More that India understands the tech at its own pace, can build it in its own labs using its own staff and can then build new tech to spec for ongoing use.
India seems to have focused on theory, academics, then super computing, new materials, testing, military and science needs later.
vs one off 'race' bespoke efforts (WW2 Germany, US, Soviet Union), one off 'early' bespoke buy in/support efforts (Australia, UK for sat support) i.e. nation building politically selected sheltered tech workshops.
The costing of the UK's Skynet (satellite) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S... seems to be warning from history of been too early with no national support (epic buy in of unique tech from the US).
The big software and telco firms seem to offer decrypt as a default to their own security services via a simple 'letter'.
The small.com/open source efforts might work for keeping your message safe but the surrounding ip would stand out as to 'why'.
Re why there aren't more apps that can encrypt your voice during a call?
Why where so few encryption machines offered with hardware safe from the NSA and GCHQ in the 1950-80's?
Standards and price.
So in 2014 using a big software or telco firms offerings or been tracked by the use of other open source applications.. is back to standards and price.
One time pad and "number stations" seem to be the only neat way around illegal domestic spying programs.
Thinking back to the way the UK looked at all calls into Ireland, the private US telephone services kept call data for generations... to Snowdens
GCHQ's Tempora http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T... news... if your message exits the UK, goes on a global trip and re enters the UK, putting the start and end ip together would not be hard work:)
Indian Space Research Organisation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I...
India seems to be doing space exploration the right way. Less http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O... and the building on other countries efforts.
India seems to have taken its time and allowed science to catch up with its own needs rather than buying into the future and then running out of cash, political support or skill sets.
Long term expect many interesting new ideas with proven tech.
A simulation to help understand that from one site e.g. an embassy you could create a private redundant 24/7 wifi network deep into a city to an area of interest.
Counter surveillance efforts would see everyday random wifi use... missing the bust of a key logger days, weeks, months later.
Would your average well coded antivirus behavioural detection software care a lot if your wifi rebooted a few times?
No new data into the 'protected' OS, no OS changes, packets flowing in, out, network seems the same...
In the past the news was just about listening, tracking and mapping
"aircraft are all fitted with sophisticated surveillance equipment. "...The aircraft are able to identify suspects using 'voice-prints'... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
Then the wifi mapping news e.g. "mapped the Wi-Fi fingerprint of nearly every major town in Yemen". https://firstlook.org/theinter... (10 Feb 2014)
Expect more interest in any wifi network at a home, suburb and country based network level.
It really depends on the funding, time in history and needed results.
From psychological analysis of leaders to trying to shape their faith or change/out pace the mystics they use.
Telling a leader that larger historical forces are at work might distract them from military reports or intelligence leaking reality.
Start a coup too early, late based on faith based guidance and a friendly gov stays in power.
Start a grass roots protest too late and a friendly dictator stays in power or can change the message.
Classic work for anthropologists, linguistics and translators with deep internet searching and great gov funding:)
The main aspect would be to get a first hint of any forum posts about political ideas - even via dreams and "who" is doing the interpretation.
Basically the jargon needed to shape and infiltrate any new age or faith based or cult around the world or just mess with their forums if they become interesting..
The wider public gets hints of such efforts e.g. The Human Terrain System (HTS) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H...
The other option is long term efforts to place a person into a group. A local willing to work for a foreign government for cash may not have the skills/background to move up in a faith based group.
Over years the ability to fit in and hold discussions on varied topics may be helped with a database expected faith based material.
Beyond that think about the need for sleep and what the lack of sleep can do.....
Errors can help with internal doc tracking, upset any other govs getting the material as been 'fake'.
Or advanced training has been handed to other countries staff and they are doing more introductory course work contracts too.
The press should have had every page, letter, font, date, layout - looked at by document experts.
Contractors, ex staff and former staff are now teaching at private sector prices providing support services per country.
Contractors and so many more govs getting are getting 'help' now so the country names are shorter?
Beyond that you can have alternative ideas: that the CIA is using pre sorted NSA/GCHQ material as bait in some long running limited hangout.
