Much cash has gone into domestic signals intelligence, electronic intelligence (traffic analysis). Every POTS phone call account, cell phone use, colorful web 2.0 experience, email can be stored for later examination.
If your memoirs require gov clearance recall Operation Dark Heart (a 2010 memoir by U.S. Army intelligence officer) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O...
As the public and press after the Snowden whistleblowing finally wakes up to been activly tracked and logged over decades what can be done?
Popular culture sort of understood aspects of Echelon back in the 1980-90's via books and magazines, early internet use. The wider public where fooled by notions of legal protections, enshrined domestic law, population size, private vs public, computing power to store/sort vast data sets, brand and shareholders vs bad PR, powerful private sector crypto and other wonderful day dreams.
Understand the motives, funding, political origins and needs for vast illegal generational surveillance at the domestic level:
Operation_CHAOS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O...
COINTELPRO (Counter INTELligence PROgrams)
Main Core http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...
PATCON (Patriot Conspiracy)
Options:
If your in the press or like to work with the press/blogs do so fully, openly, in plain text and in much detail as you can. Fill your emails, web 2.0 with past stories, names, events, press contacts, terms. Attend any and all local free speech events and make sure you drive so your license plate can be noted.
Smile for the on site cameras and CCTV. Carry you cell phone so it can be logged and arrive early, stay to the last speech, interview people, show your photo ID when asked;)
Ensure your date of birth and details are recored fully and are correct when requested.
Your now in the system but still enjoying your limited freedom to speak, work with the press, meet with other people in public, listen to their insights and experiences in public.
This will ensure good stories make it to the wider public vs the sock puppets pushing for more costly color of law limits on all of your freedoms.
Option 2
Buy a typewriter, use a photocopier, create a classic paper file system and only talk to the press face to face.
The East German and Polish experience in the 1980's show option 1 be very good at working in a country under constant surveillance with many interesting informants.
The state has to watch you work with the press or tell you to stop. Telling you to stop is picked up by the wider press and gets more people interested...
The classic low res cameras at malls where not expected to be connected to parts of the US gov in some real time HD with sound public private partnership.
e.g. Philadelphia police look to register private cameras in SafeCam (April 25, 2013) http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/st...
Add in cheap gov options for facial recognition, gait recognition, regional (state) license-plate tracking and over time with new networks and funding - welcome to a HD dystopia.
At the end you basically get the Church report. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
Jimmy Carter’s forgotten history lesson http://www.salon.com/2013/07/1...
"....President Carter attempted to clean up the CIA, firing almost 20 percent of its employees...."
The good news in 2014 is more people using the web, in the wider press now understand more about aspects of crypto and the reality of the "keys" over time too:
"Judges Poised to Hand U.S. Spies the Keys to the Internet" (02.03.14) http://www.wired.com/threatlev...
Welcome to digital East Germany:)
The number could be a real mixed catch all.
If local law enforcement cant work out/fund parallel construction at a city or state level - try the Fusion centre and 'new' laws/methods/enjoy federal funding.
A vast count of limited classic crime been termed terror related due to movement of cash or drugs or weapons - a win for local law enforcement and 'new' laws/methods/federal funding.
Then finally the 'hop' method of finding one person/parallel construction/"entrapment" to then adding all friends, family, work related i.e. all connected telco records.
All the extra telco records are then looked at and then friends of friends, friends of family, friends and family work calls, colleagues add up over a few to 3+ hops from one person.
It all feeds back to parallel construction:)
Re Congress gave them permission, hence not illegal.
Yes it gives US agencies internal legal cover for a few years until tested in open court.
Then the reality of the 4th Amendment sets in and any laws offering 'permission' become a legal joke.
Journalist shield laws are great if your a gov. Start with needing an expensive tertiary education, set what kind of valid press pass are needed, then double up with a police press pass per city. Privacy laws, commercial-in-confidence, wiretap laws, distant ongoing war restrictions... pro gov sock puppets and bloggers... Still feel like walking around with a camera behind police lines risking your credentials on a real story?
The UK gov has learned a lot from its years in Ireland, during the Falklands and can quickly find a way around the digital UK press years later.
The GCHQ had it right from the 1960 to 1990's - ignore the courts (wrt to useful logs of Soviet spies), the press and just keep on collecting all signals. What the public did not know becomes a US tell all book on the NSA or a few hints by former UK staff mostly about tracking the Soviet Unions efforts in the UK.
The great part of this is the new 'interests of national security" aspect. The UK gov is really feeding the press with this kind of open court 'classic'.
