great votes in letting more people in and allowing them to vote, recalling who let them in as they vote.
One party sees great support in letting more people in and allowing local wages to go down, recalling who broke unions and enjoying vast political funding for that support.
A worker who is in constant fear of been sent home is a good worker and at a lower wage too.
ie both parties can be swapped out at a state/federal level if some local political leader gets too creative with supporting local workers and visa reductions.
The brands, bosses can just play the parties off against each other to ensure a constant flow of wage reducing, tame workers or new voters.
There is always a well funded left or right front group to ensure the vast visa program remains intact.
Without the stability to send the worker back home they might demand a real US wage and safe conditions :) They might lose all their fear and join/form a union. :)
Reform like that would halt the dramy downward wage pressue via beholden new staff.
Count every passport in and every passport out with the freedom to keep working for US wages
If th US brand just needs the "skills" - the wage should not be a factor as they could not find a person at the same price in the USA.
The shuttle was really just cover for spy satellite placement and other related projects sold to the US public under reusability. The back end was a huge boondoggle for a few states.. ...
Outside the US we know about Russia, Brazil, the UK, France, India and China and the political tool that was the "Missile Technology Control Regime" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S... shows the UK trying to build and buy from the US over decades for many millions, 1 billion+.
Many nations went for satellite building or science rockets to try and stay within the Missile Technology Control Regime" limits.
India is really one of the few nations to think about cost, domestic production and fully understanding the science at a national level.
i.e. a lot of nations are in this for pride, unique skills sets been passed down to next generation, mil or science. They will pour in the cash and charge cents in the $ just for the good news of been doing 'space' via pubic or private.
The main sector to consider is the private communications and sensor networks selling access to tax payer backed gov/mil/ngo projects - that private enterprise is held up as pure private sector entrepreneurship
Taxpayer money is flooding in for the right projects, its just what you send up or 'rent' via the high ground. Who you send the solution up with is just a short list of other countries rockets.
http://richard.stallman.usesth... has a hint under "What hardware do you use?"
From 2006 "FBI taps cell phone mic as eavesdropping tool"
http://news.cnet.com/2100-1029...
~"functioned whether the phone was powered on or off."
Today is more about gov malware in your modern mobile OS.
So yes the telco software/hardware layers are fair game to any gov and have been for years with court docs mentioned in the US press.
The journalism going back years was the result of US court documents.
Now just get it all http://www.wired.com/2014/03/s...
Also see the http://www.reuters.com/article... ideas around domestic phone records.
A lot of external and domestic US gov propaganda is now very legal and very well funded.
On sites like slashdot an AC with a certain style, lets say a "sockpuppet" will get a story posted and then attemt to shape the comments to relfect their needs/views.
The end gain is a rush to support Western mil and gov actions, weapon sales and loans for eastern parts of the expanding EU, front foundations pushing for color revolutions around/in Russia.
A lot of interested well funded groups are now into the "newsworthy" side of web 2.0 as the resutls are very useful.
Gas deals to cover weapon sales and ever new loans from the region.
Counter to that you have a internal German view to just let the gas flow from Russia as Germany cannot afford not to have energy for jobs and exports.
As for Russia they have been invaded so many times, they know how to absorb, halt, roll back every costly European dream of endless free raw materials, food, workers from the east...
The gain is in the mix of gas exports and weapons sales. To get the EU off generational Russian gas contracts and onto another energy new exporter...
For that you need endless flood of propaganda that every web 2.0 user can understand and relate to.
Re "pro-Russian anything".... given the Ukrainian parliamentary election, 2012 results and the ability of a Russophone party to attract and keep a good ratio of votes....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
They knew what autonomy would result in. The clear vote was for autonomy. After autonomy you join the side that will look after most of the people who voted.
If not the vote for autonomy would have failed....
Many countries has split, reformed, joined larger nations over history based on the wishes of the local population.
Other vast populations have been gifted away by gloabal powers eg UK/US/Soviet deals at the end of WW2 who got what part of Europe.
At least the locals got a clear vote for autonomy this time.
The East is pro Russian as they know what awaits for them under a national pro EU gov. More of the same lack of services, more of the same 'deals'.
Like many regions in the post 1990 EU/East bloc region better to vote to get out and elect you own regional people than trust been ruled via the EU or locals supported/funded by the EU/USA.>