That the CIA is using pre sorted NSA/GCHQ material as proof in some long running budget issue that signals material is expensive and questionable.
i.e. that the NSA should be called when needed (returning to a more classic support role only) and not have any new voting/operational powers gained in the past ~10+ years.
Hopefully the press would have consulted "many" outside security experts and been reassured that docs are correct.
Re -look at all internet posts telling me so http://www.theguardian.com/tec...
Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media Military's 'sock puppet' software creates fake online identities to spread pro-American propaganda (18 March 2011)
"contract stipulates that each fake online persona must have a convincing background, history and supporting details, and that up to 50 US-based controllers should be able to operate false identities from their workstations "without fear of being discovered by sophisticated adversaries"
So really expect some skill and complexity to the 'name' over years with crafted emotions, relatable events and e.g. for slashdot a good use of science between the drive to influence internet conversations.
Another telling point could be a shift change like event in style moving from rants to been conciliatory trying to rebuild the image/mod points of the name.
Yes the press can take all the whistleblowing material to various private sector security experts and ensure they are not been used in a larger intelligence operation.
e.g. a forgery meant to last a news cycle vs much real material hiding long term disinformation to bait the press or other govs.
The actions of a gov can be telling too - validation in the press days later and many wonderful paragraphs and pretty pics in the left and right press.
The next question for the press is that of been used for a limited hangout http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...
Pre sorting of material and gatekeepers also become long term questions.
Re it would be interesting to consider how best to counteract these measures...
Consider Poland or East Germany or areas from the late 1970's onwards. The methods used ranged from removal (death, exile, prison, house arrest) to a formal invite onto TV to 'debate' the issues hoping that lack of media training, an accent would sway many people that the gov was correct via a more charming representative.
The way to win is just to keep publishing, keep sending out information to many people about events, contract the press, be a citizen journalist.
Study COINTELPRO http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
Study how peace/anti war movements in the 1960 to 1980's where infiltrated and turned into doing safe busy work or reshaped from protest to other methods.
Undercover police cleared 'to have sex with activists' http://www.theguardian.com/uk/...
In the digital age understand how an informant will work in both a slow long term way or in a more rapid way.
e.g. http://www.theguardian.com/wor...
Genuine training materials can vary from section to section, contractor to contractor, gov to gov, year to year....
Also the idea that you only give a broad overview to all new cleared staff is just good basic security.
It would mostly be for introductions and training i.e. what can be done and might need rushed computer support on varied servers around the world.
e.g. ip locations that seem local, spelling, using the correct free IM for that part of the world, ensuring back dated logs, looked and feel to art work, any fake metadata in images, faked blogs fit the time line of the events and style of been home made 3-5 years ago.., that names used are not too early or late... in some life story to shatter confidence in a person..
vs the ongoing years of legends on a site such as Slashdot
The deeper stuff is for the teams who actually work on the methods day to day. e.g.
A slashdot sock puppet could follow the classic ideas in "The Gentleperson's Guide To Forum Spies (spooks, feds, etc.)" http://cryptome.org/2012/07/ge...
You would see a picture of name calling, left right rants, trying to save up the mod points by pushing bland science stories. Trying to invoke authority by posting many different links to left/right media all reporting on the same simple media release backs up their world view.
Trying to change the subject to make it all seem so legal.... post as an anonymous coward and then 'jump in' later...
Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...
The US contractors and gov spend time and treasure looking at different forms energy over distance in space.
Something very expected happens over distance to all that power, then add in the earths weather and you have non trivial issues.
Add ever more power or lasers or wavelengths... it all drops off fast but finding out just how and by how much can be a wonderful boondoggle.
Interaction of multiple lasers, different rays, microwaves all have their power, distance issues and are known to science.
What do we know over the past 40-50 years of telco/computer gathering?
"DEA and NSA Team Up to Share Intelligence, Leading to Secret Use of Surveillance in Ordinary Investigations" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/...