Where can the UK gov go from here? Stop and question more members of the press moving into or via or from the UK for a few hours?
Soon the UK will get that "East German" feel for the press and they will learn the limits any interrogation methods and publish their travel experiences in great detail.
The mood in the room, the color of law used, time taken i.e. if the UK gov did not pull a member of the press aside - your work have become safe, tame, bland.
What can the UK gov do to the press?
Read back in detail their travel/guest/interview history and what 'happened' to past whistleblower in a loud voice between legal clauses without a lawyer in the room?
That kind of effort works once - the member of the press comes out fully understanding the nature of power and keeps on publishing with renewed enthusiasm.
The member of the press comes out fully understanding the nature of power, totally stops publishing but others start work with great enthusiasm after an aspect of the media chilling story become public.
A third aspect is a member of the press fully understands the interview process and turns the interview to an ongoing very public legal event.
Its win win win for the UK press. The state has shown its 'power' publically and we are all watching a journalistic Berlin Wall go up:)
Its all in the billable hours to fix systems facing the 'internet' that should not be or should have been more secure. Its win win win for the teams and staff. Over time, new systems will be needing 'expert' help, long hours and then all the new issues with a new system over months. If its fixed, another round of unexpected events ensure more fixes and costly upgrades are needed. Are other nations looking, sure - but they don't get caught in low end events and usually have 'locals' to guide them in and out of any network of interest i.e. zero US press coverage.
News like this is for internal US gov (and sock puppet) consumption resulting in budget growth, department growth and new hardware sales for selected contractors:)
There is no way out for the EU, all their back haul/trunk telco equipment is US/NSA/GCHQ 'ready' by design and has been for generations.
German staff helped design a telco network to allow one site tapping for all of "West" and now "Germany" knowing all the data was flowing to a few outside countries.
How does the German gov go to their top telco staff at a gov and private sector as ask them to help the NSA less and look after Germany starting in this decade?
Too many top telco staff members will honour an outside agency and treat their own country contemptuously.
So you can turn your "big" computer off and let your router download a larger file 'overnight' to usb storage if you have a low end adsl connection.
i.e. you put a url to a file into the “Download Master” gui and the file will download onto the usb "hdd" device.
Look at the sock puppets we get on slashdot:)
Pentagon Spokesman: Public Affairs Must Change With Times (Jul. 25, 2013) http://www.defense.gov/News/Ne...
"We must communicate with the American public in crisp and memorable lines that deliver a clear and accurate message,”"
Expect to see a lot of hints of new options to shape the flow of information and public opinion in the next few years.
Blocking select servers, the turning of online activists into "busy work" or traps
"Jeremy Hammond: FBI directed my attacks on foreign government sites": http://www.theguardian.com/wor...
All this will require an inner cadre of new people skilled with the slang, memes and culture to enter and thrive in different online communities building trust, spreading disinformation long term.
Why new people? They may know nothing but a constant war on a tactic and may find aspects of 'privacy' i.e. the domestic legal protections are historical/just red tape/understood talking points to them.
Think of it a cyber 'cannon fodder' for 1000's of sites, chatrooms, forums been flooded with 1000's of unique new/old user names to spread disinformation.
"Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media" (18 March 2011) http://www.theguardian.com/tec...
to "From Twitter with love: American spies snooping on our social media feeds" Feb 17, 2014 http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/t...
also see http://cryptome.org/2014/02/ar...
Whats interesting about the collection efforts of China, Russia, or Iran cold? They can collect what all in their own country, have some fancy satellites, neat spy ships, embassies with limited space and known staff, neat science cover stories and lots and lots of 'classic' expensive well placed generations of human spies.
As for the US ally screwed by a Snowden leak:
Indonesia fully understood the "Martin and Mitchell defection" news in 1960 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...
Indonesia knew they had crypto issues in 1966 via the US, UK and Australia via aspects of Operation Claret http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O...
In 2006 news about the NZ 1985/86 GCSB Annual Report made its way the press via old files - raw traffic from GCHQ/NSA sources would have been a hint.
Nothing really new outside the crypto keys been junk:)
Re Everyone does it. The real question is who has Australian telco keys:) Its the same international NSA/FBI ready expensive, crypto junk rolled out at a national exchange level for digital wiretaps, cell tracking, billing, internet logging.... That is why the Snowden news is so useful - nothing works as sold and many nations have their "unique" secure keys in the hands of other nations, random contractors, ex staff and unexpected 'others'.
Thanks to Snowden a generation of crypto experts, designers and telco staff around the world now have insight into the reality of basic key handling, use and the generational efforts they wasted on 'national' encryption on their own networks.
A lot of nations also have to share networks between their own mil, gov and basic consumer grade telco networks.
So yes "Everyone does it." and after Snowden they will work hard on doing their crypto and networking a bit better.
Most nations invite in and have a network build, from copper to optical to wireless, backhaul and satellite over many years.
Digital exchanges, towers, trunk lines, crypto all gets planned and 'dropped' in.
What most of Asia always knew is that their expensive equipment was always Echelon ready and evolved in an 'open' way for Australia and NSA to enjoy over generations of upgrades and expansion.
All the codes, splitting, locations are all mapped by Australia and updated.
The only way be secure from this total information tap point is to understand crypto history.
The Soviet Union faced the same issues and reverted back to one time pads with less 'chat' on their vital trunk lines (1950's) for a short time.
The problem is you cannot run a country on time pads and new ways are bought in and fail basic crypto tests in the real world.
Most nations seem to understand Echelon and later efforts... enjoying same fun knowing if done right other nations listening in will fall for any well crafted gossip long term.
The trick was not in the NSA and Australia getting all data from Asia - the real magic was Australia crafted its own way in so if the NSA ever locks Australia out ("again") - Australia still has Asia decoded on its own terms. Australia put more effort in from the 1960's than they did for their support for their own Vietnam efforts.
Indonesian officials understood all this back in the 1960's via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O...
This in nothing new Indonesia has had a full understudying of Australian real time mil communications tracking, decrypting and translation thanks to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1...
Once you hear about you nations radio traffic on another countries news, you know their skills.
It really depends where the telco loops are, taps and it all is been 100% split down to Australia and its NSA shared sites vs some best effort within Asia that gets 'most'.
The USA is not just "every nation" - they have the rule of law and US lawyers know what legal protections they have when working in the USA or outside the USA wrt to their 'intelligence services"
Depends on the country and what cell phone or "internet" packet systems they bought into, upgraded to.
Think of it as Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act access to your countries telco/isp/billing, credit cards, banking, educational, medical, criminal courts, local gov via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C... been open to Australia and a few other nations:)
Its the special crypto keys handed over to a countries top law enforcement on buying a national/domestic telco networks for full transparency, decrypting and real time tracking.
Its not any "protocol" its geo location, plain text over all (diverse) products and services, key logging - everything law enforcement and domestic spy agencies need for very complex realtime cases - now in the hands of a few outside governments over many years to enjoy and share all.
Every few years this kind of product use makes the news in some small way:
SISMI-Telecom scandal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...
Greek wiretapping case 2004–05 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G...–05
Sadly most govs and their own top crypto experts do not seem to understand the software of the networks they use.
i.e. turnkey delivery with a secure buildings and lots of ways in for other nations.
This question surfaces in the US e.g. http://www.alaskapublic.org/20...
Over time US lawyer and political leaders will have to work out what "appropriate [US] authorities" can subject working US lawyers to within the US or outside the USA.
In other parts of the world do US lawyers (as citizens) lose all protections working as US lawyers? If they are just tourist the full US protections return?
This is a US law reform issue - what can US lawyers expect when working on cases of interest to the US gov. Australian politics is the same as always: share all with the USA.
US lawyers have the legal expectation not to have their work ending up on a US gov file.
Where will this recording stop? US international legal work is fair game to the US gov?
All international legal work conducted within the USA is fair game?
Some international related legal work within the USA is fair game?
Say your a US defence team working at the US state level:
At a state level lawyers can be recorded by federal officials so long as they affirm they won't directly help the state case?
A state case can be recorded by other states officials so long as they affirm they won't use the material or directly help the state?
A state case can be recorded by state officials so long as they affirm they won't use the material or directly help the case?
Very interesting times for the average US legal teams.
Your expensive US defence team becomes like an East German lawyer - sitting next to you in court ensuring all the paper work is correct.
"Australia spied on Indonesia" was just the 'laundering' or local or needed technical step.
Material from US based lawyers ended up with the US gov - no matter the help needed or sharing with/via/for/from Australia.
A US law firm been spied upon by a US gov agency via Australia with the OK of someone in the US gov?
Australia just seems to the post colonial geogrpahic tap point for the US gov fishing for US attorney-client conversations.
Skilled US staff are sheltered from directly transcribing the US voices and won't raise any legal issues.
Slashdot Mirror
Also recall the Strategy of tension http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...