Intentional bug slipped in might get noticed outside the more bespoke high end machine encoding production efforts of the 1960-70's.
Software teams are big, staff from varied countries, backgrounds, skill sets, review, in-house (unknown) next gen automated testing software - a person making repeated deep'errors might just stand to senior reviewers over time.
Option 3 sounds good. The hints about Magic Lantern keyloggin software might provide some insight too. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...
A federal law enforcement agency hints that some aspect of the codebase is open to ongoing court approved "keyloggin" efforts thats not found in the wild, not found by AV behavioral software and would be "good" if it could remain until:
The bug is found.
The EU?US AV efforts catch new malware that seems to report back to 'nothing' anymore and is built on some past effort - all very normal.
The next way in is found and the old option can be patched as it might be found in the wild and used by 'real' malware.
The AC seems to be hoping we have all forgotten "Revealed: how US and UK spy agencies defeat internet privacy and security" (6 September 2013) http://www.theguardian.com/wor...
The US did have a case on tracking patron records from a library. The National Security Letter aspect was taken to court and then dropped once in open court.
Some details at:
Librarians' NSL Challenge https://www.aclu.org/national-...
Federal Judge Finds National Security Letters Unconstitutional, Bans Them (03.15.13) http://www.wired.com/threatlev...
The facial recognition systems track your face, your passengers face, another camera for you license plate number and then details get shared with a few gov and possibly private sector databases.
The main issue will be that your "home and work and shopping" driving options might be past a protest without a protest permit or parade permit and outside a free speech zone.
You would then be of interest. Is your state getting federal funds for national crime issues? Expect more tracking equipment.
ACLU: 2/3 of US population lives in “Constitution-free” zone http://arstechnica.com/securit...
Expect more random Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response teams too. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V... too:)
Slashdot Mirror
More that India understands the tech at its own pace, can build it in its own labs using its own staff and can then build new tech to spec for ongoing use.
India seems to have focused on theory, academics, then super computing, new materials, testing, military and science needs later.
vs one off 'race' bespoke efforts (WW2 Germany, US, Soviet Union), one off 'early' bespoke buy in/support efforts (Australia, UK for sat support) i.e. nation building politically selected sheltered tech workshops.
The costing of the UK's Skynet (satellite) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S... seems to be warning from history of been too early with no national support (epic buy in of unique tech from the US).
The big software and telco firms seem to offer decrypt as a default to their own security services via a simple 'letter'. .com/open source efforts might work for keeping your message safe but the surrounding ip would stand out as to 'why'.
The small
Re why there aren't more apps that can encrypt your voice during a call?
Why where so few encryption machines offered with hardware safe from the NSA and GCHQ in the 1950-80's?
Standards and price.
So in 2014 using a big software or telco firms offerings or been tracked by the use of other open source applications.. is back to standards and price.
One time pad and "number stations" seem to be the only neat way around illegal domestic spying programs.
Thinking back to the way the UK looked at all calls into Ireland, the private US telephone services kept call data for generations... to Snowdens GCHQ's Tempora http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T... news... if your message exits the UK, goes on a global trip and re enters the UK, putting the start and end ip together would not be hard work :)
Indian Space Research Organisation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I...
India seems to be doing space exploration the right way. Less http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O... and the building on other countries efforts.
India seems to have taken its time and allowed science to catch up with its own needs rather than buying into the future and then running out of cash, political support or skill sets.
Long term expect many interesting new ideas with proven tech.
by Bill Joy (then Chief Scientist at Sun Microsystems) from the April 2000 issue of Wired magazine:
http://www.wired.com/wired/arc...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W...
A simulation to help understand that from one site e.g. an embassy you could create a private redundant 24/7 wifi network deep into a city to an area of interest.
Counter surveillance efforts would see everyday random wifi use... missing the bust of a key logger days, weeks, months later.
Would your average well coded antivirus behavioural detection software care a lot if your wifi rebooted a few times? ...
No new data into the 'protected' OS, no OS changes, packets flowing in, out, network seems the same
In the past the news was just about listening, tracking and mapping ...The aircraft are able to identify suspects using 'voice-prints' ...