Much cash has gone into domestic signals intelligence, electronic intelligence (traffic analysis). Every POTS phone call account, cell phone use, colorful web 2.0 experience, email can be stored for later examination.
If your memoirs require gov clearance recall Operation Dark Heart (a 2010 memoir by U.S. Army intelligence officer)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O...
As the public and press after the Snowden whistleblowing finally wakes up to been activly tracked and logged over decades what can be done? ;)
Popular culture sort of understood aspects of Echelon back in the 1980-90's via books and magazines, early internet use. The wider public where fooled by notions of legal protections, enshrined domestic law, population size, private vs public, computing power to store/sort vast data sets, brand and shareholders vs bad PR, powerful private sector crypto and other wonderful day dreams.
Understand the motives, funding, political origins and needs for vast illegal generational surveillance at the domestic level:
Operation_CHAOS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O...
COINTELPRO (Counter INTELligence PROgrams)
Main Core http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...
PATCON (Patriot Conspiracy)
Options:
If your in the press or like to work with the press/blogs do so fully, openly, in plain text and in much detail as you can. Fill your emails, web 2.0 with past stories, names, events, press contacts, terms.
Attend any and all local free speech events and make sure you drive so your license plate can be noted.
Smile for the on site cameras and CCTV. Carry you cell phone so it can be logged and arrive early, stay to the last speech, interview people, show your photo ID when asked
Ensure your date of birth and details are recored fully and are correct when requested.
Your now in the system but still enjoying your limited freedom to speak, work with the press, meet with other people in public, listen to their insights and experiences in public.
This will ensure good stories make it to the wider public vs the sock puppets pushing for more costly color of law limits on all of your freedoms.
Option 2
Buy a typewriter, use a photocopier, create a classic paper file system and only talk to the press face to face.
The East German and Polish experience in the 1980's show option 1 be very good at working in a country under constant surveillance with many interesting informants.
The state has to watch you work with the press or tell you to stop. Telling you to stop is picked up by the wider press and gets more people interested...
The classic low res cameras at malls where not expected to be connected to parts of the US gov in some real time HD with sound public private partnership.
e.g. Philadelphia police look to register private cameras in SafeCam (April 25, 2013)
http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/st...
Add in cheap gov options for facial recognition, gait recognition, regional (state) license-plate tracking and over time with new networks and funding - welcome to a HD dystopia.
At the end you basically get the Church report. :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
Jimmy Carter’s forgotten history lesson
http://www.salon.com/2013/07/1...
"....President Carter attempted to clean up the CIA, firing almost 20 percent of its employees...."
The good news in 2014 is more people using the web, in the wider press now understand more about aspects of crypto and the reality of the "keys" over time too:
"Judges Poised to Hand U.S. Spies the Keys to the Internet" (02.03.14)
http://www.wired.com/threatlev...
Welcome to digital East Germany
The number could be a real mixed catch all. :)
If local law enforcement cant work out/fund parallel construction at a city or state level - try the Fusion centre and 'new' laws/methods/enjoy federal funding.
A vast count of limited classic crime been termed terror related due to movement of cash or drugs or weapons - a win for local law enforcement and 'new' laws/methods/federal funding.
Then finally the 'hop' method of finding one person/parallel construction/"entrapment" to then adding all friends, family, work related i.e. all connected telco records.
All the extra telco records are then looked at and then friends of friends, friends of family, friends and family work calls, colleagues add up over a few to 3+ hops from one person.
It all feeds back to parallel construction
Re Congress gave them permission, hence not illegal.
Yes it gives US agencies internal legal cover for a few years until tested in open court.
Then the reality of the 4th Amendment sets in and any laws offering 'permission' become a legal joke.
Journalist shield laws are great if your a gov.
Start with needing an expensive tertiary education, set what kind of valid press pass are needed, then double up with a police press pass per city.
Privacy laws, commercial-in-confidence, wiretap laws, distant ongoing war restrictions... pro gov sock puppets and bloggers...
Still feel like walking around with a camera behind police lines risking your credentials on a real story?
The UK gov has learned a lot from its years in Ireland, during the Falklands and can quickly find a way around the digital UK press years later.
The GCHQ had it right from the 1960 to 1990's - ignore the courts (wrt to useful logs of Soviet spies), the press and just keep on collecting all signals. What the public did not know becomes a US tell all book on the NSA or a few hints by former UK staff mostly about tracking the Soviet Unions efforts in the UK. :)
The great part of this is the new 'interests of national security" aspect. The UK gov is really feeding the press with this kind of open court 'classic'.
Where can the UK gov go from here?
Stop and question more members of the press moving into or via or from the UK for a few hours?
Soon the UK will get that "East German" feel for the press and they will learn the limits any interrogation methods and publish their travel experiences in great detail.
The mood in the room, the color of law used, time taken i.e. if the UK gov did not pull a member of the press aside - your work have become safe, tame, bland.
What can the UK gov do to the press?
Read back in detail their travel/guest/interview history and what 'happened' to past whistleblower in a loud voice between legal clauses without a lawyer in the room?
That kind of effort works once - the member of the press comes out fully understanding the nature of power and keeps on publishing with renewed enthusiasm.
The member of the press comes out fully understanding the nature of power, totally stops publishing but others start work with great enthusiasm after an aspect of the media chilling story become public.
A third aspect is a member of the press fully understands the interview process and turns the interview to an ongoing very public legal event.
Its win win win for the UK press. The state has shown its 'power' publically and we are all watching a journalistic Berlin Wall go up
Its all in the billable hours to fix systems facing the 'internet' that should not be or should have been more secure. Its win win win for the teams and staff. Over time, new systems will be needing 'expert' help, long hours and then all the new issues with a new system over months. If its fixed, another round of unexpected events ensure more fixes and costly upgrades are needed. :)
Are other nations looking, sure - but they don't get caught in low end events and usually have 'locals' to guide them in and out of any network of interest i.e. zero US press coverage.
News like this is for internal US gov (and sock puppet) consumption resulting in budget growth, department growth and new hardware sales for selected contractors
There is no way out for the EU, all their back haul/trunk telco equipment is US/NSA/GCHQ 'ready' by design and has been for generations.
German staff helped design a telco network to allow one site tapping for all of "West" and now "Germany" knowing all the data was flowing to a few outside countries.
How does the German gov go to their top telco staff at a gov and private sector as ask them to help the NSA less and look after Germany starting in this decade?
Too many top telco staff members will honour an outside agency and treat their own country contemptuously.
So you can turn your "big" computer off and let your router download a larger file 'overnight' to usb storage if you have a low end adsl connection.
i.e. you put a url to a file into the “Download Master” gui and the file will download onto the usb "hdd" device.
Look at the sock puppets we get on slashdot :)
Pentagon Spokesman: Public Affairs Must Change With Times (Jul. 25, 2013)
http://www.defense.gov/News/Ne...
"We must communicate with the American public in crisp and memorable lines that deliver a clear and accurate message,”"
Expect to see a lot of hints of new options to shape the flow of information and public opinion in the next few years.
Blocking select servers, the turning of online activists into "busy work" or traps
"Jeremy Hammond: FBI directed my attacks on foreign government sites":
http://www.theguardian.com/wor...
All this will require an inner cadre of new people skilled with the slang, memes and culture to enter and thrive in different online communities building trust, spreading disinformation long term.
Why new people? They may know nothing but a constant war on a tactic and may find aspects of 'privacy' i.e. the domestic legal protections are historical/just red tape/understood talking points to them.
Think of it a cyber 'cannon fodder' for 1000's of sites, chatrooms, forums been flooded with 1000's of unique new/old user names to spread disinformation.
"Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media" (18 March 2011)
http://www.theguardian.com/tec...
to "From Twitter with love: American spies snooping on our social media feeds" Feb 17, 2014
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/t...
also see http://cryptome.org/2014/02/ar...
Whats interesting about the collection efforts of China, Russia, or Iran cold? They can collect what all in their own country, have some fancy satellites, neat spy ships, embassies with limited space and known staff, neat science cover stories and lots and lots of 'classic' expensive well placed generations of human spies. :)
As for the US ally screwed by a Snowden leak:
Indonesia fully understood the "Martin and Mitchell defection" news in 1960
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...
Indonesia knew they had crypto issues in 1966 via the US, UK and Australia via aspects of Operation Claret http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O...
In 2006 news about the NZ 1985/86 GCSB Annual Report made its way the press via old files - raw traffic from GCHQ/NSA sources would have been a hint.
Nothing really new outside the crypto keys been junk
Re Everyone does it. The real question is who has Australian telco keys :) Its the same international NSA/FBI ready expensive, crypto junk rolled out at a national exchange level for digital wiretaps, cell tracking, billing, internet logging .... That is why the Snowden news is so useful - nothing works as sold and many nations have their "unique" secure keys in the hands of other nations, random contractors, ex staff and unexpected 'others'.