"aircraft are all fitted with sophisticated surveillance equipment. "
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
Then the wifi mapping news e.g. "mapped the Wi-Fi fingerprint of nearly every major town in Yemen".
https://firstlook.org/theinter... (10 Feb 2014)
Expect more interest in any wifi network at a home, suburb and country based network level.
It really depends on the funding, time in history and needed results.
From psychological analysis of leaders to trying to shape their faith or change/out pace the mystics they use.
Telling a leader that larger historical forces are at work might distract them from military reports or intelligence leaking reality.
Start a coup too early, late based on faith based guidance and a friendly gov stays in power.
Start a grass roots protest too late and a friendly dictator stays in power or can change the message.
Classic work for anthropologists, linguistics and translators with deep internet searching and great gov funding :)
The main aspect would be to get a first hint of any forum posts about political ideas - even via dreams and "who" is doing the interpretation.
Basically the jargon needed to shape and infiltrate any new age or faith based or cult around the world or just mess with their forums if they become interesting..
The wider public gets hints of such efforts e.g. The Human Terrain System (HTS) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H...
The other option is long term efforts to place a person into a group. A local willing to work for a foreign government for cash may not have the skills/background to move up in a faith based group.
Over years the ability to fit in and hold discussions on varied topics may be helped with a database expected faith based material.
Beyond that think about the need for sleep and what the lack of sleep can do.....
Errors can help with internal doc tracking, upset any other govs getting the material as been 'fake'.
Or advanced training has been handed to other countries staff and they are doing more introductory course work contracts too.
The press should have had every page, letter, font, date, layout - looked at by document experts.
Contractors, ex staff and former staff are now teaching at private sector prices providing support services per country.
Contractors and so many more govs getting are getting 'help' now so the country names are shorter?
Beyond that you can have alternative ideas: that the CIA is using pre sorted NSA/GCHQ material as bait in some long running limited hangout.
That the CIA is using pre sorted NSA/GCHQ material as proof in some long running budget issue that signals material is expensive and questionable.
i.e. that the NSA should be called when needed (returning to a more classic support role only) and not have any new voting/operational powers gained in the past ~10+ years.
Hopefully the press would have consulted "many" outside security experts and been reassured that docs are correct.
Strategy of tension was the old method http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...
Now its more colour revolution http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
Re -look at all internet posts telling me so
http://www.theguardian.com/tec...
Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media Military's 'sock puppet' software creates fake online identities to spread pro-American propaganda (18 March 2011)
"contract stipulates that each fake online persona must have a convincing background, history and supporting details, and that up to 50 US-based controllers should be able to operate false identities from their workstations "without fear of being discovered by sophisticated adversaries"
So really expect some skill and complexity to the 'name' over years with crafted emotions, relatable events and e.g. for slashdot a good use of science between the drive to influence internet conversations.
Another telling point could be a shift change like event in style moving from rants to been conciliatory trying to rebuild the image/mod points of the name.
Yes the press can take all the whistleblowing material to various private sector security experts and ensure they are not been used in a larger intelligence operation.
e.g. a forgery meant to last a news cycle vs much real material hiding long term disinformation to bait the press or other govs.
The actions of a gov can be telling too - validation in the press days later and many wonderful paragraphs and pretty pics in the left and right press.
The next question for the press is that of been used for a limited hangout http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...
Pre sorting of material and gatekeepers also become long term questions.
If a sock puppet follows direction of the classic gov talking points?
http://www.techdirt.com/articl...
Yes freedomwatchusa has a great site on the fourth amendment aspects. http://www.freedomwatchusa.org...
Re it would be interesting to consider how best to counteract these measures...
Consider Poland or East Germany or areas from the late 1970's onwards. The methods used ranged from removal (death, exile, prison, house arrest) to a formal invite onto TV to 'debate' the issues hoping that lack of media training, an accent would sway many people that the gov was correct via a more charming representative.