Thanks to Snowden a generation of crypto experts, designers and telco staff around the world now have insight into the reality of basic key handling, use and the generational efforts they wasted on 'national' encryption on their own networks.
A lot of nations also have to share networks between their own mil, gov and basic consumer grade telco networks.
So yes "Everyone does it." and after Snowden they will work hard on doing their crypto and networking a bit better.
Most nations invite in and have a network build, from copper to optical to wireless, backhaul and satellite over many years. ... enjoying same fun knowing if done right other nations listening in will fall for any well crafted gossip long term.
Digital exchanges, towers, trunk lines, crypto all gets planned and 'dropped' in.
What most of Asia always knew is that their expensive equipment was always Echelon ready and evolved in an 'open' way for Australia and NSA to enjoy over generations of upgrades and expansion.
All the codes, splitting, locations are all mapped by Australia and updated.
The only way be secure from this total information tap point is to understand crypto history.
The Soviet Union faced the same issues and reverted back to one time pads with less 'chat' on their vital trunk lines (1950's) for a short time.
The problem is you cannot run a country on time pads and new ways are bought in and fail basic crypto tests in the real world.
Most nations seem to understand Echelon and later efforts
The trick was not in the NSA and Australia getting all data from Asia - the real magic was Australia crafted its own way in so if the NSA ever locks Australia out ("again") - Australia still has Asia decoded on its own terms. Australia put more effort in from the 1960's than they did for their support for their own Vietnam efforts.
Indonesian officials understood all this back in the 1960's via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O...
This in nothing new Indonesia has had a full understudying of Australian real time mil communications tracking, decrypting and translation thanks to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1...
Once you hear about you nations radio traffic on another countries news, you know their skills.
It really depends where the telco loops are, taps and it all is been 100% split down to Australia and its NSA shared sites vs some best effort within Asia that gets 'most'.
The USA is not just "every nation" - they have the rule of law and US lawyers know what legal protections they have when working in the USA or outside the USA wrt to their 'intelligence services"
Depends on the country and what cell phone or "internet" packet systems they bought into, upgraded to. :)
Think of it as Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act access to your countries telco/isp/billing, credit cards, banking, educational, medical, criminal courts, local gov via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C... been open to Australia and a few other nations
Its the special crypto keys handed over to a countries top law enforcement on buying a national/domestic telco networks for full transparency, decrypting and real time tracking.
Its not any "protocol" its geo location, plain text over all (diverse) products and services, key logging - everything law enforcement and domestic spy agencies need for very complex realtime cases - now in the hands of a few outside governments over many years to enjoy and share all.
Every few years this kind of product use makes the news in some small way:
SISMI-Telecom scandal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...
Greek wiretapping case 2004–05
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G...–05
Sadly most govs and their own top crypto experts do not seem to understand the software of the networks they use.
i.e. turnkey delivery with a secure buildings and lots of ways in for other nations.
This question surfaces in the US e.g.
http://www.alaskapublic.org/20...
Over time US lawyer and political leaders will have to work out what "appropriate [US] authorities" can subject working US lawyers to within the US or outside the USA.
In other parts of the world do US lawyers (as citizens) lose all protections working as US lawyers? If they are just tourist the full US protections return?
This is a US law reform issue - what can US lawyers expect when working on cases of interest to the US gov. Australian politics is the same as always: share all with the USA.
US lawyers have the legal expectation not to have their work ending up on a US gov file.
Where will this recording stop? US international legal work is fair game to the US gov?
All international legal work conducted within the USA is fair game?
Some international related legal work within the USA is fair game?
Say your a US defence team working at the US state level:
At a state level lawyers can be recorded by federal officials so long as they affirm they won't directly help the state case?
A state case can be recorded by other states officials so long as they affirm they won't use the material or directly help the state?
A state case can be recorded by state officials so long as they affirm they won't use the material or directly help the case?
Very interesting times for the average US legal teams.
Your expensive US defence team becomes like an East German lawyer - sitting next to you in court ensuring all the paper work is correct.
"Australia spied on Indonesia" was just the 'laundering' or local or needed technical step.
Material from US based lawyers ended up with the US gov - no matter the help needed or sharing with/via/for/from Australia.
A US law firm been spied upon by a US gov agency via Australia with the OK of someone in the US gov?
Australia just seems to the post colonial geogrpahic tap point for the US gov fishing for US attorney-client conversations.
Skilled US staff are sheltered from directly transcribing the US voices and won't raise any legal issues.