The way to win is just to keep publishing, keep sending out information to many people about events, contract the press, be a citizen journalist.
Study COINTELPRO http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
Study how peace/anti war movements in the 1960 to 1980's where infiltrated and turned into doing safe busy work or reshaped from protest to other methods.
Undercover police cleared 'to have sex with activists'
http://www.theguardian.com/uk/...
In the digital age understand how an informant will work in both a slow long term way or in a more rapid way.
e.g. http://www.theguardian.com/wor...
Genuine training materials can vary from section to section, contractor to contractor, gov to gov, year to year....
Also the idea that you only give a broad overview to all new cleared staff is just good basic security.
It would mostly be for introductions and training i.e. what can be done and might need rushed computer support on varied servers around the world.
e.g. ip locations that seem local, spelling, using the correct free IM for that part of the world, ensuring back dated logs, looked and feel to art work, any fake metadata in images, faked blogs fit the time line of the events and style of been home made 3-5 years ago.., that names used are not too early or late... in some life story to shatter confidence in a person..
vs the ongoing years of legends on a site such as Slashdot
The deeper stuff is for the teams who actually work on the methods day to day. e.g.
A slashdot sock puppet could follow the classic ideas in "The Gentleperson's Guide To Forum Spies (spooks, feds, etc.)"
http://cryptome.org/2012/07/ge...
You would see a picture of name calling, left right rants, trying to save up the mod points by pushing bland science stories. Trying to invoke authority by posting many different links to left/right media all reporting on the same simple media release backs up their world view.
Trying to change the subject to make it all seem so legal.... post as an anonymous coward and then 'jump in' later...
Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...
The US contractors and gov spend time and treasure looking at different forms energy over distance in space.
Something very expected happens over distance to all that power, then add in the earths weather and you have non trivial issues.
Add ever more power or lasers or wavelengths... it all drops off fast but finding out just how and by how much can be a wonderful boondoggle.
Interaction of multiple lasers, different rays, microwaves all have their power, distance issues and are known to science.
What do we know over the past 40-50 years of telco/computer gathering?
"DEA and NSA Team Up to Share Intelligence, Leading to Secret Use of Surveillance in Ordinary Investigations"
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/...
Intentional bug slipped in might get noticed outside the more bespoke high end machine encoding production efforts of the 1960-70's.
Software teams are big, staff from varied countries, backgrounds, skill sets, review, in-house (unknown) next gen automated testing software - a person making repeated deep'errors might just stand to senior reviewers over time.
Option 3 sounds good. The hints about Magic Lantern keyloggin software might provide some insight too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...
A federal law enforcement agency hints that some aspect of the codebase is open to ongoing court approved "keyloggin" efforts thats not found in the wild, not found by AV behavioral software and would be "good" if it could remain until:
The bug is found.
The EU?US AV efforts catch new malware that seems to report back to 'nothing' anymore and is built on some past effort - all very normal.
The next way in is found and the old option can be patched as it might be found in the wild and used by 'real' malware.
The AC seems to be hoping we have all forgotten
"Revealed: how US and UK spy agencies defeat internet privacy and security" (6 September 2013)
http://www.theguardian.com/wor...
The US did have a case on tracking patron records from a library. The National Security Letter aspect was taken to court and then dropped once in open court.
Some details at:
Librarians' NSL Challenge
https://www.aclu.org/national-...
Federal Judge Finds National Security Letters Unconstitutional, Bans Them (03.15.13)
http://www.wired.com/threatlev...
The facial recognition systems track your face, your passengers face, another camera for you license plate number and then details get shared with a few gov and possibly private sector databases. :)
The main issue will be that your "home and work and shopping" driving options might be past a protest without a protest permit or parade permit and outside a free speech zone.
You would then be of interest. Is your state getting federal funds for national crime issues? Expect more tracking equipment.
ACLU: 2/3 of US population lives in “Constitution-free” zone
http://arstechnica.com/securit...
Expect more random Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response teams too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V... too
Re the "list above is nonsense", try reading this cold
Timeline of United States military operations 1980–1989
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...